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

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.