Today in New Zealand History

Sub-Topics: Auckland - Christchurch - Dunedin - Maori - Tokelau - Wellington

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 118

1642-03-12 - Abel Tasman is 1st European in New Zealand
1642-12-13 - New Zealand discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman
1769-10-08 - Captain James Cook is the first European to land in New Zealand (Poverty bay)
1827-03-07 - Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner, a wealthy heiress in Cheshire, England is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand.
1835-12-21 - HMS Beagle sails into Bay of Islands (New Zealand)
1835-12-25 - Charles Darwins company celebrates Christmas in Pahia, New Zealand
1835-12-30 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails from NZ to Sydney
1840-01-22 - British colonists reach New Zealand.
1840-05-21 - NZ became a British colony
1845-03-11 - The Flagstaff War: In New Zealand, Chiefs Hone Heke and Kawiti lead 700 Māoris to chop down the British flagpole and drive settlers out of the British colonial settlement of Kororareka because of breaches of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi.
1848-03-23 - The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province is founded.
Naturalist Charles Darwin 1850-12-16 - Ships the Charlotte-Jane and the Randolph bring the first of the Canterbury Pilgrims to Lyttelton, New Zealand
1856-07-31 - Christchurch, New Zealand is chartered as a city.
1860-08-03 - The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.
1861-03-19 - The First Taranaki War ends in New Zealand.
1863-02-07 - HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189.
1863-10-31 - The Maori Wars resumed as British forces in New Zealand led by General Duncan Cameron began their Invasion of the Waikato.
1864-06-21 - New Zealand Land Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends.
1865-03-02 - Second Taranaki War: The Volkner Incident in New Zealand.
1868-11-02 - Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally
1876-11-01 - New Zealand's provincial government system is dissolved.
1882-02-15 - 1st cargo of frozen meat leaves NZ for Britain, on SS Dunedin
1886-07-10 - Eruption of Tarawera volcano destroys famous pink & white calcium carbonate hot-spring terraces (North Island, New Zealand)
1893-09-19 - NZ is 1st country to grant all its women the right to vote
1893-11-28 - Women vote in a national election for the first time: the New Zealand general election.
1901-06-11 - Cook Islands annexed & proclaimed part of New Zealand
1907-09-26 - NZ declares independence from UK
1907-09-26 - New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.
1907-12-11 - New Zealand Parliament Buildings almost completely destroyed by fire.
1914-12-23 - World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt.
1917-05-11 - Britain grants Royal Letters Patent to New Zealand
1923-06-30 - NZ claims Ross Dependency in Antarctica
1923-07-30 - New Zealand claims Ross Dependency
1930-01-10 - Maurice Allom takes Test hat-trick England v NZ Christchurch
1930-01-24 - Stewie Dempster scores New Zealand's 1st Test century
1931-01-07 - Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
1931-02-03 - The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258
1933-04-01 - Hammond scores 336* v NZ at Auckland, 47 fours 10 sixes
1936-03-26 - 1st parliamentary debate on NZ radio
1937-12-29 - Pan Am starts San Francisco-to-Auckland, New Zealand service
1941-11-22 - NZ troops conquer Ft Capuzzo Libya
1943-01-29 - New Zealand's Kiwi cruiser collides with Jap sub I-1 at Guadalcanal
1943-04-16 - 40 NZ bombers attack Haarlem Neth (85 killed)
1944-04-13 - The diplomatic relations between New Zealand and the Soviet Union are established.
1947-11-01 - UN trusteeship for Nauru granted to Australia, NZ & UK
1947-11-25 - New Zealand acedes to Statute of Westminster, becomes a dominion
1949-01-01 - Tokelau (Union) Islands declared part of New Zealand
1949-01-29 - Brit, Belgium, Lux, Neth, NZ & Switz recognize Israel
1951-09-01 - US, Australia & New Zealand sign ANZUS treaty
1951-09-02 - Australia, NZ & US sign ANZUS-pact
1953-12-25 - Avalanche of lava kills 150 (Ruapehu volcano, New Zealand)
Queen Elizabeth II 1954-01-12 - Queen Elizabeth II opens NZ parliament
1954-09-20 - New Zealand's Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents reports just ten days after concluding hearings.
