Deaths
- 10 January - Howell Elvet Lewis ("Elved"), poet and Archdruid, 92
- 7 March - Jack Williams, Victoria Cross recipient, 66
- 20 March - Fred Parfitt, Wales international rugby player, 83
- 24 March - Mary of Teck, Princess of Wales 1910-1936 and Queen 1936-1952, 85
- 6 April - Idris Davies, poet, 48
- 30 April - Sir David Rocyn-Jones, medical practitioner and President of the WRU, 90
- 2 May - Thomas Mardy Rees, author
- 5 June - Elizabeth Mary Jones ("Moelona"), 75
- 18 June - Reg Plummer, Wales and British Lion rugby union player, 64
- 9 November - Dylan Thomas, poet, 39
- 11 November - John Glyn Davies, poet and children's writer, 83
- 26 November - Sir Ivor Atkins, organist and choirmaster, 83
- 27 November - T. F. Powys, Anglo-Welsh writer, 77
- 17 December - David Rees Griffiths, poet, 71
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