two sports. Sailing 24 February – 18 March: Auckland is a stopover on the 2017–18 Volvo Ocean Race Shooting Ballinger Belt – John Snowden (Ashburton) Youth Olympics New Zealand sends a team of 61 competitors. Births 10 November – Asterix, Thoroughbred racehorse Deaths January 4 January Owen Hardy, World War II fighter pilot (born 1922) Gail McIntosh, politician (born 1955) 5 January Barry Thomas, rugby union player (born 1937) Peter Wells, high jumper (born 1929) 7 January Jim Anderton, politician (born 1938) Buster Stiggs, musician (born 1954) 12 January – Richard Peterson, fencer, sports administrator (born 1940) 17 January – Ted McCoy, architect (born 1925) 21 January – Michael Selby, geomorphologist (born 1936) 22 January Jack Doms, swimmer (born 1927) Kevin Tate, soil chemist, climate scientist (born 1943) 25 January – Graham Williams, rugby union player (born 1945) 27 January – Grant Fell, musician (born ) 31 January – Pat Booth, journalist (born 1929) February 3 February – Ted Corbett, organic chemist (born 1923) 8 February – Gary Seear, rugby union player (born 1952) 10 February – Bevan Congdon, cricketer (born 1938) 11 February – Darien Boswell, rower (born 1938) 21 February – Beryl Fletcher, novelist (born 1938) 25 February – Noel Scott, politician (born 1929) 27 February – Keith Murdoch, rugby union player (born 1943) March 2 March – Gordon Challis, poet (born 1932) 9 March – Robin Archer, rugby union player and coach (born 1930) 11 March – Paddy Donovan, boxer, rugby union player (born 1936) 14 March Peter Entwisle, art historian (born 1948) Mac McCallion, rugby union player and coach (born 1950) 20 March – Dylan Mika, rugby union player (born 1972) 28 March – Norm Wilson, cricketer (born 1931) April 6 April – Colin McLeod, civil engineer (born 1921) 10 April – Fergie McCormick, rugby union player (born 1939) 11 April – Robert Matthews, Paralympic athlete (born 1961) 16 April – Ivan Mauger, motorcycle speedway rider (born 1939) 23 April – Haddon Donald, soldier, politician (born 1917) 24 April – Arthur Eustace, athlete, athletics coach and administrator (born 1926) 25 April – Margo Buchanan-Oliver, marketing academic (born 1952) 26 April – David Mitchell, architect (born 1941) May 2 May – Katherine O'Regan, politician (born 1946) 4 May – Tony Steel, rugby union player, politician (born 1941) 9 May Norma, Lady Beattie – vice-regal consort (born 1925) Carl Perkins, musician (born ) 15 May – Hopeful Christian,