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:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
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Of deaths and entrances ...”
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—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)