Deaths
- 8 January: Mac Price, diplomat.
- 22 January: Dylan Taite, music journalist.
- 14 April: John Kent, cartoonist.
- 30 April: Peter 'Possum' Bourne, rally driver.
- 12 May: Stan Lay, MBE, Olympic javelin thrower
- 24 May: Dr. Neil Cherry, environmental scientist.
- 21 July: John Davies, athlete.
- 2 September: Dame Reubina (Ann) Ballin.
- 5 September: Sir Richard Harrison, politician.
- 7 September: Merv Wellington, politician.
- 15 September: Anthony Treadwell, architect.
- 31 October: Lindsay Weir, cricketer.
- 24 November: Millie Khan, bowler.
- Jonathan Dennis, film historian.
- Mike Hinge, artist and illustrator.
- Philip Holloway, politician.
- Allan McCready, politician.
- Sid Scales, cartoonist.
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“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.”
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—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)