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List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1972 to
Wales and
its people .
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
Awards
New books
English language
Welsh language
Drama
Music
Film
Welsh-language films
The Song We Sing Is About Freedom
Broadcasting
Welsh-language television
English-language television
Sport
Births
27 January
March -
Helen Raynor , dramatist and screenwriter
23 March –
Joe Calzaghe , boxer
[20]
10 April –
Chris Corcoran , comedian
7 June –
Sian Lloyd , television news presenter
5 July –
Nia Roberts , actress
20 August –
Scott Quinnell , rugby player
[21]
24 August –
Jason Bowen , footballer
4 September –
Guto Pryce , musician
23 September –
Julian Winn , cyclist
[22]
3 October –
Josie d'Arby , actress and television presenter
4 November –
Tim Vincent , television presenter
27 December –
Colin Charvis , rugby player
[23]
Deaths
17 January –
Stan Davies , footballer, 73
4 February – Sir
Charles Robert Harington , chemist, 74
[24]
25 February –
S. O. Davies , politician, 85
[25]
27 February –
Will James , dual-code rugby player, 69
7 March –
Jack Morley , Wales and British Lions rugby player, 62
10 March –
Gwynfor Davies , cricketer, 63
20 March –
Dudley Lloyd-Evans , First World War flying ace, 76 or 77
[26]
28 March –
James Edward Nichols , geneticist, 69
[27]
10 April –
Ormond Jones , footballer, 61
28 May –
The Duke of Windsor , Prince of Wales 1910–1936), 77
14 June (at
Goathurst ) –
Glyn Simon , Archbishop of Wales (1968–71), 69
9 July – Sir
Henry Morris-Jones , doctor, soldier and politician, 87
[28]
10 July –
Emrys Jones , actor, 56 (heart attack)
[29]
12 August –
Reg Anderson , cricketer, 58
28 September –
Tom Roberts , Wales international rugby union player, 75?
19 October
6 November –
Hilary Marquand , economist and MP, 70
[30]
13 November –
Glyn Prosser , dual-code rugby player, 64
30 November –
Frank Evans , dual-code international rugby player, 75
4 December –
Lynn Ungoed-Thomas , politician and judge, 68
[31]
unknown date
See also
References
^
"Obituary" . The Guardian . 6 February 2008.
^ Gerald Parsons (20 June 2013).
The Growth of Religious Diversity - Vol 2: Britain From 1945 Volume 2: Controversies . Routledge. p. 106.
ISBN
978-1-136-13628-3 .
^ Meic Stephens (April 1986).
The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales . Oxford University Press. p.
589 .
ISBN
978-0-19-211586-7 .
^ Meic Stephens (April 1986).
The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales . Oxford University Press. p.
523 .
ISBN
978-0-19-211586-7 .
^ Ross Reyburn (26 July 2013).
John Dawes: The Man who changed the world of Rugby . Y Lolfa. p. 96.
ISBN
978-1-84771-614-9 .
^ Peter E. Baughan (1991).
North and Mid Wales . David St. John Thomas. p. 33.
ISBN
978-0-946537-59-4 .
^
"The Hypermarket — Gold mine or white elephant" . International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management . 1 (6). MCB: 42–44.
doi :
10.1108/eb017761 .
^ Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons (1972).
Papers by command . HMSO. p. 44.
^ Fisk, Stephen (June 2009).
"Abandoned Communities - Machynys" . Retrieved 2009-08-05 .
^ British Dam Society. Conference; British Dam Society (1998).
The Prospect for Reservoirs in the 21st Century: Proceedings of the Tenth Conference of the BDS . Thomas Telford. p. 303.
ISBN
978-0-7277-2704-6 .
^
"Winners of the Chair" . National Eisteddfod of Wales . 17 November 2019.
^
"Winners of the Crown" . National Eisteddfod of Wales . 17 November 2019.
^
"Winners of the Prose Medal" . National Eisteddfod of Wales . Retrieved 7 November 2019 .
^ Meic Stephens (1998).
Cydymaith i lenyddiaeth Cymru . University of Wales Press. p. 195.
ISBN
978-0-7083-1383-1 .
^ Europa Publications (2003).
International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004 . Psychology Press. p. 279.
ISBN
978-1-85743-179-7 .
^ Felicia Hughes-Freeland (16 December 2003).
Ritual, Performance, Media . Routledge. p. 10.
ISBN
978-1-134-71382-0 .
^
Bibliotheca Celtica . The Library. 1976. p. 385.
ISBN
9780901833792 .
^ Anthony Hayward (8 July 2019).
"Glyn Houston Obituary" . The Guardian . Retrieved 25 May 2022 .
^
"BBC Wales Sport Personality winners" . BBC Sport . Retrieved 29 July 2021 .
^ Joe Calzaghe (1 April 2010).
No Ordinary Joe . Random House. p. 24.
ISBN
978-1-4090-6452-7 .
^ Scott Quinnell (2012). The Hardest Test . Headline.
ISBN
9781909335462 .
^
"Julian WINN - Wales [WAL]" . Commonwealth Games 2002 . Retrieved 7 November 2021 .
^
"Wales at the Rugby World Cup 1999" . Wales Rugby Union. Archived from
the original on 2009-02-12. Retrieved 7 November 2021 .
^
Himsworth, H. ; Pitt-Rivers, R. (1972). "Charles Robert Harington. 1897-1972".
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society . 18 : 266–308.
doi :
10.1098/rsbm.1972.0009 .
PMID
11615748 .
S2CID
31136079 .
^
Griffiths, Robert (1983). S. O. Davies: A Socialist Faith . Llandysul, Dyfed: Gomer Press. p. 295.
ISBN
978-0-85088-887-4 .
^ Lockie, Rosemary (2015).
"Some Memorial Inscriptions, Boddington, Gloucestershire" . places.wishful-thinking.org.uk . Retrieved 13 May 2015 .
^ Royal Society of Edinburgh (1971).
Year Book of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . Royal Society of Edinburgh. p. 46.
^ John Graham Jones.
"Morris-Jones, John Henry (1884-1972), Liberal/National Liberal politician" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 February 2021 .
^
"Emrys Jones, a British stage and film actor, was found dead..." New York Times . July 11, 1972. Retrieved February 12, 2021 .
^ John Graham Jones.
"Marquand, Hilary (1901-1972), economist and Labour politician" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 October 2019 .
^ John Graham Jones.
"Ungoed-Thomas (Arwyn) Lynn (1904-1972), Labour politician" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 December 2019 .
^ Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 . Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 76.
ISBN
978-1905891610 .