29 October: Kaine Robertson, rugby player. 4 November: Jerry Collins, rugby player. 7 November: James Franklin, cricketer. 8 November: Brent Webb, rugby player. 23 November: Kirk Penney, basketball player. 25 November: Michael Wilson, soccer player. 29 November: Aaron Mauger, rugby player. 5 December: Heath Blackgrove, cyclist. 17 December: Tim Youngson, musician. 24 December: Andrew Barron, football (soccer) player. 31 December: Richie McCaw, rugby player. Ben Goodger, lead developer of the Firefox web browser. Deaths 8 January: Logan Sloane, politician. 29 March: Harold David London, public servant, philatelist, cycling administrator, editor and local historian 12 April: Clark McConachy, snooker and billiards player. 15 May: Len Lye, sculptor, artist, writer and film-maker. 14 July:Norman Shelton, politician. 26 July: Bertie Victor Cooksley, politician. 2 August: Verdun Scott, cricketer. 5 August: William Perrett Mead, engineer, skier, tramper, ranger and writer. 9 August: Denis Glover, poet and publisher. 28 November: Air Commodore Keith Caldwell MC DFC, WWI flying ace. 28 November: Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae, Governor-General. 5 December: Don Taylor, cricketer. See also List of years in New Zealand Timeline of New Zealand history History of New Zealand Military history of New Zealand Timeline of the New Zealand environment Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica References External links New Zealand Years of the 20th century in New Zealand