American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

Mel Brooks

Melvin James Brooks is an American actor, filmmaker, comedian, songwriter, and playwright. With a career spanning over seven decades, he 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 28 entertainers to win the EGOT, which includes an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony. 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 an Honorary Academy Award in 2024.

Born

1926

June 28

Died

Living

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1920s

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1926 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

1098 Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul at the battle of Antioch.
1360 Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II.
1461 Edward, Earl of March, is crowned King Edward IV of England.
1495 A French force heavily defeats a much larger Neapolitan and Spanish army at the battle of Seminara, leading to the creation of the Tercios by Gonzalo de Córdoba.

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The world in 1926

When Mel arrived

april 21 Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis.
april 24 The Treaty of Berlin is signed. Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.
april 6 Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
april 7 Violet Gibson attempts to assassinate Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on June 28

Elon Musk 1971– South African-born American entrepreneur Alexis Carrel 1873–1944 French surgeon and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1944) Charles Cruft 1852–1938 English showman, founded Crufts Dog Show (died 1938) Chuck Howley 1936– American football player Don Baylor 1949–2017 American baseball player (born 1949) Fabien Barthez 1971– French footballer Jaime Guzmán 1946–1991 Chilean lawyer and politician (born 1946) Jon Nödtveidt 1975–2006 Swedish musician (born 1975) Kurt Eichenwald 1961– American journalist

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1926

A. N. R. Robinson 1926–2014 Trinbagonian politician, 3rd President of Trinidad and Tobago (born 1926) Alfredo Di Stéfano 1926–2014 Argentinian-Spanish footballer and coach (died 2014) Anahit Tsitsikian 1926– Armenian violinist and educator (died 1999) Andy Griffith 1926–2012 American actor, singer, and producer (born 1926) Avraham Adan 1926–2012 Israeli general (died 2012) Bernard Nathanson 1926–2011 American physician and activist (born 1926) Beryl Cook 1926–2008 English painter and illustrator (born 1926) Boris Chetkov 1926–2010 Russian painter (died 2010) Bruno Bartoletti 1926–2013 Italian conductor (died 2013)

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