EXPIRED: 12/25/09 – Asheem Chakravarty, 52, singer and percussionist of contemporary fusion music band Indian Ocean. He’s had heart problems for a short while now, so it wasn’t totally unexpected, but the band was just coming into it’s own worldwide and breaking out of it’s Indian–only audience.
Indian Ocean fans call Chakravarty “the man with the golden voice.”
EXPIRED: 12/25/09 – Vic Chesnutt, 45, had tried to take his life numerous times and has always failed. But today his flirtation with death finally took hold. A suicide attempt on the day before Christmas Eve put him in a coma, rumours swirled, and although he’s come out of suicidal comas before, this one ended the way he always wanted.
EXPIRED: 12/25/09 – Knut Haugland, 92, was the last of the six Norwegian crewmen who crossed the Pacific Ocean on the Kon-Tiki balsa wood raft in 1947. Why would they do such a thing? Simply to prove a point.
The expedition was launched from Peru by anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl to demonstrate that South Americans could have settled Polynesia.
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