1962 in Wales - Deaths

Deaths

  • 14 February - Ezer Griffiths, physicist, 73
  • 23 March - Clement Davies, politician, 80
  • 25 April - Herbie Baxter, Glamorgan cricketer, 79
  • 11 May - Eliot Crawshay-Williams, politician and author, 82
  • 3 August - Edgar Phillips, poet and Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod, 72
  • 23 September - Margaret Jane Gordon (Lady Gordon), singer, 82
  • 5 November - Percy Cudlipp, journalist, 56
  • 30 November - Lewis Pugh Evans, Victoria Cross recipient, 81
  • 15 December - Charles Rhys, 8th Baron Dynevor, politician, 63
  • 17 December - Lonza Bowdler, Wales international rugby player, 61
  • 21 December - Gary Hocking, motorcycle road racer, 25 (racing accident)

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