Deaths
- 12 February - William Edwards, educationist
- 21 February - Sir Alfred Edward Lewis, banker
- 20 March - William Thomas Edwards (Gwilym Deudraeth), poet
- 7 April - Ernest Rowland, priest and Wales international rugby player, 75
- 27 April - Fred Cornish, Wales international rugby player
- 25 June - Stanley Winmill, Wales international rugby union player, 51
- 8 August - Daniel Lleufer Thomas, lawyer and biographer
- 20 August - Henry Maldwyn Hughes, Wesleyan minister
- 26 September - W. H. Davies, poet and author
- 9 October - Sir Wilfred Grenfell, medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador
- 9 November - Gwilym Owen, physicist
- 15 December
- Robert Thomas Jones, quarrymen’s leader
- Sir David Richard Llewellyn, 1st Baronet, industrialist
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“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)
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hurts no one makes no one desperate
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