2007 in Australia - Deaths

Deaths

  • 1 January – Leonard Fraser, 55, serial killer
  • 2 January – A. Richard Newton, 55, electrical engineer and academic
  • 4 January – Ben Gannon, 54, film producer
  • 4 January – Ken Lorraway, 50, triple jumper
  • 12 January – Sir James Killen, 81, Liberal politician
  • 24 January – Harry Melbourne, 94, confectioner (inventor of Freddo Frog)
  • 27 January – Trevor Allan, 30, rugby union player and commentator
  • 9 February – Andrew McAuley, 39, kayak adventurer
  • 13 February – Elizabeth Jolley, 83, author
  • 28 February – Billy Thorpe, 60, musician
  • 7 March – Morgan Mellish, 36, journalist
  • 9 March – Ron Evans, 67, footballer and chairman of the AFL
  • 11 March – Angela Webber, 52, comedian and writer
  • 23 March – Damian McDonald, 34, Olympic cyclist
  • 30 March – Basil Catterns, 90, WWII soldier
  • 1 April – John Billings, 89, medical doctor
  • 2 April – Jeannie Ferris, 66, Liberal senator
  • 10 April – Kevin Crease, 70, South Australian newsreader
  • 13 April – Joe Lane, 80, bebop jazz vocalist
  • 15 April – Justine Saunders, 54, actress
  • 17 April – Len Fitzgerald, 76, VFL/SANFL footballer
  • 17 April – Bruce Haslingden, 84, Olympic cross-country skier
  • 20 April – Audrey Fagan, 44, Chief Police Officer of the ACT
  • 21 April – Lobby Loyde, 64, musician
  • 13 May – Kate Webb, 64, war journalist
  • 14 May – Aaron McMillan, 30, classical pianist
  • 16 May – Allan Hird, Sr., 88, VFL footballer
  • 20 May – Norman Von Nida, 93, golfer
  • 21 May – Peter Hayes, 54, lawyer
  • 24 May – Bill Johnston, 85, cricketer
  • 27 May – Ron Archer, 73, Test cricketer
  • 29 May – Norman Kaye, 80, actor
  • 4 June – Tom Burns, 75, ALP politician
  • 8 June – Lynne Randell, 57, 1960s pop singer
  • 10 June – George Burarrwanga, 50, lead singer of the Warumpi Band
  • 12 June – Frank Scarrabelotti, 109, Australia's oldest man
  • 6 July – Eileen Wearne, 95, sprinter and Australia's oldest Olympic athlete
  • 9 July – General John Baker, 71, former Chief of the Australian Defence Force (1995–1998)
  • 11 July – Richard Franklin, 58, film director
  • 11 July – Glenda Adams, 68, writer
  • 12 July – Stan Zemanek, 60, radio broadcaster
  • 16 July – Tom Brooks, 88, NSW cricketer and international umpire
  • 22 July – Walter Jona, 81, Victorian politician
  • 27 July – Leo "Lucky" Grills, 79, comedian and actor
  • 7 August – Wolfgang Sievers, 93, photographer
  • 12 August – Ronald N. Bracewell, 86, physicist and radio astronomer
  • 17 August – Tanja Liedtke, 30, dancer
  • 8 September – Vincent Serventy, 91, writer and conservationist
  • 13 September – Neville Jeffress, 87, advertising executive and founder of Media Monitors Australia
  • 13 September – Clare Oliver, 26, cancer activist
  • 18 September – Len Thompson, 60, Collingwood VFL player
  • 20 September – Myra Nicholson, 112, Australia's oldest person
  • 21 September – Bob Collins, 61, former ALP senator
  • 29 September – Lois Maxwell, 80, Canadian actress who played Miss Moneypenny in the early James Bond films, spent later years of her life in Perth.
  • 1 October – Chris Mainwaring, 41, West Coast Eagles AFL player
  • 12 October – Kim Edward Beazley, 90, ALP politician and father of Kim Beazley
  • 23 October – John Ilhan, 42, founder of Crazy John's mobile phones
  • 27 October – Charles Batt, 86, Tasmanian politician
  • 2 November – Charmaine Dragun, 29, Network Ten WA newsreader
  • 3 November – Peter Andren, 61, Independent MP for Calare
  • 6 November – George Grljusich, 68, sports announcer and commentator
  • 25 November – Matt Price, 46, journalist and newspaper columnist
  • 27 November – Bernie Banton, 61, asbestos campaigner
  • 1 December – Ken McGregor, 78, tennis champion
  • 5 December – John Winter, 83, Olympic high jumper
  • 10 December – Gordon Samuels, 84, Governor of New South Wales (1996–2001)
  • 15 December – Clem Jones, 89, Lord Mayor of Brisbane (1961–1975)
  • 20 December – Robbie Williams, 45, first Indigenous Australian to sit on the Brisbane City Council
  • 21 December – Ken Lee, 75, founder of Bing Lee electronics superstores
  • 22 December – Charles Court, 96, Premier of Western Australia (1974–1982)

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