1955-11-09 - NZ all out for 70 v Pakistan at Dacca
1958-06-20 - NZ all out 47 v England at Lord's Laker 4-13, Lock 5-17
1959-05-30 - The Auckland Harbour Bridge is officially opened today in Auckland, New Zealand.
1962-01-01 - Western Samoa gains independence from New Zealand Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes co-chief of Western Samoa
1964-04-13 - New Zealand Colin Bosher shears a record 565 sheep in 1 work day
1965-03-07 - Bruce Taylor takes 5-86 in debut innings for NZ after ton
1965-03-20 - Venkataraghavan takes 8-72 v NZ at Delhi
1965-07-09 - John Edrich completes 310* v NZ in 532 minutes, 52 fours 5 sixes
1965-08-04 - Cook Islands enters into free association with New Zealand
1967-04-19 - 71st Boston Marathon won by Dave McKenzie of New Zealand in 2:15:45
1967-12-24 - Pirate Radio Pegasus starts broadcasting off New Zealand
1968-04-10 - Ferry Wahine sinks in Wellington harbour, New Zealand on route from Lyttelton (51 killed)
1973-02-10 - Mushtaq Mohammad follows up 201 to take 5-49 v NZ Dunedin
1974-10-19 - Niue becomes self-govering colony of New Zealand
1976-01-25 - Surinder Amarnath scores 124 on Test debut Ind v NZ Auckland
1976-01-28 - Erapalli Prasanna takes 8-76 to rip through NZ at Eden Park
1976-02-13 - Peter Casserly of NZ hand-sheers record 353 lambs in 9 holes
1976-06-30 - John Walker of NZ sets record for 2000 m, 4:51.4
1976-07-17 - The opening of the Summer Olympics is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the New Zealand team.
1976-10-09 - Peter Petherick takes hat-trick on debut NZ v Pak Javed 1st wkt
1979-11-28 - Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mt Erebus on Antarctica kills 257
1981-02-03 - Australia beats NZ 3-1 to win World Series Cup
1981-04-20 - 10th Boston Women's Marathon won by Allison Roe of NZ in 2:26:46
1981-08-16 - Highest score in World Cup soccer match (New Zealand-13, Fiji-0)
1983-02-13 - Australia beats NZ 2-0 to win World Series Cup
1984-02-05 - NZ beat England (82 & 93) by an innings in 3 days
1984-04-16 - 13th Boston Women's Marathon won by Lorraine Moller of NZ in 2:29:28
1985-02-04 - Naval exercises canceled when US refuses to tell NZ of nuclear weapons
1986-06-27 - US informs NZ it will not defend it against attack
1987-06-08 - New Zealand's Labour government legislates against nuclear weapons and nuclear powered vessels. This makes New Zealand the first and (as of June 2006) only nation to ban these things from its territory.
1988-09-09 - US swamps NZ at 27th America`s Cup: NZ set to appeal
1989-03-28 - New Zealand wins America's Cup over Stars & Stripes, in a NY court
1989-09-19 - Appeals court restores America's Cup to US after NY Supreme Court gave it to NZ (NZ protested US's use of a catamaran)
1990-02-23 - Ian Smith 173* NZ v India, 136 balls, world record for no 9 bat
1990-11-13 - In Aramoana, New Zealand, Resident David Gray shot dead 13 people, in what became known as the Aramoana Massacre.
1991-01-15 - Australia beat NZ 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
1991-02-02 - Aravinda De Silva scores 267 v NZ at Wellington
1991-10-01 - New Zealand's Resource Management Act 1991 commences.
1992-03-21 - Pakistan scores 6-264 to overhaul NZ in exciting World Cup semi
1993-08-10 - An earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter Scale hits the South Island of New Zealand.
