David Allen, a Navy veteran and longtime Stars and Stripes journalist who reported from Guam and Okinawa for nearly two decades, died after a prolonged battle with cancer at the age of 77.

Don Miller, a mathematics and computer science teacher who spent more than three decades serving Defense Department students overseas, died at his home in Camas, Wash., at the age of 80.

A Marine Corps veteran of the Korean War who said he had joined the military at 15 spent some of the final hours of his life with active-duty Marines at a birthday bash for the service in his native Tennessee.

After joining the French resistance in 1944, Marthe Cohn spent a month in Germany, passing as a German nurse while making small talk with SS officers and Nazi soldiers, gathering information about troop movements. Her spying is credited with saving the lives of Allied troops pressing in on the Reich.

Peter Lax, an innovator in applied mathematics who left Hungary during World War II and worked on U.S. atomic bomb calculations as a college student, died May 16 at his home in Manhattan. He was 99.

Joe Don Baker went into the U.S. Army for two years and then emerged in New York, where he studied at the Actors Studio. His acting career took off in the mid-1960s when he moved to Los Angeles, where he started with TV roles before taking the spotlight as a leading man in movies like “Walking Tall” and some James Bond films.

Henry Langrehr, 100, a member of the 82nd Airborne Division that parachuted into France on D-Day, died on April 23, his daughter Karen Winters said.

Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives with critiques of capitalism and climate change, died. He was 88.

Richard Armitage, who as deputy to Secretary of State Colin Powell helped guide U.S. foreign policy during President George W. Bush’s tumultuous first term and was a central figure in chapters of American national security from the Vietnam War era to the post-Sept. 11, 2001, war on terror, died April 13 at a hospital in Arlington, Virginia. He was 79.

Vaughn P. Drake Jr., who at 106 was believed to be the oldest surviving veteran of the 1941 Japanese surprise attack on Hawaii, died this week in Kentucky. His death leaves just over a dozen veterans who survived the attack known to still be living.