Somers, television personality 30 August – Danny Clark, track cyclist and road bicycle racer Brad Hazzard, politician 9 September – Alexander Downer, politician 27 September – Geoff Gallop, Premier of Western Australia 9 October – Rod Galt, Australian rules footballer (died 2019) 14 November – Shelley Hancock, politician 1 December – Doug Mulray, radio personality 18 December – Andy Thomas, astronaut 22 December – Jan Stephenson, professional golfer Deaths 29 January – Frank Tarrant, cricketer (b. 1880) 18 April – Daisy Bates, journalist and anthropologist (born in Ireland) (b. 1859) 27 May – Sir Thomas Blamey, field marshal (b. 1884) 11 June – William Higgs, Queensland politician (b. 1862) 13 June – Ben Chifley, 16th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885) 17 June - Vin Coutie, footballer (b. 1881) 3 July – Sydney Jephcott, poet (b. 1864) 4 October – Bartlett Adamson, journalist, poet, author and political activist (b. 1884) 10 December – Ernest Edwin Mitchell, composer (b. 1865) See also List of Australian films of the 1950s References Australia Years of the 20th century in Australia