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...
  
   – John Curtin
  John Curtin
  John Joseph Curtin , Australian politician, served as the 14th Prime Minister of Australia. Labor under Curtin formed a minority government in 1941 after the crossbench consisting of two independent MPs crossed the floor in the House of Representatives, bringing down the Coalition minority...
  
  

State Premiers

• Premier of New South Wales – William McKell
  William McKell
  Sir William John McKell GCMG , Australian politician, was Premier of New South Wales from 1941 to 1947, and was the 12th Governor-General of Australia. He was also the oldest Governor General of Australia, at 93 when he died....
  
  
• Premier of Queensland – Frank Cooper
• Premier of South Australia – 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 – Robert Cosgrove
  Robert Cosgrove
  Sir Robert Cosgrove KCMG was an Australian politician, trade unionist, and twice Premier of Tasmania from 18 December 1939 to 18 December 1947 and 25 February 1948 to 26 August 1958....
  
  
• 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...
  
   (until 14 September), then John Cain I
  John Cain (senior)
  John Cain was an Australian politician, who became the 34th premier of Victoria, and was the first Australian Labor Party leader to win a majority in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. He was the only premier of Victoria whose son also served as premier.-Early life:Cain was born, one of 18...
  
   (until 18 September), then 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 Malcolm Barclay-Harvey
  Malcolm Barclay-Harvey
  Sir Charles Malcolm Barclay-Harvey, KCMG was a British politician and Governor of South Australia from 12 August 1939 until 26 April 1944....
  
  
• 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 – Sir Winston Dugan
• 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

• 3 March – A Soviet
  Soviet Union
  The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
  
   embassy is established in 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 an Australian diplomat is posted to Moscow
  Moscow
  Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
  
   as ambassador.
• 14 May – The hospital ship AHS Centaur
  AHS Centaur
  Australian Hospital Ship Centaur was a hospital ship which was attacked and sunk by a Japanese submarine off the coast of Queensland, Australia, on 14 May 1943...
  
   is torpedoed by a Japanese submarine off North Stradbroke Island
  North Stradbroke Island
  North Stradbroke Island is an Australian island in the state of Queensland, 30 km southeast of the capital Brisbane. Before 1896 the island was part of the Stradbroke Island. In that year a storm separated it from South Stradbroke Island, forming the Jumpinpin Channel. It is known...
  
   in Queensland
  Queensland
  Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
  
  , killing 268 persons.
• 12 June – A general election is held in Victoria
  Victoria (Australia)
  Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....
  
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• 21 August – A federal election
  Australian federal election, 1943
  Federal elections were held in Australia on 21 August 1943. All 74 seats in the House of Representatives, and 19 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election. The incumbent Australian Labor Party led by Prime Minister of Australia John Curtin easily defeated the opposition Country Party led...
  
   is held. The incumbent Australian 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...
  
   government led by John Curtin
  John Curtin
  John Joseph Curtin , Australian politician, served as the 14th Prime Minister of Australia. Labor under Curtin formed a minority government in 1941 after the crossbench consisting of two independent MPs crossed the floor in the House of Representatives, bringing down the Coalition minority...
  
   is returned to power.
• 23 September – Enid Lyons
  Enid Lyons
  Dame Enid Muriel Lyons, AD, GBE was an Australian politician and the first woman to be elected to the Australian House of Representatives as well as the first woman appointed to the federal Cabinet...
  
   and 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...
  
   become the first women to win seats in the Parliament of Australia
  Parliament of Australia
  The Parliament of Australia, also known as the Commonwealth Parliament or Federal Parliament, is the legislative branch of the government of Australia. It is bicameral, largely modelled in the Westminster tradition, but with some influences from the United States Congress...
  
  . Lyons represents the Tasmanian electorate of Darwin
  Division of Darwin
  The Division of Darwin was an Australian Electoral Division in Tasmania. The division was created in 1903 and abolished in 1955, when it was replaced by the Division of Braddon. It was named after Charles Darwin, who visited Australia in 1836. It was located in north-western Tasmania, including the...
  
   in the House of Representatives
  Australian House of Representatives
  The House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the Parliament of Australia; it is the lower house; the upper house is the Senate. Members of Parliament serve for terms of approximately three years....
  
  , and Tangney is a Senator
  Australian Senate
  The Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the House of Representatives. Senators are popularly elected under a system of proportional representation. Senators are elected for a term that is usually six years; after a double dissolution, however,...
  
   for 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...
  
