Deaths
- 5 January - Merlyn Rees, Labour politician, 85
- 15 January - Glyn Berry, Welsh-born Canadian diplomat, 59
- 5 February - Peter Philp, dramatist and antiques expert, 85
- 21 February - Stefan Terlezki, politician, 78
- 13 March - Roy Clarke, footballer, 80
- 18 March - Glyn Davidge, Wales international and British Lion rugby player, 72
- 6 April - Leslie Norris, poet and author, 84
- 19 April - Ken Jones, rugby player, 84
- 25 April - Peter Law, politician, 58
- 23 May - Ray Cale, dual code international rugby player, 83
- 1 June - Gerald James, actor, 88
- 2 June - Leon Pownall, Wrexham-born actor, 63
- 25 June - Kenneth Griffith, actor and documentary maker, 84
- 23 July - John Samuel Rowlands, George Cross recipient, 90
- 25 July - Dewi Zephaniah Phillips, philosopher, 71
- 30 August - Glenn Ford, Canadian actor of Welsh parentage, 90
- 1 September - Sir Kyffin Williams, artist, 88
- 27 September - Tommy Harris, former rugby player, 79
- 21 October - Urien Wiliam, novelist and dramatist, 76
- 2 November - Leslie Manfield, Wales international rugby union player, 91
- 18 November - Keith Rowlands, rugby union player and administrator, 70
- 20 November - Dr William R. P. George, solicitor and poet, 94
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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 soldiers 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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (19131992)