Obituary: Sir Lloyd Geering, dead at age 108
Sir Lloyd Geering, the New Zealand theologian who faced charges of heresy, died November 5, 2026, aged 108. Born in Rangiora on February 26, 1918, he was brought up in…
Famous Dead People from Australia
Over 2,000 obituaries for famous people from Australia who died. Additional info, news, and memorial pages.
Obituary: Alan Jones, dead at age 80
Alan Jones, the Australian racing driver and Formula One world champion, died November 5, 2026, aged 80. Born Alan Stanley Jones in Melbourne on November 2, 1946, he attended Xavier…
Paul Langmack passes away at age 61
Paul Langmack, an Australian rugby league player and coach, died of a heart attack on November 5, 2026, aged 61. Born in Sydney on May 10, 1965, he attended Patrician…
Barry Rushworth died at age 85
Barry Rushworth, an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played as a centre for Parramatta and represented Australia and New South Wales, died October 29, 2026, aged 85. Born in…
Keith Boardman passed away at age 100
Norman Keith Boardman, the Australian biochemist known as Keith Boardman, died October 26, 2026, aged 100. Born in Geelong, Victoria, on August 16, 1926, Boardman contributed to understanding photosynthesis and…
Terence Shaw has died at age 89
Terence Shaw, a New Zealand cricketer and rugby union player, died October 24, 2026, aged 89. Born in Paeroa on May 4, 1937, he made 33 first-class appearances for Northern…
Death of Daniel Stewart at age 37
Daniel Stewart, an Australian rules footballer who played for Port Adelaide in the Australian Football League (AFL), died on October 23, 2026, aged 37. Born on October 30, 1988, he…
Peter Horton passed away at age 81
Peter Alan Horton, an Australian rugby union international and sport historian, died October 22, 2026, aged 81. Born in Brixton, London, on July 20, 1945, and raised in England, he…
Donald Wood-Smith died at age 95
Donald Wood-Smith, an Australian-American plastic surgeon and professor of clinical surgery at Columbia University, died October 22, 2026, aged 95. Born Donald Smith in Sydney, Australia, he attended Newington College…
Gordon Cheng, died aged 64
Gordon Cheng, an Australian Christian writer and journalist, died October 20, 2026, aged 64. He studied at the University of Sydney and the Australian University of Theology. Of Swedish and…
Frank Goode has died at age 86
Frank Goode, an Australian rules footballer and coach, died October 19, 2026, aged 86. Born on December 19, 1939, he played for North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League during…
Ken Ward death at age 91
Ken Ward, an Australian rules footballer who played for Richmond, died October 18, 2026, aged 91. Born on September 30, 1935, Ward played for the club in the Victorian Football…
Alan Cribb passes away at age 101
Alan Cribb, an Australian botanist and phycologist, died on October 17, 2026, aged 101. Born in Ipswich, Queensland, he grew up around Longreach, where his father, a grazier, encouraged his…
Gary Waddell died at age 74
Australian actor Gary Waddell died on October 12, 2026, aged 74. Born in Carlton, Victoria, on August 7, 1952, he was a film and television performer whose career began in…
Peter Thomas passed away at age 53
Peter Thomas, an Australian political theorist and professor, died of a heart attack on October 11, 2026, aged 53. A Marxist scholar whose work focused on Antonio Gramsci, he was…
Ray Kolle dead at age 85
Ray Kolle, an Australian screenwriter whose television credits included Neighbours, Home and Away and Prisoner, died October 11, 2026, aged 85. Born on July 1, 1941, he became best known…
Obituary: Robert Williamson, dead at age 88
Robert Williamson, the British-Australian geneticist and molecular biologist, died on October 10, 2026, aged 88. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Scottish parents, he moved to Britain at 16 when his…
Trevor Ryan dies at 72
Trevor Ryan, an Australian rugby league footballer, died of lung cancer on October 10, 2026, aged 72. Born in Bellingen, New South Wales, on May 4, 1954, he grew up…
Ray Nilsson passes away at age 87
Ray Nilsson, an Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne and South Melbourne, died October 9, 2026, aged 87. Born on November 26, 1938, he played in the VFL during…
Colin Mackerras dies at age 87
