1981 in Wales - Deaths

Deaths

  • January - Leslie Jones, footballer, 69
  • 1 March - Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones, theologian, 81
  • 8 March - Nigel Birch, Baron Rhyl, politician, 74
  • 3 April - Will Owen, miner and politician, 80
  • 13 April - Gwyn Thomas, author, 67
  • 16 June - Billy Hughes, footballer, 63
  • 17 June - Ike Fowler, dual-code international rugby union player, 86
  • 23 July - Goronwy Roberts, Baron Goronwy-Roberts, politician, 67
  • 6 August - George Lewis, footballer, 67
  • 18 September - Brinley Richards, poet, author and archdruid
  • 30 September - Roy John, Wales and British Lions international rugby union player, 55
  • date unknown
    • Tom Griffiths, Welsh international footballer
    • Dai Francis, miners' leader
    • J. E. Meredith, Presbyterian minister and writer

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