Incumbents

• Monarch
  Monarchy in Australia
  The Monarchy of Australia is a form of government in which a hereditary monarch is the sovereign of Australia. The monarchy is a constitutional one modelled on the Westminster style of parliamentary government, incorporating features unique to the Constitution of Australia.The present monarch is...
  
   – King George V
  George V of the United Kingdom
  George V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 through the First World War until his death in 1936....
  
  
• Governor-General
  Governor-General of Australia
  The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia is the representative in Australia at federal/national level of the Australian monarch . He or she exercises the supreme executive power of the Commonwealth...
  
   – William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley
  William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley
  William Humble Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley, KP, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, KStJ, PC, TD, DL , styled Viscount Ednam before 1885, was a British Conservative politician...
  
   (until 31 July), then Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman
  Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman
  Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman GCMG, KCVO, PC was a British Liberal politician and the fifth Governor-General of Australia.-Early years:...
  
  
• Prime Minister
  Prime Minister of Australia
  The Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia is the highest minister of the Crown, leader of the Cabinet and Head of Her Majesty's Australian Government, holding office on commission from the Governor-General of Australia. The office of Prime Minister is, in practice, the most powerful...
  
   – Andrew Fisher
  Andrew Fisher
  Andrew Fisher was an Australian politician who served as the fifth Prime Minister on three separate occasions. Fisher's 1910-13 Labor ministry completed a vast legislative programme which made him, along with Protectionist Alfred Deakin, the founder of the statutory structure of the new nation...
  
  

State premiers

• Premier of New South Wales – James McGowen
  James McGowen
  James Sinclair Taylor McGowen was an Australian politician and the first Labor Premier of New South Wales from 21 October 1910 to 30 June 1913.-Early life and family:...
  
  
• Premier of Queensland – William Kidston
  William Kidston
  William Kidston was an Australian politician and Premier of Queensland, from January 1906 to November 1907 and again from February 1908 to February 1911.-Early life:...
  
   (until 7 February), then Digby Denham
  Digby Denham
  Digby Frank Denham was an Australian politician, businessman and leading Queensland Orangeman. He was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1902 until 1915 representing the seat of Oxley, and was Premier of Queensland from 7 February 1911 to 1 June 1915...
  
  
• Premier of South Australia – John Verran
  John Verran
  John Verran was the 26th Premier of South Australia, serving from 1910 to 1912. The 1910 election saw the South Australian division of the Australian Labor Party form a majority government, the first time a party had done so in South Australia...
  
  
• Premier of Tasmania – Elliott Lewis
  Elliott Lewis
  Sir Neil Elliott Lewis, KCMG , Australian politician, was Premier of Tasmania on three occasions. He was also a member of the first Australian federal ministry, led by Edmund Barton....
  
  
• Premier of Victoria – John Murray
  John Murray (Victorian politician)
  John Murray , Australian politician, was the 23rd Premier of Victoria.Murray was born near Koroit, Victoria, the son of James Murray and his wife Isabella, née Gordon, both Scottish immigrants. When Murray was a child his parents settled on a farm, Glenample station, at Port Campbell in the...
  
  
• Premier of Western Australia
  Premier of Western Australia
  The Premier of Western Australia is the head of the executive government in the Australian State of Western Australia. The Premier has similar functions in Western Australia to those performed by the Prime Minister of Australia at the national level, subject to the different Constitutions...
  
   – Frank Wilson (until 7 October), then John Scaddan
  John Scaddan
  John Scaddan, CMG , popularly known as "Happy Jack", was Premier of Western Australia from 7 October 1911 until 27 July 1916.- Biography :...
  
  

State governors

• Governor of New South Wales – Frederic Thesiger, 3rd Baron Chelmsford
  Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford
  Frederic John Napier Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GBE, PC was a British statesman who served as Governor of Queensland , Governor of New South Wales from 1909 to 1913, and Viceroy of India from 1916 to 1921, where he was responsible for the creation of the Montagu-Chelmsford...
  
