Deaths
- 10 January - Lillie Goodisson, nurse, late 80s
- 26 February - Percy Phillips OBE, Wales international rugby player and civil servant
- 26 March - Charles Alexander Harris, governor of Newfoundland, 91
- 15 May - Arthur Harding, Wales international rugby union captain, 68
- 23 May - Richard Griffith (Carneddog), poet and journalist, 85
- 25 May - Samuel Clark, rugby official and international rugby player
- 20 June - Sir John Edward Lloyd, historian, 86
- 30 June - Jerry Shea, Welsh rugby union and rugby league player, 54
- 5 July - Jack Evans Wales international rugby player, 72
- 7 July
- James Henry Howard, minister and writer, 70
- Johnny Basham, boxer, 56
- 23 July - David James Jones, philosopher, 60
- 12 October - William Brace, politician, 82
- 18 October - Alexander Bland, Wales international rugby player, 80
- 22 November - James J. Davis, United States politician, 74
- 23 November - Sir George Lockwood Morris, industrialist and Welsh international rugby player, 88
- 15 December - Arthur Machen, writer, 74
- 23 December - John Samuel, Wales international rugby player
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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)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)
“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)