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 VI
  George VI of the United Kingdom
  George VI was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death...
  
  
• 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...
  
   – Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Baron Gowrie
  Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie
  Brigadier General Alexander Gore Arkwright Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie VC, GCMG, CB, DSO & Bar, PC was a British soldier and colonial governor and the tenth Governor-General of Australia. Serving for 9 years and 7 days, he is the longest serving Governor-General in Australia's history...
  
  
• 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...
  
   – Joseph Lyons
  Joseph Lyons
  Joseph Aloysius Lyons, CH was an Australian politician. He was Labor Premier of Tasmania from 1923 to 1928 and a Minister in the James Scullin government from 1929 until his resignation from the Labor Party in March 1931...
  
  

State Premiers

• Premier of New South Wales – Bertram Stevens
• Premier of Queensland – William Forgan Smith
  William Forgan Smith
  William Forgan Smith , generally known as Forgan Smith, was Premier of the Australian state of Queensland from 1932 to 1942. He came to dominate politics in the state during the 1930s, and his populism, firm leadership, defence of states' rights and interest in state development make him something...
  
  
• Premier of South Australia – Richard L. Butler
  Richard Layton Butler
  Sir Richard Layton Butler KCMG was the 31st Premier of South Australia, serving two disjunct terms in office: from 1927 to 1930, and again from 1933 to 1938....
  
   (until 5 November), then Thomas Playford IV
  Thomas Playford IV
  Sir Thomas Playford, GCMG was a South Australian politician. He served continuously as Premier of South Australia from 5 November 1938 to 10 March 1965, the longest term of any elected government leader in the history of Australia. His tenure as premier was marked by a period of population and...
  
  
• Premier of Tasmania – Albert Ogilvie
  Albert Ogilvie
  Albert George Ogilvie was an Australian politician and Premier of Tasmania from 22 June 1934 until his death on 10 June 1939....
  
  
• Premier of Victoria – Albert Dunstan
  Albert Dunstan
  Sir Albert Arthur Dunstan, KCMG was an Australian politician. A member of the Country Party , Dunstan was the 33rd Premier of Victoria. His term as Premier was the second-longest in the state's history, behind Sir Henry Bolte...
  
  
• 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...
  
   – John Willcock
  John Willcock
  John Collings Willcock was the 15th Premier of Western Australia.-Early life:John Willcock was born at Frogmoor , New South Wales on 9 August 1879. The son of miner Joseph Willcock, he was educated at Sydney High School before emigrating to Western Australia in 1897...
  
  

State Governors

• Governor of New South Wales – John Loder, 2nd Baron Wakehurst
• Governor of Queensland – Sir Leslie Orme Wilson
  Leslie Orme Wilson
  Sir Leslie Orme Wilson, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, DSO, PC was a British soldier, Conservative politician and Governor of Queensland.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Governor of South Australia – Sir Winston Dugan
  Winston Dugan, 1st Baron Dugan of Victoria
  Major-General Winston Joseph Dugan, 1st Baron Dugan of Victoria GCMG, CB, DSO, KStJ , known as Sir Winston Dugan between 1934 and 1949, was a British administrator and a career British Army officer...
  
  
• Governor of Tasmania – Sir Ernest Clark
  Ernest Clark (governor)
  Sir Ernest Clark, GCMG, KCB, CBE was a British civil servant, who was Governor of Tasmania from 1933 to 1945.-Early life and education:...
  
  
• Governor of Victoria – William Vanneck, 5th Baron Huntingfield
  William Vanneck, 5th Baron Huntingfield
  William Charles Arcedeckne Vanneck, 5th Baron Huntingfield, KCMG was a British Conservative Party politician, Governor of Victoria and Administrator of Australia.-Early life:...
  
  
• 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;...
  
   – none appointed

Events

• 26 January – Australia officially celebrates its sesquicentennial, the 150th anniversary of European settlement. Unofficially, it is a Day of Mourning for Indigenous Australians.
• 6 February – Three hundred beachgoers are dragged out to sea when three freak waves
  Ocean surface wave
  In fluid dynamics, wind waves or, more precisely, wind-generated waves are surface waves that occur on the free surface of oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, and canals or even on small puddles and ponds. They usually result from the wind blowing over a vast enough stretch of fluid surface. Waves in the...
  
   strike Bondi Beach in Sydney
  Sydney
  Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
  
   in an event known as "Black Sunday". A team of eighty surf lifesavers manage to rescue all but five people.
• 13 February – Nineteen people die when Sydney ferry
  Sydney Ferries
  Sydney Ferries is an agency of the New South Wales Government Department of Transport, providing ferry services on Sydney Harbour and the Parramatta River in Sydney, Australia....
  
   the Rodney, carrying 150 passengers, capsizes in Sydney Harbour while farewelling US Navy
  United States Navy
  The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...
  
   cruiser USS Louisville
  USS Louisville (CA-28)
  USS Louisville — a Northampton-class heavy cruiser — was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the city of Louisville, Kentucky...
  