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Arts and literature

• William Dobell
  William Dobell
  Sir William Dobell, OBE was an Australian artist .The electoral Division of Dobell is named after him.- Life :...
  
   wins the Archibald Prize
  Archibald Prize
  The Archibald Prize is regarded as the most important portraiture prize in Australia. It was first awarded in 1921 after a bequest from J. F. Archibald, the editor of The Bulletin who died in 1919...
  
   with his portrait of Joshua Smith

Film

• 4 March – Damien Parer
  Damien Parer
  Damien Peter Parer was an Australian war photographer. He became famous for his war photography of the Second World War, and was killed by Japanese machinegun fire at Peleliu, Palau. He married Elizabeth Marie Cotter on 23 March 1944, and his son, producer Damien Parer, was born after his father...
  
   wins Australia's first Academy Award
  Academy Awards
  An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...
  
   (Best Documentary Feature
  Academy Award for Documentary Feature
  The Academy Award for Documentary Feature is among the most prestigious awards for documentary films.- Winners and nominees:Following the Academy's practice, films are listed below by the award year...
  
  ) for the film Kokoda Front Line
  Kokoda Front Line
  Kokoda Front Line! was a full-length edition of the Australian newsreel, Cinesound Review, produced by the Australian News & Information Bureau and Cinesound Productions Limited in 1942. It was one of four winners of the 1942 Academy award for best documentary, and the first Australian film to win...
  
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Births

• 5 January – Mary Gaudron
  Mary Gaudron
  Mary Genevieve Gaudron, AC, QC , Australian lawyer and judge, was the first female Justice of the High Court of Australia.-Youth:...
  
  , High Court judge
• 9 January – Robert Drewe
  Robert Drewe
  Robert Duncan Drewe is an Australian journalist, novelist and short story writer.-Biography:Drewe was born in Melbourne, but moved with his family to Perth, Western Australia at the age of six. He was educated at Hale School, and in his final year was appointed School Captain...
  
  , journalist and writer
• 8 February – Malcolm Donnelly
  Malcolm Donnelly
  Malcolm Douglas Donnelly AM . is an Australian baritone opera singer.Donnelly studied with Marianne Mathy at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and with Vida Harford in London. His career started with the Elizabethan Trust Opera. From there he travelled to London for further study, joining the...
  
  , opera singer
• 1 March – Dyson Heydon
  Dyson Heydon
  John Dyson Heydon AC QC is a Justice of the High Court of Australia; the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy.-Education:...
  
  , High Court judge
• 12 March – Philip Ruddock
  Philip Ruddock
  Philip Maxwell Ruddock is an Australian politician who is currently a member of the House of Representatives representing the Division of Berowra, New South Wales, for the Liberal Party of Australia...
  
  , politician
• 14 March – Aila Keto
  Aila Keto
  Aila Inkeri Keto AO is founder and President of the Rainforest Conservation Society in Queensland, Australia, now known as the Australia Rainforest Conservation Society....
  
  , environmentalist
• 19 March – Vern Schuppan
  Vern Schuppan
  Vernon "Vern" Schuppan is a racing driver from Whyalla, South Australia. Schuppan drove in various categories, participating in Formula One, the Indianapolis 500 and most successfully in sports car racing.-Formula One:...
  
  , racing driver
• 6 April – Christine Gallus
  Christine Gallus
  Christine Ann Gallus , Australian politician, was a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1990, representing the Division of Hawker, South Australia 1990-93 and for Hindmarsh, South Australia 1993-2004...
  
  , politician
• 7 April – Robert Valhalla, musician
• 9 April – Brian James
  Brian James (rugby league)
  Brian James is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1960s. A national and state representative, he played in the 1968 Rugby League World Cup-winning team for Australia as a winger. His club career was played at centre for the St...
  
  , rugby league player
• 11 April – Judith Adams
  Judith Adams
  Judith Anne Adams , Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since July 2005, representing Western Australia. She was born in Picton, New Zealand, and was a trained nurse and midwife experienced in health care policy...
  
  , Liberal Senator for South Australia
• 13 April – Alan Jones
  Alan Jones (radio broadcaster)
  Alan Belford Jones AO is an Australian radio broadcaster, former rugby union and rugby league coach and administrator.Jones hosts Sydney's most popular breakfast radio program, on radio station 2GB...
  
