Mel Brooks

Melvin James Brooks is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, songwriter, and playwright. With a career spanning over seven decades, Brooks is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies. A recipient of numerous accolades, he is one of 19 entertainers to win the EGOT, which includes an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, an Academy Award, and a Tony Award. He received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2010, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2013, a British Film Institute Fellowship in 2015, a National Medal of Arts in 2016, a BAFTA Fellowship in 2017, and the Honorary Academy Award in 2024.

28 June 1926

Born on the same birth date (28 June 1926): George Booth (cartoonist) • Robert Ledley

Born on the same birth day (28 June): A. A. Gill • Donna Vekić • Emperor Go-Fukakusa • Fabien Barthez • Frank Zane • Gaye Stewart • Gil Bellows • Hans Blix • Jens Birkemose • Jevgeni Novikov • John Inman • Paul Broca • Phil Bardsley • Roy Gilchrist • Shirley Cheriton • Simon Douglas-Pennant, 7th Baron Penrhyn • Sonata Tamošaitytė • Tiaan Strauss • Étienne François de Choiseul, Duke of Choiseul

Born in the same month (June 1926): Conrad Hall • Dinu Zamfirescu • Efraín Ríos Montt • Erna Schneider Hoover • Fernando Mönckeberg Barros • George Robb (footballer) • Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah • Johnny Berry • Julius W. Becton Jr. • Lionel Jeffries • Marilyn Monroe • Milo O'Shea • Paul Berg • Rachid Solh • Rehavam Ze'evi • Robert Earl Hughes • Robert Ledley