artist 8 April – Ron Stone, association footballer 9 April – Vincent McCarten, cricketer 13 April – Ronald Tinker, soldier, scientific administrator 22 April Ted Dunning, cricketer Kenneth J. McNaught, philatelist 28 April – Phil Hawksworth, badminton player 30 April – John Kavanagh, Roman Catholic bishop May 4 May – Bill Laney, politician 5 May – John Denvir, soldier 6 May – Douglas Stewart, poet 9 May – Alfred Cobden, cricketer 13 May – John Miles, microbiologist, epidemiologist 16 May – Norman Davis, English language and literature academic 18 May – Hono Denham, cricketer 19 May – Artie Combes, cricketer 23 May – Charlie Saxton, cricket, rugby union player, coach and administrator 25 May – Gordon Jolly, lawn bowls player 27 May – Allan Highet, politician 31 May – Dave Solomon, rugby union and rugby league player June 4 June – Tom Pearce, rugby union player and administrator, businessman, politician 5 June – Alan Brash, Presbyterian minister 12 June – Ruth France, poet, novelist 19 June – Peter Donkin, World War II pilot 28 June – Bill Gwynne, cricket umpire 30 June – Percy Allen, politician July 12 July – Rufus Rogers, doctor, politician 13 July – Len Newell, swimmer 14 July – Claude Clegg, javelin thrower 15 July – Terry McLean, sports journalist 18 July – Stephen Peter Llewellyn, soldier, historian, writer 21 July – Betty Molesworth Allen, botanist 26 July – Howard Benge, rower 27 July – Charles Bennett, broadcaster, soldier, diplomat 28 July – Tom Morrison, rugby union player and administrator 31 July – George Wallace, cricketer August 6 August – Oscar Wrigley, cricketer 8 August – Clement Randall, cricketer 11 August – Reginald Cook, cricketer 20 August Desmond Dunnet, cricketer Vi Farrell, cricketer 21 August – Ken Uttley, cricketer, pathologist 23 August – Nikola Nobilo, winemaker 24 August – Johannes La Grouw – architect, engineer, businessman 29 August – Len Butterfield, cricketer September 1 September Dan Davin, author Jean Mitchell, netball player 2 September – Mick Borrie, demographer 3 September – Malcolm Lohrey, cricketer 5 September – Nancy Browne, cricketer 6 September – Ron Ulmer, cyclist 12 September – Alastair Monteath, cricketer 13 September – Oswald Cheesman, musician 15 September – Russell Aitken, air force officer 21 September – Robertson Stewart, industrialist 25 September – Clare Mallory, children's author 28 September Maurice Browne, cricketer Haane Manahi, soldier October 1 October – Ken Cumberland, geographer, politician 3