This article is about the particular significance of the year 1928 to Wales and its people.
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- David Evans
- Concerto for String Orchestra
- Incidental music for Alcestis (unpublished)[18]
- Isaac J. Williams presents Travel Talks on Art[20][21]
- 2 January – Dai Royston Bevan, rugby player (d. 2008)[23]
- 1 February – Sam Edwards, physicist (d. 2015)[24]
- 8 February – Osian Ellis, harpist (d. 2021)[25]
- 9 February – Gruffydd Evans, Baron Evans of Claughton, solicitor and politician (d. 1992)[26]
- 6 March – Glyn Owen, actor (d. 2004)[27]
- 9 April – Albert Gubay, businessman (d. 2016)[28]
- 27 April
- 7 June – Dave Bowen, football player and manager (d. 1995)
- 9 June – R. Geraint Gruffydd, academic and theologian (d. 2015)[29]
- 19 June – Ray Powell, politician (d. 2001)[30]
- 11 July – Greville Janner, Labour MP and lawyer (d. 2015)[31][32]
- 14 July – Haydn Morris, international rugby union player (d. 2021)
- 26 July – Bernice Rubens, novelist (d. 2004)[33]
- 7 August – Gwilym Roberts, politician (d. 2018)[34]
- 12 August – Roy Davies, cricketer (d. 2013)
- 14 August – Sid Judd, Wales international rugby union player (d. 1959)
- 1 September – Emrys James, actor (d. 1989)[35]
- 17 September – Dafydd Orwig, educationist (d. 1996)[36]
- 23 October – Keith Jones, footballer (d. 2007)
- 20 November – John Disley, distance runner (d. 2016)[37]
- 19 December – Gwyn Rowlands, rugby union international (d. 2010)
- 11 January – Joseph Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk, 63[38]
- 21 March – Stanley L. Wood, illustrator, 61[39]
- 14 April – Lewis Cobden Thomas, Wales international rugby player, 62[40]
- 13 May – David John Thomas (Afan), composer and conductor, 47[41]
- 19 May – Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, heraldry expert (of Welsh descent), 57[42]
- 23 May – Henry Seymour Berry, 1st Baron Buckland, industrialist, 50 (head injury)[43]
- 3 June – Tosh Powell, Welsh champion boxer, 20[44]
- 21 June – Marie Novello, pianist, c. 30 (emphysema)[45]
- 23 July – John Hinds, businessman and politician, 65
- 23 August – Daniel Davies, Bishop of Bangor, 64[46]
- 30 August – Hugh Evan-Thomas, admiral, 65[47]
- 6 September – Richard Ellis, librarian, 62
- 1 October – Lawrence Hugh Jenkins, judge, 70[48]
- 3 December – Isaac Hughes (Craigfryn), poet and novelist, 76
- 13 December – Harry Jarman, Wales and British Lions international rugby union player, 34–35
- 29 December – George Boots, rugby player, 54[49]
- date unknown – John Morgan Howell, local politician in Cardiganshire, 72/3
National Museum of Wales (1928). Annual Report. The Museum. p. 23.
Counsell, Michael (2003). Every pilgrim's guide to England's holy places. Norwich: Canterbury. p. 113. ISBN 9781853115226.
"Glyn Owen". The Telegraph. 16 September 2004. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
Andrew Roth (10 December 2001). "Sir Ray Powell". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
Janet Watts (14 October 2004). "Bernice Rubens". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
Trowbridge, Simon (2010). "Emrys James". The Company: A biographical dictionary of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Oxford, England: Editions Albert Creed. ISBN 978-0-9559830-2-3.
The Bishop Of Bangor. Pastoral Work, The Times, 24 August 1928; pg. 14; Issue 44980; col D
Parry-Jones, David (1999). Prince Gwyn, Gwyn Nicholls and the First Golden Era of Welsh Rugby. Bridgend: seren. ISBN 1-85411-262-7.