When an Academy Fellow dies, we honour their impact by publishing an obituary by another Fellow who has had a long and close association with them. Since 2020, we have published vale notices in our Newsroom’s ‘Our community’ section on a rolling basis.
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- ACKROYD, Joyce Irene (1918–91) by J.V. Neustupný
[Australian Dictionary of Biography entry] - ADAMS, James (1943-2021)
- ALEXANDER, Peter (1949–2015) by Clive Probyn
- ANDERSON, Gordon Athol (1929–81) by Andrew McCredie
[Australian Dictionary of Biography entry] - ANDERSON, Hugh (1927-2017) by Joy Damousi & Stuart MacIntyre
- ARASARATNAM, Sinnapah (1930–98) by Michael N. Pearson
- ARMSTRONG, David Malet (1926–2014) by Keith Campbell
- AUCHMUTY, James Johnston (1909–81) by A.N. Jeffares
[Australian Dictionary of Biography entry] - AUROUSSEAU, Marcel (1891–1983) by O.H.K. Spate
- AUSTIN, Lloyd (1915-94) by Wallace Kirsop
- AYRES, Philip James (1944-2021) by Michael Ackland
B
- BAILEY, Harold Walter (1899–1996) by Eric Osborn
- BARNETT, Ira Dene (1917–1997) by Ralph Elliott
- BASHAM, Arthur Llewellyn (1914–1986) by J.T.F. Jordens
[Australian Dictionary of Biography entry] - BASSETT, Flora Marjorie (1889–1980) by Kathleen Fitzpatrick
[Australian Dictionary of Biography entry] - BAUMAN, Richard Alexander (1919–2006) by E.A. Judge
- BEAGLEHOLE, John Cawte (1901–1971) by O.H.K. Spate
- BENN, Stanley Isaac (1920–1986) by R. Brown
[Australian Dictionary of Biography entry] - BENNETT, Bruce (1941–2012) by Paul Eggert
- BICKNELL, Peter James (1938–2001) by Alan Henry
- BISSELL, Claude (1916–2000) by Graeme Clarke
- BOLTON, Alexander Thorley (1926–1996) by John Mulvaney
- BOLTON, Geoffrey Curgenven (1931–2015) by Stuart Macintyre
- BOSWORTH, A. B. (Brian) (1942–2014) by John Melville-Jones
- BOWMAN, John (1916–2006) by Antonio Sagona
- BOYD, Arthur (1920–1999) by Bernard W. Smith
- BRAMSTED, Ernest (1901–1978) by Richard Samuel
- BRAY, John Jefferson (1912–1995) by Graham Nerlich
- BRISSENDEN, Robert Francis (1928–1991) by W.S. Ramson
[Australian Dictionary of Biography entry] - BROEZE, Frank Aart (1945–2001) by Michael Pearson
- BROWN, Philip Lawrence (1904–1996) by Geoffrey Serle
- BROWN, Robert (1920–2010) by Knud Haakonssen
- BURKE, Joseph (1913–1992) by Bernard Smith
[Australian Dictionary of Biography entry] - BURROWS, John (1928–2019) by Hugh Craig
C
- CAMBITOGLOU, Alexander (1922–2019) by Jean-Paul Descoeudres
- CAPELL, Arthur (1902–1986) by D.C. Laycock [Australian Dictionary of Biography entry]
- CARSANIGA, Giovanni (1934–2016) by Nerida Newbigin
- CHALOUPKA, George (1932–2011) by Mike Smith
- CHAMBERS, Leigh Ross (1932-2017) by John Frow and Anne Freadman
- CHARLESWORTH, Max (1925–2014) by Tony Coady
- CHISHOLM, Alan Rowland (1888–1981) by R.T. Sussex [Australian Dictionary of Biography entry]
- CHRISTESEN, Clem B. (1911–2003) by Laurie Hergenhan
- CHURCHER, Betty (1931–2015) by Gerard Vaughan
- CLARK, Charles Manning (1915–1991) by Geoffrey Serle [Australian Dictionary of Biography entry]
