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Clare Hollingworth

1911 - 2017

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Clare Hollingworth (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 rookie reporter for The Daily Telegraph in 1939, while travelling from Poland to Germany, she spotted and reported German forces massed on the Polish border; The Daily Telegraph headline read: "1,000 tanks massed on 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Clare Hollingworth is the 4,869th most popular writer (up from 5,903rd in 2019), the 3,835th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,709th in 2019) and the 415th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Clare Hollingworth ranks 4,869 out of 7,302. Before her are Bedros Tourian, Terenci Moix, Henrik Nordbrandt, Gabriel Aresti, Wolfgang Koeppen, and Raymond Abellio. After her are Ariel Dorfman, Robert Leckie, Jim Harrison, Suniti Kumar Chatterji, Olav Aukrust, and Lucy Hawking.

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Among people born in 1911, Clare Hollingworth ranks 277. Before her are Zoltán Beke, C. L. Moore, Adam Kozłowiecki, Armandinho, István Énekes, and Milan Stojanović. After her are Fauja Singh, Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu, Leen Vente, Sachchidananda Vatsyayan, Germano Boettcher Sobrinho, and Lisa Fonssagrives. Among people deceased in 2017, Clare Hollingworth ranks 367. Before her are István Szondy, Selena Rocky Malone, Warren Frost, Robert Alt, Paula Fox, and Smail Hamdani. After her are Walter Kollmann, Míriam Colón, Robert Taylor, Katy Bødtger, Vladimir Shainsky, and Ezio Pascutti.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Clare Hollingworth ranks 3,836 out of 8,785. Before her are Andy Bell (1970), John Hutton Balfour (1808), Phil Neal (1951), Arthur Russell (1886), Archie Panjabi (1972), and Tony Kaye (1945). After her are Jon Hiseman (1944), Leslie Marr (1922), Tom Daley (1994), Lucy Hawking (1969), Howard Stringer (1942), and Peter Ackroyd (1949).

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Among writers born in United Kingdom, Clare Hollingworth ranks 415. Before her are Max Beerbohm (1872), Taylor Caldwell (1900), Roger Ascham (1515), Helen Fielding (1958), Ronald Knox (1888), and Hanif Kureishi (1954). After her are Lucy Hawking (1969), Peter Ackroyd (1949), Alex Garland (1970), Eva Crane (1912), Anna Löwenstein (1951), and Cynewulf (900).

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