11 April – Vivienne Boyd, community leader 12 April – Hoani Waititi, Māori community leader 14 April – Barbara Anderson, writer 18 April – Peter Henderson, rugby union and rugby league player, sprinter 22 April – Arthur Eustace, track and field athlete, coach and administrator May 6 May – Colin Webster-Watson, sculptor, poet 9 May – Robin Cooke, jurist 15 May – Lyall Barry, swimmer, schoolteacher, local historian 19 May – Nancy Adams, botanist, botanical artist, museum curator 23 May – John Hollywood, cricketer 27 May – Gordon Leggat, cricket player and administrator June 7 June – John Kennedy, Roman Catholic journalist 11 June – Louise Sutherland, cyclist 17 June – Don Rowlands, rower, rowing administrator, businessman 18 June – Joe Walding, politician, diplomat 19 June Rod Coleman, motorcycle racer Barrie Hutchinson, water polo player, rugby union player and administrator, politician 23 June – Jim Barnden, boxer 24 June – Graham Liggins, medical scientist 25 June – June Schoch, athlete 29 June – James K. Baxter, poet July 5 July – Trevor Davey, politician 14 July – Patricia Woodroffe, fencer 18 July – Bernard Diederich, writer, journalist, historian 22 July – Ron Russell, politician 23 July – Tom O'Donnell, medical practitioner and academic 31 July – Don Donnithorne, architect August 10 August – Edwin Carr, composer 17 August – Solomon Faine, microbiologist September 10 September – Jack Somerville, lawn bowls player 11 September – Joe Schneider, rower 17 September – William Lunn, rugby union player 22 September – Denzil Meuli, writer, newspaper editor, Roman Catholic priest 29 September – Vivienne Cassie Cooper, planktologist, botanist October 4 October – Phar Lap, Thoroughbred racehorse 13 October George Gair, politician, diplomat Bill James, rower 16 October – Peter Arnold, cricket player and administrator 26 October – John Myles, athlete 28 October Doug Anderson, rugby league player Merv Norrish, diplomat, public servant 30 October – Nan Kinross, nurse and nursing academic 31 October – Stanley Dallas, recording engineer, radio technician November 3 November – Edward Gaines, Roman Catholic bishop 7 November – Graeme Allwright, singer-songwriter 20 November – Tom Newnham, political activist December 1 December – Barry Dallas, politician 5 December – Derek Turnbull, athlete 7 December – Jack Kelly, rugby union player, schoolteacher 12 December Maida Bryant, politician, community leader Laurie Davidson, yacht designer 13 December – Dave Batten, athlete 14 December – Alan Rowe, actor 15 December – Ron Bailey, politician 18