2010 in Australia - Deaths

Deaths

• 8 January – Monica Maughan, 76, stage, film and television actor.
• 10 January – Bill Patterson, 86, racing driver and businessman.
• 12 January – Ken Colbung, 78, Aboriginal elder
• 18 January – Cyril Burke, 84, rugby union player
• 22 January – Betty Wilson, 88, cricketer
• 25 January – Lynn Bayonas, 66, writer and producer
• 27 January – George Hanlon, 92, racehorse trainer
• 2 February – Nelli Shkolnikova, 83, violinist
• 3 February – John McCallum, 91, actor and television producer
• 13 February – Ken Emerson, 79, cartoonist
• 13 February – Jock Ferguson, 64, union leader and politician
• 15 February – Ian Gray, 46, soccer player
• 18 February – Ruby Hunter, 55, singer
• 21 February – Robert Woodward, 86, architect and fountain designer
• 26 February – Tom Bass, 93, sculptor
• 28 February – Phillip Law, 97, scientist and explorer
• 9 March – Lionel Cox, 80, cyclist
• 20 March – Chicka Dixon, 81, Aboriginal activist
• 24 March – Ron Hamence, 94, cricketer, member of The Invincibles
• 26 March – Rocco Pantaleo, 53, restaurateur (La Porchetta)
• 2 April – Lady Sonia McMahon, 77, socialite and wife of William McMahon
• 13 April – Bernie Kilgariff, 86, Northern Territory politician
• 15 April – Sir Edward Woodward, 81, judge
• 18 April – Viewed, 6, racehorse, winner of the 2008 Melbourne Cup
• 18 April – William Yates, 88, politician
• 19 April – Carl Williams, 39, murderer
• 21 April – Sir Laurence Muir, 85, businessman and philanthropist
• 23 April – Georgia Lee, 89, jazz and blues singer
• 23 April – Peter Porter, 81, poet
• 29 April – Kevin Humphreys, 80, rugby league administrator
• 2 May – Andrew McFarlane, 33, motocross racer
• 2 May – Murray Nicoll, 66, journalist and broadcaster, Ash Wednesday fires commentator
• 3 May – Merv McIntosh, 87, Australian rules footballer
• 10 May – Jeff Shaw, 60, New South Wales Attorney-General and Supreme Court judge
• 13 May – Peter Provan, 73, rugby league footballer
• 18 May – Don Day, 86, politician
• 21 May – Adrian Cruickshank, 73, politician
• 25 May – Alan Hickinbotham, 84, Australian rules footballer and businessman
• 30 May – Dame Pat Evison, 86, television actress
• 2 June – Michael Schildberger, 72, journalist
• 7 June – Adriana Xenides, 54, television personality
• 18 June – John Whitelaw, 89, soldier
• 20 June – Ken Talbot, 59, businessman
• 28 June – Peter Bowers, 80, journalist
• 4 July – Alf Howard, 104, explorer
• 7 July – Brian O'Shaughnessy, 84, philosopher
• 9 July – Jessica Anderson, 93, writer
• 14 July – Charles Mackerras, 84, conductor
• 19 July – Jon Cleary, 92, novelist
• 19 July – David Warren, 85, inventor of the flight data recorder
• 26 July – Sir Brian Bell, 82, businessman in Papua New Guinea
• 27 July – Alan Gilbert, 65, historian and education administrator
• 30 July – Roy Smith, New South Wales politician
• 2 August – Ian Castles, 75, statistician, economist and public servant
• 4 August – Jim Kennan, 64, lawyer and politician, Deputy Premier of Victoria (1990–1992)
• 4 August – Frank Latta, 63, surfer and surfboard shaper
• 5 August – Sue Napier, 62, politician, Deputy Premier of Tasmania (1996–1998)
• 6 August – Jeff McLean, 63, rugby union footballer
• 13 September – Gus Williams, 73, musician
• 23 September – Malcolm Douglas, 69, bushman and documentary maker
• 10 October – Dame Joan Sutherland, 83, opera singer (died in Switzerland)
• 17 October – Ken Wriedt, 83, politician
• 21 October – Sir Leslie Froggatt, 90, businessman
• 4 November – James Freud, 51, musician (Models)
• 14 November – Bobbi Sykes, 67, Aboriginal rights activist
• 22 November – Frank Fenner, 95, scientist
• 26 November – Kevin Parry, 77, businessman
• 6 December – Norman Hetherington, 89, cartoonist and creator of Mr. Squiggle
• 7 December – Gus Mercurio, 82, actor
• 8 December – John James, 76, Australian rules footballer
• 13 December – James Dibble, 87, television presenter
• 14 December – Ruth Park, 93, author
• 15 December – Stan "Pops" Heal, 90, Australian rules footballer
• 16 December – Reg Hope, 83, Tasmanian politician
• 25 December – Gavin Brown, 68, academic
• 25 December – Maurice Rioli, 53, Australian rules footballer