James Harrison, an Australian man credited with saving 2.4 million babies through his record-breaking blood plasma donations over six decades, has died, his family says. He was 88.

James Harrison, a prolific Australian blood donor famed for having saved the lives of more than two million babies, has died at age 88.

"It wasn't one big heroic act. It was just a lifetime of being there and doing these small acts of good bit by bit." When he was just 14, James Harrison of New South Wales, Australia, needed to undergo lung surgery that required a series of life-saving blood transfusions.