Decades:
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1940s 1950s
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The following lists events that happened during 1940 in Australia .
Incumbents
Robert Menzies
State Governors
Events
Story Bridge (built 1940), Brisbane in 2009 A.B.C. truck recording soldiers off to war, Darling Harbour, May 1940
Arts and literature
Film
Sport
Births
5 January – Athol Guy , musician
19 January – Paul Calvert , Liberal Senator for Tasmania
17 February – Marilyn Jones , ballet dancer
22 February – Neil Brown , politician
24 February – Ian Shelton , Australian rules football player (died 2021)
27 February – Bill Hunter , actor (died 2011 )
1 March – Robin Gray , Premier of Tasmania (1982–1989)
8 March – Don Barker , actor
19 March – Andrew Taylor , poet
20 March – Paul Neville , politician (died 2019 )
12 April – Jack Hibberd , playwright (died 2024 )
16 April – Marion Halligan , writer (died 2024 )[ 2]
24 April – Trevor Kent , actor (died 1989 )
26 April – Ian Geoghegan , race car driver (died 2003 )
15 June – Ken Fletcher , tennis player (died 2006 )
17 June – Alan Murray , Australian golfer (died 2019 )
23 June – Diana Trask , country music singer
25 June – Judy Amoore , athlete
29 June – Ken Done , artist
10 July – Keith Stackpole , cricketer (died 2025 )
3 August – Judith Troeth , Liberal Senator for Victoria
16 August – Bruce Beresford , film director
18 August – Jan Owen , poet
31 August – Jack Thompson , actor
9 September – Hugh Morgan , businessman
13 September – Kerry Stokes , chairman of the Seven Network
15 September – Allan Andrews , NSW politician
21 September – John Pochee , jazz musician (died 2022 )
3 October – Diana Warnock , radio broadcaster and politician
4 October – Ian Kiernan , yachtsman and environmentalist, 1994 Australian of the Year (died 2018 )
5 October – Bob Cowper , cricketer (died 2025 )
15 October – Peter C. Doherty , medical researcher, Nobel Prize recipient
19 October – Ian Causley , politician (died 2020 )
21 October – Peter Arnison , Governor of Queensland (1997–2003)
1 November – John Bell , actor and theatre director
4 November – John Sanderson , Governor of Western Australia (2000–2005)
12 November – John Dowd , NSW politician
7 December – Robin Miller , aviator and nurse (died 1975 )
19 December – Jane Mathews , judge (died 2019 )
Deaths
3 February – John Henry Michell , mathematician (b. 1863 )5 February – Bill Wilks , New South Wales politician (b. 1863 )8 March – Michael Kelly , Catholic archbishop (b. 1850 )16 April – Herbert James Carter , entomologist (b. 1858 )20 April – Sir Ernest Gaunt , naval admiral (b. 1865 )22 June – Monty Noble , cricketer (b. 1873 )23 June – Hugh Denis Macrossan , Queensland politician and judge (b. 1881 )6 July – Michael O'Connor , Western Australian politician (b. 1865 )22 July – Sir George Fuller , 22nd Premier of New South Wales (b. 1861 )27 July – Bluey Wilkinson , speedway rider (b. 1911 )30 July
13 August
9 September – Percy Abbott , New South Wales politician (b. 1869 )11 September – Issy Smith , soldier and Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1890 )22 September – Robert Blackwood , New South Wales politician (b. 1861 )2 October – Albert Green , Western Australian politician (b. 1869 )14 October – Helen de Guerry Simpson , novelist (b. 1897 )25 October – Thomas Waddell , 15th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1854 )31 October
2 November – Colin Rankin , Queensland politician and soldier (b. 1869 )3 November – James Fowler , Western Australian politician (born in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1863 )23 November – Sir Stanley Argyle , 32nd Premier of Victoria (b. 1867 )11 December – Belle Golding , feminist, suffragist and labour activist (b. 1864 )20 December – Tom Foster , composer (b. 1870 )
See also
References
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1940 in Oceania
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