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- 12 January – John Bryn Edwards, ironmaster and philanthropist (died 1922)
- 22 January – John Emlyn-Jones, politician (died 1952)[28]
- 28 January – Phil Waller, Wales and British Lions rugby player (died 1917)[29]
- 31 January – Jack Evans, footballer (died 1971)
- 1 February – John Lewis, philosopher (died 1976)
- 10 February – Howard Spring, novelist (died 1965)[30]
- 28 February – George Jeffreys, Pentecostalist (died 1962)
- 5 May – Stanley Winmill, Wales international rugby union player (died 1940)
- 24 June – Harry Symonds, cricketer (died 1945)
- 17 July – Aled Owen Roberts, politician (died 1949)
- 5 August – William Davies Thomas, academic (died 1954)
- 10 August – Irene Steer, swimmer (died 1977)[31]
- 21 August – Henry Lewis, Professor at Swansea University (died 1968)[32]
- 23 October – William Havard, Bishop of St Davids and international rugby player (died 1956)[33]
- 11 December – Cedric Morris, artist (died 1982)
- 21 January – Joshua Hughes, Bishop of St Asaph, 81[17]
- 27 March – John Bright, Radical politician associated with Llandudno, 77[34]
- 10 April – Kilsby Jones, nonconformist minister, writer and lecturer, 76[35]
- 27 May – George Owen Rees, Welsh-Italian doctor, 75
- 8 June – Gerard Manley Hopkins, Anglo-Welsh poet, 44 (in Ireland)
- 17 June – John Hughes, industrialist, 73 (in St Petersburg)[36]
- 26 June – Walter Rice Howell Powell, landowner and politician, 69
- 28 September – Samuel Goldsworthy, Wales international rugby player, 34
- 15 October – Sir Daniel Gooch, railway engineer and politician, 73[37]
- 29 October – Godfrey Darbishire, Wales rugby international player, 36
- 14 November – James Stephens, stonemason, Chartist, and later Australian trade unionist, 68
- 18 November – Charles Easton Spooner, railway pioneer, 71[38]
- date unknown – G. Phillips Bevan, statistician, geographer and author, 59/60[39]
- probable – Richard Williams Morgan, clergyman and poet
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National Museum of Wales (1935). Adroddiad Blynyddol. The Museum. p. 3.
The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Dalcassian Publishing Company. 1860. p. 443.
Edward Arthur Copleston (1878). Where's where? Pt. 1. A concise gazetteer of Somerset. Pt. 2. Statistical, educational, parliamentary and practical information. p. 80.
Potter, Matthew (2016). The concept of the 'master' in art education in Britain and Ireland, 1770 to the present. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. p. 149. ISBN 9781351545471.
Henry Taylor (1895). "Popish recusants in Flintshire in 1625". Journal of the Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North Wales. Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North Wales: 304.
The Annual Register. Rivingtons. 1892. p. 179.
Reese, M. M. (1976). The royal office of Master of the Horse. London: Threshold Books Ltd. p. 348. ISBN 9780901366900.
Weyman, Henry T. (1929). "Shropshire M.P.s - Memoirs". T.S.A.S., Series 4, Volume XII. p. 28.
Lodge, Edmund (2020). Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire... Salzwasser-Verlag GMBH. p. 318. ISBN 9783752502664.
Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1885. p. 1027.
Death Of The Bishop Of Llandaff, The Times, 25 January 1905; page 4; Issue 37613; col A
Edwards, John (1955). "County". Chambers's Encyclopedia. London: Newnes. pp. 189–191.
"The County Council Elections". The Times. No. 32595. London. 14 January 1889. p. 10.
"The County Councils". The Times. No. 32601. 21 January 1889. p. 10.
Western Mail - Friday 16 August 1889, p.3, Accessed via The British Newspaper Archive (subscription required). Retrieved 19 November 2014.
World Biography. Institute for Research in Biography. 1948. p. 1667.