Deaths
- 12 March - Willie Llewellyn, Wales international rugby player, 94
- 19 March - Sir Clement Price Thomas, surgeon
- 23 May - Kenneth Allott, poet and critic
- 9 August – Donald Peers, singer, 66
- 11 August - Johnnie Clay, Test cricketer, 75
- 21 September - C. H. Dodd, theologian, 89
- 4 November - Billy Williams, dual-code international rugby player, 67
- 16 November - Dai Hiddlestone, Wales international rugby player, 83
- 24 November - Brigadier Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes, soldier and medical administrator, 81
- date unknown
- Anne Griffith-Jones, educationist
- Elena Puw Morgan, novelist
- Sir David Hughes Parry, professor of law and university administrator
- Melville Richards, academic
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
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“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.”
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