Deaths
- 11 January - Lorna Sage, critic, 57 (emphysema)
- 20 January - Crispin Nash-Williams, mathematician, 68
- 18 February - Claude Davey, Wales international rugby union captain, 92
- 22 February - Cledwyn Hughes, Lord Cledwyn of Penrhos, former Secretary of State for Wales, 84
- 11 April - Sir Harry Secombe, singer and comedian, 79
- 16 April - Henry Morgan Lloyd, clergyman, 89
- 26 April - Dafydd Rowlands, minister and writer, 69
- 30 April - Brian Morris, Baron Morris of Castle Morris, poet, critic and politician, 71
- 25 May - Delme Bryn-Jones, operatic baritone, 67
- 10 June - Samuel Ifor Enoch, theologian, 86
- 17 July - Val Feld, the first member of the Welsh Assembly to die, 53 (cancer)
- 19 July - Roderic Bowen, MP, 87
- August - Valerie Davies, Olympic swimmer, 89
- 19 September - Rhys Jones, archaeologist, 60
- October - John Owen, television writer (suicide)
- 6 December - Eryl Stephen Thomas, former Bishop of Monmouth and of Llandaff, 91
- 7 December - Ray Powell, MP, 73
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