Births
- 7 February: Witi Ihimaera, author
- 6 March: Kiri Te Kanawa, opera singer
- 8 April: Tariana Turia, politician
- 12 May: Barry Barclay, filmmaker
- 16 June: Robin Morrison, photographer
- 17 July: Mark Burgess, cricketer
- 22 July: Anand Satyanand, Judge, Ombudsman and 19th Governor-General of New Zealand
- 29 July: Terrence Jarvis, cricketer
- August 26: Neroli Fairhall, archer (died 2006)
- 30 August: Alex Wyllie, rugby union player and coach
- 10 November: Andy Leslie, rugby union player and administrator
- 18 November: David O'Sullivan, cricketer
- Jack Body, composer
- Philip Culbertson, theologian
- (in Ireland): Bert Hawthorne, motor racing driver
- Keith Locke, environmentalist and politician
- Brian Turner, sportsman and writer
- John Wood, diplomat
- Philip Woollaston, politician
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