1994-04-26 - 1st multi-racial election in South Africa begins [3 days] Dr Nomaza Paintin in NZ is 1st black South African to vote
1995-02-13 - West Indies beat NZ by innings & 332, Courtney Walsh 13-55
1995-05-13 - New Zealand beats US for the America's Cup
1995-11-26 - New Zealand score 8-348 in 49 overs v India in Nagpur ODI
1996-03-11 - Chris Harris scores 130 in losing NZ side v Australia, World Cup
1997-03-03 - The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.
1999-11-27 - The left-wing Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history.

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 148

1833-01-01 - Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (d. 1902)
1843-12-21 - Thomas Bracken, Irish-born New Zealand poet (d. 1898)
1844-09-28 - Robert Stout, Shetland Islands Scotland, NZ prime minister (1884-87)
1847-03-10 - Kate Sheppard, New Zealand suffragist (d. 1934)
1856-04-26 - Sir Joseph Ward, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1930)
1858-07-21 - Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, New Zealand artist (d. 1941)
1865-01-17 - Gen Sir Charles Fergusson, Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1951)
1871-08-30 - Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand physicist and father of nuclear physics (Nobel 1908), (d. 1937)
1877-02-24 - Ettie Rout, New Zealand activist (d. 1936)
1878-02-03 - Joseph Gordon Coates, PM of New Zealand (1925-28)
1888-10-14 - Katherine Mansfield, Wellington New Zealand, short story writer (Aloe, Garden Party)
Father of Nuclear Physics Ernest Rutherford (1871-08-30) 1893-08-15 - Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer (d. 1950)
1893-10-18 - Sidney Holland, NZ, PM of NZ (1949-57)
1894-02-06 - Eric Partridge, New Zealand lexicographer (d. 1979)
1895-04-15 - Clark McConachy, New Zealand billiards player (d. 1980)
1895-04-23 - Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand writer (d. 1982)
1896-01-09 - Warwick Braithwaite, New Zealand-born British conductor (d. 1971)
1899-03-25 - Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (d. 1978)
1903-03-11 - Ronald Syme, New Zealand classicist and historian (d. 1989)
1904-02-11 - Keith Holyoake, New Zealand PM (1960-72)
1905-04-25 - George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player (d. 1986)
1908-03-12 - Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (d. 1970)
1909-09-15 - Jean Batten, NZ air pioneer (1st woman to fly solo Australia-
1912-08-30 - Nancy Wake AC GM, New Zealand-born World War II secret agent
1914-12-25 - James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand industrialist (d. 2007)
1916-07-09 - Sir Dean Goffin, New Zealand composer (d. 1984)
1917-07-06 - Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand running coach (d. 2004)
1921-09-25 - Robert Muldoon, premier NZ (1975-84)/chairman (IMF)
1925-06-11 - Richard White, Gisborne, New Zealand, rugby union player (55 games as an All Black), (d. 2012)
1926-05-09 - Robin Cooke, pres (NZ Court of Appeal)
1926-11-27 - Barbara Anderson, New Zealand author
1930-05-24 - Ivor Richardson, Judge (NZ Court of Appeals)
1930-08-25 - Bruce Allpress, New Zealand actor
1932-06-04 - Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer
1933-07-07 - Murray Halberg, New Zealand, 5K runner (Olympic-gold-1960)
1934-02-10 - Fleur Adcock, New Zealand poet
1934-04-09 - Bill Birch, New Zealand politician
1934-11-13 - Peter Arnett, New Zealand-born American journalist
1934-12-30 - Barry Briggs, NZ auto maker (World Champion 1957, 58, 64, 66)
1935-05-31 - Jim Bolger, 35th Prime Minister of New Zealand
1935-07-10 - Wilson Whineray, Auckland, New Zealand, All Black (1957-65), (d. 2012)
