Deaths
- 4 January: Sonny Fai, rugby league player, presumed drowned
- 4 February: Antonie Dixon, convicted murderer.
- 1 March: Robert Bruce, professional wrestler and talent agent, illness
- 2 May: Percy Marunui Murphy, New Zealand's first Maori mayor
- 12 May: Heather Begg, opera singer, leukemia
- 13 July: Bill Young, politician and diplomat
- 26 August: Sir Jack Harris, 2nd Baronet, businessman
- 20 September: Ken Hough, dual international cricketer and footballer
- 24 September: Sir Howard Morrison, entertainer
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)