Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Eric Hitchens was a British and American author, journalist, and educator. Author of 18 books on faith, culture, politics and literature, he was born and educated in Britain, graduating in the 1970s from Oxford with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. In the early 1980s, he emigrated to the United States and wrote for The Nation and Vanity Fair. Known as "one of the 'four horsemen'" of New Atheism, he gained prominence as a columnist and speaker. His epistemological razor, which states that "what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence", is still of mark in philosophy and law.

13 April 1949

Born on the same birth date (13 April 1949): Frank Doran (British politician) • Len Cook

Born on the same birth day (13 April): Alexander Mitchell (engineer) • Catherine de' Medici • Dan Gurney • David Robinson (philanthropist) • Gianni Marzotto • Glenn Howerton • Jeanne Guyon • John Weston (diplomat) • Josephine Butler • Kermit Tyler • Lester Chambers • Louis II, Duke of Bavaria • Louis-Ernest Barrias • Margus Tsahkna • Mike Beuttler • Nella Larsen • Rae Armantrout • Robert Enrico • Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford • Werner Voss • William Sadler (actor)

Born in the same month (April 1949): A. C. Grayling • Alyson Bailes • Bernd Müller (footballer, born 1949) • Bruno Kirby • Eric Troyer • Horst Ludwig Störmer • Len Cook • Mitch Daniels • Ng Ser Miang • Pamela Reed • Paul Guilfoyle • Vicente Pernía