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- March/April - Closure of the steelworks in Ebbw Vale and East Moors.[4]
- unknown dates
- The Welsh Office is given responsibility for further and higher education in Wales.
- The National Language Centre is established at Nant Gwrtheyrn in the Lleyn peninsula.[5]
Awards
- National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Cardiff)
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - withheld[7]
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Siôn Eirian[8]
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - Harri Williams
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English-language television
- 6 January - Ted Jones, trade union leader, 81[19]
- 11 January - William John Edwards, Cerdd Dant singer, 79
- 17 February - Joseph Owen, cricketer, 69[20]
- 20 February - Tom Jones, footballer, 88[21]
- 23 February - Arwyn Davies, Baron Arwyn, politician, 80[22]
- 24 February - David Williams, historian, 78[23]
- 2 March - Frances Williams, composer,[24]
- 6 March - David Price-White, lawyer and politician, 71[25]
- 4 April - Sir Morien Morgan, aeronautics engineer, 65[26]
- 9 April - Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, architect, 94[27]
- 13 April - William Rees-Thomas, psychiatrist, 90[28]
- 14 April - Thomas Hollingdale, Wales rugby union international, 77
- 16 April - Eddie Morgan, Wales international rugby player, 64
- 25 April - Harry Griffiths, footballer and manager, 47
- 18 May - Selwyn Lloyd, politician, 73[29]
- 2 July - Philip Scott Yorke, last Squire of Erddig, 73
- 21 August - Rhys Davies, 76, novelist and short story writer[30]
- 25 August - Tyssul Griffiths, rugby player, 59
- 4 September – Leonora Cohen, suffragette, trade unionist and feminist, 105
- 12 September - Bobby Delahay, Wales rugby union captain, 78
- 13 November - W. S. Gwynn Williams, composer, 82[31]
- 23 November - Edward Jones, 82, cricketer[32]
- 16 December - Harry Phillips, Wales international rugby player, 75
Keith Gildart, "Jones, Edward ('Ted')", Dictionary of Labour Biography, vol.XIV, pp.188–199
REES-THOMAS, William’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 28 Dec 2012