Deaths
- 6 February – George VI (born 1895), King
- 12 June – Harry Lawson (born 1875), Premier of Victoria
- 22 July – James Vinton Smith (born 1897), politician
- 14 September – John McPhee (born 1878), Premier of Tasmania
- 4 October – Keith Murdoch (born 1886), journalist
- 28 October – Billy Hughes (born 1862), Prime Minister of Australia
- 30 November – Elizabeth Kenny (born 1880), nurse
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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)
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