1871 in Wales - Births

Births

• 5 January — Percy Lloyd, Wales national rugby player (died 1959)
• 23 February — Jack Evans, Wales national rugby player (died 1924)
• 2 March — Billy Bancroft, sportsman (died 1959)
• 28 March — Silyn Roberts, Socialist and pacifist writer (died 1930)
• 6 April — Prince Alexander John of Wales, youngest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1871)
• 12 April — Ellis William Davies, politician (died 1939)
• 15 April — John Humphreys Davies, writer (died 1926)
• 11 May — George Howells, academic and writer (died 1955)
• 6 June — Evan Lloyd, Wales international rugby player (died 1951)
• 14 June — David Nicholl, rugby player (died 1918)
• July - Owen Jones, footballer (died 1955)
• 3 July — W. H. Davies, poet (died 1940)
• 13 August — Jack Elliott, Wales international rugby player (died 1938)
• 21 September — Alfred Brice, Wales international rugby player (died 1938)
• 1 October — Sir Lewis Lougher, industrialist and politician (died 1955)
• 10 October — Thomas Gwynn Jones, poet (died 1949)
• 3 November — Owen Badger, Wales national rugby player (died 1939)
• 27 November — Robert Evans (Cybi), writer (died 1956)
• 1 December — Bert Dauncey, Wales international rugby player (died 1955)
• 3 December — Sir Percy Emerson Watkins, civil servant (died 1946)
• date unknown
  • William Jenkins, politician (died 1944)
  • Howard Passadoro, footballer (died 1921)
  • Thomas Mardy Rees, historian and author (died 1953)