1917 in Australia - Births

Births

• 17 February – Harry Gibbs, Chief Justice of the High Court (died 2005)
• 11 March – Nancy Cato, writer (died 2000)
• 14 March – John McCallum, actor
• 21 March – Frank Hardy, novelist (Power Without Glory) (died 1994)
• 25 March – Barbara Jefferis, author (died 2004)
• 22 April – Sidney Nolan, artist (died 1992)
• 30 April – Mervyn Wood, Olympic rower (died 2006)
• 3 May – James Penberthy, composer (died 1999)
• 15 May – Ron Saggers, cricketer (died 1987)
• 25 May – James Plimsoll, Governor of Tasmania from 1982–1987 (died 1987)
• 2 June – Peggy Antonio, female Test cricketer (died 2002)
• 14 July – Pat Moran, statistician (died 1988)
• 17 July – Jack Beale, politician and first Environment Minister (died 2006)
• 19 August – Laurie Aarons, leader of the Australian Communist Party (died 2005)
• 20 August – Dudley Erwin, politician (died 1984)
• 7 September – John Cornforth, Australian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 12 September – Charles Jones, politician (died 2003)
• 19 September – Paterson Clarence Hughes, RAF pilot (died 1940)
• 30 September – Kim Edward Beazley, Federal politician (died 2007)
• 2 October – Phil Ridings, cricketer (died 1998)
• 5 October – Kenneth Jacobs, Chief Justice of the High Court
• 17 October – Sumner Locke Elliott, novelist (died 1991)
• 20 October – D'Arcy Niland, novelist
• 22 November – Jon Cleary, novelist
• 8 December – Ian Johnson, cricketer (died 1998)
• 12 December – Xavier Connor, jurist (died 2005)
• 25 December – Noel Walker, NSW politician (died 1986)
• 31 December – Pat Hills, NSW politician (died 1992)