Terence Donovan death at age 90
Terence Donovan, the British-Australian actor known for roles in Home and Away, Neighbours and Breaker Morant, died on July 18, 2026. Born Terence Patrick Donovan on 28 October 1935 in…
Famous Dead People from Australia
Over 2,000 obituaries for famous people from Australia who died. Additional info, news, and memorial pages.
Graeme Gilbert death at age 76
Graeme Gilbert, the Australian radio presenter and politician, died on July 17, 2026, at the age of 76. Born on April 15, 1950, he became known for presenting the nightly…
Bruce Smith passed away at age 82
Bruce Smith, an Australian rules footballer who played for Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL), died on July 16, 2026, aged 82. Born on June 28, 1944, Smith was…
Don Ross has died at age 92
Don Ross, an Australian rules footballer who represented Footscray in the Victorian Football League, died on July 16, 2026, aged 92. Born on February 20, 1934, Ross came to Footscray…
Max O’Halloran dies at age 74
Max O'Halloran, an Australian rules footballer who played for Footscray and Carlton in the Victorian Football League, died on July 15, 2026. Born on May 20, 1952, O'Halloran began his…
Pat Oliphant dead at age 90
Pat Oliphant, the Australian-born American political cartoonist whose work tracked American and global politics for more than six decades, died on July 13, 2026. Born Patrick Bruce Oliphant in Adelaide…
Death of Barry Dickins at age 76
Barry Dickins, an Australian author, artist, actor, educator and journalist, died on July 13, 2026, aged 76. Born in Reservoir in Melbourne, he became known for historical dramas and for…
John Berne obituary: died at age 72
John Berne, the Australian rugby union and rugby league player who represented Australia in rugby union, died on July 13, 2026. Born John Edward Berne on March 14, 1954, in…
Paul Atkins dies at age 57
Paul Atkins, an Australian rules footballer who played two games for the Sydney Swans in the 1992 AFL season, died on July 11, 2026. Born on December 23, 1968, Atkins…
Derryn Hinch dead at age 82
Derryn Hinch, the New Zealand-born Australian media personality and politician, died on July 10, 2026, aged 82. Born Derryn Nigel Hinch in New Plymouth on February 9, 1944, he built…
Ron Beattie has died at age 72
Ron Beattie, an Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League, died on July 8, 2026, at the age of 72. A defender, he made nine…
Ivan Petch passed away at age 87
Ivan Petch, an Australian politician who served in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, died on July 6, 2026, at the age of 87. Born Ivan John Petch on March…
Nathan Fitzgerald passes away at age 27
Nathan Fitzgerald died on July 6, 2026. He was an Australian footballer. Tags Athletes, 06 July 2026, Australia, Cancer, Fitzgerald, Nathan, July 2026, July 6
Manouchehr Farid death at age 89
Manouchehr Farid died on July 3, 2026. He was an Iranian-Australian actor. Tags Actors, 03 July 2026, Australia, Farid, Iran, Manouchehr, Pisces, July 2026, July 3
Christine Davy, died aged 91
Christine Davy, the first Australian woman to hold a 1st Class Air Transport Pilot's Licence and an alpine skier, died on July 1, 2026. Born in Sydney on August 7,…
Neil McNeill obituary: died at age 94
Neil McNeill, an Australian rules footballer who played for South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League, died on June 29, 2026, aged 94. Born on February 27, 1932, McNeill built…
Obituary: Ron Raper, dead at age 80
Ron Raper, an Australian rugby league player and coach, died on June 29, 2026, aged 80. Also known as Ronald Paul Raper, he was born in Camperdown, New South Wales,…
Les Brennan death at age 95
Les Brennan, an Australian rugby league footballer, died on June 25, 2026, at the age of 95. Born Leslie Albert Brennan in Sydney on January 1, 1931, he played for…
Lex Pritchard passed away at age 72
Lex Pritchard, an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League, died on June 19, 2026, aged 72. Born on June 16, 1954, he was an…
John Ronaldson obituary: died at age 79
John Ronaldson, an Australian rules footballer who played for Richmond in the VFL, died on June 19, 2026, at the age of 79. Born on October 1, 1946, Ronaldson played…
