James D. “JD” Howard, a Marine Corps veteran who became an internationally known photographer for the AFRO American Newspapers, died Jan. 29 of complications from dementia at the Perry Point Veterans Administration Hospital in Maryland.

Larry Taylor, who received the Medal of Honor in September for his daring 1968 helicopter rescue during the Vietnam War, died Sunday, according to a news release from the Congressional Medal of Honor Society.

Charles Osgood, the bow-tie-wearing former host of “CBS Sunday Morning” and a fixture for decades on network radio, died Tuesday at his home in New Jersey, CBS News reported. He was 91.

Arno A. Penzias, who fled Nazi Germany in childhood, settled in the United States and in 1978 shared the Nobel Prize in physics for helping find vital early evidence of the Big Bang Theory about the creation of the universe, died Jan. 22 at an assisted-living center in San Francisco. He was 90.

Al Cantello was a Marine veteran who spent 55 years at the Naval Academy, 50 as the coach of Navy’s men’s cross country team. He died Wednesday at 92 after a brief illness.

Zvi Zamir, an Israeli spymaster who watched in horror in 1972 as the hostage-taking of Israeli Olympic team members by Palestinian militants at the Munich Games ended in a deadly firefight and who then directed a covert campaign to strike back at Palestinian terrorist networks, died Jan. 2. He was 98.

The stars, sun and surveyor’s instruments were his only tools to lead British special forces through the North African desert during World War II.

A largely self-taught musician, Les McCann joined the Navy in the 1950s and was stationed in California. In 1956, he won a Navy talent contest as a singer and appeared on the “Ed Sullivan Show,” according to the 2007 book “The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz.”

Doug J.J. Peters was a captain in the U.S. Army Reserve from 1988 to 1998, served in Operation Desert Storm and was awarded a Bronze Star Medal.

Dick Szlasa, whose Hall of Fame lacrosse coaching career was highlighted by a successful 10-year stint at Navy, died Saturday night at Autumn Lake Healthcare in Manchester, Md., after being in failing health for many months. He was 87 years old.

Guy Stern, director of the International Institute of the Righteous at The Zekelman Holocaust Center (The HC) and Holocaust survivor, whose contributions as a United States intelligence officer helped to defeat Nazi Germany, has died.

At 104, Betty Printz Sims was believed to be the oldest-living female Marine before she died last week.

Norman Lear, who flew 52 missions as a radio operator and gunner on a B-17 over Europe during World War II, revolutionized prime-time television in the 1970s with groundbreaking, socially relevant situation comedies such as “All in the Family,” “Maude” and “The Jeffersons.” He has died at 101.

Polish-born Holocaust survivor Bronka Sundstrom — who outlasted Nazi concentration camps and later settled in Tacoma and Ashford, becoming a hiking folk hero at Mount Rainer National Park — died Wednesday in Lacey from congestive heart failure

Retired Army Maj. Gen. Peter J. Boylan Jr. died Sunday morning at his home in Milledgeville surrounded by family. He was 87.

The Rev. Frank Dukes, an early leader in Birmingham’s Civil Rights Movement and a veteran of the Korean War, died over the weekend at age 92. As student government association president at Miles College, Dukes in 1962 organized students to challenge Birmingham’s segregationist policies.

Roland Lajoie had a storied but largely behind-the-scenes career in which he rose to major general, became one of the Army’s leading experts on the Soviet military and managed dangerous Cold War tensions.

Ken Mattingly, a NASA astronaut who was scrubbed from the Apollo 13 mission a few days before launch after being exposed to measles, then wound up helping devise a plan to return the crew safely to Earth following an onboard explosion, died Oct. 31 in Arlington, Va. He was 87.

Burt Young, a Hollywood tough guy whose prolific career included “Chinatown” and an Oscar-nominated turn in “Rocky,” died Oct. 8 in Los Angeles. He was 83. Young served in the Marine Corps from 1957 to 1959.