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Here are ten of the most bizarre deaths to ever be recorded in history:
1327: Edward II of England, was rumoured to have been murdered
by having a horn pushed into his anus through which a red-hot iron was inserted, burning out his internal organs without marking his body
1567: Hans Steininger, the burgomaster of Braunau, Austria, died when he broke his neck by tripping over his own beard.[26] The beard, which was 4.5 feet (1.4 m) long at the time, was usually kept rolled up in a leather pouch.
1871: Clement Vallandigham, a lawyer in Ohio, U.S., defending a man on a charge of murder, accidentally shot himself demonstrating how the victim might have shot himself
1974: Basil Brown, a 48-year-old health food advocate from Croydon, England, drank himself to death by consuming 10 gallons (37.85 litres) of carrot juice in ten days, causing him to overdose on vitamin A and suffer severe liver damage
1977: Tom Pryce, a Welsh Formula 1 driver, was killed when struck on the head by a fire extinguisher when his car hit and killed a marshall who was running across the Kyalami race track to extinguish a burning car