See also: 1925 in Australia, other events of 1926, 1927 in Australia and the Timeline of Australian history.
Incumbents
State premiers
State governors
Events
Science and technology
Arts and literature
Film
Sport
Births
- January 7 – Joe Marston, soccer player
- February 4 – Dave Sands, boxer
- February 6 – Bruce Ruxton, former soldier and president of the RSL
- February 8 – Tony Street, politician
- February 16 – Rayene Stewart Simpson, soldier and Victoria Cross recipient
- March 6 – Ray O'Connor, Premier of Western Australia (1982–1983)
- March 15 – Thelma Keane, wife of cartoonist Bil Keane and inspiration for the "Mommy" character in The Family Circus (d. 2008)
- April 2 – Jack Brabham, racing driver
- May 11 – Frank Thring, actor (d. 1994)
- June 25 – Kep Enderby, Esperantist and politician
- July 4 – Stuart Thomas Butler, nuclear physicist (d. 1982)
- July 12 – Al Grassby, politician, Minister for Immigration
- July 31 – Jack Pollard, sports writer and cricket historian (d. 2002)
- August 5 – Doug McClelland, politician
- September 8 – Keith Adams, adventurer
- September 18 – Deirdre Jordan, academic and educator
- October 11 – Neville Wran, Premier of New South Wales (1976–1986)
- October 20 – Peter Durack, politician, Attorney-General
- November 7 – Joan Sutherland, opera singer
- November 15 – Ivor Greenwood, politician, Attorney-General (d. 1976)
- November 26 – Tom Hughes, politician, Attorney-General
- December 31 – Billy Snedden, politician, Leader of the Liberal Party (d. 1987)
Deaths
- January 9 – William Henry Warren (b. 1852), engineer
- January 12 – Sir Austin Chapman (b. 1864), politician
- April 27 – Ada Cambridge (b. 1844), author
- April 30 – Sir Tim Coghlan (b. 1856), NSW state statistician
- May 11 – Hugh Dixson (b. 1841), businessman and philanthropist
- May 15 – Joseph James Fletcher (b. 1850), biologist
- May 21 – H. V. McKay (b. 1865), inventor of the Sunshine harvester
- June 4 – Fred Spofforth (b. 1853), cricketer
- June 23 – Henry Lowther Clarke (b. 1850), Anglican archbishop of Melbourne
- June 28 – William Archibald (b. 1850), South Australian politician
- September 14 – Charles Hedley (b. 1862), naturalist
- October 3 – Samuel James Mitchell (b. 1852), first Supreme Court of NT judge
- December 11 – Sir William McMillan (b. 1850), politician
- December 11 – Gottlieb Schuler (b. 1854), journalist
- December 13 – William Spence (b. 1846), trade union leader and politician
See also
References
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