Deaths
- 5 February - Emrys James, actor, 60
- 19 February - Jack Bassett, Wales international rugby union player, 83
- 22 February - Sir Raymond Gower, politician, 72
- 3 May - William Squire, actor, 73
- 5 October - Elvet Jones, Wales and British Lions rugby international, 77
- 20 October - Bill Tamplin, Wales rugby player and captain, 72
- 27 October - Frank Vining, potter, 75
- 4 December - Elwyn Jones, Baron Elwyn-Jones, former Lord Chancellor, 80
- 28 December - George Andrews, Wales dual-code rugby player, 85
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
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...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
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