Savabeel has died at age 24
Savabeel, an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse and active sire, died on June 19, 2026, at age 24. Foaled on September 23, 2001, the brown colt was by Zabeel out of Savannah…
Ken McCurrach dead at age 80
Ken McCurrach, an Australian rugby union player, died on June 17, 2026, at the age of 80. Also known as Kenneth George McCurrach, he was born on January 1, 1946.…
Bob Miller has died at age 85
Bob Miller died on June 16, 2026. He was an Australian footballer and politician. Further details about his life and career were not provided in the available information. Tags Athletes,…
John O’Connell, died aged 94
John O'Connell died on June 13, 2026. He was an Australian footballer. Tags Athletes, 13 June 2026, Australia, John, Pisces, June 13, June 2026, O'Connell
Obituary: Roger Cook, dead at age 83
Roger Cook, the New Zealand-born British investigative journalist and television broadcaster known for The Cook Report, died on June 13, 2026, aged 83. Born on April 6, 1943, he was…
Bob Farmer dies at 79
Bob Farmer, the Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood in the Victorian Football League, died on June 12, 2026, aged 79. Born Robert Boyd Farmer on June 2, 1947,…
Richard Scolyer, died aged 59
Richard Scolyer, an Australian pathologist and melanoma researcher, died on June 7, 2026, at age 59. Born in Launceston in 1966, he became a senior staff specialist in tissue pathology…
Michael Tate dies at 80
Michael Tate, the Australian politician, senator and Catholic priest who served in the Senate from 1978 to 1993, died on June 5, 2026, at the age of 80. Born Michael…
Michael Dysart, died aged 92
Michael Dysart, an Australian architect, died on June 4, 2026, at the age of 92. Over a career spanning more than 60 years, he became known for work on landmarks,…
Ken Shine dead at age 78
Ken Shine, an Australian rugby league coach and former rugby player, died on June 4, 2026, aged 78. Born in Newcastle, New South Wales, on November 22, 1947, he went…
Death of Henry Malcolm Whyte at age 105
Henry Malcolm Whyte, an Australian physician, died on June 3, 2026, at the age of 105. He was born in British Raj India in 1920 and later studied at the…
Paul Courto, died aged 68
Paul Courto, an Australian footballer, died on May 31, 2026. Tags Athletes, 31 May 2026, Australia, Courto, Paul, May 2026, May 31
Phil Hay death at age 88
Phil Hay, an Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn in the VFL during the 1960s, died on May 31, 2026, aged 88. Born on February 7, 1938, Hay spent…
Death of Sidney Moko Mead at age 99
Sidney Moko Mead, a New Zealand Māori anthropologist and historian, died on May 29, 2026. He was 99. Born in Wairoa on January 8, 1927, Mead was also known as…
Ted Pierce obituary: died at age 92
Ted Pierce died on May 25, 2026, at the age of 92. He was an Australian Olympic water polo player. His death was announced without further public details. Tags Athletes,…
Neale Daniher has died at age 65
Neale Daniher died on May 25, 2026, from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. He was an Australian footballer. The death was confirmed in the record as relating to that illness.…
Ron Adair died at age 94
Ron Adair died on May 20, 2026. He was an Australian soccer player. Tags Athletes, 20 May 2026, Adair, Australia, Gemini, Ron, May 20, May 2026
Death of Peter Hollingworth at age 91
Peter Hollingworth, the Australian Anglican bishop who served as archbishop of Brisbane from 1989 to 2001 and as governor-general of Australia from 2001 to 2003, died on May 19, 2026,…
Crow passes away at age 64
Crow, the Australian rock band founded in Sydney in 1986 by songwriters Peter Fenton and Peter Archer, died on May 18, 2026. Known for three albums released in the 1990s,…
John Maclean dead at age 80
John Maclean, Australian cricketer who played for Queensland and the national team, died on May 16, 2026, aged 80. Born in Herston, Queensland, on April 27, 1946, John Alexander Maclean…
Death of Alan Morton at age 91