Colin Patrick Mackerras, the Australian sinologist, died October 8, 2026, aged 87. Born in Sydney on August 26, 1939, he became a specialist in Chinese culture whose work ranged across…
Chris Welsh obituary: died at age 71
Chris Welsh, the Australian rock drummer associated with Died Pretty and the Screaming Tribesmen, died of cancer on October 8, 2026, aged 71. His listed periods of activity ran from…
Geoffrey Chard obituary: died at age 96
Geoffrey Chard, an Australian opera baritone, died October 8, 2026, aged 96. Tags Musicians, 08 October 2026, Australia, Chard, Geoffrey, Leo, October 2026, October 8
Death of Stephen Jones at age 75
Stephen Jones, the Australian musician, video artist and writer, died on October 8, 2026, aged 75, from injuries sustained in an attack. Born in Sydney as Stephen Raoul Jones, he…
Obituary: Tony Fox, dead at age 93
Tony Fox, an Australian rugby union player who represented the national team, died October 8, 2026, aged 93. Born in Kogarah, New South Wales, Fox played as a wing and…
Chris Welsh dead, Chris Welsh, Australian rock drummer
Chris Welsh, Australian rock drummer with Died Pretty, died October 8, 2026. Died Pretty, sometimes known as The Died Pretty, was an Australian alternative rock band formed in Sydney in…
Obituary: Con Purser, dead at age 95
Con Purser, an Australian association football player who represented his country and captained North Perth, died October 6, 2026, aged 95. Born Conrad Purser in Collie on August 2, 1931,…
Richard Morecroft dies at 70
Richard Morecroft, Australian radio announcer, ABC News newsreader and television presenter, died of cancer on October 6, 2026, aged 70. Born in Market Harborough, England, he moved with his family…
Neil Andrew dies at age 82
Neil Andrew, an Australian politician and horticulturalist who served as Speaker of the House of Representatives, died October 6, 2026, aged 82. Known formally as John Neil Andrew, he was…
Murray De Laine passes away at age 90
Murray Royce De Laine, an Australian politician who represented Price in the South Australian House of Assembly, died on October 5, 2026, aged 90. Before entering parliament, he worked for…
Colin Wilson passes away at age 54
Colin Wilson, the Australian heavyweight boxer known as “Kid Coalminer,” died on October 5, 2026, aged 54. Born in Palmerston North, New Zealand, on April 18, 1972, Wilson made his…
Death of Sir William Heseltine at age 96
Sir William Heseltine, the Australian civil servant who served as private secretary to Queen Elizabeth II from 1986 to 1990, died on October 2, 2026, aged 96. Born William Frederick…
Death of Sir William Heseltine at age 96
Sir William Heseltine, the Australian civil servant who served as Private Secretary to the Sovereign from 1986 to 1990, died on October 2, 2026, aged 96. Born Sir William Frederick…
Death of Bruce Baird at age 84
Bruce Baird, the Australian politician and trade commissioner, died on October 2, 2026, aged 84. Born Bruce George Baird in Sydney on February 28, 1942, he served in the New…
Hilary McPhee, died aged 85
Hilary McPhee, the Australian publisher who co-founded McPhee Gribble with Di Gribble, died on October 1, 2026, aged 85. Also known as Hilary Jane McPhee, she was born in Melbourne…
Don Wing dies at age 88
Don Wing, the Australian politician who served in the Tasmanian Legislative Council and as mayor of Launceston, died on October 1, 2026, aged 88. Born in Ulverstone on April 27,…
Obituary: John E. Hoiles, dead at age 88
John E. Hoiles, an Australian rules footballer who played for Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL), died September 29, 2026, aged 88. Born August 11, 1938, he was also…
Stephen Kerley dies at 73
Stephen Kerley, an Australian rules footballer best known for his time with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League, died on September 29, 2026, aged 73. Born on January 25, 1953,…
Pat Clohessy passes away at age 93
Pat Clohessy, the Australian long-distance runner and coach, died on September 28, 2026, aged 93. Also known as Patrick Andrew Clohessy and Patrick Clohessy, he was an Australian runner and…
Peter Barrett dead at age 86
Peter Barrett, the New Zealand geologist known for the discovery of the first tetrapod fossils in Antarctica, died on September 26, 2026, aged 86. Born in Hamilton on August 11,…