- CLENDINNEN, Inga (1934-2016) by Richard Broome
- CLIVE, John (1925–1990) by K.S. Inglis
- CLYNE, Michael (1939–2010) by Colin Nettelbeck
- COE, Richard Nelson (1923–1984) by Ivan Barko
- COLLINSON, Patrick (1929–2011) by Ros Pesman & Richard Waterhouse
- COLMER, John Anthony (1921–1994) by Colin Horne
- COOMBS, Herbert (‘Nugget’) Cole (1906–1997) by E.G. Whitlam
- COVELL, Roger (1931–2019) by Dorottya Fabian
- COWEN, Zelman (1919–2011) by Michael Kirby
- CRAWFORD, Patricia (Trish) Marcia (1941–2009) by Charles Zika
- CRAWFORD, Raymond Maxwell (1906–1991) by John Mulvaney [Australian Dictionary of Biography entry]
- CULICAN, William (1928–1984) by G.W. Clarke [Australian Dictionary of Biography entry]
- CUTLER, Terrence (Terry) (1948–2020) by Stuart Cunningham
D
- DAVIS, Jack Leonard (1917–2000) by Betty Meehan & Rhys Jones
- de BRAY, Reginald (1912–1993) by Michael Clyne
- de RACHEWILTZ, Igor (1929-2016) by Anthony Reid
- DONALDSON,Ian (1935-2020) by Paul Salzman
E
- EDWARDS, Allan (1909–1995) by R.S. White
- ELLIOTT, Brian Robinson (1910–1991) by Ralph Elliot
- ELLIOTT, Ralph Warren Victor (1921–2012) by Margaret Clunies-Ross and Graham Tulloch
- ELLIS, Catherine (1935–1996) by Margaret Kartoumi
- EMMERICK, Ronald Eric (1937–2001) by D.T. Potts
F
- FARRELL, Ralph Barstow (1908–1983) by R.H. Samuel
- FITZGERALD, Charles Patrick (1902–1992) by Wang Gungwu
[Australian Dictionary of Biography entry] - FITZHARDINGE, Laurence (1908–1993) by Robin Gollan
[Australian Dictionary of Biography entry] - FITZPATRICK, Kathleen (1905–1990) by Geoffrey Blainey
[Australian Dictionary of Biography entry] - FLETCHER, Brian (1931–2018) by Deryck Schreuder and Richard Waterhouse
- FORSYTH, Elliott Christopher (1924–2012) by Ivan Barko
- FRENCH, Alfred (1916–1997) by Frank Sear
- FRODSHAM, John David (1930–2016) by Vijay Mishra
G
- GASKING, Douglas Aidan (1911–1994) by J.J.C. Smart
- GELLIE, George Henry (1918–1988) by Graeme Clarke
- GIBSON, Alexander Boyce (1900–1972) by D.A.T. Gasking
[Australian Dictionary of Biography entry] - GODDARD, Leonard (1925–2009) by Graham Priest
- GOLDBERG, Samuel Louis (1926–1991) by Chris Wallace-Crabbe
[Australian Dictionary of Biography entry] - GOLLAN, Robin Allenby (1917–2007) by Stuart Macintyre
- GOUGH, Austin (1926–1997) by Roger Hainsworth
- GREEN, Louis (1929–2008) by Francis William Kent
- GREENWOOD, Gordon (1913–1986) by J.M. Ward
[Australian Dictionary of Biography entry] - GROVES, Colin (1942-2017) by Robert Attenborough
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- HALLAM, Herbert Enoch (1923–1993) by Geoffrey Bolton
- HALLAM, Sylvia (1927–2019) by Peter Veth & Caroline Bird
- HALLIDAY, Michael (1925-2018) by James Martin & Monika Brednarek
- HANCOCK, William Keith (1898–1988) by Robin Gollan
[Australian Dictionary of Biography entry] - HASLUCK, Paul Meernaa (1905–1993) by Francis West
[Australian Dictionary of Biography entry] - HATTORI, Shiro (1908–1995) by Stephen Wurm
- HAY, John (1942-2016) by Peter Cryle
- HAZZARD, Shirley (1931-2016) by Elizabeth Webby
