Births
- 16 January – Lorraine Bayly, actor
- 21 January
- Peter Gallagher (died 2003), rugby league footballer
- Michael Beahan, Labor Senator for Western Australia
- 25 January – John Watson, Liberal Senator for Tasmania
- 4 February – John Devitt, Olympic swimmer
- 19 February
- Lee Harding, science fiction writer
- Colin Ridgway, NFL American footballer (died 1993)
- 21 February – Ron Clarke, Olympic athlete
- 3 March – Kevin O'Halloran, Olympic swimmer
- 7 April – Louise Faulkner, missing woman
- 19 April – Lindsay Fox, businessman
- 27 May – Peter Pinne, writer and composer
- 1 June – Colleen McCullough, novelist
- 11 June – Robin Warren, Nobel Prize-winning pathologist
- 26 July
- Alan Cadman, politician
- Guy Green, Governor of Tasmania (1995–2003)
- 28 August – Tony Marchant, Olympic track cyclist
- 1 September – Ian Callinan, High Court judge
- 4 September – Dawn Fraser, Olympic swimmer
- 17 September – Gary Chapman, Olympic swimmer
- 18 September – Barry Muir, rugby league footballer
- 3 October – John Hodges, Minister for Immigration (1982–1983)
- 10 October – Bruce Devlin, golfer
- 21 November – John Kerin, politician
- 12 December
- Michael Jeffery, Governor-General of Australia
- Judy Tegart, tennis player
- 17 December – Kerry Packer, businessman (died 2005)
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