Deaths
- 2 January: John Ziman, physicist and humanist.
- 19 January: Bill Andersen, trade union leader.
- 21 January: Neville Scott, 1958 Commonwealth Games bronze medalist in 3 mile race.
- 26 February: Ian Colquhoun, QSM, cricketer.
- 9 March: Brian Turner (RNZN) OBE, DSO, Legion of Merit (US), Navy Commander.
- 23 April: Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Queensland politician.
- 11 May: Bob Stuart, All Black captain and later manager.
- 13 May: Owen Wilkes, peace activist and convicted spy.
- 29 May: Admiral Sir Gordon Tait KCB, DSC, Submariner. Later headed Royal Naval College and became Second Sea Lord.
- 12 June: Sonja Davies, trade unionist and MP.
- 17 June: Jonathan Elworthy, Minister of Lands 1981-84.
- 11 July: Sir John Kennedy-Good, KBE, QSO. Mayor of Lower Hutt 1970-86.
- 21 July: Nick Unkovich, Lawn bowls national title holder.
- 24 July: John Drawbridge MBE, artist and printmaker.
- 5 August: Roy Scott, cricketer.
- 13 August: David Lange, politician, 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (1984–1989). (born 1942)
- 16 August: Kevin Smith, conservationist.
- 29 August: Jack Luxton, National MP 1966-1987, deputy speaker 1978-1984.
- 4 October: John Falloon, National MP and Cabinet Minister.
- 14 October: Peter Brown, Artist
- 5 November: Rod Donald, Green Party co-leader.
- 20 November: Bob Rudd (aged 104). New Zealand's last resident World War I veteran.
- 1 December: Ray Hanna, Former Leader of The Red Arrows.
- 18 December: Doug Dye, microbiologist.
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
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What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)