Deaths
- 13 February: Murray Hudson GC, soldier.
- 13 February: Sir Leslie Munro, diplomat.
- 14 February: Charles 'Stewie' Dempster, cricketer.
- 30 August: Professor George Jobberns, academic.
- 31 August: Norman Kirk, Prime Minister.
- 12 September: Hector Bolitho, writer and biographer.
- 11 December: Maurice Duggan, writer.
- Alice Bush, doctor and medical activist.
- James Fletcher, industrialist.
- Charles Elliot Fox, missionary.
- Robert McKeen, politician - 12th Speaker of the House of Representatives.
- Dan Riddiford, politician.
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