1943 in Wales

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

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - vacant
• Princess of Wales - vacant
• Archbishop of Wales - Charles Alfred Howell Green
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Crwys

Events

• 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 every to achieve this.

Arts and literature

• The Welsh National Opera company is founded in Cardiff.

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Caernarfon)

• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - David Emrys James
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Dafydd Owen
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - withheld

New books

• Idris Davies - The Angry Summer: A Poem of 1926
• Rhys John Davies - Pobl a Phethau
• Sir Emrys Evans - Ewthaffron: Criton (translation from Plato)
• William Evans (Wil Ifan) - A Quire of Rhymes
• R. T. Jenkins - Orinda
• Alwyn D. Rees - Adfeilion

Music

• Arwel Hughes - Antiomaros
• W. S. Gwynn Williams - Tosturi Duw (God's Mercy)

Film

• Ray Milland stars in Forever and a Day and The Crystal Ball.

Broadcasting

• Wynford Vaughan-Thomas reports from a bomber over Berlin for BBC Radio.

Sport

Births

• 13 January - Laura Sage, critic
• 11 February - Win Griffiths MP, politician
• 3 March - Aeronwy Thomas, literary figure
• 1 April - Dafydd Wigley MP, politician
• 9 April - Clive Sullivan (d. 1985), rugby league footballer
• 16 April - Ruth Madoc, actress and singer
• 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
• 16 November - Val Lloyd AM, politician
• 28 December - Joan Ruddock MP, politician
• date unknown
  • John Beard, artist
  • Elinor Bennett, harpist
  • Karl Francis, filmmaker
  • Sir Terry Matthews, entrepreneur

Deaths

• 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 - Clara Novello Davies, singer, 71
• 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