Watkin Jones, poet, 73 29 May – Robert Franklin John, Welsh-born farmer and political figure in British Columbia, 54 August/September – Peter Rees Jones, entrepreneur, 62 14 October – John Thomas, photographer, 67 15 October – Thomas Howells (Hywel Cynon), poet and musician, 66 19 October – Anne Ceridwen Rees, practising physician in the US, 31 23 October – William Phillips, botanist, 83 28 October – Barry Girling, Wales international rugby union player 10 November – Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn), poet and archdruid, 82 19 November – Watkin Hezekiah Williams (Watcyn Wyn), schoolmaster and poet, 61 25 November – William Cadwaladr Davies, educationist, 56 8 December – Edward Davies, US-born minister, publisher of Y Cenhadwr, 78 9 December – Arthur Humphreys-Owen, barrister, landowner and politician, 69 14 December – Nathaniel Jones, minister and poet, 73 17 December – Robert Jones Derfel, poet and dramatist, 81 References