  
• Governor of South Australia – Admiral Sir Day Bosanquet
  Day Bosanquet
  Admiral Sir Day Hort Bosanquet GCVO, KCB was the Governor of South Australia from 18 February 1909 until 22 March 1914.-Naval career:Born in Alnwick in Northumberland, Bosanquet joined the Royal Navy in 1857...
  
  
• Governor of Queensland – Sir William MacGregor
  William MacGregor
  Sir William MacGregor GCMG, CB was a Lieutenant-Governor of British New Guinea, Governor of Newfoundland and Governor of Queensland.-Early life:...
  
  
• Governor of Tasmania – Major General Sir Harry Barron
  Harry Barron
  Major General Sir Harry Barron KCMG, CVO was Governor of Tasmania from 1909 to 1913, and Governor of Western Australia from 1913 to 1917....
  
  
• Governor of Western Australia
  Governor of Western Australia
  The Governor of Western Australia is the representative in Western Australia of Australia's Monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. The Governor performs important constitutional, ceremonial and community functions, including:* presiding over the Executive Council;...
  
   – Sir Gerald Strickland
  Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland
  Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland, 6th Count of Catena, GCMG was a Maltese and British politician and peer, who served as Prime Minister of Malta, Governor of the Leeward Islands, Governor of Tasmania, Governor of Western Australia and Governor of New South Wales.-Early...
  
  
• Governor of Victoria – Sir Thomas Gibson-Carmichael
  Thomas Gibson-Carmichael, 1st Baron Carmichael
  Thomas David Gibson-Carmichael, 1st Baron Carmichael GCSI, GCIE, KCMG, DL , known as Sir Thomas Gibson-Carmichael, Bt, between 1891 and 1912, was a Scottish Liberal politician and colonial administrator....
  
  

Events

• The Australian Capital Territory
  Australian Capital Territory
  The Australian Capital Territory, often abbreviated ACT, is the capital territory of the Commonwealth of Australia and is the smallest self-governing internal territory...
  
   is established through the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910
  Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910
  The Seat of Government Act 1910 is an Australian Commonwealth Government act. The act established the Federal Capital Territory's laws based on the laws of New South Wales up until 1911. From 1911 onwards the laws of the territory would be created by the Commonwealth and Governor-General...
  
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• 1 January – The Northern Territory
  Northern Territory
  The Northern Territory is a federal territory of Australia, occupying much of the centre of the mainland continent, as well as the central northern regions...
  
   is politically separated from South Australia
  South Australia
  South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland...
  
   and transferred to Commonwealth control. The city of Palmerston is renamed Darwin
  Darwin, Northern Territory
  Darwin is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. Situated on the Timor Sea, Darwin has a population of 127,500, making it by far the largest and most populated city in the sparsely populated Northern Territory, but the least populous of all Australia's capital cities...
  
   in honour of Charles Darwin
  Charles Darwin
  Charles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...
  
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• 1 January – Compulsory military training
  World War I conscription in Australia
  Conscription is the duty and law that may be applied to people of the public. This insures that if the time calls certain individuals or groups may join military forces or the like.-The Conscription Debate:...
  
   comes into effect in Australia.
• 23 March – The steamer SS Yongala
  SS Yongala
  The passenger ship SS Yongala sank off Cape Bowling Green, Queensland, Australia on 23 March 1911. En route from Melbourne to Cairns she steamed into a cyclone and sank south of Townsville...
  
   sinks in a cyclone
  Cyclone
  In meteorology, a cyclone is an area of closed, circular fluid motion rotating in the same direction as the Earth. This is usually characterized by inward spiraling winds that rotate anticlockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere of the Earth. Most large-scale...
  
   off the coast of Townsville, Queensland
  Townsville, Queensland
  Townsville is a city on the north-eastern coast of Australia, in the state of Queensland. Adjacent to the central section of the Great Barrier Reef, it is in the dry tropics region of Queensland. Townsville is Australia's largest urban centre north of the Sunshine Coast, with a 2006 census...
  
