25 December Reese Griffiths, rugby league player Ginger Molloy, motorcycle racer 26 December Pam French, fencer Gavin Hitchings, jeweller 29 December Ian Lawrence, lawyer, politician Ethna Rouse, cricketer Undated Bridget Armstrong, actor Mary Cresswell, poet Peter Dwyer, zoologist, anthropologist Michael Harlow, poet, publisher, editor, librettist Ken Maddock, anthropologist Toi Te Rito Maihi, artist Reihana Parata, master weaver Jim Peters, politician Pauline Rhodes, artist Judy Siers, writer, historian Barry Vercoe, computer scientist, composer Allan Wallbank, politician Judy Wilson, sculptor and fibre artist Spiro Zavos, cricketer, journalist, writer Deaths 20 February: Rua Kenana Hepetipa, Māori prophet. 5 March: Sir Frederic Lang, politician – 8th Speaker of the House of Representatives. 29 May: Charles Hall, politician. 19 October: Sir Ernest Rutherford, physicist. 27 October: Thomas Field, politician. 16 November: John Lillicrap, 29th Mayor of Invercargill. 29 November: John Jenkinson, politician. :Category:1937 deaths See also History of New Zealand List of years in New Zealand Military history of New Zealand Timeline of New Zealand history Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica Timeline of the New Zealand environment References External links Years of the 20th century in New Zealand