List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1964 to Wales and its people .
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
Awards
New books
English language
Welsh language
Music
Film
Broadcasting
Welsh-language television
Sion a Sian (later also produced in English as Mr and Mrs )
English-language television
Sport
Births
29 January – Anna Ryder Richardson , interior designer, television presenter and zookeeper
9 February – Dewi Morris , rugby player
4 March – Dave Colclough , poker player (died 2016
21 March – Ieuan Evans , rugby player[ 12]
22 June – Neil Haddock , Welsh and British Champion super featherweight boxer
23 June – Robert Dickie , Welsh and British Champion boxing champion (died 2010 )
16 August – Nigel Redman , rugby player
15 September – Steve Watkin , cricketer
8 October – Alan Knill , footballer[ 13]
3 November – Wayne Mumford , footballer
28 November – Sian Williams , television presenter
30 November – Richard Brake , actor[ 14]
1 December – Jo Walton , novelist and poet
31 December – Lowri Turner , television presenter
date unknown
Deaths
4 January – Arthur Wade-Evans , historian, 88[ 16]
7 January – Cyril Davies , harmonica player, 31
13 February – Cliff Richards , rugby player, 62
14 February
3 March – Ieuan Williams , cricketer, 54
6 August – Norman Matthews , clergyman and broadcaster, 60[ 19]
14 August – Redvers Sangoe , Light-heavyweight boxer, 28
26 August – Bryn Roberts , trade union leader, 67
14 September – Fitzroy Richard Somerset, 4th Baron Raglan , anthropologist, 79[ 20]
18 September – Juliet Rhys-Williams , writer and politician, 65[ 21]
9 October – Thomas Jones Pierce , historian, 59
5 November – Owen Jones politician in Canada, 74[ 22]
13 November – Leslie Morris , Welsh-Canadian politician, 60[ 23]
14 November – Idwal Jones , novelist, 73[ 24]
30 November – Sir John Cecil-Williams , lawyer and secretary of the Cymmrodorion, 72[ 25]
4 December (in Melbourne ) – James 'Tuan' Jones , Wales and British Lion rugby player, 81[ 26]
date unknown – Idloes Owen , singer, composer, and conductor, 59
See also
References
^ Owen Sheers (9 October 2016). "Aberfan 50 years on: how best to remember the tragedy?" . The Guardian . Retrieved 12 October 2016 .
^ Holloway C., E. Joy (2004). Outlook for English 5. Student's . UNAM. pp. 20–. ISBN 978-970-32-1297-2 .
^ House of Commons: With Full Results of the Polling and Biographies of Members and Unsuccessful Candidates and a Complete Analysis, Statistical Tables, and a Map of the General Election . Times Office. October 1974. ISBN 978-0-7230-0124-9 .
^ Fryde, E. B. (1996). Handbook of British chronology . Cambridge England: New York Cambridge University Press. p. 157. ISBN 9780521563505 .
^ Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons (1965). Papers by command . HMSO.
^ Charles Roger Dod; Robert Phipps Dod (1986). Dod's Parliamentary Companion . Dod's Parliamentary Companion Ltd.
^ "Petty Officer Edgar Evans" . Imperial War Museum . Retrieved 3 November 2021 .
^ George Watson (2 July 1971). The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: . CUP Archive. p. 134. GGKEY:64CF45KC7C0.
^ Paul Poplawski (30 December 2003). Encyclopedia of Literary Modernism . ABC-CLIO. p. 240. ISBN 978-0-313-01657-8 .
^ Harvard University. Library (1970). Celtic literatures: classification schedule, classified listing by call number, chronological listing, author and title listing . Distributed by the Harvard University Press.
^ "BBC Wales Sport Personality winners" . BBC Sport . Retrieved 29 July 2021 .
^ Peter Jackson (1998). Lions of Wales: A Celebration of Welsh Rugby Legends . Mainstream. p. 211. ISBN 978-1-84018-026-8 .
^ "Where are they now? Alan Knill" . Swansea City . Retrieved 14 March 2019 .
^ Williams, Kathryn (23 May 2016). "The Welsh actor who plays Game of Thrones' terrifying Night's King on why he'd like a more cuddly role" . Wales Online .
^ Menna Elfyn; John Rowlands (2003). The Bloodaxe Book of Modern Welsh Poetry: 20th-century Welsh-language Poetry in Translation . Bloodaxe. p. 393. ISBN 978-1-85224-549-8 .
^ Archaeologia Cambrensis . W. Pickering. 1964. p. 169.
^ Minutes of the ... Session of the Governing Body . The Office. 1964. p. 34.
^ Jean van der Poel (5 April 2007). Selections from the Smuts Papers: Volume VII, August 1945 – October 1950 . Cambridge University Press. p. 399. ISBN 978-0-521-03370-1 .
^ Mary Gwendoline Ellis. "Matthews, Norman Gregory (1904-1964), chancellor" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . Retrieved 1 July 2019 .
^ The Encyclopedia Americana . Grolier. 1981. p. 847. ISBN 978-0-7172-0112-9 .
^ Time & Tide . Time and Tide Publishing Company. 1964. p. 7.
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^ Leslie Morris (1970). Look on Canada, now ...: selected writings of Leslie Morris, 1923/1964 . Progress Books.
^ Westways . Automobile Club of Southern California. 1965.
^ Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) (1965). The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion . The Society. p. 7.
^ Tuan Jones player profile Scrum.com