Christopher Smart

Christopher Smart was an English poet. He was a major contributor to two popular magazines, The Midwife and The Student, and a friend to influential cultural icons like Samuel Johnson and Henry Fielding. Smart, a high church Anglican, was widely known throughout London.

11 April 1722

Born on the same birth day (11 April): Arthur Shrewsbury • Edward Lawson (VC) • Ellen Goodman • George Canning • Guy Verhofstadt • John Eliot (statesman) • John I of Portugal • Josh Hancock • Lev Bulat • Lights (musician) • Luther Johnson (Guitar Junior) • Mark Strand • Nicky Pastorelli • Nobuaki Kakuda • Norman McLaren • Paul Fox (musician) • Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March • William Royer • William Wallace Campbell

Born in the same month (April 1722): Pietro Nardini