Deaths
- 14 January – Ivan Lloyd-Phillips, colonial administrator, 73
- 26 January – Nathan Rocyn-Jones, doctor, international rugby player and President of the WRU, 81
- 10 February – Ioan Evans, politician, 56
- 11 April – John Roland Lloyd Thomas, clergyman and teacher, 76
- 15 April – Tommy Cooper, comedian, 63 (heart attack on stage)
- 18 June - Idris Foster, academic, 72
- 22 June – Dill Jones, jazz pianist, 60
- 6 July – Denys Val Baker, British writer and promoter of Celtic culture, 66
- 5 August – Richard Burton, actor, 58 (brain haemorrhage)
- 27 August – Amabel Williams-Ellis, writer
- 23 September – Daniel Granville West, politician, 80
- 12 October – Sir Anthony Berry, politician and son of James Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley, 59 (killed in Brighton hotel bombing)
- 11 December (in Hendon) – Will Paynter, miners' leader, 81
- date unknown - Arthur Fear, operatic bass-baritone
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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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“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
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