Deaths
- 14 January – Dorothea Mackellar (born 1885), poet
- 21 February – Howard Florey, Baron Florey (born 1898), Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist
- 24 June – Tony Hancock (born 1924), British comedian
- 31 July – Jack Pizzey (born 1911), Premier of Queensland
- 19 August – William McCall (born 1908), politician
- 28 September – Sir Norman Brookes (born 1877), tennis player
- 10 October – Gavin Long (born 1901), journalist and military historian
- 13 October – Dame Jean Macnamara (born 1899), medical scientist
- 27 October – James Hunter (born 1882), politician
- 20 December – John Jennings (born 1878), politician
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)
“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)