- HENNESSY, John Basil (1925–2013) by Robert S. Merrillees
- HERCUS, Luise (1926-2018) by Nicholas Evans & Jane Simpson
- HERGENHAN, Laurence (Laurie) (1931-2019) by Richard Fotheringham
- HOFF, Ursula (1909–2005) by Jaynie Anderson
- HO, Peng Yoke (1926–2014) by Colin Mackerras
- HOPE, Alec Derwent (1907–2000) by Leonie Kramer
- HORNE, Colin (1912–1999) by Francis H. Mares
- HORNE, Donald Richmond (1921–2005) by Geoffrey Blainey
- HUNT, Harold Arthur (1903–1977) by G.H. Gellie
[Australian Dictionary of Biography entry]
J
- JAMES, Alan William (1938–2015) by John A. L. Lee
- JAMES, Clive (1939–2019) by Brian McFarlane
- JEFFARES, Alexander (Derry) Norman (1920–2005) by Ralph Elliott
- JONES, Rhys Maengwyn (1941–2001) by Jack Golson
- JORDENS, Joseph (1925–2008) by Anthony Johns
- JORY, Edward John (1936–2016) by J.R. Green
K
- KAMENKA, Eugene (1928–1994) by Robert Brown
[Australian Dictionary of Biography entry] - KANE, Daniel (1948–2021) by Ted Rule, Christopher Nailer, Edwin Lowe, Annie Luman Ren, and current and former members of the Chinese Program at the University of Melbourne
- KELLER, Ernst (1931–2006) by Gerhard Schulz
- KENT, Francis William (Bill) (1942–2010) by Constant J. Mews
- KERR, Eleanor Joan (1939–2004) by Virginia Spate
- KRAMER, Leonie (1924–2016) by Robert Dixon
L
- LAMPERT, Ronald John (1927–2008) by Jack Golson
- LA NAUZE, John Andrew (1911–1990) by F.B. Smith
[Australian Dictionary of Biography entry] - LAWLER, James R. (1929–2013) by Rosemary Lloyd
- LAWSON, Sylvia (1932-2017) by Tom O’Regan
- LAYCOCK, Donald Clarence (1936–1988) by Steven Wurm
- LEE, Kevin Hargreaves (1941–2001) by William Ritchie
- LEGGE, John (1921–2016) by Ian Copland
- LEWIS, David Kellogg (1941–2001) by J.J.C. Smart
- LINDSAY, Jack (1900–1990) by Michael Wilding
[Australian Dictionary of Biography entry] - LIU, Ts’un-yan (1917–2009) by Rafe de Crespigny
- LO, Hui-min (1925–2006) by Colin Mackerras
- LOVE, Harold (1937–2007) by Clive Probyn
- LOW, Donald Anthony (1927–2015) by Deryck Schreuder
- LYNCH, John Dominic (1946–2021) Vale – obituary to follow
M
- MACDONAGH, Oliver (1924–2002) by Francis Barrymore Smith
- MACKERRAS, Alan Charles Maclaurin (1925–2010) by Malcolm Gillies
- MACLEAN, Marie (1928–1994) by Ross Chambers
- MANSFIELD, Bruce (1926-2017) by Charles Zika
- MARES, Francis (Tim) Hughes (1925–2001) by Derick Marsh
- MÁRKUS, György (1934-2016) by Paul Redding
- MARTIN, Allan William (1926–2002) by John Mulvaney
- MARVAN, Jiří (1936–2016) by Marko Pavlyshyn
- MAXWELL, Ian Ramsay (1901–1979) by G.H. Russell
- McAULEY, James Phillip (1917–1976) by Leonie Kramer
[Australian Dictionary of Biography entry] - McCARTHY, Frederick David (1905–1997) by D.J. Mulvaney
- McCAUGHEY, John Davis (1914–2005) by Stuart Macintyre
- McCREDIE, Andrew Dalgarno (1930–2006) by Margaret Kartomi
- McCULLOCH, Jock (1945–2018) by the Australian Academy of the Humanities, with assistance from Pavla Miller
- McDONALD, Alexander Hugh (1908–1979) by John M. Ward
- McKENZIE, Donald Francis (1931–1999) by Wallace Kirsop
