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 See also 2001 in Northern Ireland References Wales