1965 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1965 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
Awards
- National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Newtown, Montgomeryshire)
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - William David Williams
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Tom Parri Jones
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - Eigra Lewis Roberts
New books
Music
- Tom Jones releases the film theme, "What's New, Pussycat?" as a single.
Film
Theatre
Broadcasting
- BBC2 is received in South Wales for the first time.
- Arwel Hughes becomes Head of Music at BBC Wales.
Welsh-language television
English-language television
Sport
Births
- 5 January - Vinnie Jones, footballer
- 2 March (in Bangor, County Down) - Lembit Öpik, politician
- 6 March - Allan Bateman, rugby player
- 1 April - Alexandra Shân "Tiggy" Legge-Bourke, royal nanny
- 9 April - Colin Pascoe, footballer
- 3 May - Rob Brydon, comedian and actor
- 8 May - Andy Dibble, footballer
- 11 May - Jeremy Goss, footballer
- 25 August - David Taylor, soccer player and manager
- 13 September - Andrew Williams, cricketer
- 16 October - Floyd Havard, British super-featherweight boxing champion
- 30 October - Michael Tremellen, cricketer
- 9 November - Bryn Terfel, bass-baritone singer
- date unknown - Patrick Jones, poet and author
Deaths
- 29 January - T. Harri Jones, poet and academic, 43
- 4 February - Llywelyn Williams, politician, 53
- 5 February - Sir David Brunt, meteorologist, 78
- 22 April - Glyn Stephens, Wales international rugby union captain, 73
- 3 May - Howard Spring, novelist, 76
- 29 May - Steve Morris, Wales international rugby player, 68
- 16 June - Dai Parker, Wales and British Lion rugby player, 60
- 17 July (in Scarborough) - Dan Lewis, footballer
- 1 October - Gareth Hughes, actor, 71
- 9 October - Russell Taylor, Wales international rugby player, 50
- 22 October - William Williams, Victoria Cross recipient, 75
- 4 November - Ifor Williams, academic, 84
- 8 November - George Henry Hall, politician, 83
- 23 November - Murray Humphreys, Chicago mobster of Welsh descent, 66
- 26 December - Llewellyn Alberic Emilius Price-Davies, Victoria Cross recipient, 87
- 29 December - Claude Warner, cricketer, 83
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