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- Cycling
- Sid Patterson wins the world amateur pursuit cycling title in Belgium
[edit] Births - January 1 – Wayne Bennett, rugby league coach
- February 11 – John Cobb, politician
- February 14 – Phil Dent, tennis player
- February 16 – Malcolm Blight, Australian Rules football player
- February 20 – Gary Manuel, football (soccer) player
- March 1 – Estelle Blackburn, journalist
- March 11 – Sam Kekovich, Australian Rules football player
- March 18 – Larry Perkins, ATCC/V8 Supercars racing driver
- March 30 – Warren Snowdon, politician
- April 10 – Mick Dodson, indigenous leader
- April 15 – Peter Cochrane, historian
- April 29 – Phillip Noyce, film director
- May 11 – Gary Foley, indigenous activist
- May 15 – Jim Bacon, Premier of Tasmania (2001–2004, d. 2004)
- May 26 – Paul Omodei, WA politician
- May 29 – Lesley Hunt, tennis player
- May 31 – Warren Entsch, politician
- July 15 – Colin Barnett, WA politician
- July 15 – Alan Hurst, cricketer
- July 15 – Peter Reith, politician
- July 17 – Nick Bolkus, politician
- July 21 – Allan Maher, football (soccer) goalkeeper
- August 8 – Philip Salom, poet and novelist
- August 16 – Jeff Thomson, cricketer
- September 6 – Robyn Davidson, writer
- September 11 – Bruce Doull, Australian Rules football player
- September 27 – John Marsden, writer
- October 14 – Kate Grenville, novelist
- October 30 - Tim Sheens, rugby league footballer and coach
- November 2 – Graeme Murphy, choreographer
- November 7 – John Lang, rugby league footballer and coach
- November 25 – Alexis Wright, writer
- December 1 – Ross Hannaford, guitarist (Daddy Cool)
- December 10 – Robert Cusack, swimmer
- December 12 – Louis Nowra, writer and playwright
- December 18 – Gillian Armstrong, film director
- December 22 – Nick Enright, playwright, director
[edit] Deaths - January 2 – James Dooley (b. 1877), Premier of New South Wales (1921–1922)
- January 20 – Ray Duggan (b. 1913), speedway motorcycle racer
- January 25 – Chummy Fleming (b. 1863), trade unionist
- February 23 – Henry Willis (b. 1860), politician
- February 28 – Ted Theodore (b. 1884), Premier of Queensland (1919–1925)
- March 19 – Harry Wright (b. 1870), Australian rules footballer (Essendon)
- April 14 – Sir Albert Dunstan (b. 1882), Premier of Victoria (1935–1943, 1943–1945)
- May 6 – Lancelot De Mole (b. 1880), engineer and inventor
- May 15 – Jack Hickey (b. 1887), dual-code rugby international
- June 11 – Ernest Henshaw (b. 1870), WA politician
- June 20 – Claude Jennings (b. 1884), cricketer
- July 14 – Bill Howell (b. 1869), cricketer
- July 31 – George Wise (b. 1853), politician and solicitor
- August 6 – Edwin Corboy (b. 1896), politician
- August 8 – Fergus McMaster (b. 1879), co-founder of Qantas
- September 3 – Michael Durack (b. 1865), pastoralist and WA pioneer
- September 22 – Edward Fowell Martin (b. 1875), soldier
- September 24 – Dame Mary Turner Cook (b. 1863), wife of Prime Minister Sir Joseph Cook
- November 6 – Frank Brennan (b. 1873), politician
- November 20 – Erle Cox (b. 1873), journalist and science fiction author
- December 16 – James Fenton (b. 1864), politician
- December 29 – Albert Lane (b. 1873), politician
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