  , radio personality
• 29 April – John Tranter
  John Tranter
  John Ernest Tranter is an Australian poet, publisher and editor. He has a long list of achievements in writing, publishing and broadcasting...
  
  , poet
• 30 April – Paul Jennings
  Paul Jennings (Australian author)
  Paul Jennings AM is an English-born Australian children's book writer. His books mainly feature short stories that lead the reader through an unusual series of events that end with a twist.-Biography:...
  
  , children's author
• 2 May – John Goss
  John Goss (race driver)
  John Goss is the only Australian racing driver to win Australia's two most prestigious races, the Bathurst 1000 , and the Australian Grand Prix .-Early career:...
  
  , racing driver
• 7 May – John Bannon
  John Bannon
  John Charles Bannon AO is a former Australian politician. He was the 39th Premier of South Australia, leading the Labor Party to government at the 1982 election. The Bannon Labor government was re-elected at the 1985 election and the 1989 election...
  
  , Premier of South Australia (1982–1992)
• 7 May – Peter Carey, novelist
• 17 May – Johnny Warren
  Johnny Warren
  John Norman Warren, MBE, OAM was an Australian football player, coach, administrator, writer and broadcaster. He was known as Captain Socceroo for his passionate work to promote the game in Australia...
  
   (d. 2004), soccer player and coach
• 19 May – Bob Graham, NSW politician
• 1 June – Ian King
  Ian King (Australian cricketer)
  Ian Harold King is a former Australian first-class cricketer, one of only a handful of Indigenous Australians to have played first-class cricket....
  
  , cricketer
• 4 June – John Burgess
  John Burgess (TV host)
  John Burgess is an Australian television and radio personality, best known for his hosting duties on Wheel of Fortune.-Television:Burgess was host of Wheel of Fortune on the Seven Network, from 1984 to 1996...
  
  , TV & radio host (Wheel Of Fortune & Burgo's Catch Phrase)
• 19 June – Barry Hill
  Barry Hill (writer)
  Barry Hill is an Australian historian, poet, journalist and academic.Hill was born in Melbourne, Australia. He studied at the University of Melbourne gaining his Bachelor of Arts , Bachelor of Education and a Doctor of Philosophy and from there went to London where he gained his Master of Arts ...
  
  , historian and writer
• 3 July – Judith Durham
  Judith Durham
  Judith Durham, OAM is an Australian jazz singer and musician who became the lead vocalist for the Australian popular folk music group The Seekers in 1963. She left the group in mid-1968 to pursue her solo career...
  
  , singer (The Seekers
  The Seekers
  The Seekers are an Australian folk-influenced pop music group which were originally formed in 1962. They were the first Australian popular music group to achieve major chart and sales success in the United Kingdom and the United States...
  
  )
• 11 July – Richard Carleton
  Richard Carleton
  Richard George Carleton was a multi-Logie Award winning Australian television journalist.-Education:Carleton was born in Bowral, New South Wales...
  
  , television journalist (d. 2006)
• 25 July – Desmond Mueller
  Desmond Mueller
  Lieutenant General Desmond Maurice "Des" Mueller AO is a retired senior officer of the Australian Army. He served as Vice Chief of the Australian Defence Force from June 2000 until his retirement in July 2002....
  
  , Vice Chief of the Defence Force (2000–2002)
• 26 July – Robyn Woodhouse
  Robyn Woodhouse
  Robyn Woodhouse is a former female track and field athlete from Australia, who mainly competed in the high jump event during her career. She represented her native country at the 1964 Summer Olympics, and won the gold medal at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western...
  
  , high jumper
• 18 August – Jean Roberts
  Jean Roberts
  Jean Roberts is a former Australian Olympic athlete who competed in the shot put and discus events.She competed for the Coburg club, alongside athletes such as Raelene Boyle and Carolyn Lewis....
  
  , Olympic shot putter and discus thrower
• 16 September – Bob Debus
  Bob Debus
  Robert John "Bob" Debus AM , a former Australian politician, has been a member of the Australian House of Representatives and the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing the Australian Labor Party. Debus has been a minister in both the Australian and New South Wales governments...
  
  , politician
• 16 September – Alan Ferguson
  Alan Ferguson
  The Hon. Alan Baird Ferguson , Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since May 1992, representing South Australia. On 14 August 2007 Senator Ferguson became the 22nd President of the Australian Senate, succeeding Senator Paul Calvert of Tasmania...
  