   killing 122 people.
• 26 April – A federal referendum
  Australian referendum, 1911
  The 1911 Australian Referendum was held on 26 April 1911. It contained two referendum questions.* Trade and Commerce * Nationalisation of Monopolies ...
  
   is held containing two questions: one on Trade and Commerce
  Australian referendum, 1911 (Trade and Commerce)
  Constitution Alteration 1910 was a question put to referendum in the Australian referendum, 1911. The question attempted to extend the government's power over trade and commerce, the control of corporations, labour and employment and combinations and monopolies...
  
   and the other on Nationalisation of Monopolies
  Australian referendum, 1911 (Monopolies)
  Constitution Alteration 1910 attempted to give the government the power to nationalise any corporation deemed by both houses of parliament to be a monopoly.The question was put to a referendum in the Australian referendum, 1911.-Results:...
  
  . Neither is carried.
• 30 May – The Supreme Court of the Northern Territory
  Supreme Court of the Northern Territory
  The Supreme Court of the Northern Territory is the superior court for the Australian Territory of the Northern Territory. It has unlimited jurisdiction within the territory in civil matters, and hears the most serious criminal matters...
  
   is established.
• 1 June – The University of Queensland
  University of Queensland
  The University of Queensland, also known as UQ, is a public university located in state of Queensland, Australia. Founded in 1909, it is the oldest and largest university in Queensland and the fifth oldest in the nation...
  
   opens.
• 10 July – King George V
  George V of the United Kingdom
  George V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 through the First World War until his death in 1936....
  
   grants the title of Royal Australian Navy
  Royal Australian Navy
  The Royal Australian Navy is the naval branch of the Australian Defence Force. Following the Federation of Australia in 1901, the ships and resources of the separate colonial navies were integrated into a national force: the Commonwealth Naval Forces...
  
   to Australia's naval forces.
• 27 June – The Royal Military College, Duntroon
  Royal Military College, Duntroon
  The Royal Military College, Duntroon is the Australian Army's officer training establishment. It was founded at Duntroon, in the Australian Capital Territory, in 1911 and is situated on picturesque grounds at the foot of Mount Pleasant near Lake Burley Griffin, close to the Department of Defence...
  
   opens.
• 3 October – A state election
  Western Australian state election, 1911
  Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 3 October 1911 to elect 50 members to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly. The Labor party, led by Opposition Leader John Scaddan, defeated the conservative Ministerialist government led by Premier Frank Wilson...
  
   is held in Western Australia
  Western Australia
  Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...
  
  . The Labor Party
  Australian Labor Party
  The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...
  
   led by John Scaddan
  John Scaddan
  John Scaddan, CMG , popularly known as "Happy Jack", was Premier of Western Australia from 7 October 1911 until 27 July 1916.- Biography :...
  
   defeats the incumbent government of Frank Wilson.
• 2 December – The Australasian Antarctic Expedition
  Australasian Antarctic Expedition
  The Australasian Antarctic Expedition was an Australasian scientific team that explored part of Antarctica between 1911 and 1914. It was led by the Australian geologist Douglas Mawson, who was knighted for his achievements in leading the expedition. In 1910 he began to plan an expedition to chart...
  
  , led by Douglas Mawson
  Douglas Mawson
  Sir Douglas Mawson, OBE, FRS, FAA was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer and Academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, Mawson was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.-Early work:He was appointed geologist to an...
  
  , leaves Hobart to begin an expedition to Antarctica.
• The Commonwealth Bank of Australia
  Commonwealth Bank of Australia
  The Commonwealth Bank of Australia is a multinational bank with businesses across New Zealand, Fiji, Asia, USA and the United Kingdom. Commonwealth Bank provides a variety of financial services including retail, business and institutional banking, funds management, superannuation, insurance,...
  
   is established by the Commonwealth Bank Act 1911.

