1941 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1941 to Wales
and its people
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Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
and its people
Welsh people
The Welsh people are an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language.John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman departure from Britain, although Brythonic Celtic languages seem to have...
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Incumbents
- Prince of WalesPrince of WalesPrince of Wales is a title traditionally granted to the heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the 15 other independent Commonwealth realms...
– vacant - Princess of WalesPrincess of WalesPrincess of Wales is a British courtesy title held by the wife of The Prince of Wales since the first "English" Prince of Wales in 1283.Although there have been considerably more than ten male heirs to the throne, there have been only ten Princesses of Wales. The majority of Princes of Wales...
– vacant - Archbishop of WalesArchbishop of WalesThe post of Archbishop of Wales was created in 1920 when the Church in Wales was separated from the Church of England , and disestablished...
– Charles Alfred Howell GreenCharles Alfred Howell GreenCharles Alfred Howell Green was the first bishop of the newly established diocese of Monmouth and subsequently Bishop of Bangor during which time he also served as Archbishop of Wales... - ArchdruidArchdruidThe Archdruid is the title used by the presiding official of the Gorsedd.The Archdruid presides over the most important ceremonies at the National Eisteddfod of Wales including the Crowning of the Bard, The Award of the Prose Medal and Chairing of the Bard. From 1932 only former winners of the...
of the National Eisteddfod of WalesNational Eisteddfod of WalesThe National Eisteddfod of Wales is the most important of several eisteddfodau that are held annually, mostly in Wales.- Organisation :...
– CrwysWilliam Williams (Crwys)William Williams , better known by his bardic name of "Crwys", was a Welsh poet in the Welsh language. He served as Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales from 1939 to 1947....
Events
- 2 January – 165 people are killed in Luftwaffe air raidsCardiff BlitzThe Cardiff Blitz refers to the bombing of Cardiff, Wales during World War II.At the time, Cardiff Docks was the biggest coal port in the world and, for a few years before World War I, it handled a greater tonnage of cargo than either London or Liverpool....
on CardiffCardiffCardiff is the capital, largest city and most populous county of Wales and the 10th largest city in the United Kingdom. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for...
. - 13 February – Opening of RAF ValleyRAF ValleyRAF Valley is a Royal Air Force station on the island of Anglesey, Wales, and which is also used as Anglesey Airport. It provides fast-jet training using the BAE Hawk and provides training for aircrew working with Search and Rescue. Unofficially the motto for RAF Valley is 'One Valley, Training...
in Anglesey. - 14 February – Six people are killed in an air raid on Port TalbotPort TalbotPort Talbot is a town in Neath Port Talbot, Wales. It had a population of 35,633 in 2001.-History:Port Talbot grew out of the original small port and market town of Aberafan , which belonged to the medieval Lords of Afan. The area of the parish of Margam lying on the west bank of the lower Afan...
. - 17 January – 58 people are killed in air raidsSwansea BlitzThe Swansea Blitz was the heavy and sustained bombing of Swansea by the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany on 19–21 February 1941.Swansea was selected as a legitimate target due to its importance as a port and docks and the oil refinery just beyond and its destruction was key to Nazi German war efforts as...
on SwanseaSwanseaSwansea is a coastal city and county in Wales. Swansea is in the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan. Situated on the sandy South West Wales coast, the county area includes the Gower Peninsula and the Lliw uplands...
. - 20 January – Welsh press magnate William Ewart BerryWilliam Berry, 1st Viscount CamroseWilliam Ewart Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose was a British newspaper publisher.The second of three brothers born in Merthyr Tydfil in Wales, Berry started his working life as a journalist and established his own paper, Advertising World, in 1901...
is created Viscount CamroseViscount CamroseViscount Camrose, of Hackwood Park in the County of Southampton, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 20 January 1941 for the prominent newspaper magnate William Berry, 1st Baron Camrose...
. - 17 February – Samuel James Leeke finds his Swansea home destroyed by an air raid.
- 19-21 February – 240 people are killed in air raids on Swansea.
