Deaths
- 4 January - Robert Williams Parry, poet, 71
- 14 January - Sam Ramsey, Wales international rugby union player
- 22 February - Nathaniel Walters, Wales international rugby player, 80
- 19 May - Peter Freeman, politician, 67
- 8 June - Walter Rice, 7th Baron Dynevor, soldier, civil servant and politician, 82
- 5 July - Fred Birt, Welsh international rugby union player, 69
- 11 June - Frank Brangwyn, artist, 89
- 17 August - William Thomas Havard, Bishop of St. Davids and international rugby player, 66
- 31 August - Winifred Coombe Tennant, politician and philanthropist, 81
- 11 October - David James Davies, economist and politician, 63
- 22 November - Rhys Hopkin Morris MP, politician, 68
- 16 December - Nina Hamnett, artist, 66
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
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What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)