The hermit whom the media called "the dirtiest man in the world" died at the age of 94, a few months after taking his first bath in decades.
Amu Haji refused to use soap and water for more than half a century, because he was afraid that it would make him sick.
The Iranian man, who lived in the southern province of Fars, avoided attempts by the locals to bathe him.
However, according to local media, Amu Hadji succumbed to the pressure and was bathed a few months ago.
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The Iranian news agency Irna writes that he fell ill soon after and died on Sunday.
In an earlier interview he gave to the Tehran Times in 2014, he said that his favorite food was porcupines and that he lived between a hole in the ground and a brick hut built by concerned neighbors from the village of Dejga.
As he said, the unusual choices he made had their origin in the "emotional breakdowns" he experienced in his youth.
Years of not bathing left his skin covered in "soot and pus," Irna says, while he fed mostly on rotten meat and non-potable water from old oil cans.
He was an avid smoker.
The photo above shows him smoking four cigarettes at once.
It saddened him when people tried to bathe him or offered him clean water to drink, according to the news agency.
It was debated whether he is the record holder in the discipline of longest non-bathing, because in 2009 the media wrote about an Indian who, at that moment, had not wet himself or brushed his teeth for 35 years.
What happened to him after that has not been established.
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