- 26 February – Four people are killed in an air raid on Cardiff. Buildings damaged include Cardiff UniversityCardiff UniversityCardiff University is a leading research university located in the Cathays Park area of Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. It received its Royal charter in 1883 and is a member of the Russell Group of Universities. The university is consistently recognised as providing high quality research-based...
. - February – Six cattle are killed in an air raid on CwmbranCwmbranCwmbrân is a new town in Wales. Today forming part of the county borough of Torfaen and lying within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire, Cwmbrân was established in 1949 to provide new employment opportunities in the south eastern portion of the South Wales Coalfield. Cwmbrân means Crow...
. - 3 March – 51 people are killed in air raids at Cardiff and PenarthPenarthPenarth is a town and seaside resort in the Vale of Glamorgan , Wales, 5.2 miles south west from the city centre of the Welsh capital city of Cardiff and lying on the north shore of the Severn Estuary at the southern end of Cardiff Bay...
. - 11 March – Three people are killed in air raids on Swansea.
- 21 March – The coaster Millisle is sunk by German planes off Caldey Island, killing ten crew.
- 27 March – The Michael Faraday, a cable-laying ship, is sunk by German planes off St Ann's Head in Pembrokeshire, killing 16 crew.
- 31 March – Three people are killed in air raids on Swansea.
- March – Co-developer Edward George BowenEdward George BowenEdward George 'Taffy' Bowen, CBE, FRS was a British physicist who made a major contribution to the development of radar, and so helped win both the Battle of Britain and the Battle of the Atlantic...
is on board the first American experimental airborne 10 cm radar. - 12 April – Three people are killed in air raids on Swansea.
- 15 April – 12 people are killed in an air raid on RAF Carew CheritonRAF Carew CheritonRAF Carew Cheriton was a World War II Royal Air Force airfield of Coastal and Training Command near Carew Pembrokeshire. It was sited 6 miles north of Tenby. It was built on the site of RNAS Pembroke from World War I, which had been decommissioned and sold off in the inter war years.Carew...
. - 29 April – 26 people are killed in air raids aimed at coal mines in the RhonddaRhonddaRhondda , or the Rhondda Valley , is a former coal mining valley in Wales, formerly a local government district, consisting of 16 communities built around the River Rhondda. The valley is made up of two valleys, the larger Rhondda Fawr valley and the smaller Rhondda Fach valley...
, and a further seven in Cardiff. - 8 May – Three German Heinkel 111s are shot down. Nine German crew members are killed, and the remaining three taken prisoner.
- 11 May – Three people are killed in an air raid on RAF Saint AthanRAF Saint AthanMOD St Athan is a large United Kingdom Ministry of Defence unit near the village of St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan, southern Wales. It was the designated site for the United Kingdom's new defence training academy, but the programme was cancelled on 19 October 2010...
. - 12 May – 32 people are killed in an air raid on Pembroke DockPembroke DockPembroke Dock is a town in Pembrokeshire, south-west Wales, lying north of Pembroke on the River Cleddau. Originally a small fishing village known as Paterchurch, the town was greatly expanded from 1814 onwards following the construction of a Royal Naval Dockyard...
. - 30 May – Major air raid on NewportNewportNewport is a city and unitary authority area in Wales. Standing on the banks of the River Usk, it is located about east of Cardiff and is the largest urban area within the historic county boundaries of Monmouthshire and the preserved county of Gwent...
. - 1 June – A German Junkers 88 is shot down near LlandudnoLlandudnoLlandudno is a seaside resort and town in Conwy County Borough, Wales. In the 2001 UK census it had a population of 20,090 including that of Penrhyn Bay and Penrhynside, which are within the Llandudno Community...
, killing four crew. - 11 June – The Baron Carnegie, a cargo ship, is sunk by German planes off Strumble HeadStrumble HeadStrumble Head is a rocky headland in north Pembrokeshire, Wales.It gives its name to Strumble Head Lighthouse and Strumble VOR, a way point in many trans-atlantic flights....
, killing 25 crew. - 13 June – The ferry St Patrick is sunk by German planes off Strumble Head, killing 30 people.
- 1 July – 37 people are killed in an air raid on Newport, Monmouthshire.
