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- 1 January - Michael German is awarded the OBE for his public and political service.[1]
- 15 February - The Sea Empress, an oil tanker, runs aground off Milford Haven, causing devastation to the west Wales coastline.[2]
- 1 April - The Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 comes into force, creating 22 unitary authorities.[3]
- 3 April - The first EuroHowl is held in Aberystwyth, Wales.
- 29 June - The Prince's Trust concert in Hyde Park, London is attended by 150,000 people.[4]
- 18 July - Howard Hughes is sentenced to life imprisonment at Chester Crown Court for the rape and murder of 7-year-old Sophie Hook at Llandudno 12 months previously. The trial judge recommends that Hughes, 31, should never be released.[5]
- 28 August - The Prince and Princess of Wales, are formally divorced at the High Court of Justice in London, the first time in history that a Prince of Wales has successfully gone through a divorce. By negotiation, Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales is restyled, Diana, Princess of Wales.
- November - The Owain Glyndŵr Society is founded.
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- Heno (Welsh-language news programme, broadcast until 2001 and returned in 2012).
English-language television
- 16 January - Dai Ward, footballer, 61
- 7 March - Aled Eames, historian, 74[10]
- 11 March - Sir Granville Beynon, physicist, 81[11]
- 14 March - Dewi Bebb, Wales rugby union player, 57[12]
- 16 March - Harry Peacock, Wales rugby union player, 87
- 14 April - Mervyn Levy, artist and critic, 81[13]
- 7 May - Taffy Williams, soldier, 62
- 27 July - Billy Rees, footballer, 72
- 29 August - Dillwyn Thomas, cricketer, 91
- 5 September - Clem Thomas, rugby player, 67
- 24 September - I. E. S. Edwards, Egyptologist, 87
- 26 October - Huw Owen, theologian and academic, 69[14]
- 10 November - Dafydd Orwig, politician and academic, 68[15]
- 9 December
- 29 December - Pennar Davies, poet and theologian, 85
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