Incumbents

• Prince of Wales
  Prince of Wales
  Prince of Wales is a title traditionally granted to the heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the 15 other independent Commonwealth realms...
  
   - Charles, Prince of Wales
  Charles, Prince of Wales
  Prince Charles, Prince of Wales is the heir apparent and eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Since 1958 his major title has been His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales. In Scotland he is additionally known as The Duke of Rothesay...
  
  
• Princess of Wales
  Princess of Wales
  Princess of Wales is a British courtesy title held by the wife of The Prince of Wales since the first "English" Prince of Wales in 1283.Although there have been considerably more than ten male heirs to the throne, there have been only ten Princesses of Wales. The majority of Princes of Wales...
  
   - Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall
  Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall
  Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall is the second wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, and is the current holder of the titles of Princess of Wales, Duchess of Cornwall, Duchess of Rothesay and Countess of Chester...
  
   (does not use title)
• First Minister - Rhodri Morgan
  Rhodri Morgan
  Hywel Rhodri Morgan is a Welsh Labour politician who, as First Secretary for Wales, and subsequently First Minister, was leader of the Welsh Assembly Government from 2000 to 2009. A former leader of Welsh Labour, he was the Assembly Member for Cardiff West from 1999 to 2011...
  
  
• Presiding Officer of the National Assembly for Wales
  Presiding Officer of the National Assembly for Wales
  The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly for Wales is the Speaker of the National Assembly for Wales, elected by the Members of the National Assembly for Wales to chair their meetings ; to maintain order; and to protect the rights of Members.He or she also heads the Corporate Body of the...
  
   - Dafydd Elis-Thomas
  Dafydd Elis-Thomas
  Dafydd Elis Elis-Thomas, Baron Elis-Thomas, PC, AM, is a Welsh politician and was the Presiding Officer of the National Assembly for Wales until 2011...
  
  
• Secretary of State for Wales
  Secretary of State for Wales
  The Secretary of State for Wales is the head of the Wales Office within the British cabinet. He or she is responsible for ensuring Welsh interests are taken into account by the government, representing the government within Wales and overseeing the passing of legislation which is only for Wales...
  
   - Peter Hain
  Peter Hain
  Peter Gerald Hain is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for the Welsh constituency of Neath since 1991, and has served in the Cabinets of both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, firstly as Leader of the House of Commons under Blair and both Secretary of State for...
  
  
• Archbishop of Wales
  Archbishop of Wales
  The post of Archbishop of Wales was created in 1920 when the Church in Wales was separated from the Church of England , and disestablished...
  
   - Barry Morgan
  Barry Morgan
  Barry Cennydd Morgan has been the Archbishop of the Church in Wales since 2003.-Early life:Morgan was born in Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Neath Port Talbot and studied history at University College, London and theology at Selwyn College, Cambridge...
  
   (Bishop of Llandaff
  Bishop of Llandaff
  The Bishop of Llandaff is the Ordinary of the Church in Wales Diocese of Llandaff.-Area of authority:The diocese covers most of the County of Glamorgan. The Bishop's seat is located in the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul , in the village of Llandaff, just north-west of the City of...
  
  )

Events

• 8 January - Four members of Rhyl Cycling Club are killed in a road accident near Abergele
  Abergele
  Abergele is a community and old Roman trading town, situated on the north coast of Wales between the holiday resorts of Colwyn Bay and Rhyl, in Conwy County Borough. Its northern suburb of Pensarn lies on the Irish Sea coast and is known for its beach, where it is claimed by some that a ghost ship...
  
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• February - At its spring conference, Plaid Cymru
  Plaid Cymru
  ' is a political party in Wales. It advocates the establishment of an independent Welsh state within the European Union. was formed in 1925 and won its first seat in 1966...
  
   announces several changes to its public image. It is announced that "Plaid" will be used as the party's name, although "Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales" remains the official title. The party's colours are changed to yellow from the traditional green and red, and the party logo is changed from the 'triban' used since 1933 to a yellow Welsh poppy
  Welsh poppy
  The Welsh poppy is a perennial plant of the family Papaveraceae. Its habitat is damp, shady places on rocky ground, and it is native to south-western England, Wales, Ireland and Western Europe. In its most western locations, it is increasingly found on more open ground with less cover.It has...
  
   (Meconopsis
  Meconopsis
  Meconopsis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Papaveraceae. The species have attractive flowers and have two distinct ranges. A single species, Meconopsis cambrica , is indigenous to England, Wales, Ireland, and the fringes of Western Europe. The other 40 or so species are found in the...
  
   cambrica). Ieuan Wyn Jones
  Ieuan Wyn Jones
  Ieuan Wyn Jones, AM is a Welsh politician, who was the Deputy First Minister in the Welsh Assembly Government from 2007 until 2011. Jones is the current leader of Plaid Cymru and Member of the National Assembly for Wales for the Ynys Môn constituency...
  
   is designated party leader.
• 13 February - Gwenno Teifi Ffransis, granddaughter of Gwynfor Evans
  Gwynfor Evans
  Dr Richard Gwynfor Evans , was a Welsh politician, lawyer and author. President of Plaid Cymru for thirty six years, he was the first Member of Parliament to represent Plaid Cymru at Westminster ....
  
  , becomes the first Welsh language
  Welsh language
  Welsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, by some along the Welsh border in England, and in Y Wladfa...
  
   protestor to be sent to jail since 1995. She is sentenced to five days imprisonment for refusing to pay damages imposed by a court for damaging Radio Carmarthenshire
  Radio Carmarthenshire
  Radio Carmarthenshire is a British Independent Local Radio station broadcasting to Carmarthenshire county on 97.1 and 97.5 FM from studios in Narberth, Pembrokeshire in South Wales. It launched on 13 June 2004...
  
  's Narberth studio in protest over its lack of Welsh broadcasts.
• 16 February - Julien Macdonald
  Julien MacDonald
  Julien Macdonald OBE is a Welsh fashion designer.Born in Merthyr Tydfil, Macdonald attended Cyfarthfa High School in Merthyr Tydfil. Macdonald was taught knitting by his mother, and soon became interested in design...
  
   and some of his models are pelted with flour bombs by animal rights campaigners disapproving of the use of fur in his fashion designs.
• 22 February - As The Prince of Wales
  Charles, Prince of Wales
  Prince Charles, Prince of Wales is the heir apparent and eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Since 1958 his major title has been His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales. In Scotland he is additionally known as The Duke of Rothesay...
  
