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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
Date of death Age at death Cause Frederick Thomas Sargood Free Trade: Victoria: 2 January 1903 [1] 68 William Russell Labor: South Australia: 28 June 1912 69 Heart disease [2] Gregor McGregor Labor South Australia 13 August 1914 65 Heart disease [3] Robert Guthrie Nationalist: South Australia 20 January 1921 63 Struck by a tram [4] John Adamson ...
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 ...
Sir Robert Menzies (1894–1978), 12th Prime Minister of Australia; Billy Midwinter (1851–1890), Test cricketer for both England and Australia; Sir Norman Mighell (1894–1955), Anzac and Diplomat; Robert Clark Morgan (1798 – 1864), Captain of the ship that brought the first settlers to South Australia. Sam Morris (1855–1931), Test cricketer
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]
Nineteen white settlers were killed, one of the largest massacres of whites by Aborigines in Australian history. [5] 15 June 1862 – Eugowra gold escort robbery – Frank Gardiner's gang, including Ben Hall, stole 2700 ounces of gold worth more than 14,000 pounds.
Bombing of a boarding house containing 30 people in Boulder, Western Australia by 45-year-old Pero Raecivich. [10] Glen Innes shooting 2 July 1948 Glen Innes, New South Wales: 6 0 Frederick Charles Hall, a 48-year-old labourer shot his six children to death He was sentenced to death, [11] later commuted to life imprisonment.
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 ...