Alan Bergman, who wrote the song The Way We Were with his wife Marilyn, passed away in Los Angeles on July 17, just two months before his 100th birthday

Barbra Streisand has paid tribute to lyricist Alan Bergman, who died at the age of 99. In her message on Instagram, she wrote, Bergman passed away less than two months before his 100th birthday. His death was confirmed by his publicist, who said the cause was a respiratory illness.

His collaboration with wife Marilyn resulted in dozens of classic earworms and earned multiple Oscars, Emmys, and Grammys.

Grammy- and Emmy-winning songwriter whose lyric-writing partnership with wife Marilyn lasted more than six decades, has died.