Deaths
- 3 January - T. G. Jones, footballer, 86
- 5 January - Vivian Jenkins, rugby player, 92
- 22 January – Islwyn Ffowc Elis, author, 79
- 5 February - Nicholas Evans, artist, 97
- 21 February – John Charles, footballer, 72
- 4 April - Alwyn Williams, geologist, 82
- 17 April – Geraint Howells, politician, 79
- 25 April – Eirug Wyn, author, 53 (myeloma)
- 2 June – Alun Richards, novelist, 74
- 15 June – J. Gwyn Griffiths, poet, Egyptologist and nationalist political activist, 92
- 17 July – Sir Julian Hodge, banker, 99
- 18 July – Emrys Evans, banker
- 20 August – Arthur Lever, footballer, 84
- 1 September - Gordon Parry, Baron Parry, 78
- 10 September – Glyn Owen, actor, 76
- 15 September – Sue Noake, athletics official
- 25 September - Michael Treharne Davies, Catholic writer, 68
- 13 October – Bernice Rubens, novelist, 76
- 21 October – Brinley Rees, academic, 84
- 9 November - Emlyn Hughes, English footballer of Welsh parentage, 57 (brain cancer)
- 14 November - David Stanley Evans, astronomer, 88
- 29 November – Jonah Jones, sculptor, writer, and educationist, 85
- 4 December – Sir Anthony Meyer, politician, 84
- 14 December – Harry Bowcott, international rugby player and president of the Welsh Rugby Union, 97
- date unknown - Eifion Jones, marine botanist
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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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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)