1967 in Australia - Deaths

Deaths

  • 4 January – Ezra Norton (born 1897), newspaper proprietor
  • 3 February – Ronald Ryan (born 1925), last person hanged in Australia
  • 3 February – Eric Edgley (born 1899), theatre performer and impresario
  • 7 February – David Unaipon (born 1872), Aboriginal author and inventor
  • 9 February – Fred Hoysted (born 1883), racehorse trainer
  • 13 March – Bessie Rischbieth (born 1874), feminist and social activist
  • 14 March – Ernest Henry Burgmann (born 1885), Anglican bishop and social critic
  • 29 March – D'Arcy Niland (born 1917), author of The Shiralee
  • 7 April – Peter Badcoe (born 1934), soldier and Victoria Cross winner
  • 24 April – Robert Richards (born 1885), Premier of South Australia
  • 24 April – Eric Baume (born 1900), journalist, author and broadcaster – first "beast" on the talk show Beauty and the Beast
  • 13 May – Lance Sharkey (born 1898), Communist activist
  • 15 May – Jessie Traill (born 1881), artist
  • 17 December – Gerald Patterson (born 1895), tennis player
  • 18 June – Clive Latham Baillieu, 1st Baron Baillieu (born 1889), Businessman and public servant
  • 2 July – Ivo Whitton (born 1893), golfer
  • 4 July – Ray Parer (born 1894), aviator
  • 6 July – Joseph Maxwell (born 1896), soldier and Victoria Cross winner
  • 26 July – Robert Tudawali (b. c1929), Indigenous actor
  • 30 July – Arthur Stace (born 1885), pavement scribe known as Mr Eternity
  • 15 August – Dave McNamara (born 1887), Australian rules footballer
  • 25 August – Stanley Bruce (born 1883), eighth Prime Minister of Australia
  • 25 August – Robert George (born 1896), Governor of South Australia
  • 13 October – Kerr Grant (born 1878), physicist and education administrator
  • 3 November – Justin Simonds (born 1890), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne
  • 13 November – Helen Mayo (born 1878), pioneer in women's and children's health
  • 16 November – Ernest Durack (born 1882), New South Welsh politician
  • 17 December – Harold Holt (born 1908), seventeenth Prime Minister of Australia
  • 29 December – Eric Woodward (born 1899), Governor of New South Wales
  • 31 December – Arthur Mailey (born 1886), cricketer

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “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.”
    —Philip Caputo (b. 1941)

    “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.”
    —Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)

    “I sang of death but had I known
    The many deaths one must have died
    Before he came to meet his own!”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)