Gerda Lerner

Gerda Hedwig Lerner was an Austrian-born American historian and woman's history author. In addition to her numerous scholarly publications, she wrote poetry, fiction, theatre pieces, screenplays, and an autobiography. She served as president of the Organization of American Historians from 1980 to 1981. In 1980, she was appointed Robinson Edwards Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she taught until retiring in 1991.

30 April 1920

Born on the same birth date (30 April 1920): Captain Tom Moore • Duncan Hamilton (racing driver)

Born on the same birth day (30 April): Frank Robert Miller • Félix Guattari • Hans List • Juliana of the Netherlands • Louise of Lorraine • Martin Fuksa • Paul Fiddes • Paul Kuusberg • Tony Fernandes

Born in the same month (April 1920): Ananda Dassanayake • Carmen McRae • Guido Cantelli • Jack Stokes (director) • James Mann (South Carolina politician) • John Willem Gran • Julien Ries • Liam Cosgrave • Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine • Ragnar Ulstein • Richard von Weizsäcker • Stan Freeman • Theodore L. Thomas