and coach, cricketer 29 September – Vernon McArley, cricketer 3 October – Jack McLean, rugby union and rugby league player 4 October – Lachie Grant, rugby union player 9 October Bob Fenton, politician Ronald Tremain, composer, music academic 11 October – Ed Nichols, alpine skier 15 October Joyce Carpenter, diver Jim McCormick, rugby union player 18 October – Rob Talbot, politician 20 October – Mike Minogue, politician 29 October David Kear, geologist, science administrator Ted Thorne, naval officer November–December 1 November – Peter Mahon, jurist 4 November – Joan Hatcher, cricketer 5 November – Frederick Stanley, cricketer 9 November – Marion Robinson, physiologist and nutritionist 10 November – Brian Ashby, Roman Catholic bishop 11 November – Sonja Davies, trade unionist, peace activist, politician 13 November – Austen Gittos, fencer 17 November Dick Scott, historian, journalist Bert Sutcliffe, cricketer 18 November – Neville Pickering, politician 20 November – Robert Harwood, cricketer 22 November – Guy Doleman, actor 28 November – Eric Heath, cartoonist 2 December – Andy Keyworth, master mariner 6 December – Karl Sim, art forger 13 December – Richard Campion, theatre director 14 December – Bob Quickenden, association footballer 17 December – John Darwin, statistician 20 December – Arthur Mills, cricketer 24 December – Bert Cook, rugby union and rugby league player Deaths January–March 9 January – Katherine Mansfield, writer (born 1888) 14 January – Frederick Radcliffe, photographer (born 1863) 28 January – Alfred Holdship, cricketer (born 1867) 6 February – William Thomas Jennings, politician (born 1854) 22 February – Sir William Herries, politician (born 1859) 17 March – Daniel Cooper, convicted baby farmer and illegal abortionist (born 1881) 25 March – John Patterson, politician, businessman (born 1855) 26 March – William Wescombe Corpe, sawmiller, dairy manufacturer (born 1836) April–June 3 April Charles H. Mills, politician (born 1843) Arthur Seymour, politician (born 1832) 4 April – Charles Curtis, storekeeper, local-body politician (born 1850) 12 April William Collins, politician (born 1853) Randell McDonnell, cricketer (born 1843) 27 April – Gordon Millington, cricketer (born 1848) 7 May – Walter Dinnie, police commissioner (born 1850) 9 May – John Fuller, singer and theatrical company manager (born 1850) 21 May – Leopold Prime, cricketer (born 1884) July–September 8 July – Henry Lawson, cricketer (born 1862) 16 July – Sir William Fraser, politician (born 1840) 27 July – William Dawson, brewer, politician (born 1852) 3 August – Frederick Fulton, cricketer (born 1859) 8 September