Deaths
- 12 January – Wilfred Bailey, 3rd Baron Glanusk, 56
- 21 February – Tom Pook, Wales international rugby union player, 78
- 8 March – Charlie Thomas, Wales international rugby player
- 25 April – Arthur Boucher, Wales international rugby union player, 77
- 30 April – David Daniel, Wales international rugby union player, 77
- 17 May – David Evans, organist and composer, 74
- 22 May – David Delta Evans (Dewi Hiraddug), journalist, author, and Unitarian minister, 82
- 9 June – Len Trump, Wales international rugby player, 61
- 18 July – John Tywi Jones, Baptist minister and journalist, 78
- 20 August – David John de Lloyd, composer, 65
- 28 August – Charles Evans Hughes, American politician of Welsh descent, 86
- 4 October – Arthur Whitten Brown, British aviator, in Swansea, 62
- 18 October – Isaac Daniel Hooson, poet, 68
- 17 November – B. B. Mann, Wales international rugby union player, 90
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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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)