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List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1974 to
Wales and
its people .
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
Kyffin Williams is elected to the Royal Academy.
Andrew Vicari is appointed official painter to the
Saudi royal family.
The Cory Brass Band is the first Welsh band to win the British National Championship.
The
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra achieves full symphony status.
Foundation of the Welsh Jazz Society.
Journalist
Hugh Cudlipp is created Baron Cudlipp of Aldingbourne.
Glyn Daniel becomes Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge.
Awards
New books
English language
Welsh language
Music
Film
Welsh-language films
Broadcasting
Welsh-language television
English-language television
Richard Burton is banned from
BBC productions after complaints about his derogatory comments about Winston Churchill and others in power during World War II.
Windsor Davies makes his first appearance as Sergeant Major Williams in
It Ain't Half Hot Mum .
Sport
Births
5 January –
Iwan Thomas , athlete
[16]
30 January –
Christian Bale , actor
15 March (in Zambia) –
Vaughan Gething , politician, First Minister
3 May –
Barry Jones , boxer
11 May –
Darren Ward , footballer
29 May –
Jenny Willott , politician
[17]
3 June –
Kelly Jones , rock singer-songwriter-guitarist
25 June –
David Park , golfer
11 August –
Dafydd Trystan Davies , chair of Plaid Cymru
1 September –
Tony Bird , footballer
3 September –
Rob Page , footballer
5 September –
Becky Morgan , golfer
13 September –
Andy Gorman , footballer
20 September (in Suva, Fiji) –
Owen Sheers , poet and actor
17 October –
Beverley Jones , athlete
18 October –
Robbie Savage , footballer
[18]
24 October –
David Evans , squash player
8 November –
Matthew Rhys , actor
12 November –
Jonathan Morgan , politician
date unknown –
Bedwyr Williams , installation and performance artist
Deaths
9 January –
Dora Herbert Jones , singer and administrator, 83
[19]
11 January –
Joe Jones , dual-code rugby player, 57
[20]
21 January –
Sandy Griffiths , football referee, 65
11 February –
D. Jacob Davies , Unitarian minister, broadcaster, writer and journalist, 57
[21]
12 February –
Alec Harris , spiritualist medium, 76
3 April
5 April –
Cecil Spiller , cricketer, 73
14 April – Sir
Archibald Lush , schools inspector, 74
[23]
13 May –
Islwyn Evans , Wales international rugby player, 75
[24]
11 June –
William Jones , dean of Brecon, 76
[25]
29 August (in Oxford) –
Harold Arthur Harris , academic, 71
[26]
9 September –
Neil McBride , MP for
Swansea East , 64
[27]
28 October (in Harrow) –
David Jones , poet and artist, 78
[28]
November –
Bessie Jones singer, 87
14 November -
Gomer Hughes , rugby player, 64
24 November -
Ivor Jones , footballer, 75
29 December –
William Charles Fuller , Victoria Cross recipient, 80
[29]
See also
References