  's court case against The Mail on Sunday
  The Mail on Sunday
  The Mail on Sunday is a British conservative newspaper, currently published in a tabloid format. First published in 1982 by Lord Rothermere, it became Britain's biggest-selling Sunday newspaper following the closing of The News of the World in July 2011...
  
  continues in the High Court
  High Court of Justice
  The High Court of Justice is, together with the Court of Appeal and the Crown Court, one of the Senior Courts of England and Wales...
  
  , revelations include the fact that he considers himself a dissident
  Dissident
  A dissident, broadly defined, is a person who actively challenges an established doctrine, policy, or institution. When dissidents unite for a common cause they often effect a dissident movement....
  
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• 1 March - The Queen
  Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
  Elizabeth II is the constitutional monarch of 16 sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize,...
  
   opens the new Senedd
  Senedd
  The Senedd , also known as the National Assembly building, houses the debating chamber and three committee rooms for the National Assembly for Wales in Cardiff. The Senedd building was opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 1 March 2006 and the total cost was £69.6 million, which included £49.7M in...
  
   building in Cardiff
  Cardiff
  Cardiff is the capital, largest city and most populous county of Wales and the 10th largest city in the United Kingdom. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for...
  
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• 13 March - Dafydd Wigley
  Dafydd Wigley
  Dafydd Wigley, Baron Wigley is a Welsh politician. He served as Plaid Cymru Member of Parliament for Caernarfon from 1974 until 2001 and as an Assembly Member for Caernarfon from 1999 until 2003. He was leader of the Plaid Cymru party from 1991 to 2000...
  
   announces that he is considering a political comeback.
• 5 April - Legendary singer Gene Pitney
  Gene Pitney
  Eugene Francis Alan Pitney, known as Gene Pitney , was an American singer-songwriter, musician and sound engineer. Through the mid-1960s, he enjoyed success as a recording artist on both sides of the Atlantic and was among the group of early 1960s American acts who continued to enjoy hits after the...
  
   is found dead in his Cardiff hotel room after an outstanding concert performance at St David's Hall
  St David's Hall
  St David's Hall is a performing arts and conference venue in the heart of Cardiff city centre, the capital of Wales...
  
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• 16 April - The first Welsh International Harp Festival opens at Caernarfon
  Caernarfon
  Caernarfon is a Royal town, community and port in Gwynedd, Wales, with a population of 9,611. It lies along the A487 road, on the east banks of the Menai Straits, opposite the Isle of Anglesey. The city of Bangor is to the northeast, while Snowdonia fringes Caernarfon to the east and southeast...
  
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• May - Two Big Brother
  Big Brother (UK)
  Big Brother UK is the British version of the Dutch Big Brother television format, which takes its name from the character in George Orwell's 1948 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four...
  
  contestants, Imogen Thomas and Glyn Wise, are told not to use the Welsh language
  Welsh language
  Welsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, by some along the Welsh border in England, and in Y Wladfa...
  
   for private conversations. The ruling is reversed after a formal complaint from the Welsh Language Society
  Welsh Language Society
  Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg, , often abbreviated to Cymdeithas or Cymdeithas yr Iaith is a pressure group in Wales campaigning for the future of the Welsh language...
  
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• 7 May - Russell T Davies wins the Dennis Potter
  Dennis Potter
  Dennis Christopher George Potter was an English dramatist, best known for The Singing Detective. His widely acclaimed television dramas mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social. He was particularly fond of using themes and images from popular culture.-Biography:Dennis Potter was born...
  
   Award at the BAFTA television awards ceremony.
• 27 - 28 May - The Full Ponty
  The Full Ponty
  The Full Ponty was a music festival first held in Pontypridd on the 27–28 May 2006. The name Full Ponty is a pun on Full Monty, and Ponty, the local nickname of the town...
  
   music festival is launched.
• 29 May - Max Boyce
  Max Boyce
  Maxwell Boyce MBE is a Welsh comedian, singer and former coal miner. He rose to fame during the mid-1970s with an act that combined musical comedy with his passion for rugby union and his origins in the mining communities of South Wales...
  
   headlines at a concert in Pontypridd
  Pontypridd
  Pontypridd is both a community and a principal town of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales and is situated 12 miles/19 km north of the Welsh capital city of Cardiff...
  
   to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Welsh national anthem. Also appearing are Rhod Gilbert
  Rhod Gilbert
  Rhodri "Rhod" Gilbert, is a Welsh comedian who was nominated in 2005 for the Perrier Best Newcomer Award. In 2008, he was nominated for the main if.comedy ....
  
  , Mike Peters
  Mike Peters
  Michael Bartley Peters , better known as Mike Peters, is an American cartoonist.He draws the comic strip Mother Goose and Grimm, as well as syndicated editorial cartoons that appear in papers all over the United States...
  
  , Shân Cothi
  Shân Cothi
  Shân Cothi is a Welsh classical singer, presenter and actress. She was born and raised the daughter of a blacksmith in the tiny village of Ffarmers inCarmarthenshire. She graduated in Music and Drama from the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth...
  
   and Hayley Westenra
  Hayley Westenra
  Hayley Dee Westenra is a New Zealand soprano, classical crossover artist, songwriter and UNICEF Ambassador. Her first internationally released album, Pure, reached No. 1 on the UK classical charts in 2003 and has sold more than two million copies worldwide...
  
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• 9 June - Rhodri Morgan
  Rhodri Morgan
  Hywel Rhodri Morgan is a Welsh Labour politician who, as First Secretary for Wales, and subsequently First Minister, was leader of the Welsh Assembly Government from 2000 to 2009. A former leader of Welsh Labour, he was the Assembly Member for Cardiff West from 1999 to 2011...
  
   opens Anglesey Coastal Path
  Anglesey Coastal Path
  The Anglesey Coastal Path is a long-distance footpath around the island of Anglesey in North Wales....
  