Sport

• 16 September – The 1911 NSWRFL season culminates in a final re-play win to Eastern Suburbs
  Sydney Roosters
  The Sydney Roosters are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. The club competes in the National Rugby League and is one of the oldest and most successful clubs in Australian rugby league history, having won twelve New South Wales Rugby League...
  
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• 30 September – Essendon
  Essendon Football Club
  The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...
  
   become premiers of the 1911 VFL season
  1911 VFL season
  Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1911.-Premiership season:In 1911, the VFL competition consisted of ten teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no "reserves", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their...
  
  , defeating Collingwood
  Collingwood Football Club
  The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed The Magpies, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...
  
   5.11 (41) to 4.11 (35).
• 7 November – The Parisian wins the Melbourne Cup
  Melbourne Cup
  The Melbourne Cup is Australia's major Thoroughbred horse race. Marketed as "the race that stops a nation", it is a 3,200 metre race for three-year-olds and over. It is the richest "two-mile" handicap in the world, and one of the richest turf races...
  
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Births

• 7 January – Mervyn Waite
  Mervyn Waite
  Mervyn George Waite was an Australian cricketer who played in 2 Tests in 1938....
  
   (d. 1985), cricketer
• 11 January – Nora Heysen
  Nora Heysen
  Nora Heysen AM was an Australian artist, the first woman to win the prestigious Archibald Prize for portraiture and the first Australian woman appointed as an official war artist.-Biography:...
  
   (d. 2003), artist
• 21 January – Dick Garrard
  Dick Garrard
  Richard "Dick" Edward Garrard, OBE was an Australian Olympic wrestler.Garrard was born on 21 January 1911 in Geelong, Victoria. In a thirty year career, from 1926 to 1956, Garrard lost only nine of 525 bouts, making him Australia's most successful sport wrestler ever...
  
   (d. 2003), Olympic wrestler
• 2 February – Jack Pizzey
  Jack Pizzey
  Jack Charles Allan Pizzey was a Queensland Country Party politician. He was Premier of Queensland, in a coalition with the Liberal Party, from 17 January 1968 until his death on 31 July that year....
  
   (d. 1968), Premier of Queensland (1968)
• 16 February – Hal Porter
  Hal Porter
  Harold Edward Porter was an Australian novelist, playwright, poet and short-story writer.Porter was born in Albert Park, Victoria, grew up in Bairnsdale, Victoria and worked as a journalist, teacher and librarian. A car accident just before the outbreak of war prevented him from serving in World...
  
   (d. 1984), author and playwright
• 1 March – Ian Mudie
  Ian Mudie
  Ian Mayelstone Mudie was an Australian poet and author from Adelaide closely connected with the Jindyworobak Movement, which he was associated with from 1939 onwards. In 1941 he moved to Sydney and became involved in Australia First...
  
   (d. 1976), poet
• 12 March – Ainslie Roberts
  Ainslie Roberts
  Ainslie Roberts was an Australian painter, photographer and commercial artist. He is best known his for interpretations of Aboriginal legends in his Dreamtime books, written in collaboration with ethnologist/anthropologist Charles Mountford.-Early life:Ainslie was born in London, England in 1911...
  
   (d. 1993), artist
• 13 March – Dorothy Tangney
  Dorothy Tangney
  Dame Dorothy Margaret Tangney DBE was an Australian politician and the first woman member of the Australian Senate.Dorothy Tangney started her career as a school teacher in Western Australia...
  
   (d. 1985), first female Senator
• 18 March – Deverick John Cronin
  Deverick John Cronin
  Deverick John 'Mick' Cronin was an Australian rules football player, umpire and television commentator in Western Australia.- Private life :...
  
   (d. 1979), Australian rules football player
• 14 April – Reginald Swartz
  Reginald Swartz
  Sir Reginald William Colin Swartz KBE , best known as Reg Swartz, was a Minister during the governments of Sir Robert Menzies, Harold Holt and John Gorton in Australia...
  
