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Wales-related events during the year of 1979
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1979 to
Wales and
its people .
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
Awards
New books
English language
Welsh language
Music
Film
Broadcasting
English-language television
Sport
Births
January –
Emma Wools , Police and Crime Commissioner for South Wales
[12]
15 February –
Josh Low , footballer
21 February –
Laura Anne Jones
AM , politician
26 February –
Steve Evans , footballer
15 April -
Luke Evans , actor
17 May –
Michaela Breeze , weightlifting champion
[13]
3 June –
Christian Malcolm , athlete
[14]
13 July –
Craig Bellamy , footballer
1 August -
Honeysuckle Weeks , actress
8 August –
Danny Gabbidon , footballer
Jonathan Edwards , poet
Deaths
January –
Dilys Cadwaladr , poet, 76
7 February –
Charles Tunnicliffe , painter on Anglesey, 77
[15]
13 February –
Eric Newton Griffith-Jones , Welsh-descended lawyer, 65
[16]
13 March –
Tudor Owen , actor, 81
[17]
15 April (in
Surrey ) –
Eiluned Lewis , novelist, 78
[18]
14 May –
Jean Rhys , novelist, 88
9 June –
John Morris, Baron Morris of Borth-y-Gest , judge, 82
16 July –
Harold Finch , politician, 81
[19]
30 August –
C. E. Wynn-Williams , physicist, 76
2 September –
Ewan Davies , rugby player, 92
[20]
10 October (in
Teddington ) –
Christopher Evans , computer scientist, 48
[21]
12 October –
Jackie Williams , footballer, 76
November –
Ursula Williams , politician, 83
[22]
12 December –
Goronwy Rees , writer, 70?
[23]
20 December –
Leslie Gilbert Illingworth , political cartoonist, 77
[24]
21 December –
Nansi Richards , harpist, 91
[25]
29 December –
Richard Tecwyn Williams , biochemist, 70
[26]
date unknown
probable –
William Evans , rugby player, about 88
See also
References
^ Pryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996-02-23).
Handbook of British Chronology . Cambridge University Press. p. 157.
ISBN
978-0-521-56350-5 .
^
"Lord Crickhowell obituary" . The Guardian . 19 March 2018. Retrieved 20 March 2018 .
^
a
b NA NA (25 December 2015).
The Macmillan Guide to the United Kingdom 1978-79 . Springer. p. 875.
ISBN
978-1-349-81511-1 .
^
Governing the UK in the 1990s . Macmillan International Higher Education. 20 March 1995. pp.
214 .
ISBN
978-1-349-23899-6 .
^ Milorad M. Drachkovitch; Lewis H. Gann (1980).
Yearbook on International Communist Affairs . Hoover Institution Press. p. 160.
^ Waddington, Marc (2020-08-14).
"On this day in 1979 North Wales set an unusual world record" . North Wales Live . Retrieved 2023-08-14 .
^
Studia Celtica . University of Wales Press. 1983.
^ Parry, Nick (2005-05-18).
"Town's secret Star Wars history" . BBC News . Retrieved 2022-05-23 .
^ W. Stephen Gilbert (1 January 2002).
The Life and Work of Dennis Potter . The Overlook Press. p. 321.
ISBN
978-1-4683-0561-6 .
^
"BBC Wales Sport Personality winners" . BBC Sport . Retrieved 2 August 2021 .
^
"Profile: Terry Griffiths" .
Eurosport . 3 February 2010. Retrieved 16 May 2019 .
^
"Emma Clare WOOLS" . gov.uk . Retrieved 6 May 2024 .
^
"Michaela Breeze" . Beijing 2008 results . Archived from
the original on 2008-09-09. Retrieved 27 October 2020 .
^
"Christian Malcolm" . World Athletics . Retrieved 27 October 2020 .
^
Birds . Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. 1980.
^ Graya: A Magazine for Members of Gray's Inn, Issue 73, Gray's Inn, 1979
^ Scott Wilson (17 August 2016).
Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed . McFarland. p. 569.
ISBN
978-0-7864-7992-4 .
^
Who was who . A. & C. Black. 1971. p. 467.
^ John Graham Jones.
"Finch, Harold Josiah (1898-1979),Labour politician" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 27 October 2020 .
^
scrum.com profile
^
The Skeptical Inquirer . Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. 1979. p. 11.
^ "Deaths." Times [London, England] 5 Dec. 1979: 28. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 14 Feb. 2014.
^
"Goronwy Rees (1909-1979)" . From Warfare to Welfare. Archived from
the original on 21 February 2015. Retrieved 20 February 2015 .
^
Davies, John ;
Jenkins, Nigel ; Menna, Baines; Lynch, Peredur I., eds. (2008). The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales . Cardiff: University of Wales Press. p. 390.
ISBN
978-0-7083-1953-6 .
^ Evans, Nia Gwyn (2016).
"Jones, Nansi Richards ('Telynores Maldwyn ') (1888-1979), harpist" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 August 2018 .
^ "Williams, (Richard) Tecwyn".
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/31837 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
^ Robert Tudur Jones (2004).
Congregationalism in Wales . University of Wales Press.
ISBN
978-0-7083-1887-4 .