Alan Morton, an Australian rugby union player and leading sport scientist, died on May 15, 2026, aged 91. Born in Queanbeyan, New South Wales, on September 10, 1934, he attended…
Herb Wharton death at age 89
Herb Wharton, an Australian writer, died on May 12, 2026. Herbert Morsley Wharton AM was born in Cunnamulla, Queensland, in 1936 and was an Indigenous Australian former stockman who began…
Mal Anderson passes away at age 91
Mal Anderson, the Australian tennis player, died on May 11, 2026, at the age of 91. Born Malcolm James Anderson in Theodore, Queensland, on March 3, 1935, he was active…
Maxwell Gamble dies at 87
Maxwell Gamble, an Australian Olympic rower, died on May 11, 2026, aged 87. Born in Western Australia on 8 January 1939, he competed in the men's eight event at the…
Anne Cohen has died at age 85
Anne Cohen, an Australian politician, died on May 10, 2026. She was the Liberal member for Minchinbury and later Badgerys Creek in the New South Wales Parliament from 1988 to…
Legh Davis, died aged 85
Legh Davis, Australian politician and former South Australian Legislative Council member, died on May 11, 2026, aged 85. He served in the council from 1979 to 2002 as a member…
Doug Searl passes away at age 79
Doug Searl, an Australian footballer who played for Fitzroy and Collingwood, died on May 10, 2026, aged 79. He began his VFL career with Collingwood in 1966 and played mostly…
Mark Smythe dead, 53 New Zealand-born American composer, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
Mark Smythe died on May 9, 2026, at the age of 53 from atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. He was a New Zealand-born American composer known for Daddy's Little Girl, Unfallen, and…
Val Attenbrow passes away at age 84
Val Attenbrow died on May 5, 2026. She was an Australian archaeologist. Tags Scientists, 05 May 2026, Attenbrow, Australia, Scorpio, Val, May 2026, May 5
Chris Phelan death at age 70
Chris Phelan, the Irish-born Australian rugby league player who represented Parramatta and Queensland, died on May 5, 2026, at the age of 70. Born in Borris-in-Ossory, County Laois, Ireland, on…
Norman Lacy passes away at age 84
Norman Lacy, Australian politician, died on May 2, 2026, aged 84. He was a minister in the Hamer and Thompson cabinets of the Victorian government from May 1979 to April…
Michael Sollis dies at age 40
Michael Sollis, an Australian musician, died on May 1, 2026, aged 40, from bowel cancer. He was also an interdisciplinary artist, artistic director, researcher and teaching artist. Sollis founded and…
Clarke Hansen dies at 84
Clarke Hansen, an Australian radio broadcaster, died on April 30, 2026, aged 84. A sports commentator on ABC radio, he covered Australian rules football, the Olympic Games and tennis over…
Kumanjayi Little Baby dead at age 5
Kumanjayi Little Baby, an Australian Aboriginal child, died on April 30, 2026, aged 5. Known posthumously by that name for cultural reasons, the five-year-old girl had been abducted from one…
Robyn Woodhouse obituary: died at age 82
Robyn Woodhouse, the Australian Olympic high jumper who competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics, died on April 29, 2026. She was 82. Woodhouse was born in New South Wales on…
Geoff Ablett died at age 71
Geoff Ablett, the Australian rules footballer and former Casey City Council member, died on April 29, 2026, aged 71. Born Geoffrey Norman Ablett on March 13, 1955, he played in…
Damien Christensen obituary: died at age 62
Damien Christensen, an Australian footballer who played for Geelong, died on April 28, 2026, aged 62. Christensen played 17 games for the Geelong Football Club in the Victorian Football League.…
Bill Grayden dies at 105
Bill Grayden, an Australian politician who served as a member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1949 to 1954 and as a Western Australian Legislative Assembly member from 1947…
Dame Bridget Ogilvie dead at age 88
Dame Bridget Ogilvie died on April 27, 2026. Tags Scientists, 27 April 2026, Australia, Britain, Dame, Ogilvie, April 2026, April 27
Leigh Crawford obituary: died at age 80
Leigh Crawford, the Australian footballer who played for Geelong, died on April 27, 2026. He was 80. Born on April 19, 1946, Crawford played Australian rules football for Geelong in…
