The following lists events that happened during 1920 in Australia.
Incumbents
State premiers
State governors
Events
Arts and literature
Sport
Births
January - March
- 27 January â Frank Scully, Victorian politician (d. 2015)
- 3 February â Tony Gaze, fighter pilot and racing driver (d. 2013)
- 19 February â Kevin O'Leary, Northern Territory Supreme Court Chief Justice (d. 2015)
- 26 February â Michael Pate, actor (d. 2008)
- 6 March â Virgil Brennan, fighter pilot (d. 1943)
- 8 March â George Batchelor, mathematician (d. 2000)
- 13 March â Reg Gillard, New South Wales politician (d. 2001)
- 15 March â Donald Watt, cricketer, Australian rules footballer, and rugby league footballer (d. 2007)
- 16 March â Leo McKern, actor (d. 2002)
- 22 March â Robert King, Victorian politician (d. 1991)
- 26 March â Oriel Gray, dramatist and playwright (d. 2003)
- 29 March â Nigel Abbott, Tasmanian politician (d. 2011)
April - June
- 7 April â Allan Cuthbertson, actor (d. 1988)
- 9 April â Don Benson, Australian rules footballer (Richmond) (d. 2019)
- 11 April
- Alfred Deakin Brookes, inaugural Australian Secret Intelligence Service head (d. 2005)
- Thomas Pearsall, Tasmanian politician (d. 2003)
- 13 April â Alan Loxton, solicitor (d. 2004)
- 14 April â Eddie Jaku, writer and Holocaust survivor (born in Germany) (d. 2021)
- 15 April â George Georges, Queensland politician (d. 2002)
- 16 April â Bill Sidwell, tennis player (d. 2021)
- 10 May â John Brack, painter (d. 1999)
- 12 May
- Douglas Scott, New South Wales politician (d. 2012)
- Vince Martin, New South Wales politician (d. 2001)
- 16 May â Valda Aveling, pianist (d. 2007)
- 20 May â Bertie Brownlow, cricketer (d. 2004)
- 29 May â Harold Ball, Australian rules footballer (Melbourne) and soldier (d. 1942)
- 30 May â Joe Kirkwood Jr., golfer and actor (d. 2006)
- 8 June â Gwen Harwood, poet and librettist (d. 1995)
- 10 June â Paula Stafford, fashion designer (d. 2022)
- 18 June â Rosemary Dobson, poet (d. 2012)
- 19 June â Robert Klippel, artist and sculptor (d. 2001)
- 20 June â Bill Gunn, 24th Deputy Premier of Queensland (d. 2001)
July - September
- 12 July â Bill Heatley, Queensland politician (d. 1971)
- 15 July â Des Fothergill, Australian rules footballer (Collingwood) (d. 2001)
- 19 July â Albert Chowne, military officer and Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1945)
- 20 July â Arthur Boyd, artist (d. 1999)
- 30 July â Keith Leopold, author (d. 1999)
- 31 July â Peter Isaacson, publisher and military pilot (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 2017)
- 3 August â Max Fatchen, children's writer (d. 2012)
- 5 August â Bill Grayden, Western Australian politician
- 7 August â Reg Saunders, military officer (d. 1990)
- 11 August â Lady Bjelke-Petersen, Queensland politician (d. 2017)
- 16 August â Jack Mannix, New South Wales politician (d. 1994)
- 18 August â Mervyn Lee, Victorian politician (d. 2009)
- 20 August â Keith Froome, rugby league player (d. 1978)
- 21 August â Joy Hester, artist (d. 1960)
- 1 September â Joyce King, Olympic athlete (d. 2001)
- 12 September â Kevin Brennan, actor (d. 1998)
- 16 September â J. J. C. Smart, philosopher (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 2012)
- 17 September â Ronald Laurence Hughes, military officer (d. 2003)
- 29 September â Peter Connolly, Queensland politician and Queensland Supreme Court judge (d. 2009)
- 30 September â Russell Fox, author and Australian Capital Territory Supreme Court Chief Judge (d. 2013)
October - December
- 19 October â Nev Hewitt, Queensland politician (d. 2016)
- 23 October â Stuart Clarence Graham, military officer (d. 1996)
- 31 October â Helmut Newton, photographer (born in Germany and died in the United States) (d. 2004)
- 3 November â Oodgeroo Noonuccal, poet and activist (d. 1993)
- 8 November â Ken Fry, Australian Capital Territory politician (d. 2007)
- 11 November â John Armitage, New South Wales politician (d. 2009)
- 14 November â Bob Cristofani, cricketer (d. 2002)
- 16 November â Colin Thiele, author (d. 2006)
- 30 November â John Hipwell, architect (d. 2007)
- 4 December â Bill Brown, Victorian politician (d. 2001)
- 7 December â Johnny Lockwood, actor (d. 2013)
- 17 December â Herbert S. Green, physicist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1999)
- 26 December â Noel Desmond Gray, businessman (d. 1999)
- 27 December â Don Grossman, Australian rules footballer (South Melbourne) (d. 2004)
- 28 December â Arthur Gietzelt, New South Wales politician (d. 2014)
Deaths
- 4 January â Robert Etheridge Jr., paleontologist (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1847)
- 7 January â Sir Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia and inaugural High Court justice (b. 1849)
- 10 February â Henry Strangways, 12th Premier of South Australia (born and died in the United Kingdom) (b. 1832)
- 20 March â Alexander William Jardine, engineer (died in the United Kingdom) (b. 1843)
- 6 April â Archibald Peake, 25th Premier of South Australia (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1859)
- 28 May â Angus Gibson, Queensland politician (b. 1842)
- 30 May â George Ernest Morrison, journalist and geologist (b. 1862)
- 9 August â Sir Samuel Griffith, 9th Premier of Queensland and 1st Chief Justice of Australia (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1845)
- 12 August â Louisa Lawson, writer, poet and feminist (b. 1848)
- 16 August â Henry Daglish, 6th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1866)
- 15 September â Sir Thomas Ewing, New South Wales politician (b. 1856)
- 28 November â Alfred Conroy, New South Wales politician (b. 1864)
- 21 December â Claude Tozer, doctor and cricketer (b. 1890)
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