Philippa Baker dead at age 93
Philippa Baker, an Australian actress best known for her work in radio, theatre and television, died on September 26, 2026, aged 93. Born in Sydney in 1931, she began her…
Bert Johnson, died aged 87
Bert Johnson, an Australian rules footballer who played for West Adelaide and North Melbourne, died September 24, 2026, aged 87. Born Bertram Harold “Bert” Johnson on June 8, 1939, he…
Maureen Jones passes away at age 99
Maureen Jones, the Australian classical pianist, died on September 23, 2026, aged 99. Born in Sydney on June 6, 1927, she was invited in primary school to study at the…
Don McKenzie dead at age 87
Don McKenzie, the Australian rules footballer who played 266 senior games for Essendon, died on September 23, 2026, aged 87. Born on March 23, 1939, he made his league debut…
Terry Denton death at age 76
Terry Denton, the Australian author and illustrator best known for his work on the Treehouse books, died on September 21, 2026, aged 76. He wrote and illustrated more than 30…
Angry Anderson passed away at age 79
Angry Anderson, the Australian singer-songwriter and television personality best known as the lead vocalist of Rose Tattoo, died on September 21, 2026, aged 79. Born Gary Stephen Anderson in Melbourne,…
Shirley Banfield passes away at age 88
Shirley Banfield, an Australian cricketer, died on September 20, 2026, aged 88. Banfield, whose full name was Shirley Adele Banfield, played as a left-handed batter and made one Test appearance…
Tim Read dies at age 64
Tim Read, an Australian politician and former general practitioner and medical researcher, died on September 19, 2026, aged 64. He represented the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Brunswick from November…
Glen Middlemiss died at age 70
Glen Middlemiss, the Australian footballer who played for Geelong and St Kilda in the Victorian Football League, died on September 17, 2026, aged 70. Known in full as Glen Russell…
William Gummow obituary: died at age 83
William Gummow, the Australian jurist who served as a justice of the High Court of Australia from 1995 to 2012, died on September 17, 2026, aged 83. Born William Montague…
Jack Storey dies at age 97
Jack Storey, an Australian rules footballer who played for Footscray and Port Melbourne and coached Sunshine, died September 15, 2026, aged 97. Born on July 1, 1929, Storey was also…
Obituary: Sheila Kennelly, dead at age 88
Sheila Kennelly, the British-born Australian actress known for roles in Number 96, Kingswood Country and Home and Away, died on September 15, 2026, aged 88. Born in Brighton, England, on…
Ian Miller passed away at age 76
Ian Miller, the Australian footballer who played for Perth, Fitzroy and East Perth, died on September 14, 2026, aged 76. A versatile player, he began his senior career with Perth,…
Mary Gaudron obituary: died at age 83
Mary Gaudron, the Australian judge and former justice of the High Court, died on September 13, 2026, aged 83. Born Mary Genevieve Gaudron in Moree, New South Wales, she became…
Obituary: Peter Thompson, dead at age 73
Peter Thompson, an Australian broadcast journalist and educator, died on September 11, 2026, aged 73. Born in Sydney in 1952, he built a career in Australian broadcasting and later worked…
W. J. Frecklington dies at age 76
W. J. Frecklington, the Australian carriage maker known as William James Frecklington and Jim Frecklington, died on September 11, 2026, aged 76. Born in Parkes, New South Wales, in about…
Death of Penny Gillies at age 75
Penny Gillies, the Australian Olympic hurdler known on the track as Penelope Elizabeth Gillies, died on September 10, 2026, aged 75. She competed in the 100 metres hurdles at both…
Death of Blanche d’Alpuget at age 82
Blanche d'Alpuget, the Australian writer and widow of former prime minister Bob Hawke, died on September 9, 2026, aged 82, after complications from influenza. Born Josephine Blanche d'Alpuget in Sydney…
Eric Pearce passed away at age 94
Eric Pearce, the Australian field hockey player who won Olympic silver in 1968 and bronze in 1964, died on September 8, 2026, aged 94. Born Eric Robert Pearce in Jabalpur,…
Peter Sincock death at age 78
Peter Damien Sincock, an Australian cricketer, died September 8, 2026, aged 78. Born in Adelaide on July 8, 1948, he played five first-class matches for South Australia during the 1974/75…
