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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,

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