1980 in New Zealand - Deaths

Deaths

  • 12 April: Clark McConachy, snooker and billiards player.
  • 15 May: Len Lye, sculptor, artist, writer and film-maker.
  • 2 August: Verdun Scott, cricketer.
  • 9 August: Denis Glover, poet and publisher.
  • 28 November: Air Commodore Keith Caldwell MC DFC, WWI flying ace.
  • 28 November: Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae, Governor-General.
  • 5 December: Don Taylor, cricketer.
  • Norman Shelton, politician.
  • Logan Sloane, politician.

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