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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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)