– Bill Carson, cricketer, rugby union player, soldier 17 July – Sid Scales, cartoonist 18 July – Owen Woodhouse, jurist 20 July – Bill Gilbert, soldier, intelligence service director 21 July – Roy Taylor, cyclist 31 July – Verdun Scott, cricketer August 1 August Dorothy Daniels, ballet teacher and director Sybil Lupp, mechanic, motor-racing driver 6 August – Tom Clark, industrialist, yachting patron 15 August – Derek Freeman, anthropologist 22 August – Rona McCarthy, athlete 30 August – Tex Morton, country music entertainer September 1 September – Allan McCready, politician 9 September Charles Fleming, scientist Jack Scott, politician 14 September – Edward Norman, soldier, Anglican bishop October 10 October – Gordon Cochrane, military and civil pilot 15 October – Leonard Thornton, military leader 25 October – Bruce Campbell, lawyer, politician, jurist 26 October – Ernest Bezzant, cricketer 28 October – Frank Kerr, cricketer 30 October – Peter King, army officer November 4 November – Allan Pyatt, Anglican bishop 11 November – Ramai Hayward, photographer, actor, cinematographer 16 November Harold Baigent, actor, theatre director Herb Green, obstetrician and gynaecologist 17 November Paraone Reweti, politician George Silk, photojournalist 21 November – Margaret Dalziel, English literature academic December 1 December – Alan Boxer, Royal Air Force officer 12 December – Jack Davies, swimmer 13 December – Ossie Cleal, association footballer, cricketer 15 December – Maurice Wilkins, physicist and molecular biologist 18 December – Noel Crump, swimmer 19 December – Merv Wallace, cricketer 26 December – Jean Sandel, surgeon 27 December Betty Forbes, high jumper Frank Hofmann, photographer, musician 28 December – Frederick Turnovsky, manufacturer, arts advocate Exact date unknown Garth Chester, furniture designer Deaths January–March 16 January – Henare Kohere, rugby union player, soldier (born 1880) 22 January – Lucy Mansel, community worker (born 1831) 9 March – Edward Moss, politician (born 1856) 16 March – Thomas King, astronomer (born 1858) April–June 4 April – John McIndoe, printer (born 1858) 7 April – Horace Martineau, soldier (born 1874) 9 May – William Graham, surveyor, farming leader, politician (born 1841) 20 May – Fanny Howie, singer and composer (born 1868) 22 May – Kimball Bent, soldier, adventurer (born 1837) 23 May – Charlie Douglas, explorer, surveyor (born 1840) 21 June – William Mowbray, teacher, musician (born 1835) 8 June – Henry Wilding, social reformer (born 1844) 16 June – William Barron, politician (born 1837) July–September 4 July – Ann Evans, nurse, midwife (born 1840)