1942 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1942 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
Awards
- National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Cardigan)
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - withheld
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Herman Jones
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - withheld
New books
Music
Film
Broadcasting
Sport
Births
- 2 January - Billy Hullin, Wales international rugby union player
- 1 February – Terry Jones, writer, comedian and actor
- 15 February – Leslie Griffiths, Methodist minister and politician
- 9 March – John Cale, musician
- 13 March – John Mantle, Welsh dual-code rugby player
- 28 March – Neil Kinnock, politician
- 5 April – Peter Greenaway, film-maker
- 20 May – Lynn Davies, athlete
- 21 May – David Hunt, Secretary of State for Wales 1990-93
- 25 May – Ron Davies, footballer
- 8 June – Doug Mountjoy, snooker player
- 13 July – Hywel Gwynfryn, television presenter
- 17 July – Spencer Davis, musician
- 20 July – Sylvia Heal, politician
- 16 September – Barrie Hole, footballer
- 16 September – Jeff Young, rugby player
- 24 November – Craig Thomas, novelist
- 5 September – Chris Corbett, rugby player
- 12 September – Delme Thomas, rugby player
- 2 December - Brian Evans, footballer (d.2003)
Deaths
- 1 January – John Baldwin Hoystead Meredith, Welsh-Australian soldier and doctor
- 7 January – Edward Arthur Lewis, historian
- 27 January – Tom Barlow, Welsh rugby player and cricketer
- 15 February – Frank Treharne Jones, lawyer
- 22 March – Ebenezer Griffith-Jones, academic
- 22 April
- John John Evans, journalist
- James Morgan Pryse, Welsh-descended American author, publisher, theosophist and founder of the Gnostic Society, 96
- 14 May - Walter Watkins, footballer
- 10 July - Sydney Curnow Vosper, artist, 75
- 22 July – Gilbert Cunningham Joyce, Bishop of Monmouth
- 6 August – Francis Green, antiquary
- 24 September – David Walters (Eurof), minister and author
- 14 October – Jem Evans, Wales international rugby union player
- 26 October - Richard Mathias, politician, 79
- 7 December - Lionel Beaumont Thomas, businessman, British Army officer and politician, 49
- 22 December – Elias Henry Jones, educationist and author