deaths
November 17, 1936
Ernestine Schumann-Heink, German-American singer (born 1861)
Ernestine Schumann-Heink
Ernestine Schumann-Heink was a Bohemian-born Austrian-American operatic dramatic contralto of German Bohemian descent. She was noted for the flexibility and wide range of her voice. Heink and Schumann were her two husbands' surnames.