1935-08-18 - Howard Morrison, New Zealand entertainer
1936-03-14 - Bob Charles, New Zealand golfer
1936-06-03 - Colin Meads, New Zealand rugby player
1937-08-30 - Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer and founder of eponymous race team (d. 1970)
1941-01-17 - Dame Gillian Weir, New Zealand organist
1942-08-04 - David Russell Lange, PM (L) NZ (1984-89)
1945-09-17 - Bruce Spence, New Zealand actor
1947-02-19 - Tim Shadbolt, mayor of Invercargill, New Zealand
1947-03-09 - Keri Hulme, New Zealandic writer
1947-05-06 - Alan Dale, New Zealand actor
1948-01-16 - Dalvanius Prime, New Zealand entertainer (d. 2002)
1949-12-05 - Ray Comfort, New Zealand evangelist
1953-01-25 - Malcolm Green, rocker (Split Enz-I Got You)
1953-06-14 - Janet Mackey, New Zealand politician
1953-09-02 - Gerhard P J Thiele, Brenz Germany, astronaut
1954-04-30 - Jane Campion, New Zealand film director
1955-06-01 - Lorraine Moller, Boulder Colo, NZ athelete (Olympics-96)
1956-03-01 - Mark Todd, UK, NZ equestrian 3 day event (Olympics-96)
1956-04-13 - Peter 'Possum' Bourne, New Zealand rally driver (d. 2003)
1956-05-23 - Mark Shaw, New Zealand rugby footballer
1958-05-27 - Neil Finn, rocker (Split Enz-I Got You, Crowded House)
1959-01-10 - Fran Walsh, New Zealand screenwriter
1960-02-15 - Jock Hobbs [Michael], chairman of the New Zealand Rugby Union and 21 test All Black, (d. 2012)
1960-12-26 - Temuera Morrison, New Zealand actor
1961-05-10 - Blyth Tait, England, NZ equestrian 3 day event (Olympics-gold-96)
1961-08-01 - Andrew Nicholson, UK, NZ equestrian 3 day event (Olympics-96)
1961-08-09 - John Key, New Zealand politician
1961-10-05 - David Kirk, New Zealand rugby union footballer
Film Director Peter Jackson (1961-10-31) 1961-10-31 - Peter Jackson, Pukerua Bay, New Zealand, film director (Lord of the Rings - Academy Award, Best Director, 2003)
1963-03-16 - Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (d. 2002)
1963-04-11 - Billy Bowden, New Zealand umpire
1964-04-07 - Russell Crowe, Wellington, New Zealand, Australian/New Zealand actor (A Beautiful Mind, Gladiator)
1966-02-03 - Sean Patrick Wade, Houston Texas, NZ marathoner (Olympics-96)
1966-03-19 - Paul Devenport, New Zealand, Canadian Tour golfer (1991 Texas Tour)
1966-06-30 - Marton Csokas, New Zealand actor
1966-12-13 - Ross Burden, New Zealand celebrity chef
1967-05-31 - Phil Keoghan, New Zealand television personality
1967-10-26 - Keith Urban, New Zealand singer
1968-01-25 - Lynette Brooky, NZ, golfer (NZ Open 1993/94)
1968-03-29 - Lucy Lawless, New Zealand actress and singer
1969-04-27 - Brett Steven, Bermuda, NZ tennis player (Olympics-96)
1969-10-10 - Scott Anthony Murray Nelson, Geelong Australia, NZ 20k walker (Oly-96)
1970-07-22 - Craig Baird, New Zealander racing driver
Actress & Singer Lucy Lawless (1968-03-29) 1971-02-15 - Ray Sefo, New Zealand kick boxer
1971-05-18 - Daniel Gowing, Germany, NZ judoka (Olympics-96)
1971-07-18 - Sarah McLeod, New Zealand actress
1972-03-29 - Paul Michael Kent, Australia, NZ breastroker (Olympics-96)
1972-06-07 - Karl Urban, New Zealand actor
1972-08-18 - Loraine Lambert, Ipswich Queensland, golfer (NZ champ 1991, 92)
1972-12-16 - Angela Bloomfield, New Zealand actress
1974-01-10 - Jemaine Clement, New Zealand actor
1974-10-02 - Mark Porter, New Zealand racing driver (d. 2006)
1974-10-09 - Kieren Hutchison, New Zealand actor
1975-01-02 - Reuben Thorne, New Zealand rugby union player
1975-01-05 - Kylie Bax, New Zealand model
1975-05-12 - Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1975-09-08 - Larenz Tate, American Actor
1975-12-13 - Sarah Brady, Miss Universe-New Zealand (1996)
