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List of events
The following lists events that happened during 1917 in Australia.
Incumbents
Billy Hughes
State premiers
State governors
Events
Arts and literature
Film
Sport
Births
- 17 February –
Harry Gibbs, Chief Justice of the High Court (died 2005)
- 11 March –
Nancy Cato, writer (died 2000)
- 14 March –
John McCallum, actor (died 2010)
- 21 March –
Frank Hardy, novelist (
Power Without Glory) (died 1994)
- 25 March –
Barbara Jefferis, author (died 2004)
- 22 April –
Sidney Nolan, artist (died 1992)
- 30 April –
Mervyn Wood, Olympic rower (died 2006)
- 3 May –
James Penberthy, composer (died 1999)
- 7 May –
Lenox Hewitt, public servant (died 2020)
- 15 May –
Ron Saggers, cricketer (died 1987)
- 25 May –
James Plimsoll, Governor of Tasmania from 1982–1987 (died 1987)
- 2 June –
Peggy Antonio, female Test cricketer (died 2002)
- 14 July –
Pat Moran, statistician (died 1988)
- 17 July –
Jack Beale, politician and first Environment Minister (died 2006)
- 19 August –
Laurie Aarons, leader of the Australian Communist Party (died 2005)
- 20 August –
Dudley Erwin, politician (died 1984)
- 7 September –
John Cornforth, Australian chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)
- 12 September –
Charles Jones, politician (died 2003)
- 19 September –
Paterson Clarence Hughes, RAF pilot (killed in action 1940)
- 30 September –
Kim Beazley Sr., Federal politician (died 2007)
- 2 October –
Phil Ridings, cricketer (died 1998)
- 5 October –
Kenneth Jacobs, Chief Justice of the High Court (died 2015)
- 17 October –
Sumner Locke Elliott, novelist (died 1991)
- 20 October –
D'Arcy Niland, novelist (died 1967)
- 21 November –
Tom Reynolds, VFL footballer (
Essendon and
St Kilda) (died 2002)
- 22 November –
Jon Cleary, novelist (died 2010)
- 8 December –
Ian Johnson, cricketer (died 1998)
- 12 December –
Xavier Connor, jurist (died 2005)
- 25 December –
Tim Walker, NSW politician (died 1986)
- 31 December –
Pat Hills, NSW politician (died 1992)
Deaths
-
31 March –
Joseph Cullen, New South Wales and Western Australian politician (b.
1849)
-
5 April –
E. H. Coombe, South Australian politician and newspaper editor (b.
1858)
-
6 May –
Thomas Carr, Catholic archbishop (born in
Ireland) (b.
1839)
-
24 May –
Les Darcy, boxer (died in the
United States) (b.
1895)
-
15 August –
John Haynes, New South Wales politician and journalist (b.
1850)
-
26 August –
William Lane, journalist and labour movement pioneer (born in the
United Kingdom) (b.
1861)
-
15 September –
Carty Salmon, Victorian politician (b.
1860)
-
17 September –
Edward Petherick, book collector and bibliographer (born in the
United Kingdom) (b.
1847)
-
31 October –
Tibby Cotter, cricketer and soldier (died in the
Ottoman Empire) (b.
1883)
-
9 November –
Harry Trott, cricketer (b.
1866)
-
20 December –
Frederick McCubbin, artist (b.
1855)
See also
References
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