Neville Withers obituary: died at age 86
Neville Withers, an Australian footballer who played for Collingwood in the Victorian Football League, died on September 6, 2026, aged 86. Born on December 6, 1940, he was a former…
Bill Dundee dies at age 82
Bill Dundee, the Scottish professional wrestler better known to fans by his ring name, died on September 6, 2026, aged 82. Born William Cruickshanks in Dundee on October 24, 1943,…
Peter Katsambanis death at age 60
Peter Katsambanis, an Australian politician who served in both Victoria and Western Australia, died on September 5, 2026, aged 60. Born in Melbourne on December 24, 1965, as Peter Argyris…
Death of Francis Grosvenor, 8th Earl of Wilton at age 92
Francis Grosvenor, 8th Earl of Wilton, a British-Australian aristocrat and academic, died on September 4, 2026, aged 92. Born Francis Egerton Grosvenor on February 8, 1934, he was the eldest…
Jason Walker passed away at age 56
Jason Walker, the New Zealand-Australian country musician and writer, died on September 4, 2026, aged 56. Born Jason Peter Walker in New Zealand in 1969, he began his career in…
Steve Gollschewski dies at age 67
Steve Gollschewski, an Australian police officer who served as commissioner of the Queensland Police Service from 2024 to 2026, died on September 4, 2026, aged 67. He led the principal…
Peter Freebody obituary: died at age 76
Peter Freebody, an Australian literary educator and researcher, died on August 30, 2026, aged 76. Born in Sydney on August 12, 1950, he built a career in literacy education and…
Obituary: Tony Mundine, dead at age 75
Tony Mundine, the Australian boxer also known as Anthony William Mundine, died on August 30, 2026, aged 75. Born in Baryulgil, New South Wales, on June 10, 1951, he was…
Ian Martin, died aged 75
Ian Martin, the Australian rugby league footballer who was a multi-premiership winner with the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles, died on August 29, 2026, aged 75. Born on July 1, 1951, Martin…
Tina Dalton dead
Tina Dalton, the Australian filmmaker and television presenter who helped launch the Nine Network travel program Getaway in 1992, died on August 24, 2026. Known professionally as Bettina “Tina” Dalton,…
Stanley Ritchie death at age 91
Stanley Ritchie, an Australian violinist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Violin at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, died on August 23, 2026, aged 91. A specialist in historical…
Marion Blackwell dies at 98
Marion Blackwell, an Australian landscape architect and ecologist, died on August 22, 2026, aged 98. Born Marion Isabel Blackwell on April 3, 1928, in Manilla, New South Wales, she grew…
Max Trenorden, died aged 78
Max Trenorden, an Australian politician who served in both houses of the Western Australian Parliament, died on August 22, 2026, aged 78. Born Maxwell Wayne Trenorden on August 1, 1948,…
Steve Edmonds died at age 72
Steve Edmonds, the Australian rugby league player known as “Rock,” died on August 21, 2026, aged 72. Born in Sydney on March 4, 1954, he played in the 1970s and…
Death of Merrelyn Emery at age 86
Merrelyn Emery, an Australian social scientist known for her work on open systems theory, died on August 20, 2026, aged 86. Her research helped develop open systems theory as a…
Billy Smith passed away at age 84
Billy Smith, the Australian rugby league player who starred for St. George and represented New South Wales and Australia, died on August 20, 2026, aged 84. Born in Fremantle on…
Bob Ives died at age 87
Bob Ives, an American politician, died on August 20, 2026, aged 87. Also known as Robert Stuart Ives, he was born on December 16, 1938, and was educated at the…
Wallace Kirsop obituary: died at age 92
Wallace Kirsop, an academic and bibliographer, died on August 14, 2026, aged 92. An Australian scholar in French studies and book trade history, he was born in Chatswood, New South…
Death of Johnny Young at age 79
Johnny Young, the Dutch-born Australian singer, songwriter and producer known for his work on Young Talent Time, died on August 14, 2026, aged 79. Born Johnny Benjamin Arthur de Jong…
Brian Smith has died at age 59
Brian Smith, the Australian rugby union and league player who represented both Australia and Ireland in rugby union, died on August 12, 2026, aged 59. Smith, whose full name was…
