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): A. H. Halsey • Edward Bruce (New Deal) • Edward Fox (actor) • Eudora Welty • Jack Chick • Jean Pierre Flourens • Lester Chambers • Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans • Paul Sorvino • Roland Gaucher • Rudi Völler • Vladimir Cosma

Born in the same month (April 1949): A. C. Grayling • António Guterres • Bernd Müller (footballer, born 1949) • Brenda Russell • Chas Mortimer • Chris Langham • David Robinson (drummer) • Eddie Hart (sprinter) • Gil Scott-Heron • James Fenton • Jeremy Cooke • Jessica Lange • John Miles (musician) • John Scott (sociologist) • Larry Franco • Len Cook • Lyle Alzado • Pamela Reed • Paul Guilfoyle • Phil Garner • Veronica Cartwright • Vicente Pernía