Brian Wilkinson dies at age 88
Brian Wilkinson, the Australian Olympic swimmer who competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics, died on April 27, 2026, aged 88. Born in Muswellbrook, New South Wales, on February 12, 1938,…
Steve Maslow has died at age 81
Steve Maslow, an American sound mixer who won three Academy Awards for Best Sound, died on April 27, 2026, at the age of 81, of cancer. He worked on more…
Peter Morris died at age 93
Peter Morris, the Australian politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives from 1972 to 1998 and as minister of transport from 1983 to 1987, died on…
Annette Macarthur-Onslow passes away at age 93
Annette Macarthur-Onslow died on April 25, 2026. Tags Artists, Writers, 25 April 2026, Annette, Australia, April 2026, April 25, Macarthur-Onslow
Kim Bowers Australian musician, music director and sound artist, breast cancer dies
Kim Bowers, an Australian musician, music director and sound artist associated with Spdfgh, died on April 24, 2026, of breast cancer. Bowers was a founding member of Spdfgh, an Australian…
Obituary: Gordon Ingate, dead at age 100
Gordon Ingate, an Australian Olympic sailor who competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics, died on April 24, 2026, at the age of 100. Born Gordon Wilson Ingate on March 29,…
James Valentine passes away at age 64
James Valentine, an Australian radio and television presenter and musician, died on April 23, 2026, by assisted suicide. He was 64. Born in Ballarat, Victoria, Valentine worked as a saxophonist…
Kay Denman died at age 88
Kay Denman, an Australian politician and schoolteacher, died on April 23, 2026. She served as a Senator for Tasmania from 1993 to 2005, representing the Australian Labor Party. Before entering…
David Malouf has died at age 92
David Malouf, the Australian writer, died on April 22, 2026, at the age of 92. Born in Brisbane on March 20, 1934, he was a novelist, short story writer, poet,…
Obituary: Elisabeth Kirkby, dead at age 105
Elisabeth Kirkby, the Australian actress, politician and radio broadcaster known for Number 96, died on April 20, 2026, aged 105. Born in Bolton, Lancashire, England, in 1921, she began her…
Death of Max Byers at age 86
Max Byers died on April 19, 2026. Tags Athletes, 19 April 2026, Australia, Byers, Max, April 19, April 2026
Estelle Asmodelle obituary: died at age 61
Estelle Asmodelle died on April 18, 2026. No cause of death was stated. Tags Other, 18 April 2026, Asmodelle, Australia, Estelle, April 18, April 2026
Billy Knight died at age 90
Billy Knight, the British tennis player, died on April 17, 2026, aged 90. Born William Arthur Knight in Northampton, England, on 12 November 1935, he competed on the amateur tour…
Obituary: Barry Seton, dead at age 89
Barry Seton, an Australian racing driver, died on April 17, 2026, aged 89. Known as Bo, he won the Bathurst 500 in 1965 with co-driver Midge Bosworth in a Ford…
David Smith obituary: died at age 82
David Smith, an Australian politician and Western Australia MLA from 1983 to 1996, died on April 16, 2026, aged 82. He was a Labor Party member of the Legislative Assembly…
Obituary: Mick Erwin, dead at age 82
Michael "Mick" Erwin, an Australian footballer who played for Richmond and Collingwood, died on April 15, 2026, aged 82. Born in Stawell, Victoria, on June 6, 1943, he played in…
Trish Crossin death at age 70
Trish Crossin, Australian politician and senator for the Northern Territory from 1998 to 2013, died on April 13, 2026, of a heart attack. Born Patricia Margaret Crossin in Melbourne on…
John Dalgleish Donaldson has died at age 84
John Dalgleish Donaldson, a Scottish-Australian mathematician and professor, died on April 12, 2026, at the age of 84. Death was announced on that date. Born on September 5, 1941, in…
Jimmy Sullivan death at age 44
Jimmy Sullivan, an Australian politician and Queensland MLA, died on April 8, 2026, aged 44. James Anthony Sullivan served as the member for Stafford in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from…
John Flanagan passes away at age 81
