Richard Burton—born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr. in 1925—was the twelfth of thirteen children. Yes, you read that right. Thirteen. That’s more siblings than a Kardashian reunion, and with far less hair product.
Technically, he had twelve siblings, but let’s not split hairs. His mother, Edith Maude Thomas, had a baby every year for what felt like a century. His father, Richard Sr., worked as a coal miner and must have been exhausted—and not just from the coal.
