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Date of Birth: 23 July

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  1. Brisbane, Sir Thomas Makdougall (1773–1860) governor
  2. Normanby, second Marquess of (1819–1890) governor
  3. McLaurin, James (1821–1891) grazier
  4. Moss, William (1828–1891) Congregational minister and philanthropist
  5. Shearer, David (1832–1891) teacher and Presbyterian minister
  6. Brownrigg, Marcus Blake (1835–1890) Church of England minister
  7. Koerstz, Christian Christiansen (1847–1930) manufacturer and inventor
  8. Chung Gon, James (1854–1952) Chinese patriarch and businessman
  9. Holyman, William (1858–1921) master mariner and shipowner
  10. Gisborne, Frederic Augustus Wingfield (1860–1934) conservative ideologue
  11. Nathan, Sir Charles Samuel (1870–1936) businessman and government adviser
  12. Griffiths, Albert (1871–1927) boxer
  13. Hilder, Jesse Jewhurst (1881–1916) artist
  14. Nicholls, William Henry (Will) (1885–1951) orchidologist
  15. Wardlaw, Alan Lindsay (1887–1938) pastoralist, soldier and parliamentarian
  16. McDougall, Stanley Robert (1889–1968) soldier and forester
  17. Picton, Edward Benjamin (1894–1963) soldier and railway worker
  18. Burdett, Basil (1897–1942) journalist, art dealer and critic
  19. Castellano, Francesco (1899–1976) medical practitioner and internee
  20. Aston, Ronald Leslie (1901–1969) engineer and academic
  21. Roland, Betty (1903–1996) playwright and author
  22. Ellis, Ulrich Ruegg (1904–1981) journalist, author, political organiser and activist
  23. Kane, John Thomas (Jack) (1908–1988) politician
  24. McLachlan, Ian Dougald (1911–1991) air force officer and aeronautical consultant
  25. Browne, Coral Edith (1913–1991) stage and screen actor
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