Deaths
- 9 February – Charles Conder, artist (born 1868)
- 4 March – Max Hirsch, economist (born 1852)
- 14 March – William Charles Kernot, engineer (born 1845)
- 6 April – Sir Julian Salomons, chief justice and politician (born 1836)
- 18 April – William Saumarez Smith, Anglican archbishop (born 1836)
- 28 April – Henry D'Esterre Taylor, banker and Federationist (born 1853)
- 31 May – Thomas Price, Premier of South Australia (born 1852)
- 29 June – Sir George Shenton, first Mayor of Perth (born 1842)
- 23 July – Sir Frederick Holder, Premier of South Australia (born 1850)
- 8 August – Mary MacKillop, Australian nun (born 1842)
- 18 September – Mary Lee, suffragette and social reformer (born 1821)
- 6 October – Martha Rendell, last woman to be hanged in WA (born 1871)
- 10 November – George Essex Evans, poet (born 1863)
- 6 December – Sir William Henry Bundey, judge and politician (born 1838)
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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)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
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What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)