  , Liberal Senator for South Australia
• 26 September – Ian Chappell
  Ian Chappell
  Ian Michael Chappell is a former cricketer who played for South Australia and Australia. He captained Australia between 1971 and 1975 before taking a central role in the breakaway World Series Cricket organisation...
  
  , cricketer
• 4 October – Owen Davidson
  Owen Davidson
  ' was a professional tennis player of the 1960s and 1970s.Partnering Billie Jean King, Davidson managed to win eight grand slam mixed doubles titles. Davidson was one of very few to win a calendar year slam for mixed doubles, when he won the Australian Championships, French Championships,...
  
  , tennis player
• 6 October – Peter Dowding
  Peter Dowding
  Peter McCallum Dowding SC was the 24th Premier of Western Australia, serving from 25 February 1988 until his resignation on 12 February 1990 after an internal party dispute....
  
  , Premier of Western Australia (1988–1990)
• 9 October – Dianne Burge
  Dianne Burge
  Dianne Burge , is a former Australian sprinter who competed in two Olympic Games and won three gold medals at the Commonwealth Games...
  
  , Olympic sprinter
• 6 November – Ian Turpie
  Ian Turpie
  Ian "Turps" Turpie is an Australian television celebrity, best known for hosting the long-running game show The Price Is Right before being replaced by Larry Emdur.-Early life:...
  
  , TV host & singer (The New Price Is Right)
• 8 November – Peter Cook
  Peter Cook (Australian politician)
  Peter Francis Salmon Cook was an Australian politician. He served as a Labor member of the Senate from 1983 to 2005, representing the state of Western Australia....
  
   (d. 2005), politician
• 23 November – Tony Bonner
  Tony Bonner
  Tony Bonner is an Australian television, film and stage actor and singer. Bonner became famous in the 1960s children's television series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, later moving on to lead roles in the dramas Cop Shop and Skyways.-Early life:Bonner was born in Manly, a northern beach suburb of Sydney...
  
  , actor
• 25 November – Jan Andrew
  Jan Andrew
  Janice Andrew , known after marriage as Janice Thornett, was an Australian butterfly swimmer of the 1950s, who won a bronze medal in the 100 m butterfly and a silver medal in the 4 &ntimes;  m medley relay at the 1960 Rome Olympics...
  
  , Olympic swimmer
• 29 November – Janet Holmes à Court
  Janet Holmes à Court
  Janet Holmes à Court, AC, HFAIB is an Australian businesswoman, and one of Australia's wealthiest women. She is the Chairman of one of Australia's largest private companies, Heytesbury Pty Ltd, having turned around its fortunes after the death of her husband Robert Holmes à Court in 1990...
  
  , businesswoman
• 19 December – Jimmy Mackay
  Jimmy Mackay
  James Birrell "Jimmy" Mackay is a former football player. He was a member of the Australian 1974 World Cup squad in West Germany....
  
  , soccer player
• 20 December – Roger Woodward
  Roger Woodward
  Roger Woodward AC OBE is an Australian classical concert pianist.-Biography:Roger Woodward was born in 1942 in Chatswood, a suburb of Sydney, the youngest of four children to Gladys and Frank Woodward...
  
  , pianist

Deaths

• 3 January – Sir Walter James
  Walter James
  Sir Walter Hartwell James KCMG KC was the fifth Premier of Western Australia and an ardent supporter of the federation movement....
  
   (b. 1863), Premier of Western Australia (1902–1904)
• 14 February – Alice Henry
  Alice Henry
  Alice Henry , was an Australian suffragist, journalist and trade unionist who also became prominent in the American trade union movement as a member of the Women's Trade Union League....
  
   (b. 1857), suffragist, journalist and trade unionist
• 28 March – Keith Truscott
  Keith Truscott
  Keith William "Bluey" Truscott DFC & Bar was a World War II ace fighter pilot and Australian rules footballer with the Melbourne Football Club...
  
   (b. 1916), fighter pilot
• 29 March – William Ellis Newton
  William Ellis Newton
  William Ellis Newton VC was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest decoration for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to a member of the British and Commonwealth armed forces...
  
   (b. 1919), soldier and Victoria Cross recipient (died in New Guinea)
• 7 April – Robert Valhalla, musician
• 25 April – Sir Arthur Cocks
  Arthur Cocks (Australian politician)
  Sir Arthur Alfred Clement Cocks KBE was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.-Early life:...
  