- 5 July – Alun LewisAlun LewisAlun Lewis , was a poet of the Anglo-Welsh school, and is regarded by many as Britain's finest Second World War poet.- Education :...
marries Gwenno Ellis. - 11 July – In a mining accidentMining accidentA mining accident is an accident that occurs during the process of mining minerals.Thousands of miners die from mining accidents each year, especially in the processes of coal mining and hard rock mining...
at RhigosRhigosRhigos is a village in the north of the Cynon Valley, in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. For postal purposes it comes under the town of Aberdare, although it is some from Aberdare town centre....
Colliery in GlamorganGlamorganGlamorgan or Glamorganshire is one of the thirteen historic counties and a former administrative county of Wales. It was originally an early medieval kingdom of varying boundaries known as Glywysing until taken over by the Normans as a lordship. Glamorgan is latterly represented by the three...
, 16 miners are killed. - 28 July – An RAF Wellington bomber crashes into Garn Fadryn on the Lleyn peninsula, killing six crew.
- 7 August – An RAF Wellington bomber crashes into Rhosfach in the Berwyn rangeBerwyn rangeThe Berwyn range is an isolated and sparsely populated area of moorland located in the north-east of Wales, roughly bounded by Llangollen in the north-east, Corwen in the north-west, Bala in the south-west, and Oswestry in the south-east.The Berwyn range also played its part in causing King Henry...
, killing six crew. - 28 August – An RAF Blackburn BothaBlackburn Botha-See also:-External links:*...
with a crew of three crashes into the sea off RhosneigrRhosneigrRhosneigr is a village in the south-west of Anglesey, North Wales. It is situated on the A4080 road some 10km south-east of Holyhead, and is on the Anglesey Coastal Path. From the clock at the centre of the village can be seen RAF Valley and Holyhead Mountain...
, Anglesey. A further eleven people die in the rescue attempt. - September – Sir Archibald RowlandsArchibald RowlandsSir Archibald Rowlands GCB MBE was a British civil servant. After serving as private secretary to three Secretaries of State for War, he was Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Air Production during the Second World War...
joins the Beaverbrook and Harriman mission to Moscow. - 10 October – Two planes collide at RAF LlandwrogRAF LlandwrogRAF Llandwrog was opened in January 1941 as a RAF Bomber Command airfield for training gunners, radio operators and navigators. It was located at Llandwrog, 4 nautical miles southwest of Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales, and it remains in civil operation today as Caernarfon Airport.-World War II:It was...
, killing seventeen people. - 12 October – A German Heinkel 111 is shot down near HolyheadHolyheadHolyhead is the largest town in the county of Anglesey in the North Wales. It is also a major port adjacent to the Irish Sea serving Ireland....
, killing four crew. - 22 October – A German Heinkel 111 is shot down near NefynNefynNefyn is a small town and community on the north west coast of the Llŷn Peninsula in Gwynedd, Wales, with a population of 2,619. Welsh is the first language of almost 80% of its inhabitants. The A497 road terminates in the town centre.-History:...
, killing four crew. - October – Alun LewisAlun LewisAlun Lewis , was a poet of the Anglo-Welsh school, and is regarded by many as Britain's finest Second World War poet.- Education :...
receives his army commission. - 25 November – Five miners are killed in a mining accidentMining accidentA mining accident is an accident that occurs during the process of mining minerals.Thousands of miners die from mining accidents each year, especially in the processes of coal mining and hard rock mining...
at Abergorki Colliery, Rhondda. - 6 December – Ruperra CastleRuperra CastleRuperra Castle is a Grade II* Listed building and Scheduled Ancient Monument, situated in Lower Machen in South East Wales. It is currently in a ruined condition, and up for sale....
is seriously damaged by fire. - Closure of the tinplate works at KidwellyKidwellyKidwelly is a town in Carmarthenshire, west Wales, approximately north-west of the main town of Llanelli.It lies on the River Gwendraeth Fach above Carmarthen Bay. The town is twinned with French village St Jacut de la Mer.-History:...