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• 17 June
  • Lynn Davies
    Lynn Davies
    Lynn Davies CBE was a member of the Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club and captain of the British Olympic long jump team in 1964....
    
     is awarded the CBE.
  • Julien Macdonald
    Julien MacDonald
    Julien Macdonald OBE is a Welsh fashion designer.Born in Merthyr Tydfil, Macdonald attended Cyfarthfa High School in Merthyr Tydfil. Macdonald was taught knitting by his mother, and soon became interested in design...
    
     is awarded the OBE.
• 29 June - In the Blaenau Gwent by-elections
  Blaenau Gwent by-elections, 2006
  Two by-elections were held for the constituency of Blaenau Gwent in Wales following the death of Member of Parliament and Assembly Member Peter Law on 25 April 2006. As Law was the MP and Assembly Member , his death required by-elections in both the parliamentary seat and the equivalent Welsh...
  
  
  • Trish Law
    Trish Law
    Patricia Law, née Bolter was the Blaenau Gwent People's Voice AM for Blaenau Gwent in Wales between 2006 and 2011.-Background:...
    
     succeeds her late husband as Independent Assembly Member for Blaenau Gwent;
  • Dai Davies
    Dai Davies (politician)
    David Clifford Davies, commonly known as Dai Davies, was the Blaenau Gwent People's Voice Member of Parliament for the Blaenau Gwent constituency in South Wales from 2006 to 2010...
    
     becomes the new Independent Member of Parliament
    Member of Parliament
    A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
    
     for Blaenau Gwent
    Blaenau Gwent (UK Parliament constituency)
    Blaenau Gwent is a county constituency in South Wales, represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.- History :...
    
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• 4 July - Alun Pugh
  Alun Pugh
  Alun John Pugh is a former Labour Welsh Assembly Government Minister for Culture, Welsh Language and Sport. Pugh was born into a poor coal mining family in the Rhondda Valleys. He moved to North Wales in the mid 1980s. Pugh currently lives in his former constituency near Ruthin, and lived in...
  
   announces that the planned merger of the Welsh Language Board
  Welsh Language Board
  The Welsh Language Board is a statutory body set up by the UK Government as part of the Welsh Language Act 1993. It is now an Assembly Sponsored Public Body...
  
   with the Welsh Assembly Government
  Welsh Assembly Government
  The Welsh Government is the devolved government of Wales. It is accountable to the National Assembly for Wales, the legislature which represents the interests of the people of Wales and makes laws for Wales...
  
  , announced in 2004, will be postponed until after the next Assembly elections in 2007.
• 5 July - The Prince of Wales is presented with a £150,000 gold leaf harp by Victor Salvi, for use by the Official Harpist to the Prince of Wales
  Official Harpist to the Prince of Wales
  The Official Harpist to the Prince of Wales is a position within the Royal Household. In 2000, Charles, Prince of Wales revived a tradition of having Welsh harpists, which was the first time the post has been occupied since it was last granted to John Thomas in 1871 by Queen Victoria.The harp is an...
  
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• 20 July - The NDA announced that Wylfa
  Wylfa
  The Wylfa Nuclear Power Station is situated just west of Cemaes Bay on the island of Anglesey, North Wales. Its location on the coast provides an excellent cooling source for its operation...
  
   power station will be shut down in 2010.
• 5 August - The 2006 National Eisteddfod of Wales
  National Eisteddfod of Wales
  The National Eisteddfod of Wales is the most important of several eisteddfodau that are held annually, mostly in Wales.- Organisation :...
  
   opens in Swansea
  Swansea
  Swansea is a coastal city and county in Wales. Swansea is in the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan. Situated on the sandy South West Wales coast, the county area includes the Gower Peninsula and the Lliw uplands...
  
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• 17 August - In the Clydach murders re-trial, David Morris is for a second time found guilty of four murders.
• 15 September - The Conservative Party in Wales adopts a sessile oak
  Sessile Oak
  Quercus petraea , the Sessile Oak, also known as the Durmast Oak, is a species of oak native to most of Europe, and into Anatolia.-Description:...
  
   as its new emblem.
• 26 September - For the first time in a Welsh court, the mother of a murder victim is allowed to make a statement following the conviction of her daughter's killer.
• 28 September - Health minister Brian Gibbons
  Brian Gibbons
  Dr Brian Gibbons, AM, FRCGP was the Labour Party Assembly Member for Aberavon from May 1999 to May 2010, when he stood down...
  
   admits that the NHS Wales
  National Health Service
  The National Health Service is the shared name of three of the four publicly funded healthcare systems in the United Kingdom. They provide a comprehensive range of health services, the vast majority of which are free at the point of use to residents of the United Kingdom...
  
   is £100 million in debt.
• 12 October - The Automatic
  The Automatic
  The Automatic , are a Welsh rock band. The band is composed of Robin Hawkins on vocals, bass and synthesizers, James Frost on guitar, synthesizers, backing vocals and occasional bass, Iwan Griffiths on drums and Paul Mullen on vocals, guitar and synthesizer - since 2007...
  
   apologise publicly for trashing the GMTV
  GMTV
  GMTV was the national Channel 3 breakfast television contractor, broadcasting in the United Kingdom from 1 January 1993 to 3 September 2010. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of ITV plc. in November 2009. Shortly after, ITV plc announced the programme would end...
  
   set, excusing themselves on the grounds that they were still drunk from the previous night and had had only a few minutes' notice that they were due to perform on the show.
• November - It becomes known that the Prince of Wales had purchased a farm in Carmarthenshire
  Carmarthenshire
  Carmarthenshire is a unitary authority in the south west of Wales and one of thirteen historic counties. It is the 3rd largest in Wales. Its three largest towns are Llanelli, Carmarthen and Ammanford...
  
   for his personal use and would also be letting it to holidaymakers. It is the first house he has ever bought in Wales.
• 3 November - Jones Jones Jones
  Jones Jones Jones
  Jones Jones Jones was an event held at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff, Wales on the November 3, 2006, which broke the Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people with the same surname - Jones.-Gala Concert:...
  
