Deaths
- 12 January – Nevil Shute (born 1899), writer
- 14 February – Herbert Hays (born 1869), Tasmanian politician
- 3 April – Thomas Marwick (born 1895), politician
- 10 April – Arthur Benjamin (born 1893), composer
- 30 July – Walter Lindrum (born 1898), billiards player
- 2 September – Hector Hogan (born 1931), athlete
- 2 September – Mick O'Halloran (born 1893), politician
- 6 October – Caroline Grills (born 1890), serial killer
- 16 October – Frank Timson (born 1909), politician
- 20 October – Sir Charles Marr (born 1880), politician
- 24 November – Arthur Seaforth Blackburn (born 1892), soldier and Victoria Cross recipient
- 30 December – Mac Abbott (born 1877), politician
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
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
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)