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See also:	List of years in Wales Timeline of Welsh history 1960 in The United Kingdom England Scotland Elsewhere

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1960 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Archbishop of Wales – Edwin Morris, Bishop of Monmouth
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales
  • William Morris (outgoing)
  • Trefin (incoming)

Events

• 1 January – Portmeirion Pottery is established when Susan Williams-Ellis and her husband Euan Cooper-Willis (managers of the gift shop at her father's village of Portmeirion) take over Gray's Pottery in Stoke-on-Trent (England).^[1]
• 5 January – Closure of the Swansea and Mumbles Railway (opened to passengers in 1807 and by this date operated by double-deck electric trams).^[2] The service is replaced by buses operated by its owner South Wales Transport.
• 28 June – Forty-five miners are killed in an accident at Six Bells Colliery, Monmouthshire.^[3]
• 6 August – At Llandaff Cathedral a service of thanksgiving attended by Queen Elizabeth II is held to mark the end of eleven years' restoration work following air raid damage in 1941.^[4]
• 5 September – Poet and peace campaigner Waldo Williams is sentenced at Haverfordwest to imprisonment for six weeks for non-payment of income tax (a protest against defence spending).^[5]
• 3 November – Esso opens the first oil refinery at Milford Haven.^[6]

Arts and literature

• 29 September – Ricky Valance is the first male Welsh singer to hit number one in the charts, with his cover version of Tell Laura I Love Her.

Film

• Glynis Johns stars in The Sundowners.
• Rachel Roberts stars in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, becoming the first Welsh actress to win a BAFTA for Best British Actress.
• Keith Baxter appears alongside Orson Welles in Chimes at Midnight.

Broadcasting

September – The Wales Television Association is formed.^[13] On 6 June, the franchise is awarded to the Wales Television Association.

Sport

• Boxing – Dick Richardson wins the European Heavyweight title. Brian Curvis wins the British and Commonwealth welterweight titles.
• Summer Olympics – David Broome wins a bronze medal on Sunsalve in the individual show jumping event.
• Tennis – Mike Davies wins the British hard court title.^[14] He also becomes the first Welsh man to reach a Wimbledon final where he partners Bobby Wilson in the Men's Doubles.
• BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Brian Curvis^[15]

Births

• January – Anne Boden, banking executive^[16]
• 16 January – Alun Huw Davies, vascular surgeon^[17]
• 30 January – Peter Black AM, politician (in Wirral)
• 6 February – Jeremy Bowen, journalist and television presenter^[18]
• 14 February – Dawn Bowden, politician^[19]
• 15 February – Russell Coughlin, footballer (d. 2016)^[20]
• 18 February – Rhys Parry Jones, actor
• 26 February – Roger Lewis, academic, biographer and journalist
• 30 April – Martin Phillips, darts player
• 3 May – Geraint Davies, politician^[21]
• 4 May – Elfyn Edwards, golfer
• 9 May – Jillian Lane, spiritual medium (d. 2013)^[22]
• 13 June – Sir Clive Buckland Lewis, judge^[23]
• 19 June – Andrew Dilnot, economist, statistician and academic
• 23 June – Ricky Evans, rugby union player
• 29 June – Helen Mary Jones, politician (in Colchester)
• 13 July – Ian Hislop, satirist^[24]
• 24 July – Gwilym Emyr Owen III, US-born singer-songwriter of Welsh descent
• 1 August – Lesley Griffiths, politician
• 18 September
  • Carolyn Harris, politician^[25]
  • Ian Lucas, politician^[26]
• 29 October – Sue Jones, Dean of Liverpool^[27]
• 12 December – Kelvin Smart, flyweight boxer
• 24 December – Carol Vorderman, television personality (in Bedford)^[28]
• date unknown
  • Nigel Davies, chess player
  • Lisa Francis, politician
  • Gareth Jones, orchestral and choral conductor
  • Malcolm Pryce, novelist (in Shrewsbury)
  • William Owen Roberts, novelist and dramatist^[29]

Deaths

Margaret Lindsay Williams, died 4 June

Aneurin Bevan, died 6 July

• 2 January – Leila Megàne, opera singer, c. 69^[30]
• 13 January – Reginald Herbert, 15th Earl of Pembroke, 79^[31]
• 17 January – E. Llwyd Williams, minister and poet, 53^[32]
• 19 January – Charles Jones, Wales rugby international, 66^[33]
• 27 January – Joseph "Joe" Jones, dual-code rugby international, 60
• 25 February – Sir Edward Enoch Jenkins, judge, 65^[34]
• 30 March – Edward Evans, politician and disability campaigner, 77^[35][36]
• 11 April – William Llewellyn Morgan, Wales international rugby union player, 76
• 7 May – Mai Jones, songwriter, 61^[37]
• 23 May – John Edwards, politician, 77^[38]
• 4 June – Margaret Lindsay Williams, artist, 71
• 19 June – Thomas Alwyn Lloyd, architect, 78^[39]
• 27 June – Harry Pollitt, politician, 69^[40]
• 30 June – John Morgan Lloyd, musician and composer, 79^[41]
• 6 July – Aneurin Bevan, politician, 62^[42]
• 9 July – John Dyke, Wales international rugby union player, 76
• 24 August – Dai Edwards, Wales dual-code rugby international, 64^[43]
• 25 August – Tommy Jones-Davies, Wales international rugby player, 54
• 30 August – "Taffy" Jones, First World War flying ace, 64^[44]
• 31 August – Edith Picton-Turbervill, social reformer, writer and politician, 88^[45]
• 3 September – Frank Hawkins, rugby international, 75
• 27 September – George Morgan Trefgarne, 1st Baron Trefgarne, politician, 66^[46]
• 29 October – Horace Williams, footballer, c. 60
• 19 December
  • Billy Bowen, dual-code rugby player, 63^[47]
  • Helen Parry Eden, Welsh-descended poet, 75^[48]
• 20 December – Harry Uzzell, Wales international rugby union captain, 77
• 22 December – Evan Davies, politician, 85^[49]

See also

• 1960 in Northern Ireland

References