  , an event held at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, succeeds in breaking the world record for the largest gathering of people with the same surname in one place.
• 24 November - Ferndale Rugby Club welcomes celebrity guests to the grand opening of its "Sir Stanley Baker
  Stanley Baker
  Sir Stanley Baker was a Welsh actor and film producer.-Early career:William Stanley Baker was born in Ferndale, Rhondda Valley, Wales. In the mid-1930s his parents moved to London, where Baker spent most of his formative years...
  
   Lounge".
• 9 December - Welsh actor Owain Yeoman
  Owain Yeoman
  Owain Yeoman is a Welsh actor. His credits include The Nine, Kitchen Confidential and the HBO series, Generation Kill. He currently appears as Agent Wayne Rigsby in The Mentalist.-Biography:...
  
   marries Lucy Davis
  Lucy Davis
  Lucy Clare Davis is an English actress. She is best known for playing the character Dawn Tinsley in the BBC comedy The Office and as Dianne in the horror-comedy movie Shaun of the Dead.-Career:...
  
   at St Paul's Cathedral
  St Paul's Cathedral
  St Paul's Cathedral, London, is a Church of England cathedral and seat of the Bishop of London. Its dedication to Paul the Apostle dates back to the original church on this site, founded in AD 604. St Paul's sits at the top of Ludgate Hill, the highest point in the City of London, and is the mother...
  
   in London.
• 27 December - Torchwood star John Barrowman
  John Barrowman
  John Scot Barrowman is a Scottish-American singer, actor, dancer, musical theatre performer and media personality. Born in Glasgow yet growing up in Illinois after his family emigrated to the United States when he was eight years old, Barrowman was encouraged to further his love for music and...
  
   and architect Scott Gill become civil partners at a small ceremony in Cardiff
  Cardiff
  Cardiff is the capital, largest city and most populous county of Wales and the 10th largest city in the United Kingdom. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for...
  
  .

Awards

• Glyndŵr Award
  Glyndwr Award
  The Glyndŵr Award is made for an Outstanding Contribution to the Arts in Wales. It is given by the Machynlleth Tabernacle Trust to pre-eminent figures in music, art and literature in rotation...
  
   - Rhian Samuel
  Rhian Samuel
  Rhian Samuel, born in Aberdare, Wales in 1944, is a Welsh composer.She was educated in Britain and the United States, and joined the teaching staff of City University, London in 1995 becoming Professor of Music in 1999...
  
  
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Gwynfor ab Ifor
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Eigra Lewis Roberts
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - Fflur Dafydd
  Fflur Dafydd
  Fflur Dafydd is an award winning novelist, singer-songwriter and musician. Whilst predominantly publishing in Welsh, she also writes in English. She records in Welsh, and her work is regularly played on Radio Cymru.-Early life:...
  
  
• Wales Book of the Year
  Wales Book of the Year
  The Wales Book of the Year is a Welsh literary award given annually to the best Welsh and English language works in the fields of fiction and literary criticism by Welsh or Welsh interest authors...
  
  :
  • English language: Robert Minhinnick
    Robert Minhinnick
    Robert Minhinnick is a Welsh poet, essayist, novelist and translator.Minhinnick was born in Neath, and now lives in Porthcawl. He studied at University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and University of Wales, Cardiff. An environmental campaigner, he co-founded the charities Friends of the Earth and...
    
     - To Babel and Back
  • Welsh language: Rhys Evans - Gwynfor: Rhag Pob Brad
• Dylan Thomas
  Dylan Thomas
  Dylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer, Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 11 January 2008. who wrote exclusively in English. In addition to poetry, he wrote short stories and scripts for film and radio, which he often performed himself...
  
   Award: Rachel Trezise
  Rachel Trezise
  Rachel Trezise is a Welsh author, born in Cwmparc, Rhondda.-Background and career:Trezise studied at the University of Glamorgan in Wales and University of Limerick in Ireland. Her first novel, In and Out of the Goldfish Bowl, released in 2002 while she was still as a student, received broad...
  
  
• Cân i Gymru
  Cân i Gymru
  Cân i Gymru is a Welsh television show broadcast on S4C annually. It was first introduced 42 years ago when BBC Cymru wanted to enter the Eurovision Song Contest. It usually takes place at Afan Lido in Port Talbot. It has taken place every year except 1973...
  
  : Ryland Teifi - "Lili'r nos"

New books

• Dannie Abse
  Dannie Abse
  Daniel Abse, better known as Dannie Abse , is a Welsh poet.-Early years:Abse was born in Cardiff, Wales to a Jewish family. He is the younger brother of politician and reformer Leo Abse and the eminent psychoanalyst, Wilfred Abse...
  
   - Running Late
• T. Robin Chapman - Un Bywyd o Blith Nifer: Cofiant Saunders Lewis
  Saunders Lewis
  Saunders Lewis was a Welsh poet, dramatist, historian, literary critic, and political activist. He was a prominent Welsh nationalist and a founder of the Welsh National Party...
  
  
• Bethan Gwanas
  Bethan Gwanas
  Bethan Gwanas is a popular contemporary Welsh author, who publishes exclusively in the Welsh language. A prolific writer, she has had 17 titles published in the last decade...
  
   - Hi Oedd fy Ffrind
• Nigel Jenkins
  Nigel Jenkins
  Nigel Jenkins is one of Wales's foremost poets. Jenkins is also an editor, journalist, broadcaster and writer of creative non-fiction...
  
   - Hotel Gwales
• Lloyd Jones
  Lloyd Jones
  Lloyd Peniston Jones was an American athlete. He competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.In the 800 metres, Jones finished third in his semifinal heat and did not advance to the final....
  
   - Mr Cassini
• Jamie Owen
  Jamie Owen
  Jamie Owen is a Welsh radio and television presenter best known for presenting Wales Today.-Background:Owen was born in Withybush Hospital Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire. His father was a Pembroke Dock Solicitor, James Meyrick Owen and his mother was a health visitor and midwife. Jamie also had two...
  
   - Welsh Journeys
• Ann Pettitt - Walking to Greenham
• Byron Rogers - The Man Who Went into the West:The Life of R. S. Thomas
  R. S. Thomas
  Ronald Stuart Thomas was a Welsh poet and Anglican clergyman, noted for his nationalism, spirituality and deep dislike of the anglicisation of Wales...
  
