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:
“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)
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