Pilot whose colour blindness meant he could see from the air where pests were infecting cototn crops

• Ann Blore

Mars McMillan was a remarkable and gifted artist who made a significant contribution to music in Melbourne.

• Dorothy Wheeler

Margaretta Wilkinson was a role model for budding female scientists.

• John Scott

Leila Scott, who died aged 103, served as a nurse in World War II, and had a long and varied career.

Peter Travis, who designed the Speedo swimming brief, was an outstanding ceramic artist, designer and lecturer, consulted for the interior design of prominent buildings and sought after for his works.

• Caroline Fisher

Dr Eric Fisher AM was a leader in the field of medical general practice in Australia who was still seeing patients at the age of 90. Central to his approach was a belief that emotional well-being has a significant impact on a person's health and recovery.

Gabor: "I'm a marvellous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house."

Brink-of-death tales told by Ronald Reagan, Elizabeth Taylor, Goldie Hawn, Cher, Walter Matthau, Halle Berry, Carrie Fisher and Jack Lemmon.

Virtuoso pianist and former Soviet chess champion Mark Taimanov dies aged 90.

• Peter Craven

Melbourne pioneer taught a generation of Australian architects to honour their own roots.

Lieutenant Commander Jock Moffat, Lady Elizabeth Longman.

The author continued her writing despite suffering from brain cancer.

• John Tidey

'Few editors have worn their talents so lightly or been so universally admired.'

To Sir, with Love comes from an inscription his appreciative students wrote on a pack of cigarettes they gave him.

Robert Vaughn, who died aged 83, was a versatile American actor who for half a century specialised in debonair and often sinister characters.

Former Governor-General Dame Quentin Bryce: "I remember with a deep fondness listening to you on ABC Radio at home with babies, desperate to keep in touch with the outside world."

Evansky first experimented with the "blow wave", having watched a barber do it to his male clients.

Once, asked to write to a particularly tight deadline, he told his editor he would oblige if he was sent a puppy.

Thalidomide manufacturer, Distillers, forced to increase compensation because of Knightley investigation.

• Sam Roberts

Erich Bloch arrived in the United States in 1948 as a Jewish refugee.

Glenn: "What got a lot of attention, I think, was the tenuous times we thought we were living in back in the Cold War. I don't think it was about me."

• Martin Aubury

Colin Torkington, born January 25, 1936; died  November 17, 2016.

Stanley Reynolds, John Glenn, Anne Wall

• John Myrtle

Peter Ronald Loof, born November 18, 1930; died October 16, 2016.

Lake: "I came from a very poor background. At the age of 20 I was a millionaire, a quite unbelievable thing."

• Anastasia Charalambidis, Paul Kalina

Acclaimed as a leading Australian glass artist, George Aslanis was at the forefront of Australian glass art.

Orders were if the nurse in front or behind was hit by enemy fire, you were to keep going.

Tuesday, a golden retriever became Montalvan's 'conduit' to other people, his charm magnet.

Bruce Clark Hudson