Deaths
- 19 January - Rex Willis, Wales international rugby union player, 75
- 19 February - Josef Herman, artist, 88
- 23 February - John Nevill, 5th Marquess of Abergavenny, 85
- 11 March - Will Roberts, painter, 92
- 7 April - Walter Vickery, Wales international rugby player, 90
- 20 May - David Pearce, boxer, 41
- 28 May - Donald Davies, computer scientist and inventor, 75
- 30 May - Doris Hare, actress, 95
- 10 July - Dilwyn Lewis, designer, 76
- 19 July - Philip Jones, civil servant, 69
- 26 July - Albert Fear, Wales international rugby player, 92
- 17 September - Paula Yates, television presenter (born in Colwyn Bay), 41 (suicide)
- 25 September - R. S. Thomas, poet, 87
- 30 September - Howard Winstone, boxing champion, 61
- 11 November - Sir Alun Talfan Davies, judge, 87
- December - George Evans, footballer, 65
- 2 December - Rosemarie Frankland, former Miss World, 57 (drug overdose)
- 22 December - Harry Payne, Wales international rugby player, 93
- date unknown - Doug Rees, footballer
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