1976-02-12 - Christian Cullen, New Zealand rugby union footballer

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

2007-04-14 - Two and a Half Men actress Melanie Lynskey (29) weds actor Jimmi Simpson (31) in a chapel overlooking a vineyard on Lake Hayes, near Queenstown, New Zealand

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 88 of 88

1865-03-02 - Carl Sylvius Völkner, German missionary to New Zealand (b. 1819)
1884-12-01 - William Swainson (lawyer), second, and last, Attorney-General (New Zealand) of the Crown Colony of New Zealand (b. 1809)
1898-02-16 - Thomas Bracken, New Zealand poet (b. 1843)
1902-12-03 - Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (b. 1833)
1907-01-14 - Sir James Fergusson, British politician, and governor of South Australia, New Zealand and Bombay (b. 1832)
1915-05-19 - John Simpson Kirkpatrick stretcher bearer with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at Gallipoli during World War I (b. 1892)
1930-07-19 - Robert Stout, NZ prime minister (1884-87), dies at 85
1934-09-02 - James Allan, New Zealand rugby union player, All Black (b. 1860)
1936-09-17 - Ettie Annie Rout, New Zealand activist (b. 1877)
1937-10-19 - Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand physicist (Nobel 1908), dies at 66
1940-03-27 - Michael Joseph Savage, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1872)
Father of Nuclear Physics Ernest Rutherford (1937-10-19) 1941-07-27 - Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, New Zealand artist (b. 1858)
1947-05-17 - George William Forbes, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1869)
1950-12-11 - Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1893)
1961-08-05 - Sidney Holland, PM of New Zealand (1949-57), dies at 67
1963-07-04 - Bernard Freyberg, Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1889)
1970-01-27 - Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (b. 1908)
1970-06-02 - Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer, designer, and founder of eponymous race team (b. 1937)
1971-10-10 - John Cawte Beaglehole, New Zealand historian (b. 1901)
1974-08-31 - Norman Kirk, New Zealand prime minister (b. 1923
1975-12-08 - Gary Thain, New Zealand bassist (Uriah Heep) (b. 1948)
1978-01-06 - Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (b. 1899)
1979-04-23 - Blair Peach, New Zealand-born anti-fascist (b. 1946)
1980-04-12 - Clark McConachy, New Zealand billiards and snooker player (b. 1895)
1982-02-18 - Edith Ngaio Marsh, NZ detective writer/producer, dies at 82
1986-06-27 - George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1905)
1987-06-19 - Teresa Cormack, New Zealand murder victim (b. 1981)
1987-12-27 - Rewi Alley, NZ author, pro Chinese communist, dies at 90 in Beijing
1989-09-04 - Ronald Syme, New Zealand-born classicist and historian (b. 1903)
1990-08-16 - Pat O'Connor, New Zealand professional wrestler (b. 1925)
1992-08-05 - Robert Muldoon, premier NZ (1975-84)/President IMF, dies
1993-02-10 - Fred Hollows, New Zealand ophthalmologist (b. 1929)
1994-01-04 - Jim Booth, New Zealand producer (Heavenly Creatures), dies at 48
1995-10-31 - Wallace Edward Rowling, PM of NZ (1974-1975), dies at 68
1996-05-23 - Rob Hall, New Zealand high altitude climber (b. 1941)
1999-04-13 - Ortvin Sarapu, New Zealand chess player (b. 1924)
2001-07-08 - John O'Shea, New Zealand film director (b. 1920)
2001-12-06 - Sir Peter Blake, New Zealand yachtsman & winner of numerous Whitbread and America's Cup sailing contests, killed by pirates on the Amazon River at age 53
Actor Kevin Smith (2002-02-15) 2002-02-15 - Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (b. 1963)
