2008 in Australia - Deaths

Deaths

  • 5 January – Clinton Grybas, 32, sports commentator
  • 8 January – George T. D. Moore, 84, former jockey and horse trainer
  • 9 January – Tim Willoughby, 53, Olympic rower
  • 11 January – Nancy Phelan, 94, writer
  • 12 January – Isobel Bennett, 98, marine biologist
  • 19 January – Creighton Burns, 82, editor of The Age newspaper (1981–1989)
  • 22 January – Heath Ledger, 28, actor (died in New York City)
  • 25 January – Roc Kirby, 89, founder of Village Roadshow Limited
  • 26 January – Padraic McGuinness, 69, journalist
  • 3 February – Jackie Orszaczky, 59, Hungarian-born musician and record producer
  • 14 February – Smoky Dawson, 94, country music performer
  • 19 February – Peter Pianto, 78, VFL player and coach for Geelong
  • 21 February – Geoff Leek, 76, VFL player for Essendon
  • 25 February – Ashley Cooper, 27, V8 Supercar race driver
  • 28 February – Val Plumwood, 67, ecologist and feminist
  • 1 March – Sid Spindler, 76, Democrats senator
  • 3 March – Norm O'Neill, 71, cricketer
  • 14 March – Clyde Cameron, 95, Whitlam government minister
  • 16 March – Bill Brown, 95, cricketer and member of the 1948 Invincibles
  • 19 March – John Dowie, 93, sculptor
  • 6 April – Tony Davies, 68, New Zealand rugby union player
  • 7 April – Sir Frank Little, 82, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne
  • 8 April – John Button, 74, ALP senator and Hawke government minister
  • 10 April – Kim Santow, 67, NSW Supreme Court judge, university chancellor
  • 24 April – Tristram Cary, 82, British composer
  • 30 April – John Cargher, 89, ABC Radio presenter
  • 9 May – Jack Gibson, 79, rugby league coach and player
  • 10 May – Jessie Jacobs, 17, actress (The Saddle Club)
  • 22 May – Charlie Booth, 104, athlete and inventor of the starting block
  • 26 May – Alan Renouf, 89, head of DFAT and ambassador
  • 27 May – Mick Nolan, 58, Australian rules footballer.
  • 3 June – Trevor Kaine, 80, Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory (1989–1991)
  • 11 June – Sir Francis Hassett, 90, soldier and head of the Australian Defence Force
  • 22 June – Jane McGrath, 42, cancer support campaigner and wife of cricketer Glenn McGrath
  • 6 July – Jack C. Collins, 78, Australian rules footballer (Footscray)
  • 7 July – Yitzchok Dovid Groner, 83, chief rabbi of Melbourne’s Chabad-Lubavitch community
  • 12 July – Olive Riley, 108, believed to have been the world's oldest blogger
  • 13 July – Peter Durack, 81, Liberal Party senator and Fraser government minister
  • 16 July – Lindsay Thompson, 84, Premier of Victoria (1981–1982)
  • 18 July – Peter Welsh, 54, Australian rules footballer
  • 25 July – Jeff Fehring, 52, Australian rules footballer
  • 5 August – Reg Lindsay, 79, country music singer
  • 12 August – Christie Allen, 53, pop music singer
  • 28 August – Mark Priestley, 32, television actor (All Saints)
  • 1 September – Michael Pate, 88, actor and writer
  • 1 September – Kevin Heinze, 81, ABC television and radio presenter
  • 4 September – Colin Egar, 80, cricket umpire and administrator
  • 12 September – Bob Quinn, 88, SANFL footballer
  • 23 September – Peter Leonard, 66, journalist and television presenter
  • 24 September – Sir Peter Derham, 83, businessman and philanthropist
  • 25 September – Roger Vanderfield, 80, rugby union referee and administrator
  • 2 October – Rob Guest, 58, stage actor and singer
  • 4 October – Levi Kereama, 27, R&B Singer
  • 27 November – Paul Hibbert, 56, cricketer
  • 2 December – Frank Crean, 92, Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer in the Whitlam government
  • 6 December – Richard Marsland, 32, actor, comedian and radio announcer
  • 8 December – Kerryn McCann, 41, athlete
  • 10 December – Dorothy Porter, 54, poet
  • 29 December – William Ellis Green, 85, cartoonist

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