Neville Cardus

Sir John Frederick Neville Cardus, CBE was an English writer and critic. From an impoverished home background, and mainly self-educated, he became The Manchester Guardian's cricket correspondent in 1919 and its chief music critic in 1927, holding the two posts simultaneously until 1940. His contributions to these two distinct fields in the years before the Second World War established his reputation as one of the foremost critics of his generation.

2 April 1888

Born on the same birth day (2 April): Bo Callaway • Bobby Ávila • Clément Ader • David Robinson (drummer) • Emma Myers • Erastus Brigham Bigelow • Harindranath Chattopadhyay • Jack Brabham • Juha Kankkunen • Jérémy Morel • Malika Oufkir • Michael Boyce, Baron Boyce • Miralem Pjanić • Pablo Aguilar (footballer, born 1987) • Pamela Reed • Pascal Siakam • Pietro Della Valle • Richard Collinge • Roald Als • Rosemary Bryant Mariner

Born in the same month (April 1888): Billy Minter • Dan Ahearn • Dennis Chávez • Florence La Badie • Georges Vanier • Gerhard Ritter • Hans Richter (artist) • Herms Niel • Michael Heidelberger • Pe Maung Tin • Sol Hurok • Tris Speaker • Walter Tull • Zdzisław Żygulski (literary historian)