. - Artist Frank BrangwynFrank BrangwynSir Frank William Brangwyn RA RWS RBA was an Anglo-Welsh artist, painter, water colourist, virtuoso engraver and illustrator, and progressive designer.- Biography :...
and administrator Elias Wynne Cemlyn-Jones are knighted. - Sir Guildhaume Myrddin-Evans becomes Head of the Production Executive Secretariat at the War Cabinet Offices.
Arts and literature
- Lyn HardingLyn HardingLyn Harding was a Welsh actor who spent 40 years on the stage before entering British made silent films, talkies and radio...
makes his last stage appearance was in the West End in 1941 at the age of 74.
Awards
- National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Old ColwynOld ColwynOld Colwyn , is a small town just to the east of Colwyn Bay, in Conwy County Borough, Wales.Prior to local government reorganisation in April 1974 it was part of the Municipal Borough of Colwyn Bay, but the reorganisation established it as a separate parish , whose population at the 2001 census was...
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- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – David Emrys James
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – Dafydd Owen
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal – withheld
New books
- Ambrose BebbAmbrose BebbWilliam Ambrose Bebb was a Welsh author and politician.Ambrose Bebb was the son of diarist Edward Hughes Bebb, and the father of noted Welsh rugby international Dewi Bebb...
– Y Baradwys Bell - Edward Tegla DaviesEdward Tegla DaviesEdward Tegla Davies was a Methodist minister and a popular Welsh language writer, born at Llandegla-yn-Iâl, Denbighshire, north Wales....
– Gyda'r Glannau - Rhys John Davies – Y Cristion a Rhyfel
- Griffith Wynne Griffith – The Wonderful Life
- Vernon WatkinsVernon WatkinsVernon Phillips Watkins , was a British poet, and a translator and painter. He was a close friend of Dylan Thomas, who described him as "the most profound and greatly accomplished Welshman writing poems in English"....
– Ballad of the Mari Lwyd - Ernest Llwyd Williams – Hen Ddwylo
- Nantlais WilliamsNantlais WilliamsWilliam Nantlais Williams , better known simply as Nantlais, was a Welsh poet and a Presbyterian Christian leader during the 1904-1905 Welsh Revival.- Background :...
– Darlun a Chân - William Williams (Crwys)William Williams (Crwys)William Williams , better known by his bardic name of "Crwys", was a Welsh poet in the Welsh language. He served as Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales from 1939 to 1947....
– Mynd a Dod
Music
- Mansel ThomasMansel ThomasMansel Treharne Thomas OBE was a composer and conductor, who worked mainly in south Wales. He was one of the most influential musicians of his generation, known as a composer, conductor and adjudicator. He was for many years employed by the BBC and promoted the careers of many composers and...
- The White Rose - David Wynne – Songs of Solitude
Film
- How Green Was My ValleyHow Green Was My Valley (film)How Green Was My Valley is a 1941 drama film directed by John Ford. The film, based on the 1939 Richard Llewellyn novel, was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and written by Philip Dunne. The film stars Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, and Roddy McDowall...
(book by Richard LlewellynRichard LlewellynRichard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd , better known by his pen name Richard Llewellyn, was a Welsh novelist.Llewellyn Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd (8 December 1906 – 30 November 1983), better known by his pen name Richard Llewellyn, was a Welsh novelist.Llewellyn Richard Dafydd...
) stars mainly American and Irish actors, but minor players include Rhys WilliamsRhys Williams (actor)Rhys Williams was a Welsh character actor in movies and television, whose career spanned several decades.He made his film debut in How Green Was My Valley . This movie takes place in rural Wales with a large cast of Welsh characters, but was actually filmed in Hollywood with Canadian, American,...
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Sport
- FootballFootball (soccer)Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
- June 7 – Wales lose 2-3 to England.
- October 25 – Wales lose 1-2 to England.
Births
- 5 February – Gareth Williams, Baron Williams of MostynGareth Williams, Baron Williams of MostynGareth Wyn Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn, PC, QC, was a Welsh barrister and Labour politician who was Leader of the House of Lords, Lord President of the Council and a member of the Cabinet at the time of his sudden death in 2003.Williams was born near Prestatyn, in North Wales, a son of...
