February – Joan Hastings, swimmer March 8 March – Leonard Mitchell, artist 9 March Johnny Borland, high jumper, athletics administrator Aubrey Ritchie, cricketer 13 March John McCraw, pedologist, local historian Rahera Windsor, Māori leader in the United Kingdom 21 March – John Heslop, surgeon, cricket administrator 25 March – O. E. Middleton, writer April 4 April – Harvey Kreyl, rugby league player 5 April – Milan Mrkusich, artist 17 April – Vern Clare, musician, cabaret owner 19 April Eva Rickard, Māori leader and activist Maurie Robertson, rugby league player and coach 23 April – Al Hobman, professional wrestler, trainer and promoter 24 April – Dorothy Butler, children's author and bookseller, memoirist, reading advocate 25 April – Neville Black, rugby union and rugby league player 28 April – David Brokenshire, architect, potter May 2 May – Frances Porter, writer, historian 14 May Gordon Gostelow, actor W. H. Oliver, poet, historian 16 May – John Ziman, physicist, humanist 20 May Maurice Crow, weightlifter, rowing coxswain Bert Potter, commune leader 27 May – Arthur Campbell, chemist June 3 June – Trevor Barber, cricketer 11 June – Tiny White, rugby union player and administrator, politician 25 June – Alistair Campbell, poet, playwright, novelist 27 June – Ben Couch, rugby union player, politician 29 June – Doody Townley, harness-racing driver July 2 July – Philip Liner, radio broadcaster 8 July – Elwyn Richardson, educationalist 9 July – Rex Bergstrom, econometrician 10 July – Dixie Cockerton, netball player and coach, cricketer, school principal 15 July – Stuart Jones, golfer 16 July – J. B. Trapp, historian 18 July – Allan Elsom, rugby union player 20 July – Eric Watson, cricketer 26 July – Alister Atkinson, rugby league player 31 July John O'Brien, politician Helen Ryburn, school principal, local-body politician August 3 August – John Robertson, public servant 5 August – Bob Duff, rugby union player, local-body politician 13 August – Peter Beaven, architect 15 August – James Brown, public servant 23 August – John Armitt, amateur wrestler 28 August – Trevor Young, politician 30 August – Joan Hart, athlete September 1 September – Te Aue Davis, tohunga raranga 4 September Phil Amos, politician Bruce Stewart, television scriptwriter 19 September – Lyn Forster, arachnologist October 7 October Bryan Drake, opera singer Bill Wolfgramm, musician 9 October – Bill Schaefer, field hockey player 19 October – David Gould, rower, businessman 21 October – Ian Ballinger, sports shooter 22