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Cause of death Year George Allen: 22 Sunshine: VFA: heart failure (during a practice match) 1971 Jack Allister: 27 North Melbourne: VFL: pneumonia: 1946 [1] Dave Barry: 24 North Fremantle (formerly South Melbourne) WAFL (formerly VFL) run over by a train 1913 [2] Rhett Baynes: 25 Perth (formerly Carlton) WAFL (formerly VFL) suicide (overdose ...
The Age is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854.Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, The Age primarily serves Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales.
Macdonald was born in Fitzroy, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne, the elder son of Donald Macdonald (of Scottish–Canadian heritage) and his wife Margaret, née Harris. Macdonald was educated at the Keilor state school where he became a pupil-teacher in 1876. He later joined The Corowa Free Press and then the Melbourne Argus newspaper in 1881.
The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2018.. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Jean Lee (10 December 1919 – 19 February 1951) was an Australian murderer who, together with her lover Robert Clayton and accomplice Norman Andrews, was convicted for the 1949 killing of William 'Pop' Kent, an SP bookmaker from the Melbourne suburb of Carlton. The victim was bound to a chair, tortured with the aim of finding hidden money, and ...
at the annual "Commencement" of the Melbourne University on Saturday was Mr. Joseph Daniel Hogan, younger eon of Mr. James Hogan, of Hogan, Mooney and Co., Wine and Spirit Merchants. This young gentleman has had a remark-ably brilliant University career. Matriculating at the age of twelve, he has passed through his various law courses
Sir Thomas Francis Little [1] KBE (30 November 1925 – 7 April 2008 [note 1]) was an Australian bishop.He was the sixth Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne.He was appointed by Pope Paul VI on 1 July 1974 and retired in 1996; he was succeeded by the Most Reverend George Pell (as he was styled at the time).