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Musicians Who Died on May 3

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  • 1567 Leonhard Paminger, Bavarian composer, dies at 72
  • 1598 Anna Guarini, Italian singer (b. 1563)
  • 1704 Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Bohemian-Austrian violinist and composer, dies at 59
  • 1792 Carlo Zuccari, Italian composer and violinist, dies at 87
  • 1839 Ferdinando Paer, Italian opera composer (Agnese), and conductor (Paris Opéra-Italien, 1812-23), dies at 67
  • 1845 Thomas Hood, English poet and composer (The Song of the Shirt), dies at 45
  • 1854 William Beale, composer, dies at 70
  • 1856 Adolfo Fumagalli, composer, dies at 27
  • 1856 Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer/critic (Giselle), dies at 52
  • 1861 Anthony Philip Heinrich, America's 1st "full-time" composer, dies at 80
  • 1868 Olof Wilhelm Uddén, Swedish composer, dies at 68
  • 1893 Josef Rudolf Zavrtal, Czech composer, dies at 73
  • 1931 Frank Hoyt Losey, American composer, arranger of band and orchestral music, and advisor to Edison Phonograph Company, dies at 59 [1]
  • 1931 Otto Winter-Hjelm, Norwegian musician and composer, dies at 93
  • 1943 Leslie Heward, English composer, dies at 45
  • 1968 Leonid Sabaneyev, Russian composer, dies at 86
  • 1969 Imre Vincze, Hungarian composer, dies at 42
  • 1970 Candelario Huízar, Mexican violist, horn player, and classical and canción composer ("Surco"), dies at 82
  • 1972 Les Harvey, Scottish rock guitarist (Stone The Crows), dies from accidental on-stage electrocution at 27
  • 1983 Armando José Fernandes, Portuguese neoclassical composer, dies at 76
  • 1987 Dalida [Yolande Christina Gigliotti], French-Italian actress (The Sixth Day), singer (Bambino), and Miss Egypt 1954, commits suicide at 54
  • 1988 Johannes Driessler, German organist and composer, dies at 67
  • 1991 Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer and composer (b. 1907)
  • 1992 Elizabeth Lennox, radio singer, dies of heart seizure at 98
  • 1994 Milford Dolliole, American pioneer jazz drummer, dies at 90
  • 1996 Patsy Montana [Ruby Rose Blevins], American country singer, songwriter and yodeler ("I Want To Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart"), dies at 81
  • 1997 Narciso Yepes, Spanish classical guitarist (Orquesta Nacionale 1947), dies at 69
  • 2000 Yoshinao Nakada, Japanese composer, dies at 76
  • 2001 Billy Higgins, American jazz drummer, dies at 64
  • 2002 Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian conductor (USSR State Symphony, 1965-2000; Residentie Orchestra 1992-2000), pianist, and composer (Siberian Fantasy), dies at 73
  • 2005 Pierre Moerlen, French rock-jazz fusion drummer and percussionist (Gong; Mike Oldfield), dies at 52
  • 2007 Ellsworth Milburn, American composer and educator (Menil Antiphons), dies of complications from pneumonia at 69
  • 2008 Uroš Krek, Slovenian composer, dies at 85
  • 2014 Bobby Gregg, American drummer and record producer (Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone"), dies at 78
  • 2017 Daliah Lavi [Levinbuck], Israeli actress (Casino Royale: Lord Jim), and singer, dies at 74
  • 2020 Dave Greenfield, British rock keyboardist, and songwriter (The Stranglers - "Golden Brown"), dies of complications from COVID-19 at 71
  • 2020 Frederick Charles Tillis, American composer (In the Spirt and the Flesh; Secrets of the African Baobob), jazz saxophonist, music educator (University of Massachusetts, 1970-97), and poet, dies at 90
  • 2020 Rosalind Elias, American mezzo-soprano (Wagner's Die Walküre - "Grimgerde"; Barber's Vanessa - "Erika"), and opera director, dies of congestive heart failure at 90
  • 2021 Lloyd Price, American R&B singer ("Lawdy Miss Clawdy"; "Stagger Lee"; "Personality"), dies at 88
  • 2023 Linda Lewis [Fredericks], British pop-rock-soul singer-songwriter, and guitarist ("Rock-a-Doodle-Doo"), dies at 72


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