  
• Peter Shaw
  Peter Shaw
  Peter Shaw may refer to:* Peter Shaw , English physician and medical author* Peter Shaw , kidnapped in June 2002* Peter Shaw , British actor and film producer, husband of actress Angela Lansbury...
  
   - Hole: Kidnapped in Georgia
• Sarah Waters
  Sarah Waters
  Sarah Waters is a British novelist. She is best known for her novels set in Victorian society, such as Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith.-Childhood:Sarah Waters was born in Neyland, Pembrokeshire, Wales in 1966....
  
   - The Night Watch
• Cynwil Williams - Rowan Williams - Yr Archesgob

Music

• Adequate 7 - Here On Earth
• The Automatic
  The Automatic
  The Automatic , are a Welsh rock band. The band is composed of Robin Hawkins on vocals, bass and synthesizers, James Frost on guitar, synthesizers, backing vocals and occasional bass, Iwan Griffiths on drums and Paul Mullen on vocals, guitar and synthesizer - since 2007...
  
   - Not Accepted Anywhere
  Not Accepted Anywhere
  Not Accepted Anywhere is the debut album from Welsh rock band The Automatic, originally released on June 19, 2006. Working with producers Stephen Harris, Richard Jackson and Ian Broudie on different tracks at a variety of studies around the United Kingdom the album was released through a joint deal...
  
  
• James Dean Bradfield
  James Dean Bradfield
  James Dean Bradfield is the lead guitarist and vocalist for the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers.- Early life :...
  
   - The Great Western
  The Great Western
  The Great Western is the debut solo album by Manic Street Preachers vocalist/guitarist James Dean Bradfield, released on July 24, 2006 on Columbia Records. The majority of the lyrics were written by Bradfield, who had only contributed lyrics to the songs "Ocean Spray" and "Firefight" previously for...
  
  
• Euros Childs
  Euros Childs
  Euros Childs is a Welsh musician and songwriter, best known as the frontman for the band Gorky's Zygotic Mynci. His sister is the violinist Megan Childs...
  
   - Chops
• Froncysyllte Male Voice Choir
  Froncysyllte Male Voice Choir
  The Froncysyllte Male Voice Choir , also known as the Fron Choir , is an award-winning amateur male voice choir based in the village of Froncysyllte, near Llangollen in Denbighshire, Wales.-Origins & History:...
  
   - Voices of the Valley
• People in Planes
  People in Planes
  People in Planes are a five piece Indie rock band from Cardiff, Wales. They are signed to Wind-up Records. Prior to 2003 they were known as Tetra Splendour and before that they went by the name of Robots in the Sky...
  
   - As Far As The Eye Can See...

Film

• Catherine Zeta-Jones
  Catherine Zeta-Jones
  Catherine Zeta-Jones, CBE, is a British actress. She began her career on stage at an early age. After starring in a number of United Kingdom and United States television films and small roles in films, she came to prominence with roles in Hollywood movies such as the 1998 action film The Mask of...
  
   is cast as Hollywood star Lana Turner
  Lana Turner
  Lana Turner was an American actress.Discovered and signed to a film contract by MGM at the age of sixteen, Turner first attracted attention in They Won't Forget . She played featured roles, often as the ingenue, in such films as Love Finds Andy Hardy...
  
   in the film Stompanato (due for release in 2007).
• Ioan Gruffudd
  Ioan Gruffudd
  Ioan Gruffudd is a Welsh actor.Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he started off in Welsh language film productions, then came to international attention as Fifth Officer Harold Lowe in the film Titanic , and as Lt. John Beales in Black Hawk Down...
  
   plays William Wilberforce
  William Wilberforce
  William Wilberforce was a British politician, a philanthropist and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. A native of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, he began his political career in 1780, eventually becoming the independent Member of Parliament for Yorkshire...
  
   in Michael Apted
  Michael Apted
  Michael David Apted, CMG is an English director, producer, writer and actor. He is one of the most prolific British film directors of his generation but is best known for his work on the Up Series of documentaries and the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough.On 29 June 2003 he was elected...
  
  's new film, Amazing Grace.
• Jonathan Pryce
  Jonathan Pryce
  Jonathan Pryce, CBE is a Welsh stage and film actor and singer. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and meeting his longtime partner English actress Kate Fahy in 1974, he began his career as a stage actor in the 1970s...
  
   begins filming Pirates of the Caribbean 3.
• Gower Boy, made by artist Gee Vaucher
  Gee Vaucher
  Gee Vaucher is a visual artist who was born in 1945 in Dagenham, East London.Her work with Anarcho-punk band Crass was seminal to the 'protest art' of the 1980s. Vaucher has always seen her work as a tool for social change. In her collection of early works Crass Art and Other Pre Post-Modernist...
  
   and musician Huw Warren
  Huw Warren
  Huw Warren is a jazz pianist and composer. A graduate of Goldsmiths College and Guildhall School of Music, he is known for his work with June Tabor, Perfect Houseplants, and various groups. Warren has recorded several albums under his own name on Babel Label, including projects with violinist Mark...
  
  , is premiered at the 14th Raindance Film Festival
  Raindance Film Festival
  Raindance is an independent film festival and film school that operates from various cities including: London, New York, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Budapest, Berlin and Brussels...
  
  .
• Lloyd Owen
  Lloyd Owen
  Lloyd Owen is a British actor of Welsh descent. Trained at the National Youth Theatre and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, he is probably best known for his portrayal of Indiana Jones's father Professor Dr. Henry Jones, Sr...
  
   stars in Miss Potter.

Broadcasting

• Michael Sheen
  Michael Sheen
  Michael Christopher Sheen, OBE , is a Welsh stage and screen actor. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England and made his professional debut opposite Vanessa Redgrave in When She Danced at the Globe Theatre in 1991...
  
   stars as Kenneth Williams
  Kenneth Williams
  Kenneth Charles Williams was an English comic actor and comedian. He was one of the main ensemble in 26 of the Carry On films, and appeared in numerous British television shows, and radio comedies with Tony Hancock and Kenneth Horne.-Life and career:Kenneth Charles Williams was born on 22 February...
  
   in Fantabulosa
  Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!
  Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! is a 2006 BBC Four television play starring Michael Sheen as the English comic actor Kenneth Williams, based on Williams' own diaries...
  
