swimmer May 13 May – Richard Kearney, jurist 20 May – Alexia Pickering, disabilities rights campaigner 21 May – Keith Davis, rugby union player 24 May – Ivor Richardson, jurist 30 May – Colleen Dewe, politician June 1 June – Matt Poore, cricketer 7 June – Ian Leggat, cricketer 15 June – Bev Brewis, high jumper 25 June – Peter Wight, cricketer July 3 July – Kihi Ngatai, Ngāi Te Rangi leader, horticulturalist 11 July Jack Alabaster, cricketer Guy McGregor, field hockey player 25 July – Murray Chapple, cricketer 30 July – David Weston, cricketer August 2 August – Mick Bremner, rugby union player and administrator 5 August – Bruce Turner, field hockey player, cricketer 12 August – Brian Molloy, rugby union player, plant ecologist, conservationist 15 August Leo T. McCarthy, politician Azalea Sinclair, netball player 18 August Graeme Dallow, police officer Denis McLean, diplomat, author 21 August – Cyril Eastlake, rugby league player 28 August – Tony Small, diplomat 30 August – Noel Harford, cricketer September 3 September – Cherry Wilder, fantasy and science-fiction writer 6 September – David Simmons, ethnologist 10 September – Pauline Engel, educator 11 September – Kenneth Minogue, political theorist 19 September Robin Archer, rugby union player Volker Heine, physicist 22 September – John Hill, cricketer 28 September – Sel Belsham, rugby league player 29 September – Jocelyn Fish, politician, women's rights campaigner 30 September – George Menzies, rugby league player October 1 October – Bob Jolly, veterinary academic 21 October – Lawrence Reade, cricketer 22 October – Lois McIvor, artist 29 October – Hugh Burry, rugby union player, medical academic November 11 November – Ian Burrows, army officer 16 November – Merv Richards, pole vaulter, gymnastics and pole vault coach 17 November – Chic Littlewood, television entertainer, actor 20 November – James Hill, rower 22 November – Bill Lambert, politician 30 November – Leonard Boyle, Roman Catholic bishop December 6 December – Natalie Wicken, netball player 16 December Leslie Clark, cricketer Harry Turbott, architect, landscape architect 23 December – Jean Stewart, swimmer 27 December – John Drawbridge, artist 31 December – Ron Johnston, motorcycle speedway rider Undated Daphne Walker, singer Deaths January–February 6 January – Walter Harper, Anglican clergyman (born 1848) 9 January – Joseph Harkness, politician (born 1850) 11 January – Eru Tumutara, Ringatū bishop (born 1859) 24 January Ellen Crowe, community leader (born 1847) Sophia Taylor, suffragist (born 1847) Herman van Staveren,