Deaths
- 14 February – James Webb, NSW politician
- 9 March – Edwin Greenslade Murphy (born 1866), journalist and poet
- 7 April – Joseph Lyons (born 1879), Prime Minister of Australia (1932–1939) and Premier of Tasmania (1923–1928)
- 25 April – Sir Charles Powers (born 1853), High Court judge
- 10 June – Albert Ogilvie (born 1890), Premier of Tasmania (1934–1939)
- 6 August – James MacCallum Smith (born 1868), WA politician
- 30 August – Edward Sydney Simpson (born 1875), mineralogist and geochemist
- 3 October – Henry Augustus Ellis (born 1861), physician and federalist
- 22 October – Sir John Langdon Bonython (born 1848), politician and journalist
- 15 November – William Hill (born 1866), politician
- 6 December – Sir Ernest Scott (born 1867), historian
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)