Her son Joshua Friedman confirmed the news to CNN on Saturday saying that his mother died at an assisted living home in Richmond, Virginia. She was 92.
The black-and-white photograph of Friedman, dressed in a white uniform, being embraced and kissed by a sailor to celebrate the end of the war became an enduring image.
"My mom had so many stories and so many experiences; this was just one of many," Friedman said about the iconic photo.
Friedman, then 21 and a dental assistant, was in Times Square when the news of Japan's surrender to the US was announced on a billboard, marking the end of the war, CNN reported.
The photo, taken by legendary photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, was published in Life magazine a few weeks later. But the identities of the two people were a mystery.
It was not until 1980 when both Friedman and George Mendonsa, the sailor in the photo, were determined to be the couple in the photo, CNN added.
