Bava ben Buta בבא בן בוטא

The Talmud tells: Herod, coming to power, destroyed the sages, because they remembered who he was and whence. Bava ben Buta he blinded and left alive—the only one he did not dare kill. Then the king came to him unrecognised and began saying dreadful things about himself, drawing the old man toward agreement: "that wicked slave—what should be done to him?" Bava ben Buta answered with verses about not cursing a king even in thought. Herod revealed himself: "had I known the sages were so guarded, I would not have killed them. What atonement is there for me now?"—"You have put out the light of the world", said Bava ben Buta, "go and occupy yourself with the light of the world". So Herod's Temple was built (Bava Batra 3b–4a).

He was also of the disciples of Beit Shammai, and once brought his own animal into the Temple court so that anyone who needed might lay hands upon it on the eve of a festival: the dispute of the schools he settled not by a word but by a deed (Beitza 20a). And every day he brought a guilt-offering for doubt—save the day after Yom Kippur—for he feared he might have sinned and not known (Keritot 6:3).

The sources give no years of life; the window of activity is set by generation, following Aharon Hyman's Toldot Tannaim ve-Amoraim.