TITLE: Link such that deleting any two components leaves an unlink
QUESTION [16 upvotes]: Brunnian links are well known, where deleting any component allows you to isotope the rest to an unlink.  It's common to construct them by taking an $n-1$ component unlink and defining the $n$th component as a chain of commutators in the Wirtinger presentation such as $[x_1,[x_2,[x_3,x_4]]]]$
Can you construct $n \ge 4$ component links for any $n$ where deleting any two components leaves an unlink, but the link will not be split after deleting any single component?

REPLY [18 votes]: Here is a figure of a (4,2)-Brunnian link (in the terminology of Mark Grant's answer):

And here is an image of a (5,3)-Brunnian link:

These are taken from G.C. Shephard's 2006 article "Interlinked Loops". He was not aware of the work of Debrunner and Penney at that time as he states essentially this MO question as an open problem.
However, the 2009 followup article "More Interlinked Loops" by W. R. Brakes and G. C. Shephard remedies this by giving a nice pictorial explanation of a version of Penney's construction. Here's an image of a (5,2)-Brunnian link from that paper, where I believe the letters $a,b,c,d$ correspond to elements of the Wirtinger presentation of the fundamental group of the link complement: