Helen Thomas

Helen Amelia Thomas was an American reporter and author, and a long serving member of the White House press corps. She covered the White House during the administrations of ten U.S. presidents—from the beginning of the Kennedy administration to the second year of the Obama administration.

4 August 1920

Born on the same birth day (4 August): Allison Hedge Coke • Anatoliy Kinakh • Brooks D. Simpson • Chuck C. Lopez • David Bedford • Doudou Ndoye • Frankie Ford • François Valéry • Giovanni Giuriati • Gábor Demszky • James Arbuthnot • John Fitch (racing driver) • Kate Silverton • Marques Houston • Meghan, Duchess of Sussex • Robin Peterson • Ted Strickland • Thomas Blackwell (scholar) • Wang Hao (chess player)

Born in the same month (August 1920): Alex Colville • Augustus Rowe • Charles Gibson (historian) • Denton Cooley • Enzo Biagi • Godfrey Evans • Herb Simpson • James Mourilyan Tanner • Jimmy Witherspoon • John Graves (author) • Leo Chiosso • Lida Moser • Mike Douglas • Norman Dewis • Otis Boykin • Prem Tinsulanonda • Ray Bradbury • Shelley Winters