Musicians Who Died in May 1950

  • May 7 Bertha "Chippie" Hill, American blues and vaudeville singer (King Oliver's Jazz Band), struck and killed by a car in New York City at 45
  • May 17 Eduardo Fabini, composer, dies at 67
  • May 26 Antonina Nezhdanova, Russian soprano (Bolshoi Theater), dies at 77