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List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1932 to
Wales and
its people .
Frank Brangwyn completes the Empire Panels.
Welsh-language newspaper Y Cymro is launched.
The broadcasting committee of the Welsh Parliamentary Labour Party obtains agreement from the BBC to broadcast a fortnightly programme and religious content in the
Welsh language .
[10]
12 March –
John Harris , dean of Brecon (died
2019 )
[12]
20 March –
Garfield Owen , Wales dual-code rugby international
6 April –
Leon Eagles , actor (died
1997 )
28 May –
John Savage , prime minister of
Nova Scotia (died
2003 )
[13]
30 May –
Ivor Richard, Baron Richard , politician (died
2018 )
[14]
31 May –
Glyn Davies , footballer (died
2013 )
22 June –
Mary Wynne Warner , mathematician (died 1998)
[15]
30 June –
Derek Tapscott , footballer (died
2008 )
10 July –
Maureen Guy , mezzo-soprano (died
2015 )
[16]
27 July –
Dennis Callan , footballer (died
2006 )
2 August –
Kenneth Bowen , concert tenor (died
2018 )
[17]
12 August –
Gwilym Jenkins , statistician and systems engineer (died
1982 )
31 August –
Colin Gale , footballer (died
2008 )
9 September –
Alice Thomas Ellis , born Ann Margaret Lindholm in Liverpool, novelist (died
2005 )
[18]
8 October –
Ray Reardon , snooker player
[19] (died
2024 )
18 October –
Don Devereux , dual-code rugby player (died
1995 )
24 October –
Allan Rogers , politician
[20]
16 November –
Onllwyn Brace , Wales rugby union captain (died
2013 )
[21]
21 November –
Alvan Williams , footballer (died
2003 )
1 December –
Cissy Davies , Olympic gymnast
7 December –
Elystan Morgan , politician
[22]
15 December –
John Meurig Thomas , chemist (died
2020 )
[23]
date unknown –
Richard Cyril Hughes , historian
[24]
27 February –
Dicky Owen , Wales rugby union international, 55 (suicide)
[25]
3 March –
Ernest Howard Griffiths , physicist, 80
[26]
10 April –
Gwyn Thomas , cricketer, 41
14 May –
John Hughes , composer of
Cwm Rhondda , 58
[27]
8 June –
Margaret Nevinson , suffrage campaigner, 74
[28]
28 June –
Thomas Phillips Price , landowner, industrialist and politician, 88
9 July –
John Owen Williams (Pedrog) , minister and poet
[29]
10 July –
Martha Hughes Cannon , Welsh-born US physician, politician and campaigner, 75
[30]
20 July –
Bill Beynon , British bantamweight boxing champion, 41 (killed in mining accident)
[31]
23 July –
Tenby Davies , half-mile world champion runner, 48
30 August –
Conway Rees , Wales rugby union international, 62
11 September –
Aneurin Rees Wales rugby union international, 74
16 September –
Peg Entwistle , actress, 24 (suicide)
[32]
26 October –
William Howell Davies , merchant and politician, 80
[33]
25 November
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^
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^
"Crumbling Pageant" . Honno . Retrieved 16 February 2020 .
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^
"Former Labour Cabinet Minister Lord Richard dies aged 85" . ITV. 19 March 2018.
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^
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^
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^
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^
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^ Smith, David; Williams, Gareth (1980). Fields of Praise: The Official History of The Welsh Rugby Union . Cardiff: University of Wales Press. p. 132.
ISBN
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^ Idwal Lewis.
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^
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^
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^
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