2015 Event The world's oldest living person, Gertrude Weaver of the U.S., dies at age 116, just five days after the death of the previous record holder, Misao Okawa of Japan, who died at age 117 2003 Death Gertrude Ederle, swimming celebrity/teacher, first woman, and fifth person, to swim the English Channel, dies at 97 1993 Death Gertrude "Trudi" Duby Blom, actress, shot to death at about 92 1977 Death Gertrude Astor, actress (Ship of Wanted Men), dies on 90th birthday 1975 Death Gertrude Niesen, actress (Start Cheering), dies at 63 1975 Death Gertrude Olmsted, actress (Cobra, Torrent), dies at 70 1969 Death Gertrude Dixon, compiler of Shunryu Suzuki's Zen Mind, dies 1968 Death Gertrude Short, actress (Stella Dallas, Blonde Venus), dies at 66 1967 Death Gertrude McCoy, silent screen actress (Blue Bird), dies at 77 1967 Death Gertrude "Mickey" MacFadden, entertainer, dies of heart attack at 67 1966 Death Gertrude Hoffman, actress (Mrs Odetts-My Little Margie), dies at 95 1966 Death Gertrude Berg, actress (Molly Goldberg-Goldbergs), dies at 66 1965 Death Gertrude Michael, actress (Caged, Cleopatra), dies at 53 1951 Event 3rd Emmy Awards: Alan Young Show, Alan Young and Gertrude Berg 1946 Death Gertrude Stein, American Author 1946 Death Gertrude Stein, U.S./French author and poet (Ida, Tender Buttons), dies at 72 1939 Event Gertrude Lawrence's "Skylark," premieres in New York City 1934 Event Thomson/Gertrude Steins opera premieres in New York City 1928 Birthday Kat[i]e [Gertrude] Wilhelm, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Hamlet Trap 1926 Event New York's Gertrude Ederle becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel 1926 Death Gertrude M L Bell, British archaeologist (Desert and Sown), dies at 57 1925 Birthday Gertrude Shope, South African head, ANC female section 1925 Birthday Ernst Jandl, born in Vienna, Austria, writer, poet, influenced by Dada, translated Gertrude Stein, Robert Creeley's The Island and John Cage's Silence 1924 Birthday Raf de Linde, Raphael van Hecke, author, Vaarwel on Gertrude 1918 Death Gertrude E Durden Rush, U.S. composer/playwright, dies at 38 1918 Birthday Gertrude Belle Elion, New York City, biochemist/drug researcher, Nobel 1988 1911 Birthday Gertrude Niesen, born in New York, actress, Start Cheering 1911 Birthday Gertrude Michael, AL, actress, Cleopatra, Menace, Club Havana 1906 Birthday Gertrude Ederle, New York City, swimmer 1924 Olympics gold 1904 Birthday Gertrude Olmsted, born in Chicago, Illinois, actress, The Monster 1904 Event U.S. blues singer Gertrude Pridgett marries comic William Rainey 1902 Birthday Gertrude Short, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, actress, Stella Dallas, Blonde Venus 1899 Birthday Gertrude Berg, Harlem New York City, actress, Molly Goldberg-Goldbergs 1898 Birthday Gertrude Lawrence, English actress, Mimi, Rembrandt 1897 Birthday Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, sculptor/art benefactor 1890 Birthday Gertrude McCoy, born in Sugar Valley, Georgia, silent screen actress, Blue Bird 1889 Birthday Gertrude Caton-Thompson, British archaeologist, Zimbabwe, So Arabia 1887 Birthday Gertrude Astor, Lakewood, Ohio, actress, Carnival Lady 1886 Birthday Ma Rainey, Gertrude Pridgett, "Mother of the Blues", U.S. blues singer 1880 Birthday Gertrude E Durden Rush, U.S. composer/playwright, Black Girls Burden 1874 Birthday Gertrude Stein, Penn, author, Autobiography of Alice B Toklas 1868 Birthday Gertrude M L Bell, British archaeologist, Desert and The Sown 1746 Birthday Johann H Pestalozzi, born in Zurich, Switzerland, educator, Leonard and Gertrude,
