2004 in Australia - Deaths

Deaths

  • 19 January – David Hookes, 48, cricketer
  • 16 February – Shirley Strickland, 78, athlete, three-time Olympic champion
  • 28 February – Jet Rowland, 1 (born 2002)
  • 24 March – Rupert Hamer, 87, former Premier of Victoria
  • 19 April – Tim Burstall, 76, film director and producer
  • 26 May – Gatjil Djerrkura, 54, indigenous leader, Chairman of ATSIC
  • 20 June – Jim Bacon, 54, former Premier of Tasmania
  • 7 July – Xiaokai Yang, 55, economist
  • 12 July – George Mallaby, 64, actor
  • 17 August – Thea Astley, 78, novelist
  • 22 August – Marcel Caux, 105, First World War veteran, last known survivor of the Battle of Pozières
  • 4 September – Walter Campbell, 83, Governor of Queensland
  • 11 October – Keith Miller, 84, cricketer, Australian rules footballer, fighter pilot and journalist
  • 1 November – Marie Tehan, 64, Victorian health minister
  • 6 November – Johnny Warren, 61, football (soccer) player, coach and ethnic community advocate
  • 8 November – Eddie Charlton, 78, snooker player
  • 19 November – Mulrunji, 36, Indigenous Australian resident of Palm Island who controversially died in custody.
  • 20 November – Janine Haines, 59, Australian Democrats senator
  • 4 December – June Maston, 76, sprinter and athletics coach
  • 26 December – Troy Broadbridge, 24, Australian rules footballer, killed in the Indian Ocean Tsunami

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