4. Sir Nicholas Winton – a British stockbroker who saved 669, mainly Jewish, children in Czechoslovakia from the Holocaust during the Czech Kindertransport just before WWII. Sir Winton’s good deeds were not even public knowledge until the 1980s when his wife found documents pertaining to the action. Sir Winton lived to be 106 years old.
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