• Huon Hooke

Wine industry stalwart Ian Laurie Hickinbotham, who has died at the age of 88, is credited with many innovations in Australian winemaking.

From ballet career to guardian for young women at risk

Worried that she might die during cardiac surgery without passing on a secret she had concealed for 50 years, in 1991 Sala Kirschner handed her daughter, Ann, a battered red cardboard box from an outdated children's game.

Hawking's devastating disability and his instantly recognisable synthesised voice brought him cult status with the general public.

"I never really found inner peace," he told a German newspaper in 2013.

• Melinda Tankard Reist

One day in 2005, Julie Gale, a Melbourne comedy writer and mother of a daughter and son then aged 11 and 9, was confronted by a giant billboard at the end of her eastern suburbs street.

• Geoff Fitzpatrick

As senior stylist for Chrysler Australia, Brian Smyth was the major figure behind the design of the legendary Valiant Charger. Produced in Adelaide for eight years, the Charger became a classic collector's item, and was the Wheels Car of the Year in 1972.

In 2014 Givenchy claimed that contemporary fashion had become "vulgar".

• Glenn A. Baker

St John sang the national anthem at the 2000 Paralympics in Sydney.

Trevor Baylis, Reynaldo Bignone, Bud Luckey

Princess Diana brought global attention to Boyd and his hats.

Crystals were an early example of Phil Spector's 'wall of sound'

• Frank Taylor

Like his M*A*S*H character, Stiers was a devoted fan of classical music.

• ​Jeff Penberthy

Professor Brian Wise, the founding Dean of the College of Business at Victoria University (VU), and the man responsible for the acquisition of its landmark CBD campus and convention centre building at 300 Flinders Street, was a long-time friend and neighbour of mine in West St Kilda. 

• Antoinette Hirst

Ronald Huttner's whole working career was spent in various areas of law, although he remarked to a close friend on his 70th birthday that he thought he had made a wrong career choice and should have become a professional musician instead.

• Robert Nelson

Peter Nelson, who has died aged 91, was a passionate scientist, educator, environmentalist and model father.

• Malcolm Robertson

Eric Nelson was a gentleman, an engineering genius and a daring drag racer.

• Grace Lovell

Meme McDonald, award-winning writer and acclaimed artistic director, died on December 23 at her home in country Victoria. Her passing marked the end of an extraordinary career, in which Meme, 63, devoted more than 40 years to the arts in Australia.

• Ralph Genende

Johnny Baker was a man of and for all seasons. He certainly knew how to dress himself and us for them; Johnny knew the seasons of the soul, his own and of all others. He was an acute observer of the human heart, a close reader of the mind of man.

• Vic Callanan

Dr Trevor Wood's medical career began at Melbourne University, where he graduated in 1960 with honours in several subjects. He then began specialist physician training and gained his fellowship of the Australasian College of Physicians in 1967. 

• Howard Goldenberg

Manny Karageorgiou was a private man. That he became a public figure surprised and embarrassed him. 

• Frank Larkins

Rajaratnam (Raj) Sundarason arrived from Singapore as a 21-year-old Colombo Plan student in February 1950 to study medicine at the University of Melbourne. 

Lewis Gilbert, a British filmmaker who directed World War II epics, three popular entries in the James Bond franchise, and understated dramas centred on working-class characters, including the Oscar-nominated Michael Caine hit Alfie, died Feb. 23 in Monaco. He was 97.

Sridevi Kapoor, Judy Blame, Cynthia Heimel

Gorton's PPS - an appointment without precedent.

Whenever they came, Pope John Paul II stepping onto the tarmac at Sydney, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Mother Teresa, the Dalai Lama, the Reverend Ian Paisley - Alan Gill was waiting for them.

Emma Chambers, the actress who has died aged 53, was best known as Alice Tinker, the wide-eyed, dim-witted verger and comic foil to Reverend Geraldine Granger (Dawn French) in the BBC sitcom The Vicar of Dibley; she also played the kooky, punky Honey Thacker, the star-struck sister of Hugh Grant's character in Notting Hill (1998).

• Roslyn Cook

The two qualities mentioned most in tributes to Garth Nettheim, who has died aged 85, were his kindness and his decency.