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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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
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—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“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)
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)