  , Nero
  Nero
  Nero , was Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last in the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Nero was adopted by his great-uncle Claudius to become his heir and successor, and succeeded to the throne in 54 following Claudius' death....
  
   in the drama-documentary series Ancient Rome: the Rise and Fall of an Empire, and H. G. Wells
  H. G. Wells
  Herbert George Wells was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing text books and rules for war games...
  
   in H G Wells: War with the World.
• Huw Edwards
  Huw Edwards (journalist)
  Huw Edwards is a BAFTA award-winning Welsh journalist, presenter and newsreader.He is a news presenter for BBC News in the United Kingdom. Edwards presents Britain's most watched news programme, BBC News at Ten, which is also the corporation's flagship news broadcast...
  
   presents a St David's Day drama-documentary on the career of Owain Glyndŵr
  Owain Glyndwr
  Owain Glyndŵr , or Owain Glyn Dŵr, anglicised by William Shakespeare as Owen Glendower , was a Welsh ruler and the last native Welshman to hold the title Prince of Wales...
  
  .
• The new series of Doctor Who
  Doctor Who
  Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
  
  is filmed in Wales by BBC Wales and produced by Russell T Davies. Davies also produces Torchwood
  Torchwood
  Torchwood is a British science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies. The series is a spin-off from Davies's 2005 revival of the long-running science fiction programme Doctor Who. The show has shifted its broadcast channel each series to reflect its growing audience, moving from...
  
  , a spin-off series featuring John Barrowman
  John Barrowman
  John Scot Barrowman is a Scottish-American singer, actor, dancer, musical theatre performer and media personality. Born in Glasgow yet growing up in Illinois after his family emigrated to the United States when he was eight years old, Barrowman was encouraged to further his love for music and...
  
  .
• Andrew Davies
  Andrew Davies (writer)
  Andrew Wynford Davies is a British author and screenwriter. He was made a Fellow of BAFTA in 2002.-Education and early career:...
  
  's adaptation of Bleak House
  Bleak House
  Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in twenty monthly installments between March 1852 and September 1853. It is held to be one of Dickens's finest novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon...
  
  for the BBC
  BBC
  The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
  
   wins several awards at the annual BAFTA ceremony in May.
• Aled Jones
  Aled Jones
  Aled Jones is a Welsh singer and television/radio personality, broadcaster and television presenter who first came to fame as a treble...
  
   leaves Classic FM
  Classic FM (UK)
  Classic FM, one of the United Kingdom's three Independent National Radio stations, broadcasts classical music in a popular and accessible style.-Overview:...
  
   to become a BBC
  BBC
  The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
  
   radio presenter.
• 5 November, Swansea Bay Radio
  Swansea Bay Radio
  Bay Radio is an Independent Local Radio station broadcasting in Swansea and South West Wales. The station launched as Swansea Bay Radio on 5 November 2006 with Take That's Back for Good as the first song played....
  
   on air for the first time.

Welsh-language television

• Calon Gaeth (drama serial)
• Cowbois ac Injans
  Cowbois ac Injans
  Cowbois ac Injans is a Welsh language television drama written by brother and sister Jon and Catherine Tregenna for S4C...
  
  
• O Na! Y Morgans!
  O Na! Y Morgans!
  O Na! Y Morgans! is an animated Welsh-speaking drama for children set on S4C, starring Morgan Hopkin and Lilo Millward in the main roles....
  
  

English-language television

• The Charlotte Church Show
  The Charlotte Church Show
  The Charlotte Church Show was a Channel 4 entertainment television show presented by Welsh singer Charlotte Church. It was first broadcast on 1 September 2006 and ran for 6 subsequent Fridays. The show was commissioned for a further two series, the first of which aired from 23 February to 6 April...
  
  (Channel 4)
• Drowning of a Village (BBC2)
• Supernova
  Supernova (TV series)
  Supernova is a British comedy television programme produced by Hartswood Films and jointly commissioned by the BBC in the UK and UKTV in Australia. It follows Dr Paul Hamilton , a Welsh astronomer, who leaves a dull academic post and unloved girlfriend for a new job at the Royal Australian...
  
  , starring Rob Brydon
  Rob Brydon
  Rob Brydon is a BAFTA-nominated Welsh actor, comedian, radio and television presenter, singer and impressionist...
  
  
• Torchwood
  Torchwood
  Torchwood is a British science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies. The series is a spin-off from Davies's 2005 revival of the long-running science fiction programme Doctor Who. The show has shifted its broadcast channel each series to reflect its growing audience, moving from...
  
  

Sport

• 1 January - Athlete Timothy Benjamin
  Timothy Benjamin
  Timothy David Benjamin is a former professional athlete from Wales. He specialised in the 400 metres, and in his teens was coached by Jock Anderson, in the same training group as Christian Malcolm...
  
  , currently the UK's top 400m runner, announces that he will not be fully fit for the 2006 Commonwealth Games
  2006 Commonwealth Games
  The 2006 Commonwealth Games were held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia between 15 March and 26 March 2006. It was the largest sporting event to be staged in Melbourne, eclipsing the 1956 Summer Olympics in terms of the number of teams competing, athletes competing, and events being held.The site...
  
