Manning Clark (died 1991), historian 6 March – Mary Ward (died 2021), actress 22 March – Charlotte Anderson (died 2002), professor of paediatrics 9 April – Bob Quinn (died 2008), SANFL footballer (Port Adelaide) 30 May – Michael Thwaites (died 2005), poet, academic and intelligence officer 31 May – Judith Wright (died 2000), poet 3 June – Jim McClelland (died 1999), senator and government minister 20 June – Dick Reynolds (died 2002), VFL footballer (Essendon) 16 July – David Campbell (died 1979), poet 3 August – Arthur John Birch (died 1995), organic chemist 26 October – Lindsay Pryor (died 1998), botanist 2 November – May Campbell (died 1981), field hockey player 25 November – Ron Hamence (died 2010), cricketer 29 November – Bob Cotton (died 2006), senator and government minister 31 December – John Murray (died 2009), politician Deaths 11 January – James Wilkinson, Queensland politician (b. 1854) 11 March – Thomas Alexander Browne, author (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1826) 4 April – Sir Francis Bathurst Suttor, New South Wales politician and pastoralist (b. 1839) 19 April – Thomas Playford II, 17th Premier of South Australia (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1837) 25 April - William Henry Strahan, writer and soldier (b. 1869) 2 June – George Randell, Western Australian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1830) 25 June – Frederick Manson Bailey, botanist (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1827) 28 June – Victor Trumper, cricketer (b. 1877) 18 July – George Marshall-Hall, composer and poet (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1862) 2 August – Sir John Downer, 16th Premier of South Australia (b. 1843) 8 October – E. Phillips Fox, impressionist painter (b. 1865) 29 October – Richard Edwards, Queensland politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1915) 20 November – Robert Barr Smith, businessman and philanthropist (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1824) 4 December – George Richards, New South Wales politician (b. 1865) 21 December – Thomas Sergeant Hall, geologist and biologist (b. 1858) References Australia Years of the 20th century in Australia