Logan, water polo player, swimmer, surf lifesaver, dentist, naval officer May 1 May Pat Downey, lawyer and public servant Duncan McMullin, jurist 8 May – Gray Nelson, public servant, diplomat 9 May – Gerry Clark, sailor, writer and ornithologist 17 May – Jacqueline Sturm, poet and short-story writer 20 May – Donald Coleman, cricketer 22 May – Eric Petrie, cricketer 23 May – Jack Cropp, sailor 25 May – Helen Smith, politician 26 May – John Worrall, cricketer June 1 June – John O'Brien, rower 4 June – William Fyfe, geochemist 5 June – Bill McLennan, rugby league player 8 June – Bob Walls, painter 15 June – Roland Avery, rugby league referee 16 June Kate Harcourt, actor Trevor Redmond, speedway rider 20 June – Bill Bradfield, amateur astronomer 27 June – Brian Brake, photographer July 9 July – Joyce Fenton, fencer 10 July Ken Deas, cricketer Peter Eastgate, rugby union player 18 July Zin Harris, cricketer Jack Sutherland, athlete 19 July – Ray Harper, rugby union player and administrator 20 July – Tom Lynch, rugby union and rugby league player 25 July James Belich, politician, mayor of Wellington Dorothy Fletcher, historian August 19 August – John Caselberg, writer 25 August – Keith Cumberpatch, field hockey player 26 August Jill Amos, local-body politician, community leader Bill McCaw, rugby union player 30 August – Humphrey Gould, rower, businessman 31 August – Reg King, association footballer September 1 September – Myra Larcombe, police officer, historian, and swimming coach 9 September – John Hickman, meteorologist 14 September – John Hall-Jones, historian, otolaryngologist 22 September – Peter Burke, rugby union player, coach and administrator 27 September – Te Uruhina McGarvey-Tiakiwai, Māori cultural leader October 9 October Bob Goslin, boxer Ron Trotter, businessman 11 October – Leonard Watson, cricketer 22 October – Wally Clark, zoologist 24 October – Ian Monro, naval officer 30 October – Jill McDonald, children's writer and illustrator November 7 November – Brian Finlay, rugby union player 15 November – Wallace (Bill) Rowling, politician, 30th Prime Minister of New Zealand 18 November Giovanni Cataldo, fisherman, search and rescue organiser Pat Creedy, rugby union and rugby league player 19 November – Thomas Engel, rower 21 November – Peter Mulgrew, mountaineer, sailor, businessman 24 November Geoff Mardon, speedway rider Kevin Skinner, rugby union player 25 November – Alison Preston-Thomas, netball player December 1 December – John Branthwaite, Anglican priest 2 December – Les Hunter,