player, soldier, sports administrator (born 1908) 19 February – Sir Gordon Minhinnick, cartoonist (born 1902) 25 February – F. Russell Miller, politician (born 1914) 9 March – Ethel Gould, politician, MLC (born 1895) 15 March – Allan Dick, politician (born 1915) April–June 21 April – Barry Dallas, doctor, politician (born 1926) 28 April – Allan Highet, politician (born 1913) 2 May – Trevor Hatherton, geophysicist, scientific administrator (born 1924) Kel Tremain, rugby union player (born 1938) 9 May – Alex Stenhouse, association footballer (born 1910) 23 May – Ernst Plischke, architect (born 1903) 29 May – Mavis Rivers, jazz singer (born 1929) 4 June – Mortie Foreman, plastics manufacturer (born 1902) 5 June – Rangitaamo Takarangi, Māori welfare officer and community leader (born 1901) 9 June – Jim Clayton, rower (born 1911) July–September 4 July – Jimmy James, dancer, dance teacher, cabaret proprietor (born 1915) 10 July – Laurie Haig, rugby union player (born 1922) 11 July – Douglas St John, cricketer (born 1928) 17 July – Frank Haigh, lawyer, social reformer (born 1898) 27 July – Audrey Gale, lawyer, politician (born 1909) 30 July – John Scott, architect (born 1924) July (date unknown) – Mervyn Thompson, playwright, theatre director, drama academic (born 1936) 2 August – Alf Cleverley, boxer (born 1907) Roderick Finlayson, writer (born 1904) 5 August – Sir Robert Muldoon, politician (born 1921) 6 August – Jack Brooke, yachtsman, yacht designer, research engineer (born 1907) 14 August – Bill Hamilton, agricultural scientist, scientific administrator (born 1909) 15 August – Ronald Moore, soldier (born 1915) 29 August - Ian Hamilton, cricketer (born 1906) 19 September – Percy Allen, politician (born 1913) October–December 1 October – Samantha Dubois, radio presenter (born 1955) 4 October – Denny Hulme, motor racing driver (born 1936) 13 October – Ruth Page, political activist (born 1905) 24 October – Oswald Sanders, Christian teacher, missionary and writer (born 1902) 6 November – Gordon Innes, rugby union and rugby league player (born 1910) 18 November – Ken Gray, rugby union player, politician (born 1938) 22 November – Ronald Sinclair, child actor, film editor (born 1924) Sir Gerard Wall, surgeon, politician (born 1920) 12 December – Sir Robert Rex, Niuean politician (born 1909) 19 December – Eve Sutton, children's author (born 1906) 26 December – Eve Poole, Mayor of Invercargill (born 1924) 28 December – Paul Beadle, sculptor and medallist (born 1917) 29 December – Avice Bowbyes,