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:
“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)
“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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)