12. Richard III of England
King Richard III is one of the first people to have a dramatized biography, in William Shakespeare’s play aptly called “Richard III”. In the play, Richard is a hunchback villain. And in the 1962 movie Tower of London, he is depicted as a horrible tyrant, child killer, and total failure when he’s killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field. While some of the events of his life might be accurate, he was actually much younger than most movies make him out to be. He was only 33 when he died. Instead of having a hunchback, his remains revealed that he simply had a curved spine due to scoliosis. If you want to know more about his remains that were uncovered in 2012, check out our article that goes over all of those details.