field hockey player 3 September – Ivan Vicelich, soccer player 13 September – Craig McMillan, cricketer 3 October – Simon Wills, motor racing driver 4 November – Troy Flavell, rugby union footballer 20 November – Doug Viney, K-1 fighter 3 December – Byron Kelleher, rugby union footballer 13 December – Mark Paston, soccer player 15 December – Joseph Yovich, cricketer 21 December – Mark Dickel, basketball player :Category:1976 births Deaths 9 January: Sir Stanley Whitehead, politician and 15th Speaker of the House of Representatives. 7 February (in Australia): Sir Cedric Stanton Hicks, nutrition scientist. 12 June: Herb Lilburne, All Black captain. 20 July: Tom Lowry, cricketer. 19 August: Ken Wadsworth, cricketer. 21 August: Ken James, cricketer. 12 November: Cliff Porter, All Black captain. 14 November: Ernest Toop, politician, deputy mayor of Wellington :Category:1976 deaths See also List of years in New Zealand Timeline of New Zealand history History of New Zealand Military history of New Zealand Timeline of the New Zealand environment Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica References External links New Zealand Years of the 20th century in New Zealand