* 1757 – English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.

Beat poet and longtime Greenwich Village resident Allen Ginsberg lived on Christopher Street, and happened upon the jubilant chaos.

* Christopher Smart, English poet and actor

** Christopher Dewdney, Canadian poet

* April 25 – Christopher Hassall, English actor, dramatist, librettist, lyricist, and poet, heart attack ( b. 1912 )

* February 26 ( baptized ) – Christopher Marlowe, English poet and dramatist ( d. 1593 )

* October 5 – Christopher Brennan, Australian poet and scholar ( b. 1870 )

* May 30 – Christopher Marlowe, English poet and playwright ( b. 1564 )

* May 21 – Christopher Smart, English poet ( b. 1722 )

* April 11 – Christopher Smart, English poet ( d. 1771 )

* Marlowe ( MR ) ( 74 mixed pupils, day, 1936 ) is named after the poet and dramatist Christopher Marlowe ( King's Scholar, 1580 ) and looks out over the Green Court.

It was later turned into a vocal version called Where the Gentle Avon Flows, with lyrics by the poet Christopher Hassall.

* Renaissance poet Christopher Marlowe began an expansive version of the narrative.

Its two most distinguished inmates were Alexander Cruden, compiler of the Concordance to the Bible, and the poet Christopher Smart.

Its first principal was Elizabeth Wordsworth, the great-niece of the poet William Wordsworth and daughter of Christopher Wordsworth, Bishop of Lincoln.

Notable members of the college in its early years include Robert Blake, Cromwell's admiral and founder of British sea-power in the Mediterranean, the libertine poet and courtier John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester and Christopher Wren.

During the 16th century the school educated writers including Ben Jonson and Richard Hakluyt ; in the seventeenth, the poet John Dryden, philosopher John Locke, scientist Robert Hooke, composer Henry Purcell and architect Christopher Wren were pupils ; and in the 18th century, philosopher Jeremy Bentham and several Whig Prime Ministers and other statesmen ; recent Old Westminsters include prominent politicians of all parties, and many members of the arts and media.

The leading exponents of this new trend include Thomas Gray, George Crabbe, Christopher Smart and Robert Burns as well as the Irish poet Oliver Goldsmith.

* Christopher Logue, English poet

The " rival poet " was the famously homosexual Christopher Marlowe.

* unknown date – Christopher Okigbo, Nigerian poet, killed in the Nigerian-Biafran War

Christopher Morley ( May 5, 1890 – March 28, 1957 ) was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet.

His father, Frank Morley, was a mathematics professor at Haverford College ; his mother, Lilian Janet Bird, was a poet and musician who provided Christopher with much of his later love for literature and poetry.

Born in Windsor, Ontario, she is the long-time partner of poet Christopher Dewdney and resides in Toronto.

Dr. Christopher Wordsworth, Master of Trinity and a nephew of the poet William Wordsworth.

* 1986 – Elizabeth Smart, Canadian poet and novelist ( b. 1913 )

Canadian author Elizabeth Smart described being arrested under the Mann Act in 1940 when crossing a state border with her lover, the British poet George Barker.

* December 27-Elizabeth Smart, Canadian poet and novelist ( died 1986 )

* March 4 – Elizabeth Smart, Canadian poet and novelist

Elizabeth Smart ( December 27, 1913 – March 4, 1986 ) was a Canadian poet and novelist.

* April 11-Christopher Smart, English poet ( died 1771 )

* May 21-Christopher Smart, poet ( born 1722 )

Early denizens included sarcastic John Doe ( John Brown ), self-possessed Senator Bloat and town drunk Sampson Souse ( Jack Smart ), dimwitted Socrates Mulligan ( Charlie Cantor ), pompous poet Falstaff Openshaw ( Alan Reed ), and wry Jewish housewife Pansy Nussbaum ( Minerva Pious ).

* March 4-Elizabeth Smart, poet and novelist ( b. 1913 )

* December 27-Elizabeth Smart, poet and novelist ( d. 1986 )

* May 21 – Christopher Smart, poet and hymn-writer ( b. 1722 )

The RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers was established by author Carolyn Smart and honours the memory of Bronwen Wallace ( 1945-1989 ), a Canadian poet and short story writer who died of cancer at the age of 44.

He then started a career in copy-writing and journalism, while writing poetry and novels, living in Edinburgh, London, and later Tilty Mill near Dunmow in Essex ( later rented to poet and novelist Elizabeth Smart ).

* Christopher Smart, poet

In her book, Covarrubias, author Adriana Williams tells how Mexican poet José Juan Tablada and New York Times critic / photographer Carl Van Vechten, introduced him to New York's literary / cultural elite ( Also known as the Smart Set ).

He is known for his treatment of his heirs, and his employment as steward of Peter Smart, father of the poet Christopher Smart.