2002-03-14 - Cherry Wilder, New Zealand-born author (b. 1930)
2003-04-13 - Possum Bourne, New Zealand rally car driver (b. 1956
2003-04-30 - Peter 'Possum' Bourne, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1956)
2003-07-21 - John Davies, New Zealand Olympic Committee president (b. 1938)
2003-11-12 - Cameron Duncan, New Zealand director (b. 1986)
2004-01-29 - Janet Frame, New Zealand writer (b. 1924)
2004-03-15 - Sir William Pickering, New Zealand-born space scientist (b. 1910)
2004-03-30 - Michael King, New Zealand historian (b. 1945)
2004-08-14 - Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-born British politician (b. 1918)
2004-10-05 - Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
2004-10-10 - Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer (b. 1932)
2004-12-11 - Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand running coach (b. 1917)
2004-12-29 - Liddy Holloway, New Zealand actress (b. 1947)
2005-01-19 - Bill Andersen, New Zealand communist and trade union leader (b. 1924)
2005-03-26 - Paul Hester, Australian drummer (Split Enz and Crowded House) (b. 1959)
2005-08-13 - David Lange, 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1942)
2005-11-05 - Rod Donald, New Zealand environmentalist (b. 1957)
2005-11-06 - Rod Donald, New Zealand Politician, Green Party Co-leader (b. 1957)
2005-12-04 - Errol Brathwaite, New Zealand author (b. 1924)
2006-01-04 - Robert Howard White, Mayor of Papatoetoe, New Zealand (b. 1914)
2006-02-01 - Bryce Harland, New Zealand diplomat (b. 1931)
2006-03-08 - Brian Barratt-Boyes, New Zealand heart surgeon (b. 1924)
2006-04-23 - Johnnie Checketts, New Zealand fighter pilot (b. 1912)
2006-05-30 - David Lloyd, New Zealand biologist (b. 1938)
2006-06-11 - Neroli Fairhall, New Zealand archer (b. 1944)
2006-08-30 - Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, New Zealand jurist and member of the British House of Lords (b. 1926)
2006-09-19 - Hugh Kawharu, New Zealander Ngāti Whātua Māori chief (b. 1927)
2006-10-08 - Mark Porter, New Zealand racing driver (b. 1975)
2007-04-16 - Frank Bateson, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1909)
2007-05-02 - Brad McGann, New Zealand film director and screenwriter (b. 1964)
2007-05-19 - Dean Eyre, New Zealand politician (b. 1914)
2007-06-20 - Trevor Henry, New Zealand Justice (b. 1902)
2007-07-22 - Jarrod Cunningham New Zealand rugby player (b. 1968)
2007-08-07 - Angus Tait, New Zealand electronics innovator and businessman (b. 1919)
2007-08-15 - Geoffrey Orbell, New Zealand bush walker (b. 1908)
2007-08-28 - Nikola Nobilo, New Zealand winemaker (b. 1913)
2007-08-29 - James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand industrialist (b. 1914)
2007-09-01 - Roy McKenzie, New Zealand philanthropist (b. 1922)
2007-09-13 - Whakahuihui Vercoe, New Zealand clergyman (b. 1928)
2007-10-24 - Ian Middleton, New Zealand novelist (b. 1928)
2007-11-23 - Pat Walsh, New Zealand rugby union footballer (b. 1936)
Mount Everest Conquerer Edmund Hillary (2008-01-11) 2008-01-11 - Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer/1st to climb Mt Everest in 1953, dies from a heart attack at 88
2008-10-02 - Rob Guest, New Zealand entertainer (b. 1950)
2008-12-13 - John Drake, New Zealand rugby union footballer (b. 1959)
2010-05-31 - Merata Mita, New Zealander filmmaker (b. 1942)
2012-03-10 - Richard White, New Zealand rugby union player, dies at 86
2012-03-13 - Jock Hobbs [Michael], New Zealand Rugby Union chairman and All Black, dies from leukemia at 52
2012-10-22 - Wilson Whineray, New Zealand rugby player, dies at 77
2012-11-16 - Bob Scott, New Zealand Rugby player, dies at 91