Sam, the dog who earned the undisputed title as the world's ugliest dog for years, has died.

The pup with the hairless body, crooked teeth and sparse tuft of hair on his knobby and knotty head died on Friday, just shy of his 15th birthday, according to his owner, Susie Lockheed."I don't think there'll ever be another Sam," she says, "Some people would think that's a good thing."Sam became an international celebrity after winning the ugliest animal contest at the 2003 Sonoma-Marin Fair in California.