Clare Hollingworth, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Clare Hollingworth

British journalist

Date of Birth: 10-Oct-1911

Place of Birth: Knighton, Wales, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 10-Jan-2017

Profession: writer, war correspondent, journalist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Clare Hollingworth, OBE (10 October 1911 – 10 January 2017) was an English journalist and author.
She was the first war correspondent to report the outbreak of World War II, described as "the scoop of the century".
As a reporter for The Daily Telegraph in 1939, while travelling from Poland to Germany, she spotted and reported German forces massed on the Polish border; three days later she was the first to report the German invasion of Poland.Hollingworth was appointed OBE by Elizabeth II for "services to journalism" in 1982.
She died in 2017 at the age of 105.