– Llewellyn Alston, Royal Welch Fusiliers, 78 20 March – Arthur E. Powell, Theosophist writer, 86 26 March (in Australia) – Elizabeth Williams Berry, jockey of Welsh parentage, 114 27 March – David Lloyd, tenor, 56 31 March – Percy Jones, Wales international rugby player, 82 5 April – Mal Griffiths, footballer, 50 15 April John Davies, dual code rugby player, 28 (heart attack) Cowboy Morgan Evans, Texan rodeo rider of Welsh descent, 66 20 April – Watkin Roberts, missionary, 82 4 May – Albert Stock, Wales international rugby player, 72 7 May – Stan Awbery, trade unionist and politician, 80 21 May – Ben Beynon, Welsh rugby union international and Swansea Town player, 75 23 May – Sir Evan Owen Williams, English-born Welsh engineer, 79 28 May – Rhys Williams, actor, 71 7 July – William David Davies, theologian, 72 26 July – Noel Hopkins, clergyman and organist, 77 12 August – Air Commodore James Bevan Bowen, RAF officer, 86 19 August – Percy Thomas, architect, 85 1 October – Dai Richards, footballer, 62 5 October – Sir Edward John Davies, judge in colonial service, 71 15 October – Charlie Phillips, footballer, 59 18 October – Emrys Hughes, politician, 75 11 November – Robert Thomas Jenkins, historian, 88 21 November – D. B. Wyndham-Lewis, author, 78 7 December Bill Roberts, Wales international rugby union player, 60 (in London) Hugh Williams, dramatist, 65 20 December – Eleanor Evans, actress, singer and director, 76 See also 1969 in Northern Ireland References Wales Wales