off Auckland and goes on to challenge Team New Zealand for the 2003 America's Cup. 2 March – Alinghi, skippered by Russell Coutts, beats Team New Zealand boat New Zealand skippered by Dean Barker 5–0 to win the 2003 America's Cup Births 8 January – Sosefo Fifita, rugby league player 18 February – Jeremiah Nanai, rugby league player 24 February – Jackson Manuel, association footballer 13 March – Patricia Maliepo, rugby union player 19 March – Caleb Tangitau, rugby union player 23 March – Davvy Moale, rugby league player 19 April – April Ngatupuna, rugby union and rugby league player 22 April – Che Clark, rugby union player 12 May – Kelsey Teneti, rugby union player 25 May – Deine Mariner, rugby league player 13 August – Cameron Gray, swimmer 23 August – Efficient, Thoroughbred racehorse 23 September – Finn Surman, association footballer 31 October – Green Birdie, Thoroughbred racehorse 17 November – Callum Hedge, racing driving 24 November – Charlotte Cleverley-Bisman, face of campaign against meningococcal disease 31 December – Erika Fairweather, swimmer Undated Deine Mariner, rugby league player Manaia Nuku, rugby union player Raymond Tuputupu, rugby union player Deaths January–March 6 January – Hirini Melbourne, composer, singer, writer and academic (born 1949) 7 January – Charisma, eventing horse (foaled 1972) 8 January – Mac Price, diplomat (born 1948) 16 January – Bruce Juddery, journalist (born 1941) 17 January – Phil Hawksworth, badminton player (born 1913) 20 January – Cleone Rivett-Carnac, athlete (born 1933) 21 January James Clark, cricketer (born 1910) Les Lock, racing cyclist (born 1929) 22 January – Dylan Taite, drummer, rock music journalist (born 1937) 29 January – Bill Sewell, poet (born 1951) 30 January – Ron Buchan, lawn bowler (born 1907) 1 February – Bill Meates, rugby union player (born 1923) 2 February – Stan Cowman, cricket umpire (born 1923) 13 February – Bright Williams, last surviving New Zealand-born veteran of World War I (born 1897) 22 February – Sir Frank Callaway, music educator and administrator (born 1919) 25 February – Marion Robinson, physiologist, nutritionist (born 1923) 7 March – Sid Scales, cartoonist (born 1916) 19 March – Tori Reid, rugby union player (born 1912) 27 March – Edwin Carr, composer (born 1926) April–June 5 April – Irihapeti Ramsden, nurse, educator (born 1946) 7 April – John Rymer, Anglican cleric (born 1924) 8 April – Harry Frazer, rugby union player (born 1916) 14 April –