1987 in Wales - Deaths

Deaths

  • 5 January - Brinley Williams, Wales dual-code rugby international, 91
  • 21 January - Donald Holroyde Hey, chemist, 83
  • 4 February - Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, writer and broadcaster, 78
  • 4 April - Richard Ithamar Aaron, philosopher, 85
  • 13 April - Alfred Evans, Labour MP, 73
  • 19 April - Stan Richards, footballer, 70
  • 22 May - Keidrych Rhys, poet and editor
  • 22 June - William Price, footballer, 83
  • 4 September - Richard Marquand, film director, 49 (stroke)
  • August - Dorothy Rees, politician, 89
  • 11 September - Hugh David, television director, 62
  • 25 September - Emlyn Williams, dramatist and actor, 81
  • 5 November - Howard Davies, rugby player, 70
  • 27 December - Anna Eliza Williams, oldest documented person in the world, 114
  • date unknown - Albert Clifford Williams, politician, Labour MP for Abertillery 1965–1970

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