* 1938 – Rod Laver, Australian tennis player

* 1979 – Michael Kingma, Australian basketball player

But the most dominant Australian player was leg-spinner Shane Warne, whose first delivery in Ashes cricket in 1993, to dismiss Mike Gatting, became known as the Ball of the century.

* 1900 – Otto Nothling, Australian cricketer and rugby player ( d. 1965 )

* Adrian Purtell ( born 1985 ), Australian rugby player

* Adrian Quist ( 1913 – 1991 ), Australian male tennis player

* 1957 – Tim Farriss, Australian bass player ( INXS )

* 1906 – Harry Hopman, Australian tennis player and coach ( d. 1985 )

* 1979 – Jessica Bibby, Australian basketball player

* 1986 – Brett Morris, Australian rugby player

* 1971 – Todd Woodbridge, Australian tennis player

* 1982 – Bianca Chatfield, Australian netball player

* 1979 – Kristen Hughes, Australian netball player

* 1987 – Brett Deledio, Australian football player

* 1973 – George Gregan, Australian rugby player

A NSW player outmarks a West Australian opponent in the goal square at the 1933 Sydney Carnival | 1933 Australian Football Carnival at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

In 2007 the international rules series was abandoned because of the aggression and the severity of the Australian team in the previous year, but in 2008, under new rules to protect the player with the ball, it resumed in Australia.

* 1962 – Steve Roach, Australian rugby player

Celebrities may be known around the world ( e. g., pop stars and film actors ), within a specific country ( e. g., a top Australian rugby player ); or within a region ( e. g., a local television news anchor ).

* Ben Darwin ( born 1976 ), Australian international Rugby player

* 1936 – Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton becomes the first player to score centuries in four consecutive Test innings.

* 1952 – Ric Charlesworth, Australian field hockey player

* 1953 – Gary Goodman, Australian cricket player

* 1983 – Cooper Cronk, Australian rugby player

* 1945 – Brian McGuire, Australian racing driver ( d. 1977 )

* 1967 – Brian Schmidt, Australian astrophysicist, Nobel Laureate

* 1966 – Brian Greig, Australian politician

* 1924 – Brian Bevan, Australian rugby player ( d. 1991 )

* 1950 – Brian Castro, Australian author

Australian captain, Greg Chappell instructed his brother Trevor, who was bowling the last over, to send the last ball down underarm to prevent the New Zealand batsman, Brian McKechnie, from hitting the ball for six.

* 1961 – Brian Mannix, Australian singer and actor

* 1931 – Brian Henderson, Australian journalist

** Brian Cadd, Australian singer-songwriter

** Brian Greig, Australian politician

* July 7 – Australian drug smugglers Kevin Barlow and Brian Chambers are executed in Malaysia.

The second was the establishment of " The Esso Young Artists ' Development Program " for the Australian Opera while the third was the " Australian Compositions Program " launched with a new production of Brian Howard's Metamorphosis.

* 2007 Kriol Bible completed, the first translation of the entire Bible into an Australian indigenous language Youth Missions International ( Washington ) ( YMI ) was founded by Brian Hughes to train churches and teens in the United States to do evangelism locally, regionally, and internationally.

The idea of cultural cringe was defined by Australian sociologists Brian Head and James Walter as the belief that one's own country occupies a " subordinate cultural place on the periphery ", and that " intellectual standards are set and innovations occur elsewhere ".

* Dr Brian Cooke from CSIRO Wildlife and Ecology receiving the 2000 POL Eureka Prize for Environmental Research, for his lifetime commitment to reducing the devastation caused by rabbits on the Australian environment

*# Australian Open – Brian Teacher

On Christmas Day 1970, Sergeants Allan Brian Moss and John Wallace Galvin were shot dead and Sergeant Frederick Edwin Bowtell injured when Private Paul Ramon Ferriday opened fire into the Sergeant's Mess of the Royal Australian Army Service Corps at Nui Dat, South Vietnam with his rifle after an all-day drinking session.

Brian Weir Henderson AM ( born 15 September 1931 ) is a New Zealand-born Australian television personality and news-reader.

* The Australian / Vogel Literary Award: Brian Castro, Birds of Passage ; Nigel Krauth, Matilda, My Darling

In one school of thought labelled the " species redundancy " hypothesis, proposed by Australian ecologist Brian Walker, most species are seen as having little contribution overall in the stability, comparable to the passengers in an aeroplane who play little role in its successful flight.

The film score was composed and conducted by Australian composer Brian May.

* Brian Howe, AM, Australian politician, was Deputy Prime Minister in the Labor government of Paul Keating from 1991 to 1995

* Brian Greig – Australian politician