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• 1 April – New monthly newspaper Abo Call
  Abo Call
  Abo Call was the first Aboriginal-focused publication printed in Australia. There were a total of six issues, all published in 1938. It was written by and edited by Jack Patten and featured news gathered by Patten on his travels through Eastern Australia, and from correspondents nation-wide...
  
  begins publication in Sydney
  Sydney
  Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
  
  , focusing on issues of Aboriginal rights and edited by activist Jack Patten
  Jack Patten
  John Thomas Patten , known as Jack Patten was an Australian Aboriginal activist and journalist.-Biography:...
  
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• 11 May – Two jockey
  Jockey
  A jockey is an athlete who rides horses in horse racing or steeplechase racing, primarily as a profession. The word also applies to camel riders in camel racing.-Etymology:...
  
  s are killed and two are injured in a horse racing
  Horse racing
  Horse racing is an equestrian sport that has a long history. Archaeological records indicate that horse racing occurred in ancient Babylon, Syria, and Egypt. Both chariot and mounted horse racing were events in the ancient Greek Olympics by 648 BC...
  
   accident at Morphetville Racecourse in Adelaide, South Australia.
• 25 October – Eighteen people die in Australia's worst air disaster, when an Australian National Airways
  Australian National Airways
  Australian National Airways was Australia's predominant carrier from the mid-1930s to the early 1950s.-The Holyman Airways Period:On 19 March 1932 Flinders Island Airways began a regular aerial service using the Desoutter Mk.II VH-UEE Miss Launceston between Launceston, Tasmania and Flinders...
  
   Douglas DC-2
  Douglas DC-2
  The Douglas DC-2 was a 14-seat, twin-engine airliner produced by the American company Douglas Aircraft Corporation starting in 1934. It competed with the Boeing 247...
  
   crashes in the Dandenong Ranges
  Dandenong Ranges
  The Dandenong Ranges are a set of low mountain ranges, rising to 633 metres at Mount Dandenong, approximately 35 km east of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...
  
   in heavy fog
  Fog
  Fog is a collection of water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth's surface. While fog is a type of stratus cloud, the term "fog" is typically distinguished from the more generic term "cloud" in that fog is low-lying, and the moisture in the fog is often generated...
  
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• 15 November – Waterside workers at Port Kembla, New South Wales
  Port Kembla, New South Wales
  Port Kembla is a suburb of Wollongong 8 km south of the CBD and part of the Illawarra region of New South Wales. The suburb comprises a seaport, industrial complex , a small harbour foreshore nature reserve, and a small commercial sector. It is situated on the tip of Red Point, first sighted...
  
   refuse to load a consignment of scrap iron destined for Japan
  Japan
  Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
  
  , arguing that it would be used for munitions. Attorney-General
  Attorney-General of Australia
  The Attorney-General of Australia is the first law officer of the Crown, chief law officer of the Commonwealth of Australia and a minister of the Crown. The Attorney-General is usually a member of the Federal Cabinet, but there is no constitutional requirement that this be the case since the...
  
   Robert Menzies
  Robert Menzies
  Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, , Australian politician, was the 12th and longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia....
  
   attempts to force the loading of the cargo, earning himself the nickname "Pig Iron Bob".
• 21 December – A direct radio-telephone link is established between Canberra
  Canberra
  Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...
  
   and Washington D.C.
• 28 December – The Sydney Mail
  The Sydney Mail
  The Sydney Mail was an Australian magazine published weekly in Sydney. The weekly edition of The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper, it ran from 1860 to 1938....
  
  ceases publication.

Arts and literature

• 31 March – Xavier Herbert
  Xavier Herbert
  Xavier Herbert was an Australian writer best known for his Miles Franklin Award-winning novel Poor Fellow My Country . He is considered one of the elder statesmen of Australian literature...
  
   wins the Commonwealth 150th anniversary literary award for his novel Capricornia
  Capricornia (novel)
  Capricornia is a novel by Xavier Herbert. Like his later work considered by many a masterpiece, the Miles Franklin Award winning Poor Fellow My Country, it provides a fictional account of life in 'Capricornia', a place clearly modelled specifically on Australia's Northern Territory, and to a...
  
