1940 in Australia - Deaths

Deaths

  • 3 February – John Henry Michell, mathematician
  • 8 March – Michael Kelly (born 1850), Catholic Archbishop of Sydney (1911–1940)
  • 16 April – Herbert James Carter (born 1858), entomologist
  • 22 June – Monty Noble (born 1873), cricketer
  • 23 June – Hugh Denis Macrossan (born 1881), Queensland politician and judge
  • 6 July – Michael O'Connor (born 1865), WA politician
  • 22 July – Sir George Fuller (born 1861), Premier of New South Wales (1921)
  • 30 July – Arthur Merric Boyd (born 1862), painter
  • 30 July – Archibald Watson (born 1849), surgeon and professor of anatomy
  • 13 August – Geoffrey Street (born 1894), politician
  • 13 August – Henry Gullett (born 1878), politician
  • 13 August – James Fairbairn (born 1897), politician
  • 13 August – Sir Brudenell White (born 1876), Chief of the General Staff
  • 9 September – Percy Abbott (born 1869), politician
  • 11 September – Issy Smith (born 1890), soldier and Victoria Cross recipient
  • 22 September – Robert Blackwood
  • 2 October – Albert Green, politician
  • 14 October – Helen de Guerry Simpson (born 1897), novelist
  • 25 October – Thomas Waddell (born 1854), Premier of New South Wales (1904)
  • 31 October – Frank Anstey (born 1865), politician
  • 2 November – Colin Rankin (born 1869), soldier, politician, cane farmer and company director
  • 3 November – James Fowler, politician
  • 23 November – Stanley Argyle (born 1867), Premier of Victoria (1932–1935)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “On almost the incendiary eve
    Of deaths and entrances ...”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
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    “As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
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