2013), rugby league footballer and coach 15 April – David Martin (died 1990), Governor of New South Wales (1989–1990) 27 May – Michael Crouch (died 2018), investor, water boiler manufacturer 13 July – Kel O'Shea (died 2015), rugby league footballer 25 July – Owen Abrahams (died 2006), Australian rules footballer 27 July – Ted Whitten (died 1995), Australian rules footballer 19 August – Patricia Kailis (died 2020), businesswoman, neurologist and geneticist 30 August – Keith Payne, soldier 15 September – Monica Maughan (died 2010), actress 3 October – Neale Fraser, tennis player 5 October – Diane Cilento (died 2011), actress 11 October – Gary O'Callaghan (died 2017), radio personality 1 December – James Wolfensohn (died 2020), President of the World Bank 5 December – Harry Holgate (died 1997), Premier of Tasmania (1991–1992) 20 December – Ted Mack (died 2018), politician 26 December – Ugly Dave Gray, television personality Deaths 7 January – Bert Hinkler, aviation pioneer (died in Italy) (b. 1892) 9 January – Daphne Akhurst, tennis player (b. 1903) 10 January – Richard Buzacott, Western Australian politician (b. 1867) 17 January – John Hodges, cricketer (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1855) 5 February – Josiah Thomas, New South Wales politician (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1863) 16 February – Archie Jackson, cricketer (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1909) 21 March – James Edmond, journalist (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1859) 15 April – Alfred Stephens, writer and literary critic (b. 1865) 20 April – Sir William Rooke Creswell, 1st Naval Officer Commanding the Commonwealth Naval Forces (born in Gibraltar) (b. 1852) 30 April – Robert Hamilton Russell, surgeon (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1860) 4 June – Herbert Basedow, South Australian politician, anthropologist, geologist and explorer (b. 1881) 22 June – Harold Desbrowe-Annear, architect (b. 1865) 20 July – William Lowrie, agricultural educationist (b. 1857) 26 July – Sir Joseph Verco, physician and conchologist (b. 1851) 10 August – Alf Morgans, 4th Premier of Western Australia (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1850) 7 October – Sir Alexander Peacock, 20th Premier of Victoria (b. 1861) 15 November – Affie Jarvis, cricketer (b. 1860) 19 November – Hugo Throssell, soldier and Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1884) See also List of Australian films of the 1930s References Australia Years of the 20th century in Australia