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• 30 December – The Passing of the Aborigines by Daisy Bates
  Daisy Bates (Australia)
  Daisy May Bates, CBE was an Irish Australian journalist, welfare worker and lifelong student of Australian Aboriginal culture and society. She was known among the native people as 'Kabbarli' .-Early life:...
  
   is published.

Sport

• 5 February to 12 February – The 1938 British Empire Games
  1938 British Empire Games
  The 1938 British Empire Games was the third British Empire Games, the Commonwealth Games being the modern-day equivalent. Held in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia from February 5–12, 1938, they were timed to coincide with Sydney's sesqui-centenary...
  
   are held in Sydney
  Sydney
  Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
  
  . Australia leads the medal tally at the games, winning 25 gold medals, 19 silver and 22 bronze.
• 24 September – Carlton
  Carlton Football Club
  The Carlton Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club competes in the Australian Football League, and was one of the eight founding members of that competition in 1897...
  
   defeat Collingwood
  Collingwood Football Club
  The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed The Magpies, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...
  
   15.10 (100) to 13.7 (85) in the grand final, becoming premiers of the 1938 VFL season
  1938 VFL season
  Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1938.-Premiership season:In 1938, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus one substitute player, known as the 19th man...
  
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• 1 November – Catalogue 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

• 12 January – Lewis Fiander
  Lewis Fiander
  - Biography :Fiander was born in Melbourne and educated at Trinity Grammar School, Kew, the son of Mona Jane and Walter Lewis Fiander. Moving to the UK from his native Australia, initially to appear in the play "The One Day of the Year", he appeared in such films as Dr. Phibes Rises Again, Dr....
  
  , actor
• 12 January – Noel McNamara
  Noel McNamara
  Noel John McNamara is an Australian campaigner for victims of crime and outspoken critic of the Australian justice system. In 1993 Noel established the Crime Victims Support Association with his wife Bev McNamara...
  
  , crime victims supporter
• 13 January – Daevid Allen
  Daevid Allen
  Daevid Allen , sometimes credited as Divided Alien, an Australian poet, guitarist, singer, composer and performance artist is co-founder of psychedelic rock groups Soft Machine and Gong .-Biography:In 1960, inspired by the Beat Generation writers he had discovered...
  
  , musician (Soft Machine
  Soft Machine
  Soft Machine were an English rock band from Canterbury, named after the book The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs. They were one of the central bands in the Canterbury scene, and helped pioneer the progressive rock genre...
  
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• 17 January – David Theile
  David Theile
  David Egmont Theile , was an Australian backstroke swimmer of the 1950s and 1960s, who won consecutive gold medals in the 100 m backstroke at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics, the only Australian to do so...
  
  , backstroke swimmer
• 25 February – Herb Elliott
  Herb Elliott
  Herbert James "Herb" Elliott AC MBE is a former Australian athlete, one of the world's greatest middle distance runners...
  
  , athlete
• 28 February – Dennis Olsen
  Dennis Olsen
  Dennis Hans Olsen AM , is an accomplished Australian singer, actor, director and pianist.-Professional career:...
  
  , pianist, actor and director
• 1 March – Henry Reynolds
  Henry Reynolds (historian)
  Henry Reynolds is an eminent Australian historian whose primary work has focused on the frontier conflict between European settlement of Australia and indigenous Australians.-Education and career:...
  
  , historian
• 5 March – Mike Walsh
  Mike Walsh (TV host)
  Mike Walsh OBE was host of The Mike Walsh Show from 1973 until 1985. Walsh is the only entertainer to be awarded the Sammy Award and Gold Logie award in the same year....
  
  , television presenter
• 25 March – Anthony Carwardine
  Anthony Carwardine
  Rear Admiral Anthony Carwardine AO is a retired Australian naval officer, Chief of Naval Personnel in the Royal Australian Navy and former Commandant of the Australian Defence Force Academy.-Early life:...
  
  , naval officer
• 13 April – Col Joye
  Col Joye
  Colin Frederick Jacobsen AM , better known by his stage name Col Joye, is an Australian popular entertainer and entrepreneur...
  
  , entertainer
• 20 April – Betty Cuthbert
  Betty Cuthbert
  Elizabeth Cuthbert AM, MBE is an Australian athlete, and a fourfold Olympic champion....
  
  , athlete
• 5 June – Roy Higgins
  Roy Higgins
  Roy Henry Higgins MBE is a former Australian jockey who rode in the late 1960s and the 1970s. He grew up in the southern New South Wales town of Deniliquin where he was apprenticed to local horse trainer Jim Watters...
  
