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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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)