This article is about the particular significance of the year 1979 to Wales and its people .
Incumbents Events Arts and literature Awards New books English language Welsh language Music Film Broadcasting BBC Radio Cymru is launched.New Home Secretary William Whitelaw rejects the idea of a Welsh fourth channel on behalf of the Conservative government. English-language television Sport Births 21 February – Laura Anne Jones AM , politician 26 February – Steve Evans , footballer 15 April - Luke Evans, actor 17 May – Michaela Breeze , weightlifting champion[6] 3 June – Christian Malcolm , athlete[7] 4 June – Celyn Jones, actor 13 July – Craig Bellamy , footballer 1 August- Honeysuckle Weeks , actress 8 August – Danny Gabbidon, footballer Jonathan Edwards, poet Deaths January – Dilys Cadwaladr , poet, 76 7 February – Charles Tunnicliffe , painter on Anglesey, 77[8] 13 February – Eric Newton Griffith-Jones, Welsh-descended lawyer, 65[9] 13 March – Tudor Owen, actor, 81[10] 15 April (in Surrey ) – Eiluned Lewis , novelist, 78[11] 14 May – Jean Rhys , novelist, 88 9 June – John Morris, Baron Morris of Borth-y-Gest , judge, 82 16 July – Harold Finch , politician, 81[12] 30 August – C. E. Wynn-Williams, physicist, 76 2 September – Ewan Davies, rugby player, 92[13] 10 October (in Teddington ) – Christopher Evans , computer scientist, 48[14] 12 October – Jackie Williams, footballer, 76 November – Ursula Williams, politician, 83[15] 12 December – Goronwy Rees , writer, 70?[16] 20 December - Leslie Gilbert Illingworth, political cartoonist, 77 21 December – Nansi Richards , harpist, 91[17] 29 December – Richard Tecwyn Williams, biochemist, 70[18] date unknown Hugh Bevan, academic Dilys Davies, actress Trebor Lloyd Evans, writer[19] Jennie Thomas, children's author probable – William Evans, rugby player, about 88See also References ^ Governing the UK in the 1990s 214 . ISBN 978-1-349-23899-6 .^ Milorad M. Drachkovitch; Lewis H. Gann (1980). Yearbook on International Communist Affairs ^ Studia Celtica ^ W. Stephen Gilbert (1 January 2002). The Life and Work of Dennis Potter 978-1-4683-0561-6 . ^ "Profile: Terry Griffiths" . Eurosport . 3 February 2010. Retrieved 16 May 2019 .^ "Michaela Breeze" . Beijing 2008 results . Retrieved 27 October 2020 .^ "Christian Malcolm" . World Athletics . Retrieved 27 October 2020 .^ Birds ^ Graya: A Magazine for Members of Gray's Inn, Issue 73, Gray's Inn, 1979 ^ Scott Wilson (17 August 2016). Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed 978-0-7864-7992-4 . ^ Who was who ^ John Graham Jones. "Finch, Harold Josiah (1898-1979),Labour politician" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 27 October 2020 . ^ scrum.com profile ^ The Skeptical Inquirer ^ "Deaths." Times [London, England] 5 Dec. 1979: 28. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 14 Feb. 2014. ^ "Goronwy Rees (1909-1979)" . From Warfare to Welfare. Archived from the original on 21 February 2015. Retrieved 20 February 2015 .^ Evans, Nia Gwyn (2016). "Jones, Nansi Richards ('Telynores Maldwyn ') (1888-1979), harpist" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 August 2018 . ^ "Williams, (Richard) Tecwyn". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 10.1093/ref:odnb/31837 . (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) ^ Robert Tudur Jones (2004). Congregationalism in Wales 978-0-7083-1887-4 . This article is copied from an
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