Deaths
- 22 February – Harold Hardwick (born 1888), freestyle swimmer
- 20 June – Sir Ian Clunies Ross (born 1899), scientist
- 8 August – Albert Namatjira (born 1902), Aboriginal artist
- 19 September – Arthur Hennessy (born 1876), Australia's first rugby league captain
- 14 October – Errol Flynn (born 1909), actor (died in Canada)
- 14 October – Jack Davey (born 1907), radio comedian and quiz show host
- 22 October – Joseph Cahill (born 1891), Premier of New South Wales (1952–1959)
- 10 November – Gertrude Bodenweiser, choreographer
- 11 November – Charles Chauvel (born 1897), filmmaker
- 24 November – Dally Messenger (born 1883), rugby union and league footballer
- 18 December – Edouard Borovansky (born 1902), Czech born ballet dancer and choreographer; founder of the Borovansky Australian Ballet
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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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)