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List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1963 to
Wales and
its people .
Incumbents
Events
February
March
June
August
September
16 September – The
Western Mail launches a fund-raising campaign to replace a stained glass window to replace the one shattered in the bombing of a church in
Birmingham, Alabama , United States, by the Ku Klux Klan on the previous day; the £500 target is reached within days.
[7]
Date unknown
Arts and literature
Awards
New books
Music
Film
Broadcasting
Welsh-language television
English-language television
Sport
Births
22 January –
Huw Irranca-Davies , politician
[12]
27 April –
Russell T Davies , television screenwriter
[13]
14 May –
Andrew Lewis , composer
8 June –
Louise Jones , cyclist
15 June –
Nigel Walker , athlete and rugby player
28 June –
Peter Baynham , comedian
10 July –
Ian Lougher , motorcycle racer
August –
Rebecca Evans , operatic soprano
15 August (in
Wolverhampton ) –
Simon Hart , politician, Secretary of State for Wales
12 September –
Julie Roberts (artist) , painter
[14]
19 October –
Phil Davies , rugby union player
1 November –
Mark Hughes , footballer and football manager
28 November –
Charles Dale , television actor
7 December –
Mark Bowen , footballer
16 December –
Hugh Morris , cricketer
19 December –
Paul Rhys , actor
28 December –
Simon Thomas , politician
Deaths
1 January –
David Mort , Labour MP for
Swansea East , 74
11 January –
Philippa Powys , novelist, 76
[15]
13 March –
Margaret Davies , philanthropist, 78
[16]
15 January –
Morgan Phillips , politician, 60
[17]
15 March –
William Cove , politician, 74
28 March –
Alec Templeton , composer, pianist and satirist, 52
[18]
15 April –
Edward V. Robertson , US senator, 81
25 May –
William Lewis , chemist
17 June –
John Cowper Powys , novelist, 90
[19]
6 July –
John Osborn Williams , politician in Newfoundland, 77
29 July –
Frank Moody , British boxing champion, 62
[20]
11 September –
William Richard Williams , civil servant and politician, 68
26 September
1 October –
Tal Harris , Wales international rugby player, 61
11 October –
Emlyn Garner Evans , lawyer and politician, 53
[22]
26 October –
Horace Evans , royal physician, 60
[23]
16 December –
Llewellyn Evans , Olympic hockey player, 84
20 December –
Reg Skrimshire , Wales and British Lions rugby union player, 85
26 December –
Gwynn Parry Jones , singer, 72
30 December –
Rees Williams , footballer, 63
See also
Notes
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"Tryweryn: 50 years since bombing of reservoir dam" .
BBC . 2013-02-10. Retrieved 2013-02-12 .
^
"Amazing pictures of Wales' Big Freeze of 1963" . WalesOnline . 11 December 2013. Retrieved 30 June 2019 .
^
"The winter when Wales stood still" . ITV News . 19 December 2012. Retrieved 30 June 2019 .
^
"Great Western Railway Caerphilly Locomotive Works" . Rail UK . Archived from
the original on 2014-04-15. Retrieved 2014-04-14 .
^
"Mandy Rice-Davies Obituary" . The Telegraph. Retrieved 29 December 2017 .
^
"Mandy Rice-Davies Obituary" . The Guardian . Retrieved 29 December 2017 .
^
"The Wales window, Birmingham, Alabama" . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 June 2019 .
^
"BBC – Dunraven Castle – home of legends" . BBC News . 2009-03-19. Retrieved 2011-10-12 .
^
The Economist . Economist Newspaper. 1983. p. 54.
^ Chapman, James (2006). Inside the Tardis: The Worlds of Doctor Who . I.B.Tauris. p. 25.
ISBN
1-84511-162-1 .
^
"BBC Wales Sport Personality winners" . BBC Sport . Retrieved 29 July 2021 .
^ Valerie Passmore (2005).
Dod's Parliamentary Companion: Guide to the General Election, 2005 . Dod's Parliamentary Companion Limited.
ISBN
978-0-905702-57-5 .
^ Adam Pearson (18 August 2014).
101 Interesting Facts on Doctor Who: Learn About the Science-Fiction TV Show . Andrews UK Limited. p. 17.
ISBN
978-1-910295-80-9 .
^ Grant, Catherine M. (28 September 2001).
"Roberts, Julie" .
Grove Art Online . Retrieved 21 February 2021 . (subscription or
UK public library membership required)
^ John Cowper Powys; Philippa Powys (1996).
The letters of John Cowper Powys to Philippa Powys . C. Woolf. p. 20.
ISBN
978-0-900821-51-6 .
^ D. Ben Rees (2002).
Vehicles of Grace and Hope: Welsh Missionaries in India, 1800-1970 . William Carey Library. p. 24.
ISBN
978-0-87808-505-7 .
^
Saville, John . "Phillips, Morgan Walter".
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/35513 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
^
"Alec Templeton, Blind Pianist, Is Dead in Connecticut at 52; He Won Success as Serious Artist and as Innovator-- Skilled as Improviser Self-Pity Excluded Moves to London A Skilled Improviser" . New York Times . 29 March 1963. Retrieved 18 November 2021 .
^ Herbert Williams (1997).
John Cowper Powys . Seren. p. 156.
ISBN
978-1-85411-196-8 .
^
Encyclopaedia of Boxing . R. Hale. 1979. p. 165.
ISBN
978-0-7091-7745-6 .
^
Who was who: A Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those who Died . A. & C. Black. 1981. p. 297.
ISBN
978-0-7136-3336-8 .
^
Who's who of British Members of Parliament: 1945-1979 . Harvester Press. 1981. p. 111.
ISBN
9780855273354 .
^ G. H. Brown; Richard Robertson Trail; Gordon Ethelbert Ward Wolstenholme (1968).
Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of London . Royal College of Physicians. p. 123.