• Stephen Sinclair

David John Delamore Browne, born October 16, 1957; died August 25, 2016.

Serviceman set an international city to city record navigating a Sea Venom from Rome to Malta in 47 minutes 24 seconds

To read Clendinnen is to encounter an intelligence, at once impassioned and fierce.

May arrived at a fortuitous time when television sport coverage was a made-up-as-you-went-along affair

"My father always said that if you can feed your family and put a roof over your head, then you're a good writer. That's all I've ever wanted to be."

Isabelle Dinoire; Elisabeth Hardy; The Lady Chablis

The tenor was hurt by suggestions that he was not believable as an on-stage lover. "I sing like one," he insisted.

Wijaya befriended members of the royal families of Bali and acquired a knowledge of the island's intricate rituals and history

• Geoff Fitzpatrick

Carl Nielsen, a pioneering giant in Australian design who has died aged 86, has left an impressive and significant legacy.

• Dean Frenkel

This is a story about an extraordinary Australian.

• Geoffrey Robertson

Richard Neville was the provocative and witty spokesman for the generation that questioned the assumed wisdom of its elders.

• Gregg Levy

Entertainment with a message was the hallmark of a career in theatre and film over 45 years.

• Noel Turnbull and Melissa Macfarlane

Donald Bruce Macfarlane became CEO of Amcor, a major Australian company, played a role in developing young leaders across all sections of society, was a generous supporter of the community and became an accomplished painter.

Muriel Spark: He always wanted me to say [his paintings] were good but I didn't think they were.

When the Red Army invaded gymnast went into hiding in the forests where she maintained her fitness by lifting bags of coal and swinging from tree branches

Rural cooking facilities resulted in visiting British diplomats eating lemon meringue tainted with kerosene

Joe Sutter, Antony Copley, Harry Fujiwara, Charles "Champagne Charlie" Cantan

• Sinclaire Parer and Bud Parer

Bill was an avid outdoorsman, physician, researcher and family man, and he touched the lives of all those he encountered.

Influential and unorthodox, costume designer Norma Moriceau had the ability to create icons.

Gene Wilder, the actor and director, who has died aged 83, became a favourite with children everywhere when he created the zany title role in the film Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory (1971).

• Damien Murphy

It falls to few to have their names epitomise a sport: Bradman, Cazaly, Phar Lap have the honour. So did Bernard Farrelly.

Iris Kells, Sonia Rykie, Steven Hill

Suburban apprenticeship led to honoured career in aviation

• Suzanne Spunner and Mike Hast

Ken Spunner, the descendant of a 19th-century limeburner, rose to become head of the Mornington Peninsula's peak planning body and was twice elected president of the Shire of Flinders.

West German president gave good parties and won Medal for Combating Deadly Seriousness.

The eight-year-old girl who beat adults playing Bach

• Ian McDougall

Australia's architectural community has lost a much-loved and highly respected practitioner with the passing of Stephen Ashton at the age of 61. He was exposed to asbestos automotive brake pads in the 1970s and died after a prolonged battle with mesothelioma.

Sir Humphrey advice: "A basic rule of government, minister, is never set up an enquiry unless you know in advance what its findings will be."

• 20-8-1944 – 12-6-2016
• Catherine Rooney

Dr Bernard Rooney's career embodied the best of general practice.