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The Cambrian Academy of Art is formed by English and Welsh artists in North Wales.
- 1 January – George Latham, footballer (died 1939)
- 3 January – Lewis Pugh Evans, VC recipient (died 1962)[21]
- 14 February – William John Gruffydd, academic and politician (died 1954)
- 9 April – John Hart Evans, Wales international rugby player (died 1959)
- 15 April – David Thomas ("Afan"), composer (died 1928)
- 16 April – Ifor Williams, academic (died 1965)[22]
- 5 May – Rupert Price Hallowes, VC recipient (died 1915)
- 16 June – David Grenfell, politician (died 1968)[23]
- 20 June – John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute, landowner (died 1947)[24]
- August – John Lewis, footballer (died 1954)
- 30 September – Philip Lewis Griffiths, lawyer (died 1945)
- 1 October – Cliff Pritchard, Wales international rugby player (died 1954)
- 28 October – Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans, explorer (died 1957)
- 10 December – David Phillips Jones, Wales international rugby player (died 1936)
- December – George Hall, politician (died 1965)
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- 3 January – William H. C. Lloyd, clergyman, 78
- 19 January – John Roose Elias, poet, 60[25]
- 11 March – Thomas Brigstocke, portrait painter, 71
- 20 April – William Burges, architect, 53[26]
- 7 June – William Milbourne James, judge, 74[27]
- 26 July – George Borrow, author of Wild Wales, 78[28]
- 13 October – Edwin Barber Morgan, Welsh-descended president of Wells Fargo, 67[29]
- 20 November – Hugh Owen, educationist, 77[30]
- 22 November – John Owen Griffith (Ioan Arfon), poet and critic, 53[31]
- 10 December – Walter Powell, industrialist and politician, 39
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Edwin Poole (1886). The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions. Edwin Poole. p. 378.
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Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
James Henry Clark (1869). History of Monmouthshire. County Observer. p. 375.
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Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 266.
Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 307.
The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.