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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