June Brown

June Muriel Brown was an English actress and author. She was best known for her role as Dot Cotton on the BBC soap opera EastEnders. In 2005, she won Best Actress at the Inside Soap Awards and received the Lifetime Achievement award at the 2005 British Soap Awards. Brown was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours for services to drama and to charity, and promoted to an OBE in the 2022 New Year Honours. In 2009, she was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress, making her the second performer to receive a BAFTA nomination for their work in a soap opera, after Jean Alexander. In February 2020, at the age of 93, she announced that she had left EastEnders permanently.

16 February 1927

Born on the same birth day (16 February): Anna Mae Hays • Cyril Vincent • Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg • Giambattista Bodoni • Glyn Davies (politician) • Hasheem Thabeet • Lars Hertervig • Michael Avenatti • Octave Mirbeau • Roberta Williams • Sarah Clarke • Stephen Gaskin • Tia Hellebaut • Valentin Bondarenko • Zsófia Susányi

Born in the same month (February 1927): Aira Samulin • Blas Ople • Florencio Campomanes • Gerard K. O'Neill • Guy Mitchell • Harvey Korman • Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten • Lois Maxwell • Ralph Stanley • Robert Allen (song composer) • Rolf Landauer • Régine Crespin • Stan Getz • Tom Kennedy (television host) • Vladimir Kuts • Yehoshua Neuwirth