January – Sylvia Brunt, rugby union player 8 April – Fran Jonas, cricketer 8 May – Izzy Gaze, cricketer 10 May – Jenna Hastings, mountain biker 12 July – Laura Littlejohn, swimmer 14 August – Jay Herdman, association footballer 8 October – C'est La Guerre, Thoroughbred racehorse 3 November – Auckland Reactor, Standardbred racehorse 1 December – Joshua Willmer, swimmer Undated – Allen Chi Zhou Fan, chess player Deaths January 11 January – Sir Peter Elworthy, farmer, farming leader, businessman (born 1935) 19 January – Murray Watkinson, rower (born 1939) 21 January – Jock Newall, association football player (born 1917) 25 January – Sonny Schmidt, bodybuilder (born 1953) 29 January – Janet Frame, writer (born 1924) February 11 February – June Westbury, politician (born 1921) 14 February – Jock Butterfield, rugby league player (born 1932) 16 February – Don Cleverley, cricketer (born 1909) 17 February – Sir Peter Quilliam, jurist (born 1920) 21 February – Norval Morris, lawyer, criminologist, novelist (born 1923) 26 February – Roger Mirams, filmmaker (born 1918) 29 February – Graham Gordon, doctor (born 1927) March 1 March – John Lithgow, politician (born 1933) 3 March – Susan Moller Okin, feminist political philosopher (born 1946) 4 March – Arthur Kinsella, politician (born 1918) 5 March – Martin Emond, cartoon illustrator and painter (born 1969) 8 March – Frank Mooney, cricketer (born 1921) 17 March – Sir William Pickering, rocket scientist (born 1910) 19 March – Chris Timms, sailor (born 1947) 30 March – Michael King, historian and biographer (born 1945) April 6 April – Joan Monahan (née Hastings), swimmer, botanist and schoolteacher (born 1925) 16 April – John Caselberg, writer and poet (born 1927) May 3 May – Rahera Windsor, founding member and kuia of Ngāti Rānana (born 1925) 15 May – Hector Wilson, rugby union player (born 1924) 17 May – Ken Mudford, motorcycle racer (born 1923) 19 May Rowan Barbour, cricketer (born 1922) Tim Hewat, television producer and journalist (born 1928) 21 May – Frank McMullen, rugby union player and referee (born 1933) 22 May – Wayne Kimber, politician (born 1949) June 5 June – Jack Foster, athlete (born 1932) 24 June Pat Kelly, trade union leader (born 1929) Ron Sharp, farmer, inventor of the herringbone milking shed (born 1919) 25 June – Morton Coutts, inventor, brewer (born 1904) July 5 July – Robert Burchfield, lexicographer (born 1923) 11 July – Sir Terry McLean, sports