  , jockey
• 18 June – Kevin Murray, Australian rules footballer (Fitzroy)
• 20 June – Joan Kirner
  Joan Kirner
  Joan Elizabeth Kirner AM , Australian politician, was the 42nd Premier of Victoria, the first woman to hold the position, which she held for two years prior to a landslide election defeat.-Biography:...
  
  , Premier of Victoria (1990–1992)
• 13 July – Ian Macphee
  Ian Macphee
  Ian Malcolm Macphee AO is an Australian former politician who was a member of the House of Representatives from 1974 until 1990...
  
  , politician, Minister for Immigration
• 23 July – Bert Newton
  Bert Newton
  Albert Watson "Bert" Newton, AM, MBE is an Australian television personality, known for hosting television series such as In Melbourne Tonight, Good Morning Australia and 20 to 1. Newton has also hosted the Logie Awards on numerous occasions through his career.-Early life:Newton was born in...
  
  , television performer
• 28 July – Robert Hughes
  Robert Hughes (critic)
  Robert Studley Forrest Hughes, AO is an Australian-born art critic, writer and television documentary maker who has resided in New York since 1970.-Early life:...
  
  , art critic
• 9 August – Rodney Laver, tennis player
• 22 August – Roger Gyles
  Roger Gyles
  Roger Vincent Gyles AO, QC is an Acting Judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, a former judge of the Federal Court of Australia and a former Royal Commissioner.-Early life:...
  
  , lawyer and judge
• 30 August – Murray Gleeson
  Murray Gleeson
  Anthony Murray Gleeson AC QC is a former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy.-Biography:Gleeson was born in Wingham, New South Wales, the eldest of four children...
  
  , High Court judge
• 6 September – Ernie Sigley
  Ernie Sigley
  Ernest William "Ernie" Sigley is an enduring Australian entertainment personality known for his square-rimmed spectacles, the gap between his front teeth and his slapstick approach to comedy.-Radio career:...
  
  , entertainer
• 8 October – Fred Stolle
  Fred Stolle
  Frederick "Fred" Sydney Stolle is an Australian tennis player. He was born in Hornsby, New South Wales, Australia. He is the father of former Australian Davis Cup player Sandon Stolle....
  
  , tennis player
• 17 October – Les Murray
  Les Murray (poet)
  Leslie Allan Murray, AO , known as Les Murray, is an Australian poet, anthologist and critic. His career spans over forty years, and he has published nearly 30 volumes of poetry, as well as two verse novels and collections of his prose writings...
  
  , poet
• 30 October – Morris Lurie
  Morris Lurie
  Morris Lurie is an Australian writer of comic novels, short stories, essays, plays, and children's books. His work focuses on the comic mishaps of Jewish-Australian men of Lurie's generation, who are invariably jazz fans.-Biography:Lurie was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1938, to Arie and...
  
  , writer
• 8 November – Bob Skilton
  Bob Skilton
  Robert John "Bob" Skilton was an Australian rules football player who played as a rover for South Melbourne and Victoria between 1956 and 1971....
  
  , Australian rules footballer (South Melbourne)
• 26 November – Rodney Jory
  Rodney Jory
  Professor Rodney Leonard Jory AM, , is an Australian physicist noted for establishing and running the National Youth Science Forum and for his contributions to Australian teams which have competed at the International Physics Olympiad...
  
  , physicist
• 11 December – Reg Livermore
  Reg Livermore
  Reginald Dawson Livermore AO is an Australian actor, singer, theatrical performer and television presenter.-Childhood:From a young age, Livermore demonstrated an interest in the performing arts...
  
  , actor, singer and television presenter
• 21 December – Frank Moorhouse
  Frank Moorhouse
  Frank Moorhouse is an acclaimed Australian writer with a growing international reputation. He has won major Australian national prizes for the short story, the novel, the essay, and for script writing....
  
  , writer

Deaths

• 6 January – John Gavin
  John Gavin (director)
  John F. Gavin, born as John Francis Henry Gavin was an Australian film director, who was one of the early film makers of the 1910s. He was born and died in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and was also known by the nickname "Jack"....
  
   (b. 1875), film director
• 15 January – Paul Raphael Montford
  Paul Raphael Montford
  Paul Raphael Montford was an English-born sculptor, active in Australia; winner of the gold medal of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1934.-Early life:...
  