  .
• 13 February - Wales rugby union coach Mike Ruddock
  Mike Ruddock
  Mike Ruddock, OBE is a Welsh rugby union coach, currently coach of the Ireland Under-20 Rugby Union Team and Lansdowne FC . Ruddock was the coach of the Worcester Warriors until his resignation on 28 April 2010 following their relegation from the Guinness Premiership...
  
   announces his shock resignation.
• 5 March - Joe Calzaghe
  Joe Calzaghe
  Joseph William Calzaghe, CBE, MBE is a Welsh former professional boxer. He is the former WBO, WBA, WBC, IBF, The Ring & British super middleweight champion and The Ring light heavyweight champion....
  
   defeats Jeff Lacy
  Jeff Lacy
  Jeffrey Scott Lacy is an American boxer. He is a former International Boxing Federation super middleweight champion.-Amateur career:...
  
   to retain the IBF
  International Boxing Federation
  The International Boxing Federation or IBF is one of four major organizations recognized by IBHOF which sanction world championship boxing bouts, alongside the WBA, WBC and WBO.- History :...
  
   world super middleweight boxing championship.
• 10 March - Ian Woosnam
  Ian Woosnam
  Ian Harold Woosnam OBE is a Welsh professional golfer.Nicknamed 'Woosie', 'Woosers', or the 'Wee Welshman', Woosnam was one of the "Big Five" generation of European golfers, all born within 12 months of one another, all of whom have won majors, and made Europe competitive in the Ryder Cup...
  
   is appointed "ambassador" for Welsh golf in the run up to the 2010 Ryder Cup, to be held at the Celtic Manor Resort near Newport.
• 16 March - Swimmer David Davies
  David Davies (swimmer)
  David Davies is a Welsh Commonwealth Games and Olympic distance swimmer. Born in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Davies swam for Wales at the 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games and represented Great Britain at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics...
  
   wins a bronze medal on the first day's competition in the 2006 Commonwealth Games at Melbourne, Australia.
• 20 March - Sprinter Christian Malcolm
  Christian Malcolm
  Christian Sean Malcolm is a Welsh athlete, specialising in the 200m.Malcolm was born in Cardiff and resides in Newport, Wales. He won the title of World Junior Athlete of the Year in 1998 and in the 1998 World Junior Championships, he won the 200m in 20.44 seconds...
  
   pulls a hamstring in the 100m heats and is forced to withdraw from the Games.
• 26 March - Team Wales completes the Commonwealth Games having met and surpassed its target of 18 medals. The team won 3 gold, 5 silver and 11 bronze medals in all.
• 13 May - Owing to the late completion of Wembley Stadium
  Wembley Stadium
  The original Wembley Stadium, officially known as the Empire Stadium, was a football stadium in Wembley, a suburb of north-west London, standing on the site now occupied by the new Wembley Stadium that opened in 2007...
  
  , the FA Cup Final
  FA Cup Final
  The FA Cup Final, commonly referred to in England as just the Cup Final, is the last match in the Football Association Challenge Cup. With an official attendance of 89,826 at the 2007 FA Cup Final, it is the fourth best attended domestic club championship event in the world and the second most...
  
   is held at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium
  Millennium Stadium
  The Millennium Stadium is the national stadium of Wales, located in the capital, Cardiff. It is the home of the Wales national rugby union team and also frequently stages games of the Wales national football team, but is also host to many other large scale events, such as the Super Special Stage...
  
   for the sixth year in a row.
• October - Peter Ridsdale
  Peter Ridsdale
  Peter Ridsdale is an English businessman who is currently the Chairman of Football Operations at League Two club Plymouth Argyle. Ridsdale was previously the chairman of Leeds United, Barnsley and Cardiff City.-History:...
  
   replaces Sam Hammam
  Sam Hammam
  Samir "Sam" Hammam is a Lebanese business man, most notable for his high profile involvement in British football clubs.-Career:...
  
   as chairman of Cardiff City F.C.
  Cardiff City F.C.
  Cardiff City Football Club are a Welsh professional football club based in Cardiff, Wales. The club competes in the English football pyramid and is currently playing in the Football League Championship. Cardiff City is the best supported football club in Wales, averaging approximately 22,500 for...
  
  
• 4 October - The Football Association of Wales
  Football Association of Wales
  The Football Association of Wales is the governing body of association football in Wales. It is a member of FIFA, UEFA and the IFAB.Established in 1876 , it is the third-oldest national association in the world, and is one of the four associations The Football Association of Wales (FAW) is the...
  
   signs two-year sponsorship deal with Welsh drinks and hospitality company Brains.
• 10 October - It is announced that a bust of the former Wales, Leeds and Juventus football star John Charles
  John Charles
  William John Charles, CBE , commonly known as John Charles, was a Welsh international footballer best remembered for spells with Leeds United and Juventus. Rated by many as the greatest all-round footballer ever to come from Wales, he was equally adept at centre-forward or centre-back...
  
   is to be put on display at Swansea Liberty Stadium.
• 11 October - Cardiff Athletics Stadium
  Cardiff Athletics Stadium
  The Cardiff Athletics Stadium was an athletics and football stadium in Cardiff, Wales. It opened in 1989 and was demolished in 2007, replaced by the Cardiff International Sports Stadium....
  
   wins the Club Future Partnership of the Year 2006 Cup from UK Athletics
  UK Athletics
  UK Athletics is the governing body for the sport of athletics in the United Kingdom. It is responsible for overseeing the governance of athletics events in the UK as well as athletes, their development, and athletics officials....
  
   for its continued partnership with other organisations throughout the city and its support of events and athletes.
• 14 October - Boxing: Joe Calzaghe
  Joe Calzaghe
  Joseph William Calzaghe, CBE, MBE is a Welsh former professional boxer. He is the former WBO, WBA, WBC, IBF, The Ring & British super middleweight champion and The Ring light heavyweight champion....
  
   successfully defends his WBO/IBF World Super-Middleweight title defence against Sakio Bika
  Sakio Bika
  Sakio "The Scorpion" Bika , is a professional boxer in the super middleweight division. He is the former IBO super middleweight world champion.-Amateur career:...
  
  .
• 15 October. Cardiff Marathon
  Cardiff Marathon
  The Cardiff Half Marathon takes place in October. In 2011, it is on Sunday 16 October. It is an annual half marathon race held in the Welsh capital city of Cardiff. The event was established in 2003 and is organised by the children’s charity Barnardo’s...
  
   2006
• 29 October - A record 1,500 runners takes part in the 25th National Trust Snowdonia Marathon. The winner for the fifth time is Dennis Walmsley.
• 2 November - Golf
  Golf
  Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
  
  : The team of Rhys Davies
  Rhys Davies (golfer)
  Rhys Davies is a Welsh professional golfer.Davies was born in Edinburgh, Scotland but has lived in Wales for the majority of his life. He played collegiate golf in the United States at East Tennessee State University where he won ten times...
  
