Deaths
- 20 January - Roy Evans, footballer, 25 (car crash)
- 14 February - Ernest Roberts, politician, 78
- 10 March - Jimmy Wilde, boxer, 76
- 27 March - David Lloyd, tenor, 56
- 31 March - Percy Jones, Wales international rugby player, 82
- 5 April - Mal Griffiths, footballer, 50
- 15 April - Cowboy Morgan Evans, Texan rodeo rider of Welsh descent, 66
- 4 May - Albert Stock, Wales international rugby player, 72
- 21 May - Ben Beynon, Welsh rugby union international and Swansea Town player, 75
- 28 May - Rhys Williams, actor, 71
- 7 July - William David Davies, theologian, 72
- 19 August - Percy Thomas, architect, 85
- 1 October - Dai Richards, footballer, 62
- 18 October - Emrys Hughes, politician, 75
- 21 November - D. B. Wyndham-Lewis, author, 78
- 7 December - Hugh Williams, dramatist, 65
- 20 December - Eleanor Evans, singer, 76
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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)