- McKINNEY, Judith Wright (1915–2000) by Elizabeth Webby
- McMANNERS, John (Jack) (1916–2006) by Bruce Mansfield
- MEALE, Richard (1932–2009) by Robyn Holmes
- MEANEY, Audrey (1931–2021) Vale – obituary to follow
- MELLOR, David Hugh (1938-2020) by Stewart Candlish
- MENZIES, Peter Charles (1953–2015) by Huw Price
- MENZIES, Robert Gordon (1894–1978) by R.M. Crawford
[Australian Dictionary of Biography entry] - MEYER, Robert Kenneth (1932–2009) by Michael McRobbie
- MILGATE, Wesley (1916–1999) by Gerald A. Wilkes
- MILLAR, Fergus Graham Burtholme (1935–2019) by Samuel N.C. Lieu
- MITCHELL, Alexander George (1911–1997) by Gerald A. Wilkes
- MITCHELL, Raymond Bruce (1920–2010) by James Simpson
- MONRO, David Hector (1911–2001) by Keith Campbell
- MOORE, Robin James (1934–2009) by Lance Brennan
- MOYAL, Ann (1926–2019) by Terri-ann White
- MOYLE, Alice Marshall (1908–2005) by Stephen Wild
- MULVANEY, John (1925-2016) by Peter Bellwood
- MURDOCH, Elisabeth Joy (1909–2012) by Ian Donaldson
- MURRAY, Les (1938–2019) by Philip Mead
- MYER, Kenneth Baillieu (1921–1992) by Margaret Manion
[Australian Dictionary of Biography entry]
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- NOLAN, Sidney (1917–1992) by Ann Galbally
[Australian Dictionary of Biography entry] - NEUSTUPNÝ, J. V. (1933-2015) by Yoshio Sugimoto
O
- O’FARRELL, Patrick James (1933–2003) by Mark Finnane
- O’REGAN, Thomas Andrew (1956–2020) by Stuart Cunningham, Graeme Turner and David Carter
- OLDROYD, David Roger (1936–2014) by David Philip Miller
- OLIVER, Harold James (1916–1982) by G.A. Wilkes
- OLLEY, Margaret Hannah (1923–2011) by Sasha Grishin
- OSBORN, Eric Francis (1922–2007) by David Runia
P
- PARTRIDGE, Eric Honeywood (1894–1979) by R.W.V. Elliott
[Australian Dictionary of Biography entry] - PARTRIDGE, Percy Herbert (1910–1988) by John Passmore
[Australian Dictionary of Biography entry] - PASSMORE, John Arthur (1914–2004) by Frank Jackson
- PATRICK, Alison (1921–2009) by Peter McPhee
- PHILIPP, Franz Adolf (1914–1970) by Joseph Burke
[Australian Dictionary of Biography entry] - PIKE, Douglas Henry (1908–1974) by J.A. La Nauze
[Australian Dictionary of Biography entry] - PORTER, Peter Neville Frederick (1929–2010) by Bruce Bennett
- PRICE, Archibald Grenfell (1892–1977) by O.H.K. Spate
[Australian Dictionary of Biography entry] - PRICKETT, Alexander Thomas (Stephen) (1939–2020) by Simon Haines and Margaret Harris
R
- RAMSON, William Stanley (1933–2011) by Ian Donaldson
- RAWSON, Beryl (1933–2010) by Graeme Clarke
- REEVES, Peter (1935–2015) by Robin Jeffrey
- RICHARDS, Eric (1940-2018) by Philip Payton
- RICKLEFS, Merle Calvin (1943–2019) by Anthony Reid
- RITCHIE, John Douglas (1941–2006) by Iain McCalman and John Molony
- RITCHIE, William (1927–2004) by Harold Tarrant
- RIZVI, Saiyid Athar Abbas (1921–1994) by A.H. Johns
- ROBINSON-VALÉRY, Judith Ogilvie (1933–2010) by James Lawler
- ROLLS, Eric Charles (1923–2007) by Tom Griffiths
- ROSE, Robert Barrie (1929–2015) by Michael Roe
- ROSENFELD, Andrée Jeanne (1934–2008) by Isabel McBryde