, politician - 26 February – Rhys Jones, archaeologist
- 27 February – Charlie FaulknerCharlie FaulknerAnthony George "Charlie" Faulkner was a rugby union player of the 1970s and later a rugby coach.He was born Anthony George Faulkner in Newport, Monmouthshire in February 1941.- Wales caps :...
, rugby player - 31 March – David Trefgarne, 2nd Baron TrefgarneDavid Trefgarne, 2nd Baron TrefgarneDavid Garro Trefgarne, 2nd Baron Trefgarne, PC , is a British Conservative politician.The son of George Morgan Trefgarne, 1st Baron Trefgarne, Trefgarne succeeded his father as 2nd Baron Trefgarne in 1960 at the age of 19, having attended Haileybury and Imperial Service College. He took his seat...
, politician - 13 April – Margaret PriceMargaret PriceDame Margaret Berenice Price, DBE was a Welsh soprano.-Early years:Price was born in Blackwood, Wales. Born with deformed legs, she was operated on at age four and suffered pain in her legs the rest of her life. She often looked after her younger brother John who was born with a mental handicap...
, operatic soprano - 7 July – Michael HowardMichael HowardMichael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne, CH, QC, PC is a British politician, who served as the Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from November 2003 to December 2005...
, politician - 11 August – Nerys HughesNerys HughesNerys Hughes , is a Welsh actress, known primarily for her television roles.Nerys Hughes was born in Rhyl, . She studied drama at Rose Bruford College. She is best known for the role of Sandra Hutchinson in the enormously successful BBC TV series The Liver Birds which ran from 1969 to 1978 with a...
, actress - 20 August – Anne EvansAnne EvansDame Anne Evans DBE is an international Welsh operatic soprano.-Education:Anne Elizabeth Jane Evans was born in London of Welsh descent. She studied at the Royal College of Music with among others Margaret Cable, and the Geneva Conservatoire. She was accepted into the conservatoire without...
, operatic soprano - 26 September - Patrick HannanPatrick Hannan (presenter)Patrick Hannan MBE was a Welsh political journalist, author and television and radio presenter.The son of an Irish doctor who migrated to Wales in the 1930s, he was born and raised in Aberaman, near Aberdare in South Wales...
, political journalist (d. 2009) - 26 October – Charlie LandsboroughCharlie LandsboroughCharlie Landsborough, is a British country and folk musician and singer-songwriter. He started singing professionally in the 1970s, and is now one of the UK's top country acts. He is also popular in Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.-Life:Born in Wrexham, Wales, Landsborough was the youngest...
, singer and composer - 10 December – Jeff JonesJeff Jones (cricketer)Jeff Jones is a former Welsh cricketer, who took forty-four wickets in fifteen Tests for England from 1964 to 1968....
, cricketer
Deaths
- 2 January – Sir John RowlandJohn RowlandJohn Rowland may refer to:*John Rowland , English footballer*John Rowland , Welsh footballer*John A. Rowland California pioneer*John G. Rowland , American Governor of Connecticut...
, civil servant - 11 January - Frederick Llewellyn-JonesFrederick Llewellyn-JonesFrederick Llewellyn-Jones was a Welsh solicitor who became Coroner for the county of Flintshire and a Liberal, later Liberal National politician.-Family and education:...
, lawyer, 75 - 20 January – Margaret Lloyd GeorgeMargaret Lloyd GeorgeDame Margaret Lloyd George, GBE , née Margaret Owen, was the first wife of British Prime Minister David Lloyd George - from 1888 until her death in 1941.-Biography:...
, first wife of David Lloyd GeorgeDavid Lloyd GeorgeDavid Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor OM, PC was a British Liberal politician and statesman...
, 74 - 22 January - David WilliamsDavid Williams (Swansea politician)David Williams was a Welsh Labour Party politician. The second son of David and Mary Williams, his father worked at the local Kilvey Copper Works. Williams received little education before entering service in 1877 as a pageboy for the Genfell family of Kilvey, Swansea, owners of the copper works...
