2005 in Australia - Deaths

Deaths

  • 8 January – Campbell McComas, 52, impersonator, broadcaster, comedian
  • 11 January – Miriam Hyde, composer and pianist
  • 24 January – June Bronhill, soprano opera singer
  • 16 March – Bob Bellear, first indigenous judge
  • 25 March – Davis McCaughey, Governor of Victoria
  • 26 March – Paul Hester, drummer for Split Enz and Crowded House (suicide)
  • 23 April – Joh Bjelke-Petersen, 94, Premier of Queensland from 1968–1987.
  • 23 April – Al Grassby, politician and minister in the Whitlam government
  • 29 April – Sara Henderson, 69, author
  • 1 May – René Rivkin, 60, Australian stockbroker
  • 25 May – Graham Kennedy, 71, radio and television, performer
  • 9 June – Gloria Ida Logan, 78, artist and lecturer
  • 16 June – Ross Stretton, ballet dancer and director
  • 25 June – Harry Gibbs, Chief Justice of the High Court
  • 3 July – W. Rubuntja, Aboriginal artist and activist
  • 15 July – Ronald Wilson, Justice of the High Court
  • 17 July – Joe Vialls, conspiracy theorist
  • 18 July – Amy Gillett, cyclist
  • 29 August – Margaret Scott, 70, author and poet
  • 8 September – Donald Horne, academic and social critic
  • 9 September – John Wayne Glover, serial killer
  • 12 October – Frank Galbally, 82, lawyer, criminal advocate, defender in celebrated murder trials; described as the "father of Australian multiculturalism".
  • 18 October – William Evan Allan, World War I veteran
  • 24 October – Frank Wilson, actor
  • 1 November – Michael Thwaites, intelligence officer and participant in the Petrov Affair
  • 5 November – Hugh Alexander Dunn, diplomat
  • 10 November – Kristian Fredrikson, stage and costume designer
  • 2 December – Peter Menegazzo, cattle baron
  • 3 December – Peter Cook, Labor senator
  • 3 December – Lance Dossor, concert pianist
  • 5 December – Kevin "Big Kev" McQuay, entrepreneur
  • 12 December – Eric D'Arcy, Roman Catholic archbishop emeritus
  • 26 December – Kerry Packer, Australia's richest man & the major shareholder in PBL, which owns the Nine Network, Crown Casino & a large number of magazines.

Read more about this topic:  2005 In Australia

Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
    they waste their deaths on us.”
    —C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)

    “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)

    “I sang of death but had I known
    The many deaths one must have died
    Before he came to meet his own!”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)