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List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1943 to
Wales and
its people .
National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in
Caernarfon )
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - David Emrys James
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Dafydd Owen
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - withheld
April:Dafydd Wigley
December:Joan Ruddock
13 January –
Lorna Sage , academic, literary critic and writer (died 2001)
[16]
1 February –
Rosemarie Frankland , beauty queen (died
2000 )
[17]
9 February –
Ryland Davies , operatic tenor (died 2023)
11 February –
Win Griffiths
MP , politician
[18]
28 February –
John Davies , bishop of St Asaph
3 March (in
London ) –
Aeronwy Thomas , literary figure (died
2009 )
[19]
1 April (in
Derby ) –
Dafydd Wigley
MP , politician
9 April –
Clive Sullivan , rugby league footballer (died 1985)
16 April (in
Norwich ) –
Ruth Madoc (née Llewellyn), actress and singer (died 2022)
[20]
17 April –
Elinor Bennett , harpist
[21]
26 April –
Leon Pownall , actor and director (died
2006 )
27 April
6 June – Sir
Terry Matthews , entrepreneur
[22]
5 July –
Roy Evans , footballer (died
1969 )
7 July –
Robert East , actor
19 July –
Beth Morris , actress (died
2018 )
2 August –
Alun Michael
MP , politician
17 August –
John Humphrys , radio and TV journalist
24 August –
Dafydd Iwan , musician and politician
[23]
10 September –
Shân Legge-Bourke , born Elizabeth Shân Bailey, landowner
27 September –
Max Boyce , entertainer
18 October (in
London ) –
Dai Jones , Welsh-language broadcaster (died
2022 )
15 November –
Derec Llwyd Morgan , academic
16 November –
Val Lloyd
AM , politician
[24]
22 December –
Gareth Morgan , organizational theorist
28 December –
Joan Ruddock
MP , politician and campaigner
[25]
30 December –
Geraint Talfan Davies , journalist and executive
date unknown
9 January –
William Llewellyn Thomas , Wales international rugby player, 70
12 January –
Selwyn Biggs , Wales international rugby player and Glamorgan cricketer, 70
24 January –
Glyndwr Michael , homeless man whose body was used in
Operation Mincemeat , 34 (pneumonia)
[28]
31 January – Sir
Robert Armstrong-Jones , physician, 85
[29]
7 February (in
London ) –
Clara Novello Davies , singer, 71
[30]
6 March (in
Trevelin ) –
John Daniel Evans , pioneer in
Patagonia , 81
[31]
23 March – Commander
John Wallace Linton , VC, 37 (killed in action)
[32]
28 March –
Ben Davies , operatic tenor, 85
[33]
12 April –
Arthur Lloyd James , phonetician, 58 (suicide)
[34]
17 April –
Alice Gray Jones (Ceridwen Peris), author, 90
[35]
8 September –
Dai Lewis , Wales international rugby player, 76
15 September –
David Samuel , Wales international rugby player
24 September –
Billy Douglas , Wales international rugby player, 80
15 October – Sir
Thomas Artemus Jones , judge and Welsh language campaigner, 72
[36]
29 October –
Frank Hancock , Wales international rugby union international, 84
17 November –
Bertrand Turnbull , Olympic hockey player, 56
[37]
10 December –
Ivor Morgan , Wales international rugby union player, 59
27 December –
Arthur O'Bree , Glamorgan cricketer, 57 (killed in action)
[38]
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