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

An Australian man credited with saving 2.4 million babies through his record-breaking blood plasma donations over six decades has died at 88, his family said. James Harrison, a retired state railway department clerk, died in a nursing home on the central coast of New South Wales state on February 17, according to his grandson, Jarrod Mellowship.