Bello, Neto (x2), Sailo, Aguayo, Drapeau… HELLO!!

                 
                  Acadian national flag

Two notable persons recently added to Wikipedia’s Deaths in 2025 site under July 29th, stands out: 

• Xuan Bello (10 July 1965 – 29 July 2025) 60, Spanish poet, writer
• João Leal Neto (25 September 1937 – 29 July 2025) 87, football player, manager

Their surnames are addition to three clusters—the “Remove a Letter in Name Makes a Word” pattern cluster , “Word in Name” pattern cluster,  and “Surnames Ending in ‘O’” pattern cluster.   As well, there are two other notable persons who fit the bill who also passed away this month:

• Lalrintluanga Sailo (13 June 1960 – 21 July 2025) 65, Mizoram MLA 
• José Galli Neto (12 March 1950 – 9 July 2025) 75, football player, manager

Sailo was born on my birthday!!  AND, there’s another cluster they all fit under— “Nautical Theme” pattern cluster.  It’s also interesting to note that the letter “o” sounds the same as French word “eau” that means “WATER”,… not to mention of course, the “French Theme” pattern cluster occurring in my previous post. AND, another recent notable persons recently added to Wikipedia’s Deaths in 2025 site whose name ends with “o” also jives in cryptic inner twin fashion: 

Pedro Aguayo (15 July 1939 – 5 July 2025) 85, Ecuadorian politician, vice president

The surname Aguayo is of Spanish origin, likely derived from the Basque word "aguayo," meaning "water" or "river".

So, a “Eau/Water Theme” pattern cluster.  

I searched through the month of July 2025 to locate the others, and note these three: 

• Nono Maldonado (10 August 1945 – 16 July 2025)fashion designer 
• Jorge Aulicino (August 11, 1949 – July 21, 2025) 75, Argentine journalist
• Asahi Sakano (13 August 2005 – 1 July 2025) 19, Japanese ski jumper, fall
•  Andrea Bruno (11 January 1931 – 6 July 2025) 94, Italian architect
• Eduardo Liendo (12 January 1941 – 3 July 2025) 84, Venezuelan writer

The birthdays of the first three generates an “August 10, 11, __, 13/Date Sequence” pattern cluster, and the birthdays of the last two generates a “January __, 11, 12, __/Date Sequence” pattern cluster.  We are being prompted to bridge the August 12 gap.  Using the formula as per usual and taking into consideration the “Off By One” pattern cluster (see previous post), we arrive at the following: 

1997 – Jack Delano (August 1, 1914 – August 14, 1997) photographer, composer 

1999 – Jean Drapeau(18 February 1916 – 12 August 1999)lawyer, Mayor of Montreal 

2000 – Gennady Lyachin (1 January 1955 – 12 August 2000) Russian captain 

2000 – Loretta Young (January 6, 1913 – August 12, 2000) actress 

2002 – Enos Slaughter (April 27, 1916 – August 12, 2002)baseball player, manager 

As you can see, on following the leads, we have one whose surname ends in “o”, and then we have the French surname Drapeau that ends in eau (French for “water”), and is pronounced as “drapo”.  AND, he’s Canadian!!  There is one thing that I should mention in relation to the French word “Drapeau”— it means “flag” in English,  AND even more interesting, is that my great great uncle Father Marcel-Francois Richard, designed the flag, note from his wiki page: 

Marcel-François Richard (9 April 1847, Saint-Louis-de-Kent, New Brunswick - 18 June 1915, Rogersville, New Brunswick), he was a Roman Catholic priest and a Canadian educator.^[1] He played an important part in the development of the Acadian people. 

At the second National Acadian Convention in 1884 in Miscouche, the selection of national symbols was continued. Marcel-François Richard proposed Ave Maris Stella as the Acadian national anthem. He also designed and proposed the Acadian national flag, a French tricolourwith a papal star added to represent devotion to the Virgin Mary. Both proposals were adopted.

Also, because there were two with the surname “Neto”, this is a prompt for us to venture to the Neto surname wikipedia page, where we then peruse the list provided for any who passed away during a year having a sequence of 3 identical numbers— 1999:  

João Cabral de Melo Neto (January 6, 1920 – October 9, 1999) Brazilian poet

Note, he was born on the same day as Loretta Young (see above).  So what’s up with the “net” communication?!

Note the etymology: 

net(n.)

Old English net "open textile fabric tied or woven with a mesh for catching fish, birds, or wild animals alive; network; spider web," also figuratively, "moral or mental snare or trap," from Proto-Germanic *natjo- (source also of Old Saxon net, Old Frisian nette, Old Norse, Dutch net, Swedish nät, Old High German nezzi, German Netz, Gothic nati "net"), perhaps originally "something knotted," from PIE root *ned- "to bind, tie." 

*ned-

Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to bind, tie."

It might form all or part of: annex; annexation; connect; connection; denouement; net (n.) "netting, network, mesh used for capturing;" nettle; nexus; node; nodule; noose.

annex(v.)

late 14c., "connect with," from Old French annexer "to join, attach" (13c.), from Medieval Latin annexare, frequentative of Latin annecetere "to bind to," from ad"to" (see ad-) + nectere "to tie, bind" (from PIE root *ned- "to bind, tie"). Usually meaning "to join in a subordinate capacity,"

Hmmm— “to join in a subordinate capacity”!!