- RUDÉ, George Frederick Elliot (1910–1993) by Hugh Stretton
[Australian Dictionary of Biography entry] - RUSSELL, George Harrison (1923–2006) by James Simpson
- RYCKMANS, Pierre (1935–2014) by Mabel Lee
S
- SAGONA, Antonio (Tony) (1956-2017) by Elizabeth Pemberton
- SALMOND, John Alexander (1937–2013) by Alan Frost
- SAMUEL, Richard Herbert (1900–1983) by A.R. Stephens
[Australian Dictionary of Biography entry] - SAYERS, Andrew (1957–2015) by Helen Ennis
- SCULTHORPE, Peter Joshua (1929–2014) by Roger Covell
- SEDDON, George (1927–2007) by David Olroyd
- SERLE, Alan Geoffrey (1922–1998) by F.B. Smith
- SHARPE, Eric J. (1933–2000) by Anthony Johns
- SHAW, Alan George Levers (1916–2012) by Graeme Davison
- SHIPP, George Pelham (1900–1980) by W. Ritchie
[Australian Dictionary of Biography entry] - SINCLAIR, Keith Val (1926–1999) by Angus Andrews Martin
- SMALLEY, Roger (1943–2015) by David Tunley
- SMART, John (Jack) Jamieson Carswell (1920–2012) by Frank Jackson
- SMART, Jeffrey Edson (1921–2013) by Sasha Grishin
- SMIT, Jacob (1908–1982) by R.H. Samuel
- SMITH, Bernard (1916–2011) by Jaynie Anderson
- SMITH, Francis Barrymore (Barry) (1932–2015) by Graeme Davison
- SPATE, Oskar (1911–2000) by Donald Denoon
- SPENCER, Michael (1936–1990) by Peter Cryle
- STEELE, Peter Daniel (1939–2012) by Chris Wallace-Crabbe
- STEPHEN, Ninian (1923-2017) by Philip Ayres
- STOUT, Alan Ker (1900–1983) by D.M. Armstrong
[Australian Dictionary of Biography entry] - STOVE, David Charles (1927–1994) by David Armstrong
[Australian Dictionary of Biography entry] - STREHLOW, Theodor George (1908–1978) by J.J.C. Smart
[Australian Dictionary of Biography entry] - STRETTON, Hugh (1924–2015) by Wilfrid Prest
- SUSSEX, Ronald Thomas (1909–2006) by Elliott Forsyth
- SUTHERLAND, Joan Alston (1926–2010) by Roger Covell
- SYLVAN, Richard (1935–1996) by Bob Meyer and David Bennett
T
- TAUMAN, Leon (1904–1981) by K.V. Sinclair
- TAYLOR, Barry (1946–2010) by John Bigelow
- TEMPLEMAN, Ian (1938–2015) by Elizabeth Webby
- THORNE, Alan Gordon (1939–2011) by Colin Groves
- TOMORY, Peter Alexander (1922–2008) by Joan Barclay Lloyd
- TRENDALL, Arthur Dale (1909–1995) by Alexander Cambitoglou
[Australian Dictionary of Biography entry] - TRIEBEL, Louis Augustus (1890–1985) by K.V. Sinclair
- TURNER, George William (1921–2003) by Ralph Elliott
U
- UTZON, Jørn (1918–2008) by Davina Jackson
V
- van der SPRENKEL, Otto Berkelbach (1906–1978) by I. de Rachewiltz
- von WILPERT, Gero (1933–2009) by Gerhard Schulz
W
- WARD, John Manning (1919–1990) by Deryck Schreuder
[Australian Dictionary of Biography entry] - WARD, Russel Braddock (1914–1995) by Isabel McBryde
- WEAVER, Paul Richard Carey (1927–2005) by Graeme Clarke
- WEBB, Robert K. (1922–2012) by Sandra Herbert
- WHITE, Harold Leslie (1905–1992) by Francis West
- WHITEHORNE, John (1944–2020) by Malcolm Choat
- WHITLAM, Edward Gough (1916–2014) by Stuart Macintyre
- WILKES, Gerald Alfred (1927-2020) by Margaret Harris and Elizabeth Webby
- WURM, Stephen Adolphe (1922–2001) by Tom Dutton
