Deaths
- 2 January – James Dooley (born 1877), Premier of New South Wales (1921–1922)
- 20 January – Ray Duggan (born 1913), speedway motorcycle racer
- 25 January – Chummy Fleming (born 1863), trade unionist
- 23 February – Henry Willis (born 1860), politician
- 28 February – Ted Theodore (born 1884), Premier of Queensland (1919–1925)
- 19 March – Harry Wright (born 1870), Australian rules footballer (Essendon)
- 14 April – Sir Albert Dunstan (born 1882), Premier of Victoria (1935–1943, 1943–1945)
- 6 May – Lancelot De Mole (born 1880), engineer and inventor
- 15 May – Jack Hickey (born 1887), dual-code rugby international
- 11 June – Ernest Henshaw (born 1870), WA politician
- 20 June – Claude Jennings (born 1884), cricketer
- 14 July – Bill Howell (born 1869), cricketer
- 31 July – George Wise (born 1853), politician and solicitor
- 6 August – Edwin Corboy (born 1896), politician
- 8 August – Fergus McMaster (born 1879), co-founder of Qantas
- 3 September – Michael Durack (born 1865), pastoralist and WA pioneer
- 22 September – Edward Fowell Martin (born 1875), soldier
- 24 September – Dame Mary Turner Cook (born 1863), wife of Prime Minister Sir Joseph Cook
- 6 November – Frank Brennan (born 1873), politician
- 20 November – Erle Cox (born 1873), journalist and science fiction author
- 16 December – James Fenton (born 1864), politician
- 29 December – Albert Lane (born 1873), politician
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)
“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)