  , Nigel Edwards
  Nigel Edwards
  Nigel Edwards is a Welsh former footballer who played as a full back. He made more than 400 Football League appearances for Chester City and Aldershot.-Playing career:...
  
   and Llewellyn Matthews takes Wales to fourth place at the World Amateur Team Championships in Stelle.
• 4 November - Rugby union: Wales draw with Australia in the first Autumn International Test Match of 2006.
• 18–19 November Cycling: International Sprint Omnium takes place at the Wales National Velodrome in Newport
  Newport
  Newport is a city and unitary authority area in Wales. Standing on the banks of the River Usk, it is located about east of Cardiff and is the largest urban area within the historic county boundaries of Monmouthshire and the preserved county of Gwent...
  
  .

Deaths

• 5 January - Merlyn Rees, Labour politician, 85
• 15 January - Glyn Berry
  Glyn Berry
  Glyn Berry was a Canadian diplomat killed in a car bomb attack in Afghanistan. He was the first Canadian diplomat to be killed while on duty in Afghanistan. Two other civilians were killed in the incident and ten people were wounded, including three Canadian soldiers, MCpl. Paul Franklin, Pte....
  
  , Welsh-born Canadian diplomat, 59
• 5 February - Peter Philp
  Peter Philp
  Denis Alfred Peter Philp , was a Welsh dramatist and antiques expert, best known for his television series, Collectors' Club....
  
  , dramatist and antiques expert, 85
• 21 February - Stefan Terlezki
  Stefan Terlezki
  Stefan Terlezki, CBE, was a British Conservative politician who served as Member of Parliament for Cardiff West from 1983 to 1987. Terlezki was born in Oleshiv, a village near the town of Tlumach in what is now western Ukraine but was then part of Poland...
  
  , politician, 78
• 13 March - Roy Clarke
  Roy Clarke (footballer)
  Royston James Clarke was a Welsh footballer who played for Cardiff City, Manchester City, Stockport County and Wales as a winger....
  
  , footballer, 80
• 18 March - Glyn Davidge
  Glyn Davidge
  Glyn Davidge was a Welsh international flanker who played club rugby for Tredegar and Newport. He was awarded nine caps for Wales and toured with Arthur Smith's 1962 British Lions squad.-Club career:...
  
  , Wales international and British Lion rugby player, 72
• 6 April - Leslie Norris
  Leslie Norris
  George Leslie Norris FRSL , was a prize-winning Welsh poet and short story writer. Up to 1974 he earned his living as a college lecturer, teacher and headmaster...
  
  , poet and author, 84
• 19 April - Ken Jones, rugby player, 84
• 25 April - Peter Law
  Peter Law
  Peter John Law was a Welsh politician.- Labour Co-operative AM and Independent MP :For most of his career Law sat as a Labour Councillor and subsequently Labour Co-operative Assembly Member for Blaenau Gwent...
  
  , politician, 58
• 23 May - Ray Cale
  Ray Cale
  William Raymond "Ray" Cale was a dual code rugby international for Wales with the international rugby union and rugby league teams.-Rugby union:...
  
  , dual code international rugby player, 83
• 1 June - Gerald James
  Gerald James
  Gerald James was a British actor best known for his character actor roles in British television productions such as The Sandbaggers, The Professionals, Secret Army, Sapphire and Steel and The Pickwick Papers. He also appeared on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company.-External links:...
  
  , actor, 88
• 2 June - Leon Pownall
  Leon Pownall
  Leon Pownall was a Welsh Canadian actor and director.He was born in Wrexham in Wales and came to Hamilton, Ontario with his family in 1957...
  
  , Wrexham-born actor, 63
• 25 June - Kenneth Griffith
  Kenneth Griffith
  Kenneth Griffith was a Welsh actor and documentary filmmaker.-Early life:He was born Kenneth Reginald Griffiths in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales. Six months after his birth his parents split up and left Tenby, leaving Kenneth with his paternal grandparents, Emily and Ernest, who immediately adopted...
  
  , actor and documentary maker, 84
• 23 July - John Samuel Rowlands
  John Samuel Rowlands
  Air Marshal Sir John Rowlands GC, KBE was a Welsh Royal Air Force officer who was awarded the George Cross for his work in bomb disposal and later worked in the development of Britain's nuclear weapons programme....
  
  , George Cross recipient, 90
• 25 July - Dewi Zephaniah Phillips, philosopher, 71
• 30 August - Glenn Ford
  Glenn Ford
  Glenn Ford was a Canadian-born American actor from Hollywood's Golden Era with a career that spanned seven decades...
  
  , Canadian actor of Welsh parentage, 90
• 1 September - Sir Kyffin Williams
  Kyffin Williams
  Sir John "Kyffin" Williams, KBE, RA was a Welsh landscape painter who lived at Pwllfanogl, Llanfairpwll on the Island of Anglesey...
  
  , artist, 88
• 27 September - Tommy Harris
  Tommy Harris (rugby league)
  Percival Thomas "Tommy" Harris , was a Welsh professional Rugby League World Cup winning footballer, nicknamed "Bomber", was a Welsh sports personality...
  
  , former rugby league player, 79
• 21 October - Urien Wiliam
  Urien Wiliam
  Urien Wiliam , was a Welsh language novelist and dramatist.He was born in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, the son of Professor Stephen J. Williams, an academic at Swansea University...
  
  , novelist and dramatist, 76
• 2 November - Leslie Manfield
  Leslie Manfield
  Leslie "Les" Manfield DFC was a Welsh rugby union international. He was the second oldest Welsh international of all time, and at the time of his death, aged 91, the oldest living man to have played as a forward for Wales.-Rugby career:Manfield was born in Mountain Ash, the son of a railway...
  
  , Wales international rugby union player, 91
• 18 November - Keith Rowlands
  Keith Rowlands
  Keith Alun Rowlands , was a Welsh international lock rugby union player, later administrator who was the first Chief Executive Officer of the International Rugby Board.-Playing career:...
  
  , rugby union player and administrator, 70
• 20 November - Dr William R. P. George, solicitor and poet, 94