Deaths
- 23 January - Morys Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, 85
- 29 January - Eric Griffiths, musician, 64
- 24 February - Professor Sir Glanmor Williams, historian, 84
- 8 March - Alice Thomas Ellis, novelist, 72
- 26 March - James Callaghan, Lord Callaghan of Cardiff, former Cardiff MP and prime minister, 92
- 1 April - John Davies, cricketer, 79
- 2 April - Trevor Foster, Rugby League player, 90
- 21 April - Gwynfor Evans, first Plaid Cymru MP and leader of the party for 40 years, 92
- 16 May - Sir Rees Davies, historian, 66
- 17 May - John Griffith Vaughan, seed scientist, 79
- 28 May - David Oswald Thomas, philosopher, 81
- 31 May - Martyn Davies, rugby player
- 19 June - Tich Gwilym, musician, 54
- 30 July - Derrick Morris, heart transplant survivor, 75
- 20 August - Clifford Williams, actor and director, 78
- 1 October - Peter Hubbard-Miles, politician, 78
- 3 October - Jeff Young, rugby player, 63
- 4 November - Wilfred Abse, psychoanalyst, 91
- 21 November - Aileen Fox, archaeologist and widow of Sir Cyril Fox, 98
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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)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
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What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“On almost the incendiary eve
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