June – Walter Hadlee, cricketer and cricket administrator 10 June – Inia Te Wiata, opera singer, actor, carver and artist 27 June – Graham Botting, cricketer 30 June – Gordon Rowe, cricketer and cricket umpire July–September 10 July – Jack Parker, boxer 29 July – Tristan Hegglun, rower, rugby union player, politician 31 July – Theo Schoon, artist, photographer and carver 3 August – Harold Tyrie, athlete and athletics coach 8 August – John Kennedy-Good, politician and dentist 11 August – Jack Skinner, association football player 18 August – Fred Lucas, air force and commercial pilot, tourism operator 21 August – Lena Manuel, community leader 1 September – Allan Dick, politician 4 September – Ethel Divers, netball player 5 September – Peter Tait, politician 15 September – Jimmy Ell, cricketer 19 September – Ron Moore, soldier 23 September – Has Catley, rugby union player October–December 1 October – Jim Davidson, historian 9 October – John Rodgers, Roman Catholic bishop 22 October – Pat Twohill, actor and radio announcer 26 October – Sydney Goodsir Smith, poet, artist, dramatist and novelist 31 October – Muriel Boswell, netball player 1 November – Harry Lapwood, soldier and politician 2 November – Douglas Lilburn, composer 5 November – Toby Hill, watersider and trade unionist 9 November – Florence Humphries, trade unionist and consumer advocate 10 November – Duncan MacIntyre, soldier and politician 11 November – Ben Gascoigne, astronomer 14 November – David Thomson, soldier and politician 30 November – Peter Hanan, swimmer 6 December – Alan Sayers, athlete, journalist and writer 10 December – Nicky Barr, rugby union player and World War II fighter ace 15 December – Joy Lamason, cricketer 17 December – Philip Adams, diplomat 22 December – Dorothy Neal White, librarian Deaths January–March 15 January – William Shepherd Allen, politician (born 1831) 26 January – Frank Lethbridge, politician (born 1852) 25 February – Ann Alabaster, schoolteacher (born 1842) 26 February – Edward Richardson, engineer, politician (born 1830) 1 March – Francis Arkwright, politician (born 1846) 13 March – George Parker, politician (born 1839) 15 March – John Grimes, Roman Catholic bishop (born 1842) 23 March – John Bollard, politician (born 1839) 31 March – Allan Marshall, river captain and engineer (born 1851) April–June 6 April – Felix McGuire, politician (born 1847) 18 April – Francis St Omer, baker, restaurateur, politician (born 1827) 25 April George Chamier, novelist (born 1842) Nat Williams, cricketer