List of events
The following lists events that happened during 1926 in Australia .
Incumbents [ edit ] Stanley Bruce State premiers [ edit ] State governors [ edit ] Science and technology [ edit ] Arts and literature [ edit ] 7 January – Joe Marston , soccer player (died 2015) 11 January – Baillieu Myer , businessman and philanthropist (died 2022) 3 February – Raymond Martin , chemist (died 2020) 4 February – Dave Sands , boxer (died 1952) 6 February – Bruce Ruxton , former soldier and president of the RSL (died 2011) 8 February – Tony Street , politician (died 2022) 10 February – Arvi Parbo , businessman (died 2019) 16 February – Rayene Stewart Simpson , soldier and Victoria Cross recipient (died 1978) 6 March – Ray O'Connor , Premier of Western Australia (1982–1983) (died 2013) 15 March – Thelma Keane , wife of cartoonist Bil Keane and inspiration for the "Mommy" character in The Family Circus (died 2008) 2 April – Jack Brabham , racing driver (died 2014) 13 April – Neil Betts , rugby union player (died 2017) 11 May – Frank Thring , actor (died 1994) 18 June – Shirley McKechnie , dancer, choreographer and dance educator (died 2022) 25 June – Kep Enderby , Esperantist and politician (died 2015) 27 June – Bruce Tozer , cricketer (died 2021) 1 July – Stan Obst , Australian rules footballer (died 2005) 3 July – Laurence Street , jurist and former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales (died 2018) 4 July – Stuart Thomas Butler , nuclear physicist (died 1982) 9 July – Peter Mullins , decathlete (died 2012) 12 July – Al Grassby , politician, Minister for Immigration (died 2005) 20 July – Russ Gorman , politician (died 2017) 31 July – Jack Pollard , sports writer and cricket historian (died 2002) 5 August – Doug McClelland , politician 15 August – Ted Allsopp , race walker (died 2024) 27 August – Reg Watson , television producer and screenwriter (died 2019) 8 September – Keith Adams , adventurer (died 2012) 16 September – Sir William Cole , public servant (died 2019) 18 September – Deirdre Jordan , academic and educator 30 September – Frank O'Neill , swimmer 11 October – Neville Wran , Premier of New South Wales (1976–1986) (died 2014) 20 October – Peter Durack , politician, Attorney-General (died 2008) 7 November – Joan Sutherland , opera singer (died 2010) 15 November – Ivor Greenwood , politician, Attorney-General (died 1976) 31 December – Sir Billy Snedden , politician, Leader of the Liberal Party (died 1987) 9 January – William Henry Warren , engineer (born in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1852 ) 12 January – Sir Austin Chapman , New South Wales politician (b. 1864 ) 30 April – Sir Tim Coghlan , New South Wales statistician, engineer and diplomat (died in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1856 ) 11 May – Sir Hugh Dixson , businessman and philanthropist (died in British Ceylon ) (b. 1841 ) 15 May – Joseph James Fletcher , biologist (born in New Zealand ) (b. 1850 ) 16 May – Joe Slater , composer and music publisher (b. 1872 ) 21 May – Hugh Victor McKay , industrialist (b. 1865 ) 4 June – Fred Spofforth , cricketer (died in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1853 ) 23 June – Lowther Clarke , Anglican archbishop (born and died in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1850 ) 28 June – William Archibald , South Australian politician (born in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1850 ) 14 July – Sir Charles Mackellar , New South Wales politician and surgeon (b. 1844 ) 19 July – Ada Cambridge , author (born in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1844 ) 14 September – Charles Hedley , naturalist (born in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1862 ) 3 October – Samuel James Mitchell , 1st Chief Justice of the Northern Territory (b. 1852 ) 11 December 13 December – William Spence , trade union leader and politician (born in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1846 ) See also [ edit ] References [ edit ]
1926 in Oceania
Sovereign states Associated states of New Zealand