Curated playlist
Male feminists
- Karl MarxKarl Marx left an estate valued at just 250 pounds when he died in 1883. He died stateless in London at 64.
- William BlakeNear death, William Blake spent one of his last shillings on a pencil. He drew his wife's portrait before he died.
- Justin TrudeauJustin Trudeau was not yet four months old when a visiting American president raised a glass to him. At a gala in Ottawa in April 1972, Richard Nixon toasted the future prime minister of Canada, naming the baby as Justin Pierre Trudeau.…
- Friedrich EngelsFriedrich Engels rode with an aristocratic fox hunt while funding Karl Marx.
- Elliot PageOn the 1st of December 2020, the Canadian actor Elliot Page announced on social media that he is a trans man. He shared his new name, Elliot, and said his pronouns were he and they. The post carried weight because its author had been in…
- George Miller (filmmaker)Before Mad Max, George Miller was a trained doctor. He taught himself filmmaking on the side.
- Ryan GoslingRyan Gosling was suspended in grade one for throwing steak knives at classmates.
- Amartya SenAmartya Sen carries a name that was chosen for him by a Nobel laureate. Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize, gave the newborn the name অমর্ত্য. The boy was born on the 3rd of November 1933 in Santiniketan, Bengal,…
- 14th Dalai LamaA two-year-old asked a disguised monk for an old mala that had belonged to the 13th Dalai Lama.
- Alexander SkarsgårdOn the 31st of January 2026, Alexander Skarsgård stepped onto the stage of Saturday Night Live to host its 1,000th episode, with the rapper Cardi B as musical guest. The Swedish actor, born in 1976, is the son of a celebrated actor, and…