2008 in Wales - Deaths

Deaths

  • 1 January - Aled Rhys Wiliam, writer, 81
  • 4 February - Peter Thomas, Baron Thomas of Gwydir, politician, 87
  • 8 March - Patrick Gibbs, RAF Wing Commander, author and film critic, 92
  • 12 March - Alun Hoddinott, composer, 78
  • 18 March - Philip Jones Griffiths, photojournalist, 72
  • 24 March - Neil Aspinall, Beatles' friend and assistant, 65
  • 17 April - Gwyneth Dunwoody, politician, 77
  • 25 April - Humphrey Lyttelton, jazz musician and former Port Talbot steelworker, 86
  • 1 May - Mark Kendall, footballer, 49
  • 12 June - Derek Tapscott, footballer, 75
  • 16 June - Gareth Jones, rugby player, 28
  • 22 June - Ron Stitfall, footballer, 82
  • 30 June - Anthony Crockett, Bishop of Bangor, 62
  • 14 July - George Noakes, former Archbishop of Wales, 83
  • 12 August - Michael Baxandall, art historian, 74
  • 18 August - Bob Humphrys, TV sports presenter, 56
  • 20 August - Leo Abse, politician, 91
  • 10 September - Vernon Handley, conductor, 77
  • 22 October - George Edwards, footballer, 87
  • 27 October - Colin Gale, footballer, 76
  • 12 November - Richard Rhys, 9th Baron Dynevor, 73
  • 7 December - John Ellis Williams, novelist, 84

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    “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.”
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