Deaths
- 26 January - Raymond Williams, writer, 66
- 2 April - Euros Bowen, poet, 83
- April - T. Glynne Davies, poet, novelist and broadcaster, 62
- 13 May - Elfed Evans, footballer, 61
- 15 June - David Blackmore, cricketer, 88
- 8 September - Mel Rosser, dual-code international rugby player, 87
- 23 September - Arwel Hughes, composer and conductor. 79
- 12 October - Ruth Manning-Sanders, poet and children's author, 102
- 11 November - William Ifor Jones, conductor and organist, 88
- 13 December - Brynmor John, politician, 54
- 25 December - W. F. Grimes, archaeologist, 83
- 27 December - Tecwyn Roberts, aerospace engineer, 63
- date unknown
- George Ewart Evans, folklorist and oral historian
- John Gwilym Jones, writer
- John Morgan, journalist
- Ray Price, rugby player, 64 (brain haemorrhage
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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.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
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