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Gertrude


2003 Gertrude Ederle, swimming celebrity/teacher, first woman, and fifth person, to swim the English Channel, dies at 97

1993 Gertrude "Trudi" Duby Blom, actress, shot to death at about 92

1977 Gertrude Astor, actress (Ship of Wanted Men), dies on 90th birthday

1975 Gertrude Niesen, actress (Start Cheering), dies at 63

1975 Gertrude Olmsted, actress (Cobra, Torrent), dies at 70

1969 Gertrude Dixon, compiler of Shunryu Suzuki's Zen Mind, dies

1968 Gertrude Short, actress (Stella Dallas, Blonde Venus), dies at 66

1967 Gertrude McCoy, silent screen actress (Blue Bird), dies at 77

1967 Gertrude "Mickey" MacFadden, entertainer, dies of heart attack at 67

1966 Gertrude Hoffman, actress (Mrs Odetts-My Little Margie), dies at 95

1966 Gertrude Berg, actress (Molly Goldberg-Goldbergs), dies at 66

1965 Gertrude Michael, actress (Caged, Cleopatra), dies at 53

1951 3rd Emmy Awards: Alan Young Show, Alan Young and Gertrude Berg

1946 Gertrude Stein, American Author

1946 Gertrude Stein, US/Fren author and poet (Ida, Tender Buttons), dies at 72

1939 Gertrude Lawrence's "Skylark," premieres in New York City

1934 Thomson/Gertrude Steins opera premieres in New York City

1928 Kat[i]e [Gertrude] Wilhelm, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Hamlet Trap

1926 New York's Gertrude Ederle becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel

1926 Gertrude M L Bell, British archaeologist (Desert and Sown), dies at 57

1925 Gertrude Shope, South African head, ANC female section

1924 Raf de Linde, [Raphael van Hecke], author, Vaarwel on Gertrude

1918 Gertrude E Durden Rush, U.S. composer/playwright, dies at 38

1918 Gertrude Belle Elion, New York City, biochemist/drug researcher, Nobel 1988

1911 Gertrude Niesen, born in New York, actress, Start Cheering

1911 Gertrude Michael, AL, actress, Cleopatra, Menace, Club Havana

1906 Gertrude Ederle, New York City, swimmer 1924 Olympics gold

1904 Gertrude Olmsted, born in Chicago, Illinois, actress, The Monster

1904 U.S. blues singer Gertrude Pridgett marries comic William Rainey

1902 Gertrude Short, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, actress, Stella Dallas, Blonde Venus

1899 Gertrude Berg, Harlem New York City, actress, Molly Goldberg-Goldbergs

1898 Gertrude Lawrence, English actress, Mimi, Rembrandt

1897 Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, sculptor/art benefactor

1890 Gertrude McCoy, born in Sugar Valley, Georgia, silent screen actress, Blue Bird

1889 Gertrude Caton-Thompson, British archaeologist, Zimbabwe, So Arabia

1887 Gertrude Astor, Lakewood, Ohio, actress, Carnival Lady

1886 Ma Rainey, [Gertrude Pridgett], "Mother of the Blues", U.S. blues singer

1880 Gertrude E Durden Rush, U.S. composer/playwright, Black Girls Burden

1874 Gertrude Stein, Penn, author, Autobiography of Alice B Toklas

1868 Gertrude M L Bell, British archaeologist, Desert and The Sown

1746 Johann H Pestalozzi, born in Zurich, Switzerland, educator, Leonard and Gertrude,



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