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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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)