His name was Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov and he quite possibly saved your life or, if you were born after 1962, those of your parents, so enabling you to be born. He personally stopped the launch of a nuclear weapon which could have led to Armageddon between the word’s then superpowers, the USA and the USSR. Kuriositas: The Man Who Saved The World?
I had heard about such a event possibly happening during the missile crisis, however I was not sure whether it was true. Thank the gods that this man had the b@11s to say 'no' not only to his Captain but even more importantly to his Political Officer.
