– Norm Holland, jockey (d. 2014) 26 March Jack McNab, rugby union player, coach and administrator (d. 2009) Josie Yelas, netball player (d. 1996) 29 March – Haydn Sherley, broadcaster (d. 2007) 31 March – Joan de Hamel, children's writer (d. 2011) April 2 April – Lauris Edmond, poet and writer (d. 2000) 3 April – Errol Brathwaite, writer (d. 2005) 18 April – Tiny White, equestrian (d. 2020) 30 April Richard Giese, flautist (d. 2010) Mervyn Probine, physicist, public servant (d. 2010) May 1 May – Ted Johnson, rower (d. 1985) 5 May – Frank Creagh, boxer (d. 1998) 12 May – Malcolm Templeton, diplomat (d. 2017) 22 May – Stella Casey, social campaigner (d. 2000) June 2 June – Pat Evison, actor (d. 2010) 3 June – Ken Armstrong, association footballer (d. 1984) 7 June – Bob Tizard, politician (d. 2016) 8 June – Ian Colquhoun, cricketer (d. 2005) 9 June – John Scott, architect (d. 1992) 14 June David Ballantyne, journalist, writer (d. 1986) Miriam Dell, women's advocate (d. 2022) July 7 July – D. P. O'Connell, barrister, legal academic (d. 1979) 15 July Bub Bridger, poet and short story writer (d. 2009) Brian Sutton-Smith, writer and play theorist (d. 2015) 23 July – Betty Bourke, politician, health administrator (d. 2015) 25 July Jim Beard, architect (d. 2017) Peter Mann, Anglican bishop (d. 1999) 26 July – Ces Renwick, cricketer (d. 2014) 28 July Eric Fisher, cricketer (d. 1996) William Fraser, politician (d. 2001) August 1 August – Peter Smith, rugby union player (d. 1954) 2 August – Ainsley Iggo, neurophysiologist (d. 2012) 7 August – Alan Wilkinson, association footballer (d. 2015) 13 August – John Rymer, Anglican cleric (d. 2003) 22 August – Pat O'Connor, professional wrestler (d. 1990) 23 August Bahri Kavaja, association footballer (d. 1987) Doug Mudgway, amateur wrestler (d. 1988) 28 August Tony MacGibbon, cricketer (d. 2010) Janet Frame, writer (d. 2004) 31 August – Don Beaven, medical researcher (d. 2009) September 3 September – John Ingram, mechanical engineer, businessman (d. 2015) 4 September – Lory Blanchard, rugby league player and coach (d. 2013) 5 September – Nick Carter, cyclist (d. 2003) 6 September – Hugh Poole, sailor (d. 2012) 7 September – Wanda Cowley, children's writer (d. 2017) 8 September – Frank Holmes, economist (d. 2011) 15 September – Rex Challies, cricketer (d. 2003) 17 September – Les Watt, cricketer (d. 1996)