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Date of Death: 20 July

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  1. Bruni D'Entrecasteaux, Joseph-Antoine Raymond (1739–1793) admiral and navigator
  2. Wyatt, Joseph (1788–1860) theatre lessee and owner
  3. Stephen, Alfred Hamilton (1826–1884) Anglican clergyman
  4. Weld, Sir Frederick Aloysius (1823–1891) governor
  5. Dawson, Andrew (1863–1910) miner, editor and politician
  6. Vardon, Joseph (1843–1913) printer and politician
  7. Hopkins, Francis Rawdon Chesney (1849–1916) grazier and writer
  8. Catani, Carlo Giorgio Domenico Enrico (1852–1918) civil engineer
  9. Prinsep, Henry Charles (Harry) (1844–1922) estate manager, horse-trader, artist and civil servant
  10. Couppé, Louis (1850–1926) missionary archbishop
  11. Joseland, Richard George Howard (Howard) (1860–1930) architect
  12. Cattanach, William (1863–1932) administrator
  13. Lowrie, William (1857–1933) agricultural educationist
  14. Nettlefold, Sir Thomas Sydney (Tom) (1879–1956) businessman
  15. Olney, Sir Herbert Horace (Bert) (1875–1957) manufacturer, politician and philanthropist
  16. Flockhart, David John (1889–1964) Presbyterian clergyman and administrator
  17. Marshall, Alan John (Jock) (1911–1967) professor of zoology
  18. Baker, Sir Henry Seymour (1890–1968) barrister and politician
  19. Warnes, Catherine Anne (1949–1969) entertainer
  20. Murphy, Herbert Dyce (1879–1971) gentleman adventurer and raconteur
  21. Blackburn, Sir Charles Bickerton (1874–1972) physician and university chancellor
  22. Cleary, William James (1885–1973) brewery manager and administrator
  23. Rosenthal, Alvord Sydney (1901–1975) naval officer
  24. Price, Sir Archibald Grenfell (Archie) (1892–1977) geographer, historian and educationist
  25. Fair, Richard Edward (1907–1982) actor and radio compère
  26. Makin, Norman John (1889–1982) ambassador and Speaker of the House of Representatives
  27. Steinbeck, Muriel Myee (1913–1982) actress
  28. Daley, Francis Stanley (Frank) (1891–1983) mechanical engineer
  29. Stout, Alan Ker (1900–1983) professor of philosophy
  30. Walsh, Robert John (1917–1983) medical scientist
  31. O'Leary, Timothy Joseph (Tim) (1925–1987) flying doctor
  32. Young, Leonard Reay (Len) (1897–1988) local history enthusiast
  33. Callinan, Sir Bernard James (1913–1995) army officer and civil engineer
  34. Smith, Harold Neil (Neil) (1907–1996) public servant, poet, and historian
  35. Croll, Alexander James (1920–1999) air force officer
  36. Muirhead, James Henry (Jim) (1925–1999) Supreme Court justice, royal commissioner, and administrator of the Northern Territory
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