Thomas John Brokaw, aka Tom Brokaw, celebrates his birthday on the 6th of February and was born in Webster, South Dakota in the United States of America in 1940 as the first son, among three sons, of Anthony Orville Brokaw and Eugenia “Jean”. His father worked at the Army Corps of Engineers as a construction foreman and because of his father’s job, Brokaw’s family had to shift houses very often.