Deaths
- 20 January - Artie Moore, wireless operator (born 1887)
- 21 January - Jimmy Thomas, politician, 72
- 21 January - Rowley Thomas, Wales international rugby player, 85
- 7 March - T. Gwynn Jones ("Tir-na-Nog"), poet and journalist, 77
- 20 April - Sir Evan Davies Jones, 1st Baronet, civil engineer and politician, 90
- 21 April - Sir Alfred Thomas Davies, civil servant, 88
- 27 April - Evan Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar, 55
- 1 May - Horace Lyne, Wales international rugby player and WRU president, 88
- 3 May - David John Tawe Jones, composer, 64
- 8 May - Abel J. Jones, teacher, writer and public servant
- 6 June - Walter E. Rees, Secretary of the Welsh Rugby Union, 86
- 3 July - William McCutcheon, Wales international rugby player
- 23 July - John Bodvan Anwyl (Bodfan), lexicographer, 74
- 10 August - William Jones Williams, public servant, 86
- 26 August - Edgar Chappell, sociologist, 70
- 1 September - Dr Teddy Morgan, Welsh international rugby player, 69
- 24 October - T. Rowland Hughes, author, 46
- 9 November - William Dowell, Wales dual code rugby international, 64
- 16 December - George Maitland Lloyd Davies, pacifist politician, 59
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