Bruce Doull, Australian Rules football player 27 September – John Marsden, writer 14 October – Kate Grenville, novelist 30 October – Tim Sheens, rugby league footballer and coach 2 November – Graeme Murphy, choreographer 7 November – John Lang, rugby league footballer and coach 25 November – Alexis Wright, writer 1 December – Ross Hannaford, guitarist (Daddy Cool) (died 2016) 10 December – Robert Cusack, swimmer 12 December Louis Nowra, writer and playwright Judy Wajcman, sociologist 18 December – Gillian Armstrong, film director 22 December – Nick Enright, playwright, director (died 2003) Deaths 2 January James Dooley, 21st Premier of New South Wales (born in Ireland) (b. 1877) Beaumont Smith, film director and producer (b. 1885) 20 January – Ray Duggan, speedway racer (b. 1913) 25 January – Chummy Fleming, trade unionist (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1863) 9 February – Ted Theodore, 20th Premier of Queensland (b. 1884) 23 February – Henry Willis, New South Wales politician (b. 1860) 19 March – Harry Wright, Australian rules footballer (Essendon) (b. 1870) 14 April – Sir Albert Dunstan, 33rd Premier of Victoria (b. 1882) 6 May – Lancelot De Mole, engineer and inventor (b. 1880) 15 May – Jack Hickey, Olympic rugby union and league player (b. 1887) 11 June – Ernest Henshaw, Western Australian politician (b. 1870) 20 June – Claude Jennings, cricketer (b. 1884) 14 July – Bill Howell, cricketer (b. 1869) 31 July – George Wise, Victorian politician and solicitor (b. 1853) 6 August – Edwin Corboy, Western Australian politician (b. 1896) 8 August – Sir Fergus McMaster, businessman and aviation pioneer (b. 1879) 3 September – Michael Durack, Western Australian politician and pastoralist (b. 1865) 22 September – Edward Fowell Martin, public servant and soldier (b. 1875) 24 September – Dame Mary Cook, 6th Spouse of the Prime Minister of Australia (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1863) 6 November – Frank Brennan, Victorian politician (b. 1873) 20 November – Erle Cox, journalist and science fiction author (b. 1873) 2 December – James Fenton, Victorian politician (b. 1864) 29 December – Albert Lane, New South Wales politician (b. 1873) See also List of Australian films of the 1950s External links 1950s Australia Australia Years of the 20th century in Australia