George Mendonsa is dead, the sailor of the iconic image of the kiss in New York

The sailor who kissed a woman in the middle of Times Square while people were celebrating the end of Second World War in the streets of New York, protagonist of a iconic picture of the time, who died at the age of 95, his daughter was informed of the Providence Journal.

George Mendonsa He suffered a stroke on Sunday after falling in the asylum where he lived in Middleton, Rhode Island, said his daughter Sharon Molleur.

In the famous picture, one of the four that he took Alfred Eisenstadt for Life magazine, we see Mendonsa looking at the woman she is kissing and wearing the uniform of a white nurse.

Mendonsa, deployed in the Pacific during World War II, was on vacation when the photo was taken.

For a long time, he said that he was the sailor in the photo, but this has not been confirmed until recently with the use of facial recognition technology.

Greta Zimmer Friedman, The woman of the picture, died in 2016 at the age of 92 years.

Eisenstadt had not asked for the names of the two strangers he had captured with his camera while they were kissing each other. Later, he recounted that he had seen the sailor who had run into the street and caught the first girl who had crossed it.

"I ran in front of him with my Leica looking over my shoulder, but none of the possible pictures got me happy", wrote in "Eisenstadt on Eisenstadt".

"Suddenly, I saw someone take something white, I turned around and clicked when the sailor kissed the nurse." If she had been dressed in black, I would never have taken the picture ".