October – George Grindley, geologist 23 October – Brian Nordgren, rugby league player 25 October – Donald Brian, cricketer 30 October Audrey Eagle, botanical illustrator Colin Kay, athlete, politician 31 October – Ngaire Lane, swimmer November 6 November – Ian Cross, novelist, journalist, broadcasting and arts administrator 12 November – Bill Toomath, architect 20 November – Bill Subritzky, property developer, evangelist 23 November – Tui Flower, food writer 26 November – Ross Taylor, geochemist, planetary scientist 27 November – Reginald Johansson, field hockey player 29 November – Peter Jacobson, poet December 1 December Noeline Gourley, field hockey player, athlete, woodturner Thomas Thorp, jurist 5 December – Jack Tynan, field hockey player, cricketer 10 December – Betty Maker, cricketer 23 December – Ellis Child, cricketer 31 December – Ray Bell, rugby union player Exact date unknown Nightmarch, Thoroughbred racehorse Deaths January–March 3 January – John Endean, gold miner, hotel proprietor (born 1844) 11 January – Oliver Samuel, politician (born 1849) 13 February – Margaret McKenzie, pioneer (born 1839) April–June 14 April – Don Hamilton, rugby union player, cricketer (born 1883) 27 April – George Williams, rugby union player (born 1856) 10 May – William Massey, politician, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1912–1925) (born 1856) 15 May – Stephen Boreham, trade unionist (born 1857) 18 May – Sir Theophilus Cooper, jurist (born 1850) 19 May Andrew Cameron, Presbyterian minister, educationalist, community leader (born 1855) Frances Wimperis, artist (born 1840) 21 May – Samuel Kirkpatrick, businessman (born 1854) 3 June – Frank Surman, rugby union player, athlete (born 1866) July–September 18 July – John Sinclair, carpenter, builder, harbourmaster (born 1843) 19 July – James Cox, diarist (born 1846) 22 July – William McCullough, politician (born 1843) 5 August – Emily Harris, painter (born 1837) 9 August – Catherine Adamson, diarist (born 1868) 1 September – Donald Petrie, botanist (born 1846) 19 August – Harriet Morison, trade unionist, suffragist, public servant (born 1862) 15 September – Charles Melvill, military leader (born 1878) 18 September – Charles Hayward Izard, politician (born 1862) 19 September – Henry Reynolds, butter manufacturer and exporter (born 1849) 27 September – Thomas MacGibbon, politician (born 1839) October–December 2 October – Thomas Hislop, politician (born 1850) 20 November – Charles Mackesy, military leader (born 1861) 28 November – William Joseph Napier, politician (born 1857) 10 December – John Liddell Kelly, journalist, poet (born 1850) 29 December – John Crewes, Bible Christian