1943 in Wales

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1943 in Wales
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1943 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland • Scotland
Other events of 1943

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1943 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

29 January - In the by-election for the University of Wales seat vacated by Ernest Evans, there are three notable candidates. W. J. Gruffydd, a former vice-president of Plaid Cymru who had subsequently joined the Liberal Party, triumphs over Plaid's Saunders Lewis. One of the other candidates is Alun Talfan Davies.
23 October - David Lloyd George marries his secretary, Frances Stevenson.
Sir Percy Thomas is elected President of R.I.B.A. for the second time - the second person ever to achieve this.

13 January – Lorna Sage, academic, literary critic and writer (died 2001)
1 February - Rosemarie Frankland, beauty queen (died 2000)
11 February – Win Griffiths MP, politician
3 March (in London) – Aeronwy Thomas, literary figure
1 April (in Derby) – Dafydd Wigley MP, politician
9 April – Clive Sullivan, rugby league footballer (died 1985)
16 April – Ruth Madoc, actress and singer
17 April - Elinor Bennett, harpist
26 April – Leon Pownall, actor and director
27 April – Gwyn Prosser MP, politician
2 August – Alun Michael MP, politician
17 August – John Humphrys, TV and radio journalist
24 August – Dafydd Iwan, musician and politician
10 September – Shân Legge-Bourke, landowner
16 November – Val Lloyd AM, politician
28 December – Joan Ruddock MP, politician
date unknown
- John Beard, artist
- Karl Francis, filmmaker
- Sir Terry Matthews, entrepreneur

9 January – William Llewellyn Thomas, Wales international rugby player, 70
12 January – Selwyn Biggs, Wales international rugby player and Glamorgan cricketer,
31 January – Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones, physician, 85
1 March (in London) – Clara Novello Davies, singer, 71
6 March (in Trevelin) – John Daniel Evans, pioneer in Patagonia, 81
23 March – Commander John Wallace Linton, VC, 37
28 March – Ben Davies, operatic tenor, 85
12 April – Arthur Lloyd James, phonetician
17 April – Alice Gray Jones (Ceridwen Peris), author, 90
8 September – Dai Lewis, Wales international rugby player, 76
15 September – David Samuel, Wales international rugby player
24 September – Billy Douglas, Wales international rugby player, 80
15 October – Sir Thomas Artemus Jones, lawyer, 72
29 October – Frank Hancock, Wales international rugby union international, 84
10 December – Ivor Morgan, Wales international rugby union player, 59
27 December – Arthur O'Bree, Glamorgan cricketer, 57

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