Deaths
- January: Sir Peter Elworthy, farmer, politician, businessman.
- 25 January: Sonny Schmidt, bodybuilder.
- 29 January: Janet Frame, writer.
- 16 February: Don Cleverley, cricketer.
- March: Frank Mooney, cricketer.
- 4 March: Arthur Kinsella, politician.
- 17 March: Sir William Pickering, space scientist.
- 30 March: Michael King, historian.
- 22 May: Wayne Kimber, politician.
- June: Amelia Batistich, author.
- 26 June: Ronald Sharp, inventor of the herringbone cowshed.
- June: Allan Henderson Smith DFC and Bar, fighter pilot.
- June: Pat Kelly, union leader.
- 26 July: Morton W. Coutts, brewing pioneer.
- 14 August: Eric Petrie, cricketer.
- 11 September: Ruth Symons, cricketer.
- 5 October: Maurice Wilkins, scientist.
- 10 October: Maurice Shadbolt, writer.
- 23 October: George Silk, photojournalist.
- 11 December: Arthur Lydiard, athletics coach.
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