   (d. 2006), soldier and politician
• 22 April – Max Dupain
  Max Dupain
  Maxwell Spencer Dupain AC was a renowned Australian modernist photographer.-Early life:Dupain received his first camera as a gift in 1924, spurring his interest in photography He later joined the Photographic Society of NSW, and when he left school, he worked for Cecil Bostock in Sydney.-Early...
  
   (d. 1992), photographer
• 25 April – Leonard Long
  Leonard Long
  Leonard Hugh Long OAM is an Australian painter of the Australian School of landscape painters.Born the son of a baker on 25 April 1911 in Summer Hill, New South Wales, Long is an Australian landscape artist in oils. He was raised in Mittagong on the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales and...
  
  , artist
• 4 June – Alan Walker
  Alan Walker (theologian)
  Sir Alan Walker OBE was an Australian Christian minister, theologian and evangelist.Walker was:*involved in the formation of the World Council of Churches...
  
   (d. 2002), theologian
• 21 June – Chester Wilmot
  Chester Wilmot
  Reginald William Winchester Wilmot was an Australian war correspondent who reported for the BBC and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation during the Second World War. After the war he continued to work as a broadcast reporter, and wrote a well-appreciated book about the liberation of Europe...
  
   (d. 1954), war correspondent
• 5 July – Haydn Bunton, Sr (d. 1955), Australian Rules footballer (Fitzroy)
• 7 July – Keith Jones
  Keith Jones (surgeon)
  Sir Keith Stephen Jones FRCS is an Australian medical practitioner and surgeon. He is a past national president of the Australian Medical Association and was chief medical officer of the New South Wales State Emergency Service. He turned 100 in July 2011.-Early life:Jones was born in Narrandera,...
  
  , surgeon
• 27 August – Bluey Wilkinson
  Bluey Wilkinson
  Arther George "Bluey" Wilkinson was an international speedway rider. Wilkinson was Speedway World Champion in 1938 after narrowly missing out on winning the inaugural Championship in 1936.-Early life:Wilkinson was nicknamed "Bluey" because of his red hair...
  
   (d. 1940), speedway rider
• 9 September – John Gorton
  John Gorton
  Sir John Grey Gorton, GCMG, AC, CH , Australian politician, was the 19th Prime Minister of Australia.-Early life:...
  
   (d. 2002), 19th Prime Minister of Australia (1968–1971)
• 16 September – Wilfred Burchett
  Wilfred Burchett
  Wilfred Graham Burchett was an Australian journalist known for his reporting of conflicts in Asia and his Communist sympathies...
  
   (d. 1983), journalist and alleged KGB agent
• 21 September – Afferbeck Lauder
  Afferbeck Lauder
  Afferbeck Lauder was the pseudonym used by Alastair Ardoch Morrison , an Australian graphic artist and author who in the 1960s documented Strine in the song With Air Chew and a series of books beginning with Let Stalk Strine...
  
   (Alastair Ardoch Morrison, d. 1998), author of Let's Talk Strine
• 22 September – George Bennett
  George Bennett (Australian rules footballer)
  George Bennett was an Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray and Hawthorn in the VFL....
  
  , Australian Rules footballer
• 29 September – Charles Court
  Charles Court
  Sir Charles Walter Michael Court, was a Western Australian politician, 21st Premier of Western Australia and member for the seat of Nedlands for the Liberal Party for nearly 30 years.-Early life:...
  
   (d. 2007), Premier of Western Australia (1974–1982)
• 14 October – Marcus Loane
  Marcus Loane
  Sir Marcus Lawrence Loane KBE was the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney from 1966–1982 and Primate of Australia from 1978–1982. He was the first Australian-born Archbishop of Sydney and also the first Australian-born archbishop within the Anglican Church of Australia.Loane was born in...
  
  , Anglican Archbishop of Sydney and Primate of Australia
• 1 November – Samuel Warren Carey
  Samuel Warren Carey
  Samuel Warren Carey AO was an Australian geologist who was an early advocate of the theory of continental drift. His work on plate tectonics reconstructions led him to develop the Expanding Earth hypothesis.- Biography :Carey was born in New South Wales and grew up on a farm three miles from...
  
