2009 in Australia - Deaths

Deaths

  • 3 January – John Grindrod, 89, Anglican Primate of Australia (1982–1989) and Archbishop of Brisbane (1980–1989)
  • 8 January – Deborah Riedel, 50, operatic soprano
  • 13 January – Nancy-Bird Walton, 93, aviation pioneer
  • 18 January - Luke Borusiewicz, 2, murder victim (born 2006)
  • 21 January – Ernie Bourne, 82, actor
  • 21 January – Pat Crawford, 75, Test cricketer
  • 31 January – Sir John Fuller, 91, NSW government minister
  • 1 February – Anna Donald, 42, epidemiologist
  • 1 February – Peter Howson, 89, politician
  • 7 February – Reg Evans, 80, actor
  • 7 February – Brian Naylor, 78, newsreader
  • 8 February – Neil McNeill, 87, politician
  • 11 February – Penny Ramsey, actress
  • 13 February – Julius Patching, 92, Olympic administrator
  • 20 February – Fine Cotton, 31, racehorse
  • 9 March – Vince Cervi, 45, boxer
  • 23 March – Peter Wherrett, 72, motoring journalist
  • 24 March – Laurie Short, 93, trade union leader
  • 1 April – Margreta Elkins, 78, mezzo-soprano opera singer
  • 5 April – George Tribe, 88, Test cricketer
  • 6 April – Shawn Mackay, 26, rugby union footballer (died in South Africa)
  • 7 April – Jobie Dajka, 27, track cyclist
  • 8 April – James Allen Keast, 86, ornithologist (died in Canada)
  • 11 April – Rob Dickson, 45, film-maker and Australian rules footballer (died in South Africa)
  • 13 April – John Armitage, 88, politician
  • 13 April – Frank Costigan, 78, lawyer and royal commissioner
  • 14 April – Max Lake, 84, winemaker and surgeon
  • 14 April – Sir Marcus Loane, 97, Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Primate of Australia
  • 24 April – Michael Parsons, 48, Australian rules footballer
  • 28 April – Richard Pratt, 74, businessman
  • 1 May – George Hannan, 98, politician
  • 1 May – Sunline, 13, racehorse
  • 13 May – Don Cordner, 87, Australian rules footballer
  • 15 May – E. Beatrice Riley, 112, oldest person in Australia
  • 15 May – Bud Tingwell, 86, actor
  • 17 May – Dame Patricia Mackinnon, 97, President of the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne
  • 18 May – Jerzy Zubrzycki, 89, sociologist
  • 20 May – Paul Vinar, 69, Australian rules footballer
  • 4 June – Chris O'Brien, 57, oncologist and surgeon
  • 19 June – Stan Sismey, 92, cricketer
  • 3 July – Victor Smorgon, 96, industrialist
  • 3 July – Frank Devine, 77, newspaper editor
  • 8 July – Edward Kenna, 90, recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • 11 July – Robert 'Dolly' Dunn, 68(?), convicted sex offender
  • 6 August – Sam, koala made famous in the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires
  • 7 August – John Harber Phillips, 75, Chief Justice of Victoria (1991–2003)
  • 21 August – Dean Turner, 37, bass player in rock group Magic Dirt.
  • 29 August – Frank Gardner, 78, racing driver and driving safety advocate
  • 8 September – Ray Barrett, 82, actor
  • 14 September – Mike Leyland, 68, one of the Leyland Brothers
  • 17 September – Virginia Chadwick, 64, politician
  • 20 September – Ken Hough, 80, Australian-born New Zealand cricket and football international
  • 22 September – Bruce McPhee, 82, racing driver and Bathurst winner
  • 27 September – John Youl, 77, racing driver and prominent grazier
  • 2 October – Jack Evans, 80, former Senator
  • 6 October – Jimmy Bates, 99, oldest living VFL/AFL footballer (Essendon)
  • 8 October – Gordon Boyd, 86, television personality
  • 13 October – Leo Williams, 68, rugby union official
  • 14 October – Fred Cress, 71, artist
  • 22 October – Don Lane, 75, television presenter and entertainer
  • 22 October – Paul Andrews, 53, West Australian politician
  • 27 October – Alex Harris, 34, paralympic swimmer
  • 31 October – Peter Hollinger, 76, racing driver and automotive engineer
  • 9 November – Clen Denning, 98, oldest living VFL/AFL footballer (Carlton, Fitzroy)
  • 16 November – Jack Wong Sue, 84, RAAF officer and war hero
  • 19 November – Pat Mackie, 95, miner and trade unionist
  • 23 November – Richard Meale, 77, composer
  • 30 November – Brent Green, 33, Australian rules footballer
  • 14 December – Jack Denham, 85, horse trainer
  • 22 December – Mick Cocks, rock guitarist (Rose Tattoo)
  • 30 December – Rowland S. Howard, musician (The Birthday Party)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “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)

    “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)