July – Jim Allen, visual artist 25 July – Alan Peart, World War II fighter pilot 31 July Kenneth Clark, ceramicist Owen Hardy, World War II fighter pilot 9 August – Peter Johnstone, rugby union player 1 August – Alf Budd, rugby union player 2 August – Dell Bandeen, netball player 10 August – John Feeney, documentary film director 13 August – Arch Jelley, athletics coach 20 August – Rona McKenzie, cricketer September–October 1 September – Harold Logan, Standardbred racehorse 11 September – Jack Shallcrass, author, educator, humanist 15 September – Norman Rumsey, optical systems designer 17 September – Ted Smith, rower 26 September – Johnny Smith, rugby union player Brian Waugh, airline operator and pilot 4 October – Morrie Church, rugby league coach 9 October – Kendrick Smithyman, poet 10 October – Harry Cave, cricketer Nan Clark, trade unionist 11 October – Cole Wilson, musician, singer-songwriter 12 October – Randal Elliott, ophthalmologist 18 October – Laurie Haig, rugby union player 21 October – Bruce Barclay, politician Hone Tuwhare, poet 30 October – Bob Chapman, political scientist, historian November–December 3 November – Alan Blake, rugby union player (died 2010) 7 November – Roy McKenzie, horse breeder, philanthropist (died 2007) 13 November – Syd Jensen, motorcycle racer, motor racing driver (died 1999) 14 November – Douglas MacDiarmid, painter (died 2020) 16 November – J.C.P. Williams, cardiologist 19 November – Yvonne Rust, potter (died 2002) 22 November – Helen Brew, actor, birth campaigner, documentary filmmaker, educator and speech therapist (died 2013) 25 November – Maurice Duggan, writer (died 1974) 1 December – William James Lanyon Smith, naval officer (died 2018) 5 December – Keith Sinclair, historian, poet, politician (died 1993) 13 December – Norm Wilson, rugby union player (died 2001) 19 December – Christine Cole Catley, journalist, publisher, author (died 2001) 26 December – Iain Gallaway, cricketer and broadcaster (died 2021) Exact date unknown Bettina Welch, actor Deaths January–March 4 January – William Wilson McCardle, nurseryman, founder of Pahiatua, politician (born 1844) 14 January – Arthur Thomas Bate, sharebroker, public servant, rugby union and cricket administrator, philatelist (born 1855) 16 January – Alan Scott, World War I pilot (born 1883) 18 February – Thomas Peacock, politician (born 1837) 20 January – Henry Harper, Anglican priest (born 1833) 24 February – W. D. H. Baillie, politician (born 1827) 7 March – Alexander Donald, sailmaker, merchant, ship owner (born 1842) April–June 1 April –