(Newtown Bowling Club) Men's pair champions – W.A. Grenfell, S. Potter (skip) (Wellington Bowling Club) Men's fours champions – B. Hilton, A. Bell, O. Gallagher, Ernie Jury (skip) (Karangahake Bowling Club) Rugby union 1921 South Africa rugby union tour of Australia and New Zealand defend the Ranfurly Shield once against (10–8) before losing it to (13–28). Wellington then defend it against (27–19) and Otago (13–8). Births January 9 January – Fraser Barron, World War II bomber pilot 17 January – Jack Bergin, neurologist, anti-abortion campaigner 30 January – Joan Faulkner-Blake, broadcaster February 5 February – Juan Schwanner, association football player and coach 6 February – Bob Scott, rugby league and rugby union player 7 February – Guy Natusch, architect 13 February – Howard Hutchinson, association footballer 14 February – Harry Whale, physicist 20 February – Tom McGuigan, politician 25 February – Keith Thiele, World War II and commercial pilot March 4 March – Charlie Dempsey, association football administrator 12 March – Les Harmer, cricket umpire 13 March – Raymond Brown Hesselyn, World War II fighter pilot 16 March – Chip Bailey, trade unionist April 10 April – Robert Wade, chess player 12 April – Peter Brown, artist 27 April – Helen Wily, mathematician 30 April – Wally Williams, water polo player May 2 May – Ron Smith, public servant, peace activist 6 May – Tangaroa Tangaroa, Cook Islands politician 12 May – Peter Munz, philosopher, historian 15 May – Anne Delamere, public servant 18 May – Rosalie Carey, playwright, director, poet, actor, author 23 May – Richard Harrison, politician 26 May Frank Mooney, cricketer Agnes Wood, artist, writer 29 May – Wally Argus, rugby union player 31 May – Aston Greathead, artist June 6 June – Shirley Tonkin, sudden infant death syndrome researcher 7 June – Brian Talboys, politician 13 June – Roy Blair, cricketer 17 June – Monita Delamere, rugby union player, Ringatū leader, community leader 19 June – Judy Pickard, abstract painter, librarian and advocate for women's rights 23 June Cecil Holmes, film director and writer Leonard Willmott, soldier, security intelligence officer 25 June – Willow Macky, songwriter 28 June – Eric Holland, politician July 8 July – John Money, psychologist, sexologist, author 11 July – Pat Perrin, potter 12 July – Doug Dye, microbiologist 13 July – Lester Castle, lawyer, public servant 18 July – Ian Payne, cricketer 21 July – Graham Speight, jurist 23 July –