   (d. 2002), geologist
• 8 November – Robert Gillman Allen Jackson
  Robert Gillman Allen Jackson
  Sir Robert Gillman Allen Jackson, AC, KCVO, CMG, OBE was a United Nations administrator who specialised in technical and logistical assistance to the developing world.-Early Life:...
  
   (d. 1991), United Nations administrator

Deaths

• 18 February – Billy Murdoch
  Billy Murdoch
  William Lloyd Murdoch was an Australian cricketer, who captained the Australian team on tours to England in 1880, 1882 , 1884 and 1890...
  
   (b. 1854), cricketer
• 4 March – William Randell
  William Randell
  William Richard Randell "Captain Randell" , was an Australian politician and pioneer born in Devon, England, who emigrated to the newly-founded colony of South Australia in 1837 with his family...
  
   (b. 1824), politician and pioneer
• 18 March – Richard Baker
  Richard Baker (Australian politician)
  Sir Richard Chaffey Baker KCMG was an Australian politician. A barrister by trade, he embarked on a successful career in South Australian colonial politics, serving as state attorney-general and President of the Legislative Council before switching to federal politics after federation...
  
   (b. 1842), politician
• 6 May – Thomas Edward Spencer
  Thomas Edward Spencer
  Thomas Edward Spencer was an Australian building contractor and writer.Born at Hoxton Old Town London, his parents were Daniel O'Brien, a cabinetmaker, and Ann, née Coulthard. Thomas came to Australia, visiting the Victorian goldfields in 1863 with a brother, but returned to England a year later...
  
   (b. 1845), writer
• 9 July – Douglas Fry
  Douglas Fry
  R. Douglas Fry was an Australian artist.Fry was born at Ipswich, Suffolk, England, and was educated at Ipswich Grammar School. Later he studied art at Julien's, Paris, and in London. He did some illustrative work in London and in 1899 came to Australia...
  
   (b. 1872), artist
• 13 July – Allan McLean
  Allan McLean (Australian politician)
  Allan McLean was an Australian politician, the 19th Premier of Victoria.McLean was born in the highlands of Scotland and came to Australia as a child in 1842 with his family. He later said 'were practically frozen out of Scotland' by 'an exceptionally severe winter'...
  
   (b. 1840), Premier of Victoria (1899–1900)
• 16 August – Patrick Francis Moran (b. 1830), Cardinal Archbishop of Sydney
• 13 September – James Rutherford (b. 1827), transit pioneer
• 23 September – John Arthur Barry
  John Arthur Barry
  John Arthur Barry was a journalist and author.Barry was born in Torquay, Devonshire, England, in 1850. His parents died when he was young, and he went to sea at 13 after persuading his guardian and was in the merchant service for 12 years.Leaving with a first mate's certificate, Barry came to...
  
   (b. 1850), journalist and writer
• 5 October – William Astley
  William Astley
  William Astley was an Australian short story writer who wrote under the pseudonym "Price Warung".Astley was the second son of Captain Thomas Astley, a jeweller, and his wife Mary née Price. He was born in Liverpool, England, and was brought to Australia with his family in November 1859...
  
   (b. 1854), short story writer ("Price Warung")
• 6 October – Sir John Charles Hoad
  John Charles Hoad
  Major General Sir John Charles Hoad KCMG was an Australian military leader, best known as the Australian Army's second Chief of the General Staff.-Family:...
  
   (b. 1856), soldier
• 8 October – Lee Batchelor
  Lee Batchelor
  Egerton Lee Batchelor, known as Lee Batchelor, , Australian politician, was the 2nd leader of the South Australian branch of the Australian Labor Party, a member of the First Australian Parliament, and the first member for the Federal Division of Boothby in South Australia, from 1903 to 1911...
  
  (b. 1865), politician