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16 January: Edgeworth David
Freddie Welsh
4 January – Glyndwr Michael , vagrant whose body was used as Maj. William Martin, RM, in Operation Mincemeat (died 1943 )[31]
29 January – George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy (died 1997 )[32]
14 February – Harry Peacock , Wales rugby union player (died 1996)
20 February – Bill Roberts , Wales international rugby union player (died 1969)
5 March – Howard Thomas , radio and television producer (died 1986)
10 March – Glen Moody , boxer (died 1989)
30 March – Dai Thomas , Wales national rugby player (date of death unknown)
1 April – George Ewart Evans , folklorist and oral historian (died 1988 )[33]
11 May – Aneirin Talfan Davies , writer and publisher (died 1980 )[34]
11 June – Ronnie Boon , Wales rugby union player (died 1998)
12 June – Mansel Thomas , composer and conductor (died 1986 )[35]
16 July – Eddie Jenkins footballer (died 2005)
28 July – Jack Morley , Wales and British Lions rugby player (died 1972 )
25 August – Arwel Hughes , composer (died 1988)[36]
30 September – Arthur Probert , politician (died 1975 )[37]
1 October – Jim Lang , Wales rugby union player (died 1991)
24 October – Elwyn Jones, Baron Elwyn-Jones , politician (died 1989)[38]
25 October – Walter Vickery , Wales national rugby player (died 2000)
7 November – Eirene White , politician (died 1999 )[39]
29 November – Goronwy Rees , journalist and academic (died 1979)[40]
14 December – Ronald Welch , historical novelist (died 1982 )[41]
date unknown
Isaac Davies (Eic Davies), dramatist (died 1993)
Evan Roberts , botanist (died 1991 )
January:Frederick Courtenay Morgan
3 January – Robert Bird , politician, 69
8 January – Frederick Courtenay Morgan , politician, 74[42]
9 January – Erasmus Jones , Welsh-American minister and author, 91[43]
5 February – W. R. M. Wynne , politician, landowner, collector of manuscripts, Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire, 68[44]
9 March – David Thomas (Dewi Hefin) , poet, 80[45]
29 March – Catherine Prichard , poet, 66[46]
April – Ivor James , educationist[47]
19 April – J. S. Pughe , Welsh-born American political cartoonist, 39[48]
31 May – Thomas Price , Premier of South Australia, 57[49]
9 June – Walter Rice Evans , Wales international rugby player[50]
2 July – Sir Arthur Cowell-Stepney , landowner and politician, 74[51]
1 August – General Sir Hugh Rowlands , VC recipient, 81[52]
23 September – Thomas Edward Lloyd , politician, 89[53]
17 October – Edward David Williams , politician in Australia, 67[54]
22 October – David Rogers , politician in Canada, 79
9 November – Montague Guest , politician, son of Lady Charlotte Guest , 70[55]
10 November – George Essex Evans , Welsh-Australian poet, 46 (complications arising from gall bladder surgery)[56]
11 December – Ludwig Mond , industrialist, 70[57]
13 December – Sir Alfred Lewis Jones , shipping magnate, 64[58]
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Joseph Whitaker, ed. (1913). Whitaker's Almanack . Whitaker's Almanack. p. 847.
Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage . Burke's Peerage Limited. 1925. p. 2437.
Thomas, Keith (2010). Civil Engineering Heritage – Wales . Andover: Phillimore. p. 149. ISBN 978-1-86077-638-0 .
David Myrddin Lloyd. "Jones, Robert Ambrose" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 February 2021 .
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Contemporary authors : new revision series . Detroit: Gale. 2000. p. 47. ISBN 9780787630959 .