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): Albert of Brandenburg • Alfred Miodowicz • Carl Panzram • Charlotte, Queen of Cyprus • Cyril Smith • Emil Erlenmeyer • Felicia Day • George Lloyd (composer) • Gilda Radner • Harun Tekin • Jeff Malone • Jens Birkemose • Jimmy Mundy • Kevin De Bruyne • Lalla Ward • Lorenzo Amoruso • Mary Stuart Masterson • Tadasuke Makino • Tichina Arnold
Born in the same month (June 1926): Ain Kaalep • Allen Ginsberg • Andy Griffith • Annette Mbaye d'Erneville • Bruno Bartoletti • Calvin "Fuzz" Jones • Conrad Hall • Dinu Zamfirescu • Efraín Ríos Montt • Erna Schneider Hoover • George Booth (cartoonist) • Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah • Jean-Noël Tremblay • Johnny Berry • Kenny Baker (fiddler) • Mahendra Bhatnagar • Marilyn Monroe • Rachid Solh • Robert Ledley