Today Gene Hackman is 90, and Wilmer Valderrama is 40. Today is also the birthday of Vanessa Redgrave, Christian Bale, Phil Collins, Olivia Colman, Charles S. Dutton, Ann Dowd, Brett Butler, Gino Conforti, Steven Zaillian, Andy Milonakis, Wayne Wilderson, Dick Cheney, and the late Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Ireland, David Wayne, Dick Martin, Hugh Marlowe, Tammy Grimes, and Michael Anderson and Delbert Mann, who would be both 100. Mahatma Gandhi and Orville Wright both died 72 years ago in 1948. Gandhi was 78. Wright was 76.
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