1921 in Australia

Film

The first silent film

Sport

• Sister Olive wins the Melbourne Cup
• New South Wales wins the
  Sheffield Shield
• In Test Cricket, Australia defeated England in The Ashes series
• A Le Fevre wins the Australian Open Championship in golf
• The 1921 VFL seasonThe Premiership is won by Richmond 5.6.36 to Carlton 4.8.32. Attendance 43,122 at the MCG.
• The
  St. George club, replacing Annandale, who departed the league after the 1920 season. The Premiership is won by North Sydney
  .

• 3 January
  • Bob Dawson, Australian rules footballer (died 2023)
  • Vasey Houghton, politician and conservationist (died 2001)
• 9 January – Bunney Brooke, actor (Number 96) (died 2000)
• 3 February – John Millett, poet (died 2019)
• 16 February – Bill Knott, NSW politician (died 2013)
• 21 February – Rupert Myers, metallurgist (died 2019)
• 4 March – Walter Campbell, Governor of Queensland (died 2004)
• 12 March – Norm Foster, politician (died 2006)
• 28 April – Robert Furlonger, diplomat and public servant (died 2019)
• 29 March – Sam Loxton, cricketer (died 2011)
• 1 April –
  Harold James Frith
  , ornithologist (died 1982)
• 13 April – Max Harris, writer (Angry Penguins) (died 1995)
• 13 May –
  George Petersen
  , Labor politician (died 2000)
• 23 May – Ray Lawler, playwright
• 26 May – Norman Hetherington, artist, puppeteer (died 2010)
• 28 May – Tom Uren, Labor politician (died 2015)
• 3 June – Forbes Carlile, swimming coach and Olympic pentathlete (died 2016)
• 7 June – Myrtle Edwards, cricketer and softball player (died 2010)
• 19 June – Patricia Wrightson, children's author (died 2010)
• 1 July – Teddy Long, Australian rules footballer (died 2008)
• 15 July – Barrie Dexter, senior diplomat (died 2018)
• 21 July – Mary MacLean Hindmarsh, botanist (died 2000)^[3]
• 22 July – Ronald N. Bracewell, physicist and radio astronomer (died 2007)
• 31 July – John Makepeace Bennett, computer scientist (died 2010)
• 9 August – Catherine Pym, fencer (died 2018)
• 20 August – Jack Wilson, cricketer (died 1985)
• 21 November – Betty Wilson, cricketer (died 2010)
• 24 November – Allan Ashbolt, journalist (died 2005)
• 26 December – Donald Horne, journalist and writer (died 2005)

Deaths

• Edward Hamersley, Western Australian politician and pastoralist (born in France) (b. 1835
  )
• 27 January – Maurice Buckley, soldier (b. 1891
  )
• 26 February – William Emmett Murphy, trade unionist (born in Ireland) (b. 1841
  )
• 14 March – Gustave Barnes, artist (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1877
  )
• 21 May – Oswald Watt, aviator and businessman (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1878
  )
• 3 June – Jim Page, Queensland politician (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1861
  )
• 6 June – William Mark Forster, philanthropist (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1846
  )
• 18 June – G. H. Gibson, writer and satirist (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1846
  )
• 2 July – Edwin Evans, cricketer (b. 1849
  )
• 12 July – Harry Hawker, aviation pioneer (died in the United Kingdom) (b. 1889
  )
• 26 July – Howard Vernon, actor (b. 1845
  )
• 1 August – T. J. Ryan, 19th Premier of Queensland (b. 1876
  )
• Rose Ann Creal, military nurse, recipient of Royal Red Cross medal (b. 1865
  )
• 23 August – Frank Hann, pastoralist and explorer (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1845
  )
• 13 September – James Hebblethwaite, poet (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1857
  )
• 5 October – John Storey, 20th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1869
  )
• 30 October – James Murdoch, Orientalist scholar and journalist (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1856
  )
• 6 November – Robert Logan Jack, geologist (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1845
  )
• 17 November – John McLaren, cricketer (b. 1886
  )
• 27 November - Mary Grant Roberts, zoo owner (b. 1841)^[4]
• 24 December – William Curran, cricketer (b. 1862
  )

• List of Australian films of the 1920s

References