Deaths
- 23 January – Martin Howy Irving (born 1831), educationist
- 10 February – Thomas Reibey (born 1821), Premier of Tasmania (1876–1877)
- 20 February – Albert Bythesea Weigall (born 1840), headmaster of Sydney Grammar School
- 11 March – William Austin Zeal (born 1830), railway engineer and politician
- 3 April – Philip Argall (born 1855), Test cricket umpire
- 20 April – Charles Harper (born 1842), pastoralist, newspaper proprieter and politician
- 21 May – Mick Grace (born 1874), VFL footballer
- 5 June – Francis James Gillen (born 1855), anthropologist and ethnologist
- 25 June – William Guilfoyle (born 1840), botanist
- 27 June – George Bonnor (born 1855), cricketer
- 29 June – Frederick Henry Piesse (born 1853), businessman and politician
- 13 September – Joseph Furphy (born 1843), novelist who wrote under the pseudonym Tom Collins
- 29 September – James Charles Cox (born 1834), physician and conchologist
- 18 November – Richard O'Connor (born 1851), Senator and High Court judge
- 16 December – George Rignold (born 1839), English actor
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—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
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—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)