   (b. 1868), sculptor
• 21 January – Will Dyson
  Will Dyson
  ]William Henry Dyson was an Australian illustrator and political cartoonist.-Early life:Dyson was born at Alfredton, near Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, the son of George Dyson, then a hawker and later a mining engineer, and his wife Jane, née Mayall. Dyson was educated at state schools at...
  
   (b. 1880), cartoonist
• 31 January – John Barnes
  John Barnes (Australian politician)
  John Barnes was a union official and Australian federal politician representing the Labor Party.-Early life:...
  
   (b. 1868), politician
• 16 February – Thomas Molloy
  Thomas Molloy
  Thomas George Anstruther Molloy was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly for the electorate of Perth from 1892 until 1894, and thereafter became a perennial candidate unsuccessfully standing for Parliament no less than 14 times. He also was the...
  
   (b. 1852), WA politician
• 21 April – Sir Talbot Hobbs
  Talbot Hobbs
  Lieutenant General Sir Joseph John Talbot Hobbs KCB, KCMG, VD was an Australian architect and First World War general.-Early life:...
  
   (b. 1864), architect
• 11 May – Lawrence Wells
  Lawrence Wells
  Lawrence Allen Wells was an Australian explorer.Wells grew up in the Mount Gambier, South Australia district, and after a short stint in a merchants office, joined the South Australian Survey Department in October 1878. In 1883 the surveyor General, G.W...
  
   (b. 1860), explorer
• 17 May – Nora Clench
  Nora Clench
  -Biography:Born Esther Leonora Clench in St. Marys, Canada West, the daughter of L. M. Clench, Clench attended Loretto Convent in Hamilton, Ontario. A musical child prodigy, when she was fifteen she entered the Leipzig Conservatory in Germany, where she was a pupil of Adolph Brodsky, the Russian...
  
   (b. 1867), Canadian violinist
• 17 June – Ranji Hordern
  Ranji Hordern
  Dr. Herbert Vivian "Ranji" Hordern was an Australian cricketer who played in 7 Tests from 1911 to 1912. He was the first major leg-spin and googly bowler to play for Australia...
  
   (b. 1883), cricketer
• 19 June – Jack Hides
  Jack Hides
  Jack Gordon Hides was an explorer of the then-Australian-controlled territories of Papua and New Guinea, now modern Papua New Guinea. He served as a Patrol Officer from 1931 to 1936, and led several expeditions in the early 1930s....
  
   (b. 1906), explorer
• 22 June – C. J. Dennis
  C. J. Dennis
  Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis, better known as C. J. Dennis, was an Australian poet known for his humorous poems, especially "The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke", published in the early 20th century...
  
   (b. 1876), poet
• 29 June – Sir Colin Mackenzie
  William Colin Mackenzie
  Sir William Colin Mackenzie , usually known as Colin Mackenzie, was an Australian anatomist, benefactor, museum administrator and director. He was best known for creating the Healesville Sanctuary.-Early life:...
  
   (b. 1877), anatomist and museum administrator
• 30 August – Evelyn Marsden
  Evelyn Marsden
  Evelyn Marsden was the only Australian female survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic and was rescued in lifeboat 16....
  
   (b. 1883), survivor of the Titanic
• 11 September – Sir Philip Whistler Street
  Philip Whistler Street
  Sir Philip Whistler Street KCMG was the eighth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Street was a distinguished lawyer, patron of many benevolent institutions and also the lieutenant governor of New South Wales. Biographer Percival Serle states "Street had the culture, dignity...
  
   (b. 1863), NSW Supreme Court judge
• 12 October – Hugh Massie
  Hugh Massie
  Hugh Hamon Massie was a cricketer who played for New South Wales and Australia.Massie's role in the 1882 Ashes Test at The Oval was almost as pivotal in deciding the result as Fred Spofforth's celebrated performance with the ball...
  
   (b. 1854), cricketer
• 25 October – Charles Hawker
  Charles Hawker
  Charles Allan Seymour Hawker was an Australian politician.Hawker was born near Clare, South Australia and educated at Geelong Grammar School, Hawker and Trinity College, Cambridge, earning Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees in 1919 and 1922 respectively. While at Cambridge he enlisted in the...
  
   (b. 1884), politician
• 29 November – John Sandes
  John Sandes
  John Sandes was an Australian journalist and author.-Early life:Sandes was born in Cork, Ireland the son of the Rev. Samuel Dickson Sandes, and his wife Sophia Julia, née Besnard. John Sandes was taken to England in 1872 and educated at King's College London, Trinity College, Stratford-on-Avon,...
  
  (b. 1863), journalist and author