, Swansea politician, 75 - 3 February – Sir Clifford John Cory, Baronet, coal-owner
- 10 March – William Henry SeagerWilliam Henry SeagerSir William Henry Seager was a Welsh shipping magnate and Liberal Party politician who spent four years as a Member of Parliament .-Life:...
, politician - 11 March
- Sir Henry Walford DaviesHenry Walford DaviesSir Henry Walford Davies KCVO OBE was a British composer, who held the title Master of the King's Musick from 1934 until 1941.-Early life and education:...
, composer, 71 - Sybil Thomas, Viscountess RhonddaSybil Thomas, Viscountess RhonddaSybil Margaret Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda DBE , née Sybil Margaret Haig, was a Welsh suffragette, feminist and philanthropist....
, 84
- Sir Henry Walford Davies
- 16 March - Sir David Hughes-MorganDavid Hughes-MorganMajor Sir David Hughes-Morgan, 1st Baronet , born David Hughes Morgan , was a Welsh solicitor and landowner.Hughes Morgan was born in Llandovery, Carmarthenshire...
, solicitor and landowner, 70? - 20 March - Jack PowellJack Powell (rugby player born 1882)John "Jack" Anderson Powell was a Welsh international rugby union forward who played club rugby for Cardiff and London Welsh...
, Wales international rugby player, 58 - 17 April – Sir William Henry Hoare VincentWilliam Henry Hoare VincentSir William Henry Hoare Vincent , was a Welsh civil servant and diplomat.The youngest son of James Crawley Vincent and grandson of the dean of Bangor, he was educated at Brecon and Trinity College, Dublin...
, civil servant, 75 - 11 July – Arthur EvansArthur EvansSir Arthur John Evans FRS was a British archaeologist most famous for unearthing the palace of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete and for developing the concept of Minoan civilization from the structures and artifacts found there and elsewhere throughout eastern Mediterranean...
, archaeologist of Welsh descent, 90 - 13 July - Lot Jones, footballer, 59
- 15 July - Jack Elwyn EvansJack Elwyn EvansJohn "Jack" Elwyn Evans was born in Brynamman, and was a Welsh rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1920s. At representative level he played rugby union for Wales, and at club level for Brynamman RFC, Amman United RFC, Swansea RFC and Llanelli RFC, playing at Centre, i.e...
, rugby player, 44 - 23 July - Joe JonesJoe Jones (footballer)Joeseph Thomas Jones was a Welsh footballer who played in the Football League for Stoke, Crystal Palace, Coventry City and Crewe Alexandra. He made one hundred and twenty two appearances for Stoke...
, footballer, 54 - 27 July - Thomas Alfred WilliamsThomas Alfred WilliamsThe VeryRev Thomas Alfred Williams, MA was an eminent Anglican priest in the second quarter of the 20th century. Born on 16 June 1870 and educated at St David's College, Lampeter, he was ordained in 1895. After curacies in Anglesey and Portmadoc he held incumbencies at Dolgellau and Maentwrog...
, Dean of Bangor, 71 - 17 August - David Edward LewisDavid Edward LewisDavid Edward Lewis was a Welsh businessman and philanthropist.Lewis was born in Llanrhystyd near Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire, Wales, the son of David Lewis, a farmer, and his wife Catherine, née Mason....
, businessman and philanthropist, 75 - 11 September – Harry Grindell MatthewsHarry Grindell MatthewsHarry Grindell Matthews was an English inventor who claimed to have invented a death ray in the 1920s.-Earlier life and inventions:...
, inventor, 61 - 16 September – George Florance Irby, 6th Baron Boston, scientist and archaeologist, 81
- 10 October – Geraint GoodwinGeraint GoodwinGeraint Goodwin was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. He was born in the village of Llanllwchaearn, on the outskirts of Newtown, Montgomeryshire, the son of Richard Goodwin and Mary Jane Goodwin...
, writer - 22 December - Richard SummersRichard SummersRichard Henry Bowlas Summers was a Welsh rugby union fullback who played club rugby for Haverfordwest and international rugby for Wales...
, Wales rugby union international, 81 - 31 December – George Isaac Thomas (Arfryn), composer and conductor, 46