23 September – Peggy Hay, designer (d. 2016) 24 September – Sammy Guillen, cricketer (d. 2013) 27 September – Louis Johnson, poet (d. 1988) 30 September – Trevor Hatherton, geophysicist (d. 1992) October 5 October – Victor Brooker, cricketer 11 October – Arthur Hughes, rugby union player, businessman, horse racing administrator (d. 2005) 19 October – Keith Gudsell, rugby union player (d. 2007) 30 October – Roy McLennan, politician (d. 2013) November 5 November – Geoff Smale, sailor (d. 2011) 23 November Doug Coombes, mineralogist and petrologist (d. 2016) Doug Dillon, jurist (d. 1999) 28 November – Colin McLachlan, politician (d. 1985) December 2 December Gerald O'Brien, politician (d. 2017) Brian Poananga, sportsman, military leader, diplomat (d. 1995) 5 December – Gavin Downie, politician (d. 1998) 7 December – Jimmy Haig, rugby union and rugby league player (d. 1996) 12 December Neill Austin, politician (d. 2008) Brown Turei, Anglican archbishop (d. 2017) 23 December – Len Castle, potter (d. 2011) 26 December – Leonard Kent, cricketer (d. 2014) 28 December – Loo-Chi Hu, marine equipment designer, t'ai chi teacher (d. 2013) 29 December Eve Poole, 41st Mayor of Invercargill (d. 1992) Bob Vance, cricket player and administrator (d. 1994) Ivan Walsh, association footballer, cricketer (d. 2005) 30 December – Joe Phillips, rugby league player (d. 1969) Deaths January–March 5 January – Mary Player, midwife, feminist, social reformer (born 1857) 6 January – Henry Hill, cricketer (born 1845) 19 January – Frances Parker, suffragette (born 1875) 24 January – Acton Adams, politician (born 1843) 27 January – William Gardiner, cricketer (born 1864) 2 February Daniel Claffey, cricketer (born 1869) John Duncan, politician (born 1848) 11 February – Arthur Lomas, cricketer (born 1895) 17 February – James Tibbs, schoolteacher (born 1855) 22 February – Mary Dawson, farmer, environmentalist (born 1833) 24 February – Joseph Borton, cricketer (born 1832) 1 March – Elizabeth Parsons, singer (born 1846) 4 March – Gilbert Carson, politician (born 1842) 6 March – Grace Joel, artist (born 1865) 10 March – George Bourne, photographer (born 1875) 17 March – Martin Chapman, cricketer, barrister, politician (born 1846) April–June 3 April – Alfred Newman, politician (born 1849) 19 April – Charles Louisson, politician (born 1842) 7 May – Alfred Luttrell, architect and building contractor (born 1865) 9 May – James Mason, doctor, bacteriologist, public health administrator (born 1864) 19 May – Joseph Pabst, cricketer (born 1870) July–September 17 July –