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List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1980 to
Wales and the
Welsh people .
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
Awards
New books
Music
Works of art
Film
Broadcasting
English-language television
Sport
BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year –
Duncan Evans
[9]
Boxing
Rugby union
Fifteen Welsh players are included in the squad of 38 for the
1980 British Lions tour to South Africa :
Elgan Rees ,
Ray Gravell ,
David Richards ,
Peter Morgan ,
Gareth Davies ,
Terry Holmes ,
Clive Williams ,
Ian Stephens ,
Graham Price ,
Alan Phillips ,
Allan Martin ,
Jeff Squire ,
Stuart Lane ,
Derek Quinnell and
Gareth Powell Williams .
18 October –
1 November :
1980 New Zealand rugby union tour of Wales
Snooker
Births
20 January –
Matthew Tuck , vocalist
28 February –
Katy Wix , actress
23 March –
Ryan Day , snooker player
29 March –
Andy Scott-Lee , singer
7 April –
Carl Fletcher , footballer
10 April –
Daniel Hawksford , actor
12 April –
Sara Head , table tennis player
[11]
15 April –
Stephen Doughty , politician
[12]
26 May –
Nick Thomas-Symonds , politician
29 June –
Katherine Jenkins , singer
28 July –
Noel Sullivan , pop singer
13 August –
Bari Morgan , footballer
19 August –
Paul Parry , footballer
20 August –
Enzo Maccarinelli , boxer
3 November –
Elis James , comedian
17 November –
Gethin Jenkins , rugby player
16 December –
Kevin Aherne-Evans , footballer
date unknown –
Catrin Finch , harpist
Deaths
12 January –
Howel Williams , American geologist and volcanologist of Welsh parentage, 81
[13]
31 January –
Arthur "Waring" Bowen , solicitor and charity worker, 57
[14]
8 February –
Miles Thomas , businessman, 82
[15]
9 February –
Tom Macdonald , writer, 79
25 February –
Caradog Prichard , author, 75
[16]
20 March –
Alun Davies , historian, 63
[17]
6 May –
Bryn Phillips , dual-code rugby international, 79
14 May –
Hugh Griffith , actor, 67
[18]
4 June –
Don Tarr , Wales international rugby player, 70
7 June –
Idwal Davies , footballer, 80
[19]
14 July –
Aneirin Talfan Davies , critic and broadcaster, 71
[20]
15 September –
Bill Evans , American jazz pianist of Welsh descent, 51 (drug-related)
7 October –
Jim Lewis , footballer, 71
4 November –
Johnny Owen , boxer, 24
[21]
26 November –
Rachel Roberts , actress, 53 (suicide)
[22]
4 December –
James Jones , Archdeacon of Huntingdon, 99
date unknown
See also
References
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^
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b NA NA (25 December 2015).
The Macmillan Guide to the United Kingdom 1978-79 . Springer. p. 875.
ISBN
978-1-349-81511-1 .
^ David Beresford (1987).
Ten Men Dead: The Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike . Grafton. pp.
34 .
ISBN
978-0-586-06533-4 .
^
The Living Church . Morehouse-Gorham Company. January 1981. p. 15.
^
"Glan Clwyd Hospital" . Domesday Reloaded . BBC. 1986. Archived from
the original on 2012-03-11. Retrieved 2021-02-17 .
^ Mazuet, Julie (21 November 2016).
"François Fillon candidat : Penelope Fillon, l'ultra-discrète" [Candidate François Fillon: the ultra-discreet Penelope Fillon]. Madame Figaro . Retrieved 5 March 2017 .
^
"Menai Heritage Collections – Pamphlets, Articles & Papers" . Menai Heritage . Retrieved 31 January 2019 .
^
"Closed collections" . The Bartlett Society. Archived from
the original on 4 April 2015. Retrieved 24 May 2015 .
^
"BBC Wales Sport Personality winners" . BBC Sport . Retrieved 2 August 2021 .
^
"Profile: Terry Griffiths" .
Eurosport . 3 February 2010. Retrieved 16 May 2019 .
^
"Sara Head" . ParalympicsGB . Retrieved 3 October 2019 .
^ Acting Returning Officer (16 November 2012).
"Declaration of Result of Poll" . Cardiff Council. Archived from
the original (PDF) on 29 March 2020. Retrieved 21 November 2012 .
^
"Howel Williams - Cyngor Cefn Gwlad Cymru" . Archived from
the original on 2013-10-30. Retrieved 2015-05-01 .
^
"Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Arthur Bowen" . www.oxforddnb.com . Retrieved 10 September 2017 .
^
Peter G. Masefield: Thomas, (William) Miles Webster, Baron Thomas (1897–1980) , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press 2004, accessed 15 May 2012 []
^ Menna Baines.
"PRICHARD, CARADOG (1904-1980), novelist and poet" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 2 February 2019 .
^ Williams, Griffith John.
"Alun Davies" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 20 December 2016 .
^ Roland Turner; Janet Podell (1980).
The Annual Obituary . St. Martin's.
ISBN
9780312038755 .
^ Davies, Gareth; Garland, Ian (1991). Who's Who of Welsh International Soccer Players . Bridge Books. pp. 42–43.
ISBN
1-872424-11-2 .
^
Alan Llwyd .
"Davies, Aneirin Talfan (1909-1980), poet, literary critic, broadcaster and publisher" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 October 2019 .
^
The New York Times Biographical Service . New York Times & Arno Press. July 1980.
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ISBN
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^ Meic Stephens (April 1986).
The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales . Oxford University Press. p.
147 .