Death of Russell Jack at age 91
Russell Jack, the Australian museum founder credited with founding the Golden Dragon Museum, died on August 10, 2026, aged 91. Also known as Russell Goldfield Jack and by the Chinese…
Tania Verstak passed away at age 85
Tania Verstak, the Australian model and beauty queen who won Miss International 1962, died on August 10, 2026, aged 85. Born in Tianjin, China, she became the first migrant to…
Jim Miller, died aged 107
Jim Miller, the Australian footballer known formally as James Henry Miller, died on August 7, 2026, aged 107. Born in Footscray, Victoria, on May 30, 1919, he went on to…
Bill Armstrong dies at 97
Bill Armstrong, an Australian music producer and Member of the Order of Australia, died on August 7, 2026, aged 97. Born in 1929, he grew up in Melbourne and began…
Matthew Jukes dies at age 58
Matthew Jukes, a British wine writer, died on August 6, 2026, aged 58. Based in the United Kingdom, he was known for publishing annual wine reports including the 100 Best…
Eugene Stockton has died at age 91
Eugene Stockton, an Australian priest, died on August 5, 2026, aged 91. He was also an archaeologist, scholar, Aboriginal chaplain, teacher and educator who spent many years in the Blue…
Vivienne Binns dead at age 85
Vivienne Binns, the Australian artist who played a significant role in the Women’s Art Movement in Australia and in feminist and community arts practice, died on August 1, 2026, aged…
Kath Pettingill passed away at age 91
Kath Pettingill, the former brothel owner and matriarch of the Melbourne criminal Pettingill family, died on August 1, 2026, aged 91. Born Kathleen Pettingill on March 27, 1935, she was…
Glenn A. Baker died at age 74
Glenn A. Baker, the Australian journalist, author and broadcaster, died on July 31, 2026, aged 74. A leading voice on rock music, he wrote books and magazine articles on music…
Gordon Green dies at age 101
Gordon Green, the Australian footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League, died on July 29, 2026, aged 101. Green, also known as Gordon Stanley Green, was…
Don McDeed obituary: died at age 95
Don McDeed, an Australian rugby player, died on July 29, 2026, aged 95. A former international rugby union hooker, he was born in Hastings, Victoria, and educated at Sydney’s St…
Roger Beilby dead, Roger Beilby, Australian radio presenter
Roger Beilby, the Australian radio presenter and jazz collector, died on July 28, 2026. Known for his work on 3CR Melbourne, he developed an interest in jazz in 1963 after…
Ted Craig died at age 86
Ted Craig, an Australian-born British theatre director, died on July 27, 2026, aged 86. Born in Melbourne on April 20, 1940, he was educated there before moving into Australian television,…
Isabel McBryde passes away at age 92
Isabel McBryde, the Australian archaeologist who helped shape the study of Aboriginal archaeology in Australia, died on July 26, 2026, aged 92. Born in Fremantle on July 16, 1934, she…
Obituary: Rosemary Crumlin, dead at age 93
Rosemary Crumlin, an Australian art historian and educator, died on July 25, 2026, aged 93. Born Rosemary Anne Crumlin in Sydney, she was a Sister of Mercy, art historian, educator…
Reg Chard dies at 102
Reginald James Chard, an Australian soldier, died on July 24, 2026, aged 102. Better known as Reg Chard, he served in the Kokoda Track campaign in New Guinea during World…
Joseph Santamaria obituary: died at age 78
Joseph Santamaria, an Australian judge and lawyer, died on July 23, 2026, aged 78. Born in Melbourne on July 14, 1948, Joseph Gerard Santamaria KC served as a judge of…
Obituary: Greg Sewell, dead at age 93
Greg Sewell, the Australian rules footballer who served Essendon as an assistant coach and president, died on July 22, 2026, aged 93. Gregory George Sewell was born on June 30,…
Scott Dureau dies at 39
Scott Dureau, an Australian rugby league player who represented the Newcastle Knights and Catalans Dragons, died on July 20, 2026, aged 39. Born in Taree, New South Wales, on July…
John Chittick dead at age 88
John Chittick, the Australian Olympic hurdler who represented his country at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Games, died on July 18, 2026. Born in Warrnambool, Victoria, on October 29, 1937,…