John Flanagan, the Australian fantasy author best known for the Ranger's Apprentice series, died on April 7, 2026, at the age of 81. Born John Anthony Flanagan in Sydney, Australia,…
Ken Smale dies at age 92
Ken Smale, an Australian footballer and music director, died on April 7, 2026. He was 92. Smale played for Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and was a forward…
Lawrence J. Ryan has died at age 93
Lawrence J. Ryan, an Australian-born scholar of German literature, died on April 5, 2026, at age 93 in Tübingen, Germany. Born in Sydney on December 20, 1932, he earned a…
Col Ratcliff dead at age 96
Col Ratcliff, an Australian rugby league footballer, died on April 2, 2026, aged 96. Born in Temora, New South Wales, on June 23, 1929, he played rugby league in the…
Neville Glover dies at 70
Neville Glover, the Australian rugby league player who represented Parramatta Eels, Penrith Panthers and Australia, died on April 2, 2026, aged 70. Neville Kenneth Glover OAM was born in Sydney…
Peter V. Smith passes away at age 78
Peter V. Smith, an Australian footballer who played with Melbourne and Carlton, died on April 1, 2026, aged 78. Born in Brunswick, Victoria, on September 22, 1947, Peter Victor Smith…
Lionel Fernando dies at age 86
Lionel Fernando, a Sri Lankan-born Australian cricketer, died on March 31, 2026, aged 86. Born in Negombo, British Ceylon, in 1939, he played for Ceylon from 1964 to 1971 as…
Dallas O’Neill dies at age 83
Dallas O'Neill, an Australian rugby league and rugby union player, died on March 28, 2026, aged 83. Born in Mackay, Queensland, O'Neill was an Australian rugby union international who represented…
Mel Schilling passes away at age 53
Mel Schilling, the Australian television presenter and psychologist best known for appearing as one of the dating experts on Married at First Sight, died on March 24, 2026, at the…
Andrew Pawley dies at age 84
Andrew Pawley, an Australian linguist and academic, died on March 22, 2026, at the age of 84. Andrew Kenneth Pawley was an Australian–New Zealand linguist who served as a professor…
Rhoda Roberts passes away at age 66
Rhoda Roberts, an Australian Aboriginal arts director, died on March 21, 2026, aged 66. She was an Australian theatre and arts director, arts executive, television presenter and actress who served…
Garry Leo passes away at age 81
Garry Leo, an Australian rugby league footballer who played for the Balmain Tigers, died on March 19, 2026, aged 81. Born in 1944 or 1945, he played in the 1960s…
Eurogliders has died at age 65
Eurogliders, the Australian band formed in Perth in 1980, died on March 17, 2026. The group included Grace Knight on vocals, Bernie Lynch on guitar and vocals, and Amanda Vincent…
Anthony Mason passes away at age 100
Anthony Mason, the Australian jurist who served as chief justice of Australia from 1987 to 1995, died on March 17, 2026. He was born in Sydney on April 21, 1925.…
Obituary: Jamie Blanks, dead at age 54
Jamie Blanks, the Australian film director and composer behind Urban Legend and Valentine, died on March 16, 2026, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Born in Melbourne on November 29, 1971, Blanks…
Ken Cole passed away at age 82
Ken Cole, an Australian basketball coach and player, died on March 15, 2026, aged 82. Born Kenneth Frank Cole in Sydney on October 15, 1943, he represented Australia in the…
Death of Bill Dempsey at age 83
Bill Dempsey, an Australian rules footballer, died on March 15, 2026, aged 83. Born in Birdum, Northern Territory, on March 17, 1942, he played for Darwin in the Northern Territory…
Patricia Clarke, died aged 99
Patricia Clarke, an Australian writer and historian, died on March 12, 2026. Born Mary Patricia Clarke in Alphington, Melbourne, on July 30, 1926, she was educated in Melbourne, later in…
Blood Duster obituary: died at age 53
Blood Duster, an Australian drummer with the Melbourne grindcore and stoner rock band Blood Duster, died on March 12, 2026. The band was formed in 1991 by Jason Fuller, Anthony…
Wendy Playfair death at age 99
Wendy Playfair, the Australian actress best known for her role in Prisoner, died on March 11, 2026, aged 99. Born in Woollahra, New South Wales, on August 28, 1926, she…