Deaths
- 1 January – Charles Turner (born 1862), cricketer
- 3 January – Tom Brennan (born 1866), Victorian politician
- 15 January – Patrick Lynch (born 1867), Labor Senator for Western Australia
- 5 March – George John Bell (born 1872), politician
- 31 March – Maurice Blackburn (born 1880), politician
- 10 May – Digby Denham (born 1859), Premier of Queensland (1911–1915)
- 24 May – William Butcher (born 1858), WA politician
- 29 July – Walter Price (born 1886), cricketer
- 5 August – Ralph Jones (born 1900), soldier killed during the Cowra breakout
- 21 October – Emile Dechaineux (born 1902), naval officer, captain of HMAS Australia
- 12 November – Roy Agnew (born 1891), composer and pianist
- 18 November – James Blair, politician and judge
- 20 November – Charles Frederick Cox (born 1863), soldier
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“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)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
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)