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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