Izidor Cankar

Izidor Cankar was a Slovenian author, art historian, diplomat, journalist, translator, and liberal conservative politician. He was one of the most important Slovenian art historians of the first part of the 20th century, and one of the most influential cultural figures in interwar Slovenia.

22 April 1886

Born on the same birth day (22 April): Aaron Spelling • Adam Raphael • Carl Lindner Jr. • Christopher Ball (linguist) • Danièle Sauvageau • Enno Penno • Eric Fenby • Glen Campbell • Indro Montanelli • James Stirling (architect) • Jeff Hostetler • Jeffrey Dean Morgan • John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville • Michael Atiyah • Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford • Peter Frampton • Richard Diebenkorn • Sacco and Vanzetti • William Jay Smith

Born in the same month (April 1886): Arthur Shaw (hurdler) • Athenagoras I of Constantinople • Dooley Wilson • Ed Lafitte • Erich Salomon • Ernst Robert Curtius • Ernst Thälmann • Frank Luther Mott • Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell • Gustavo Jiménez • Johnny Hayes • Ma Rainey • Margaret Ayer Barnes • Michalis Dorizas • Mir Osman Ali Khan • Nikolai Gumilev • Walter Dandy • Árpád Tóth • Ğabdulla Tuqay