2006 in Australia - Deaths

Deaths

  • 1 January – Dawn Lake, 78, entertainer and widow of Bobby Limb
  • 3 January – Steve Rogers, 51, Cronulla rugby league great
  • 5 January – Sophie Heathcote, 33, actress
  • 9 January – Andy Caldecott, 41, motorcyclist
  • 31 January – Owen Abrahams, 72, Australian rules footballer
  • 9 March – Harry Seidler, 82, architect
  • 28 March – Pro Hart, 77, artist (born 1928)
  • 24 April – Jimmy Sharman jnr, 94, boxing troupe impresario
  • 6 May – Grant McLennan, 48, musician
  • 7 May – Richard Carleton, 62, journalist
  • 18 August - Ken Kearney, 82, rugby league footballer and coach
  • 28 August – Don Chipp, 81, politician
  • 4 September – Steve Irwin ("The Crocodile Hunter"), 44, environmentalist & documentarian
  • 4 September – Colin Thiele, 85, author
  • 8 September – Peter Brock, 61, motor racing driver
  • 11 September – Nancy Borlase, 92, artist
  • 15 September – Abe Saffron, 86, notorious Sydney nightclub owner and suspected underworld figure
  • 3 October – Peter Norman, 64, athlete
  • 2 November – Wally Foreman, 58, sports commentator
  • 11 November – Belinda Emmett, 32, actress
  • 27 November – Alan "Fluff" Freeman, 79, Australian-born UK radio personality
  • 25 December – Sir Bob Cotton, 91, politician

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