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- 1 January – Brian Law, footballer
- 7 March – Cameron Toshack, footballer[26]
- 19 March – Tracey Hinton, athlete
- 2 April – Jason Perry, footballer
- 15 April – Rebecca John, television presenter
- 19 May – Stuart Cable, rock musician and television presenter (died 2010)[27]
- 25 May – Robert Croft, cricketer[28]
- 18 June – Lucy Owen, television presenter
- 22 June – Paul Davies, snooker player
- 18 July – Gruff Rhys, rock musician[29]
- 27 July (in England) – David Davies, politician[30]
- 30 July – Alun Cairns, politician[31]
- 9 August – Lee Jones, football goalkeeper
- 19 August – Me One (Eric Martin), singer-songwriter and rapper
- 26 September – Kevin Lloyd, footballer
- October – Helen Stokes-Lampard, chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners
- 11 October (in England) – Andy Marriott, goalkeeper
- 14 November – Derwyn Jones, rugby union player
- 27 November – Stephen Evans, actor and comedy writer
- 29 December – Aled Jones, singer and radio presenter[32]
- 31 December – Louise Rickard, rugby union player
- 3 January – Trefor Morgan, financier, 55[33]
- 4 January – David John Williams (D. J. Williams), author and Plaid Cymru politician, 84[34]
- 9 January – Caleb Rees, teacher and writer, 86[35]
- 23 January – Ifan ab Owen Edwards, founder of the Urdd, 74[36]
- 26 January – Albert Evans-Jones (Cynan), poet, 74[37]
- 2 February – Bertrand Russell, philosopher, 97[38]
- 16 February – Bil Perry, Wales international rugby player, 83
- 22 February – Roddy Hughes, actor, 78
- 18 March – Hubert Rhys, cricketer, 72
- 20 April – Thomas Iorwerth Ellis, academic, 70[39]
- 29 April – Bryn Evans, Welsh rugby international, 68
- 7 May
- 30 May – John Edward Jones, Plaid Cymru leader, 64[42]
- 3 June – John Robert Jones, philosophy professor, 58[43]
- 4 June – Daniel John Davies, Independent minister and poet, 84[44]
- 9 June – Billy Spiller, cricketer and rugby player, 83
- 18 June – D. Winton Thomas, Hebrew scholar, 69[45]
- 6 July – Richard Roberts, Archdeacon of St Asaph, 86
- 10 July – Isaac Griffiths, politician in Canada, 78
- 3 August – Sir Lincoln Evans, trade unionist, 80[46]
- 4 August
- 26 August – Thomas Mardy Jones, miner and politician, 91[49]
- 10 October – Owen Picton Davies, journalist, 88[50]
- 8 November – Huw T. Edwards, trade union leader and politician, 77[51]
- 17 November – Naunton Wayne, actor, 69[52]
- 9 November – Huw T. Edwards, trade union leader and politician, 77[53]
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"Sir Lincoln Evans: trade union leader", The Times, 5 August 1970
Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.