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This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in February 2025 ) and then linked below. 2025
According to the historians at the Australian War Memorial, [2] it is generally accepted that the total number of Australian casualties, killed and wounded at Anzac Cove, on 25 April 1915 is something of the order of 2,000 men; and, although no-one can be certain of the precise number, it is generally accepted that something like 650 Australian ...
Sentence increased to the death penalty on 6 September 2006. Sentence reduced to life imprisonment in March 2008. [19] Scott Rush: Chelmer, Queensland: Drug trafficking (heroin) 17 April 2005: 15 December 2024: Sentenced to life imprisonment on 13 February 2006. [17] Sentence increased to the death penalty on 6 September 2006.
Disaster Location Deaths Date Notes Shipwreck: Christmas Island: 48: 2010 Dec 15: 2010 Christmas Island boat disaster: Cyclone/Flood: Cairns and Cardwell, Queensland: 47: 1927 Feb 9: This tropical cyclone crossed the coast north of Cairns, which weakened into a rain depression, causing extensive flooding, resulting in a total 47 deaths throughout parts of Northern Queensland [102]
Throughout this period, settlers attacked and displaced Indigenous Australians, resulting in significant numbers of Indigenous deaths. These attacks are considered to be a direct and indirect (through displacement and hunger) cause of the decline of the Indigenous population, during an ongoing colonising process of mass immigration and land ...
Over 27,000 Australians were killed and 23,000 wounded in action during World War II. In addition, hundreds more servicemen and women were killed and injured in accidents during the war. An Australian soldier, Private George "Dick" Whittington, is aided by Papuan orderly Raphael Oimbari, near Buna on 25 December 1942.
This is a list of massacres and mass murders that have occurred in Australia and its predecessor colonies (some historical numbers may be approximate). Many of the massacres not listed here may instead be found in the list of massacres of Indigenous Australians. There is no uniform, global standard for what constitutes a mass murder.
Yagan (c.1795 - 1833) a Western Australian Indigenous leader of the 1830s; Yarramundi (c.1760 - c.1819) a prominent Dharug man, also a karadji; Yarri (c.1810 - 1880) a famous flood rescuer from Gundagai; Yemmerrawanne (c. 1775 - 1794) a Dharug man who, along with Bennelong, was the first Aboriginal person to travel to England.