Alan Bergman, the award-winning songwriter who helped craft Barbra Streisand’s “The Way We Were” and Michel Legrand’s “The Windmills of Your Mind,” had died at the age of 99.

Alan Bergman wrote a song with his future wife on the day they first met.

The statement said Bergman had, in recent months, suffered from respiratory issues “but continued to write songs till the very end.”