Deaths
- 28 March: Sir Gaven Donne, jurist, former Chief Justice of various Pacific nations (born 1914)
- 20 May: Hugh Morris, founder of McDonald’s New Zealand
- 30 May: Dame Pat Evison, actress
- 31 May: Merata Mita, filmmaker
- 1 August: Eric Tindill, cricketer and rugby player
- 11 August: Sir Ron Trotter, businessman
- 17 August: Koro Dewes, Ngāti Porou kaumatua and Māori language advocate
- 9 November: John Jerome Cunneen, eighth Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Christchurch
- 15 December: Tom Newnham, political activist and former educationalist
- 31 December: Syd Ward, cricketer
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)