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List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1946 to
Wales and
its people.
- June – The BBC's regional director for Wales tells Welsh MPs that there is "not enough talent... to sustain a full continuous programme".
[7]
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10 January –
Terry Cobner, rugby player
[8]
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15 January –
Roger Davis, cricketer
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31 January –
Bobby Windsor, rugby player
[9]
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20 February –
Mike Roberts, Wales and British Lion rugby player
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21 March –
Timothy Dalton, actor
[10]
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2 April –
Dai Llewellyn, socialite (died
2009)
[11]
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5 April –
Russell Davies, journalist and broadcaster
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13 April –
Della Jones, mezzo-soprano
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19 May –
Androw Bennett, writer
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6 June –
Hywel Francis, politician and historian (died
2021)
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14 June –
Glyn Berry, diplomat
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6 August –
Ron Davies, politician
[12]
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12 August –
Andrew McNeillie, poet and literary editor
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3 October –
Richie Morgan, professional footballer and manager
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18 October –
Dafydd Elis-Thomas, politician
[13]
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30 October –
Chris Slade, rock drummer
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26 November –
Brian Hibbard, actor and singer (died 2012)
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27 November –
Kim Howells, politician
[14]
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6 December –
Martin Moore-Bick, judge
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9 December –
Mervyn Davies, rugby player (died
2012)
[15]
- date unknown –
Tony Curtis, poet
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8 January –
Dion Fortune, writer, 55
[16]
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23 January –
William Evans, Wales dual code international rugby player, 62
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25 April (in
London) –
Arthur Jenkins, MP for Pontypool, 64
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14 March –
Reg Thomas, athlete, 39 (air crash)
[17]
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16 April –
Jack Jenkins, footballer, 54
[18]
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25 April –
Arthur Jenkins, politician, 64
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25 May –
Ernest Rhys ("Mr Everyman"), writer, 86
[19]
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1 June –
Arthur Griffith-Boscawen, politician, 80
[20]
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10 June –
Humphrey Jones, footballer, 83
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18 June –
Thomas Llewellyn Jones, businessman and politician in Australia, 74
[21]
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4 July –
Taffy O'Callaghan, footballer, 39
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15 July –
William Cope, 1st Baron Cope, politician, 75
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20 July –
Richard Thomas Evans, politician, 55/56
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8 August –
Miriam Kate Williams ("Vulcana"), strongwoman, 72
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12 August –
Alfred Augustus Mathews, vicar and Wales international rugby player, 82
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25 August –
Tudor Edwards, thoracic surgeon, 56
[22]
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26 August –
Ruth Herbert Lewis, social reformer and collector of Welsh folk songs, 74
[23]
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15 October –
David Percy Davies, newspaper editor,
[24]
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4 November –
Bill Morris, Wales international rugby player, 77
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5 November –
Thomas Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden, author and patron of the arts in Wales, 66
[25]
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24 November –
Sydney Nicholls, Wales rugby international player, 78
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6 December –
Charles Stanton
MP, politician
[26]
- date unknown
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^
Rehabilitation in Great Britain. British Information Services, Reference Division. 1947. p. 15.
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^ National Library of Wales (1955).
Annual Report – Presented by the Council to the Court of Governors. The Library.
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^ George Watson (2 July 1971).
The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. CUP Archive. pp. 303–. GGKEY:64CF45KC7C0.
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^ J. C. Bittenbender.
Gale Researcher Guide for: Dylan Thomas: The Natural and the Supernatural. Gale, Cengage Learning. p. 8.
ISBN
978-1-5358-5139-8.
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^ Gwyn Thomas (23 December 2005).
The Dark Philosophers. Summersdale Publishers Limited. p. 3.
ISBN
978-1-84839-717-0.
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^ K. Donnelly (16 August 2007).
British Film Music and Film Musicals. Palgrave Macmillan UK. p. 107.
ISBN
978-0-230-59774-7.
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^ Asa Briggs (1995).
The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom: Volume IV: Sound and Vision. OUP Oxford. p. 92.
ISBN
978-0-19-212967-3.
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^ Peter Jackson (1998).
Lions of Wales: A Celebration of Welsh Rugby Legends. Mainstream. p. 210.
ISBN
978-1-84018-026-8.
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^ Chris Schoeman (2007).
Legends of the Ball: Rugby's Greatest Players Chosen by Willie John McBride, Frik Du Preez, David Compese. CJS Books. p. 132.
ISBN
978-0-620-36962-6.
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^ Peter M. Gareffa; Ann Evory (1988).
Newsmakers. Gale Research.
ISBN
9780810322035.
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^ Burgess, Kaya (14 January 2009).
"Sir Dai Llewellyn dies aged 62".
The Times. London. Retrieved 14 January 2009.
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^ Charles Roger Dod; Robert Phipps Dod (2000).
Dod's Parliamentary Companion. Dod's Parliamentary Companion, Limited. p. 518.
ISBN
9780905702285.
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^ Charles Roger Dod; Vacher Dod Publishing, Limited; Robert Phipps Dod (2005).
Dod's Parliamentary Companion. Dod's Parliamentary Companion, Limited. p. 567.
ISBN
9780905702513.
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^ Valerie Passmore (2005).
Dod's Parliamentary Companion: Guide to the General Election, 2005. Dod's Parliamentary Companion Limited. p. 195.
ISBN
978-0-905702-57-5.
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^ Paul Rees (16 March 2012).
"Mervyn Davies obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
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^ Knight, Gareth (2000). Dion Fortune and the Inner Light. Loughborough: Thoth Publications. p. 293.
ISBN
978-1-870450-45-4.
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^
"Squadron Leader Reginald Heber Thomas". CWGC. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
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^ Carder, Tim; Harris, Roger (1997). Albion A–Z: A Who's Who of Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. Hove: Goldstone Books. pp. 125–126.
ISBN
978-0-9521337-1-1.
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^ Terry Seymour (2011).
A Printing History of Everyman's Library 1906-1982. AuthorHouse. p. 263.
ISBN
978-1-4678-7014-6.
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^ Michael Stenton; Stephen Lees (1981).
Who's who of British members of parliament: a biographical dictionary of the House of Commons, based on annual volumes of Dod's 'parliamentary companion' and other sources. Harvester Press.
ISBN
9780855273255.
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^
"Family Notices".
The Courier-Mail. Brisbane: National Library of Australia. 19 June 1946. p. 10. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
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^ Wakeley, C. P. G. (7 September 1946).
"A. Tudor Edwards, M.D. M. Ch. F.R.C.S." Br Med J. 2 (4470): 346–.
doi:
10.1136/bmj.2.4470.346-c.
ISSN
0007-1447.
PMC
2054255.
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^ Evan David Jones.
"Lewis, Lady Ruth (1871-1946), a pioneering collector of Welsh folk-songs, and advocate of educational, religious, temperance and philanthropic bodies". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
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^
"DAVIES, David Percy".
Who Was Who.
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^ Charles Kidd; Christine Shaw (24 June 2008).
Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage 2008. Debrett's. p. 344.
ISBN
978-1-870520-80-5.
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^ Huw Morris-Jones.
"Stanton, Charles Butt (1873-1946), M.P. for the Merthyr and Aberdare constituency, 1915-1922".
Dictionary of Welsh Biography.
National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
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^ The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. University of Wales Press. 2008. p. 768.
ISBN
9780708319536.