Deaths
- 31 January - Henry Bracy, tenor, 71
- 28 February - Richard Lloyd, uncle of Lloyd George, 82
- 2 April - Bryn Lewis, Wales international rugby player, 26 (killed in action)
- 9 April - Edward Thomas, Anglo-Welsh poet (born 1878) (killed in action)
- 1 May - William Knox D'Arcy, industrialist (born 1849)
- 8 June - George Dobson, Wales international rugby union player
- 9 June - Thomas McKenny Hughes, geologist, 84
- 31 July
- Ellis Humphrey Evans ("Hedd Wyn"), poet, 30 (killed in action)
- James Llewellyn Davies, VC recipient, 31 (killed in action)
- 21 November - Rhys Jones Huws, poet, 55
- 25 November - John Williams, choirmaster, 61
- 14 December - Phil Waller, Wales and British Lions rugby player, 28 (killed in action)
- 25 December - Richard Jones Berwyn, colonist and writer, 54
- date unknown - Frederick William Harris, industrialist
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)