   (b. 1862), NSW politician
• 19 May – Billy Sing
  Billy Sing
  William Edward 'Billy' Sing, DCM was a Chinese Australian soldier who served in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during World War I, best known as a sniper during the Gallipoli Campaign. He took at least 150 confirmed kills during that campaign, and may have had over 200 kills in total...
  
   (b. 1886), soldier
• 25 May – Albert Robinson
  Albert Robinson
  Albert William Robinson was an Australian Senator and long serving member of the South Australian House of Assembly....
  
  , (b. 1877), politician
• 14 June – John McNeill (b. 1868), politician
• 28 June – Pietro Porcelli
  Pietro Porcelli
  Pietro Giacomo Porcelli was an Italian-born sculptor responsible for many statues in Western Australia, including the Explorers' Monument, and those of C. Y. O'Connor and Alexander Forrest....
  
   (b. 1872), sculptor
• 21 July – Edward Riley
  Edward Riley (Australian politician)
  Edward Riley was an Australian politician. Born in Glasgow in Scotland, he received a primary education and migrated to Australia in 1883. He became a plasterer and an official in the Plasterers Union, and eventually rose to become President of the Trades and Labour Council. In 1891, he was a...
  
   (b. 1859), politician
• 6 August – Tom Garrett
  Tom Garrett
  Thomas William Garrett was an early Australian Test cricketer and, later, a distinguished public servant.-Early life:...
  
   (b. 1858), cricketer
• 24 August – Sir William Irvine
  William Irvine (Australian politician)
  Sir William Hill Irvine GCMG , Australian politician and judge, was the 21st Premier of Victoria. Irvine was born in Newry in County Down, Ireland, into a Scottish-Presbyterian family...
  
   (b. 1858), Premier of Victoria (1902–1904)
• 1 September – Arthur Streeton
  Arthur Streeton
  Sir Arthur Ernest Streeton was an Australian landscape painter.-Early life:Streeton was born in Mount Duneed, near Geelong, and his family moved to Richmond in 1874. In 1882, Streeton commenced art studies with G. F. Folingsby at the National Gallery School.Streeton was influenced by French...
  
   (b. 1867), artist
• 23 September – John Bradfield (b. 1867), engineer
• 2 October – John Evans
  John Evans (Australian politician)
  Sir John William Evans, CMG was an Australian politician, a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly and Premier of Tasmania from 11 July 1904 to 19 June 1909.-Early life and nautical career:...
  
   (b. 1855), Premier of Tasmania (1904–1909)
• 14 October Jimmy Matthews
  Jimmy Matthews
  Thomas James Matthews was an Australian Test cricketer. He bowled leg breaks...
  
   (b. 1884), cricketer
• 15 October – Thomas Henry Dodds
  Thomas Henry Dodds
  Major General Thomas Henry Dodds CMG, CVO, DSO was an Australian Army Colonel in World War I. He was promoted Major General in 1930 and retired in 1934.-Early life and career:...
  
   (b. 1873), soldier
• 23 October – Sir George Fairbairn (b. 1855), politician
• 6 November – William Lister Lister
  W. Lister Lister
  William Lister Lister was an Australian painter who won the Wynne Prize seven times.He was born in Manly, a suburb of Sydney...
  
   (b. 1859), artist
• 9 November – Reginald Spencer Browne
  Reginald Spencer Browne
  Reginald Spencer Browne CB was a journalist, newspaper editor, and an Australian Army Brigadier General in World War I.-Early life and career:...
  
   (b. 1856), soldier
• 22 November – Thomas Ryan
  Thomas Ryan (Victorian politician)
  Thomas Ryan was a railway worker, estate agent, trade unionist and politician, who served as the Labor member for East Torrens and Sturt in the South Australian House of Assembly and as the Nationalist Party Member for Essendon in the Victorian Legislative Assembly in Australia.Ryan was born...
  
   (b. 1870), Victorian politician
• 23 November – Ernie Jones
  Ernie Jones
  Ernest Jones was an Australian sportsman, playing Test cricket and Australian rules football....
  
   (b. 1869), cricketer and Australian rules footballer
• 10 December – Frederick Chapman
  Frederick Chapman
  Frederick Chapman was the inaugural Australian Commonwealth Palaeontologist.-Early life:Chapman was born in Camden Town, London, England and studied at Royal College of Science, London where he was initially an assistant to John Wesley Judd...
  
  (b. 1864), palaeontologist