– Terence Shaw, cricketer 18 May – Ron Watson, sailor 20 May – Thomas Goddard, layer, judge June 8 June – Michael Crozier, physicist, politician 20 June David Lloyd, botanist Phil Skoglund, lawn bowls player 21 June – John Kent, cartoonist 23 June – Greer Twiss, sculptor 24 June – Louise Clough, cricketer July 2 July – Judith McKinlay, biblical scholar 9 July – Bill Kini, boxer, rugby union player 15 July – Judi Doull, cricketer 21 July – Barry Thomas, rugby union player 24 July – Te Wharehuia Milroy, Māori language academic 25 July – Rose Pere, educationalist, Māori language advocate, conservationist August 1 August – Gugi Waaka, musical entertainer 2 August – Ron Brierley, businessman 4 August – Charmian O'Connor, physical organic chemist 7 August – Don McKay, rugby union player 9 August – Trevor Chinn, glaciologist 10 August Ian Bradley, naval officer, politician Valerie Young, athlete 17 August – Patricia Grace, author 19 August – Mick Brown, judge 21 August – Elizabeth Hanan, politician, community leader 24 August – Philip Newman, cricketer 26 August – John Veitch, cricketer 30 August – Bruce McLaren, racing driver and car designer September 2 September – Frank Rapley, cricketer 7 September – Ngātata Love, business academic, Te Āti Awa leader 10 September – Dave Gallop, cricket player and administrator 11 September – Marilynn Webb, artist 14 September Stuart Chambers, ornithologist John Cullen, field hockey player 21 September – Dennis Browne, Catholic bishop 22 September Graham Houghton, missionary, educator Trevor McKee, Thoroughbred racehorse trainer 23 September – Alexander Morrison, cricketer 28 September Graeme Caughley, ecologist Vincent O'Sullivan, writer October 5 October – Brian Maunsell, boxer 9 October – Richard Walls, businessman, politician 21 October – Robert Monteith, cricket umpire 23 October – Lawrie Creamer, milk protein chemist 27 October – Neville Huxford, cricketer 28 October – Jim Dawson, cricketer November 2 November – Dylan Taite, music journalist 3 November – Peter Coutts, cricketer 4 November – Brian Edwards, broadcaster, author 12 November – Helen Thayer, explorer 13 November – Abdul Rahim Rasheed, Muslim community leader, lawyer 19 November Meg Campbell, poet Kenneth Keith, jurist 23 November – James Wallace, businessman, arts patron 25 November – Frances Cherry, writer December 1 December – Bill Hume, association footballer 3 December – Peter Morris, cricketer 4 December – Ross Dallow, police officer, politician 5 December – Roger Douglas, politician 12 December – Grant Tilly, actor