Lewis, water polo player November 6 November – Christian Cullen, standardbred racehorse 18 November – Anna-Lisa Christiane, beauty pageant contestant 22 November – Tautalatasi Tasi, rugby league player 23 November – Evie Millynn, association footballer 24 November – Brew, Thoroughbred racehorse 27 November – Racquel Sheath, cyclist December 2 December – Rachel Schmidt, trampolinist 5 December – Zonda, Thoroughbred racehorse 8 December Helena Gasson, swimmer Dylan Kennett, cyclist Elizabeth Thompson, field hockey player 10 December Leo Carter, cricketer Holly Robinson, athlete 14 December – Tim Seifert, cricketer 16 December – Jordan Rae, gymnast 17 December – Lloyd Perrett, rugby league player 20 December Jacko Gill, shot putter Ryan Thomas, association football player 22 December Lalakai Foketi, rugby union player Cameron Howieson, association football player 23 December – David Havili, rugby union player 24 December – Fa'amanu Brown, rugby league player 30 December Tyler Boyd, association football player Kyle Jamieson, cricketer Full date unknown Rafe Custance, actor Kylie Price, singer-songwriter Deaths January–March 1 January – Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt, 11th Governor-General of New Zealand (born 1900) 2 January – Godfrey Bowen, sheep shearer (born 1922) 4 January – Dame Eileen Mayo, artist and designer (born 1906) 7 January – Dame Dorothea Horsman, women's rights advocate (born 1918) 18 January – Hēmi Pōtatau, Presbyterian minister, soldier, writer (born 1904) 25 January – Bertha Rawlinson, operatic singer, actor, composer (born 1910) 16 February – Graeme Caughley, population ecologist and conservation biologist (born 1937) 4 March – George Hughes, philosopher and logician (born 1918) 10 March – D. J. M. Mackenzie, colonial medical officer (born 1905) 20 March – John Kennedy, Roman Catholic journalist and editor (born 1926) 26 March – Dame Whina Cooper, Māori leader (born 1895) April–June 17 April – Bill Dillon, politician (born 1933) 30 April – Ina Lamason, cricketer and field hockey player (born 1911) 2 May – Roderick Syme, agricultural instructor, mountaineer, local-body politician (born 1900) 3 May – Francis Bell, actor (born 1944) 5 May – Charles Diver, confectioner (born 1910) 7 May – Nassipour, Thoroughbred racehorse (foaled 1980) 9 May – Connie Birchfield, political activist (born 1898) 16 May – Roy McElroy, politician, mayor of Auckland (1965–68) (born 1907) 18 May Sir Harry Barker, newspaper journalist, politician (born 1898) Charles Turner, mechanical and civil engineer (born 1901) 22 May – Norman Read, racewalker (born 1931) 25 May – Jack Best, rugby union player (born 1914) 27 May