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List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1984 to
Wales and
its people .
Welsh-language television
English-language television
27 February –
Rhys Williams , athlete
9 March –
Owain Wyn Evans , broadcast presenter
11 March –
Tom James , Olympic gold medal-winning rower
22 June –
Arron Davies , footballer
23 June –
Duffy , singer
31 July –
Craig Stiens , footballer
14 August –
Rob Davies , table tennis player
15 September –
Prince Harry , son of the
Prince and
Princess of Wales (Charles and Diana)
[23]
20 September –
Byron Anthony , footballer
15 October –
Owain Tudur Jones , footballer
24 November –
Matthew Mason , cricketer
date unknown –
Gwawr Edwards , soprano
4 January –
Enoch Jenkins , sports shooter, 91
[24]
11 January –
Gwyn Thomas , rugby player, 91
14 January –
Ivan Lloyd-Phillips , colonial administrator, 73
26 January –
Nathan Rocyn-Jones , doctor, international rugby player and President of the WRU, 81
10 February –
Ioan Evans , politician, 56
[25]
11 April –
John Lloyd Thomas , clergyman and teacher, 76
[26]
15 April –
Tommy Cooper , comedian, 63 (heart attack on stage)
[27]
21 April –
Wilf Hughes , cricketer, 73
[28]
8 May –
David Williams , geologist, 85
[29]
20 May –
Meredith Thomas , flying ace, 91
[30]
13 June –
David Evans , microbiologist, 74
[31]
18 June –
Idris Foster , academic, 72
22 June –
Dill Jones , jazz pianist, 60
29 June –
Seiriol Evans , clergyman and writer, 89
[32]
6 July –
Denys Val Baker , British writer and promoter of
Celtic culture, 66
30 July –
Peter Jones , surgeon, 67
[33]
5 August –
Richard Burton , actor, 58 (brain haemorrhage)
[34]
17 August –
Mostyn Thomas , operatic baritone, 88
[35]
27 August –
Amabel Williams-Ellis , writer, 90
[36]
9 September –
Margaret Phillips , actress, 61
[37]
23 September –
Daniel Granville West , politician, 80
[38]
12 October – Sir
Anthony Berry , politician and son of
Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley , 59 (killed in Brighton hotel bombing)
[39]
26 October –
Seaborne Davies , lawyer and politician, 80
[40]
18 November –
Thomas Jones, Baron Maelor , politician, 86
[41]
11 December (in
Hendon ) –
Will Paynter , miners' leader, 81
[42]
date unknown –
Arthur Fear , operatic bass-baritone
^ Stephen Bates (19 March 2018).
"Lord Crickhowell obituary" . The Guardian . Retrieved 19 March 2020 .
^
"Bishop hat-trick at Newport Cathedral" . South Wales Argus . 18 October 2013. Retrieved 23 January 2021 .
^
Meic Stephens (17 October 2013).
"James Nicholas: Poet, teacher and Archdruid of Wales" . The Independent .
Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 31 January 2019 .
^
"WJ Gruffydd" . The Independent . 20 July 2011.
Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 21 November 2019 .
^
"Portrait of the week" . The Spectator . F.C. Westley: 7. July 1984.
^
"Miners' Strike 1984-1985" . Archives Hub . Retrieved 31 January 2019 .
^ Deacon, Thomas (28 January 2019).
"How campaigners first fought to save Cardiff's Guildford Crescent in the 1980s" .
Wales Online . Retrieved 26 May 2019 .
^ Dod's Parliamentary Communications (1992). Bedford, Michael J. (ed.).
Dod's Guide to the General Election . Dod's Parliamentary Companion. p. 57.
^
"BGS FAQ What are the largest two instrumental, onshore earthquakes?" .
BGS . Archived from
the original on 2007-10-09.
^
Keesing's Contemporary Archives . Keesing's Limited. 1986. p. xii.
^ Winterton, Jonathan; Winterton, Ruth (1989).
Coal, Crisis and Conflict: The 1984-85 Miners' Strike in Yorkshire . Manchester University Press. p. 164.
ISBN
978-0-7190-2830-4 .
^
"The Cavendish Professorship of Physics" . University of Cambridge. Archived from
the original on 3 July 2013. Retrieved 30 November 2013 .
^ Neil Prior (13 July 2014).
"Sinclair C5 built in Merthyr in 1984 'was ahead of its time' " . BBC News . Retrieved 19 March 2020 .
^ Mike Taylor (1995).
World Travel Atlas . Columbus Travel Publishing. p. 67.
ISBN
978-0-946393-48-0 .
^
Plays . Ocean Publications. 1984. p. 4.
^
"Winners of the Chair" . National Eisteddfod of Wales . 17 November 2019.
^
"Winners of the Crown" . National Eisteddfod of Wales . 17 November 2019.
^
"Winners of the Prose Medal" . National Eisteddfod of Wales . Retrieved 7 November 2019 .
^ Matthew Jarvis (2008).
Welsh Environments in Contemporary Poetry: Writing Wales in English . University of Wales Press. p. 170.
ISBN
978-0-7083-2152-2 .
^ Leslie Thomas (1987).
The Adventures of Goodnight and Loving . Penguin Books. p. 1.
ISBN
978-0-14-008672-0 .
^ Michael Grade (1996). British television: an illustrated guide . Oxford University Press. p. 292.
ISBN
9780198159278 .
^
"BBC Wales Sport Personality winners" . BBC Sport . Retrieved 2 August 2021 .
^
"Princess Di gives birth to boy" . The Evening News . London. Associated Press. 16 September 1984. Retrieved 31 May 2013 .
^
"Enoch Jenkins" . IOC . Retrieved 23 January 2021 .
^ John Graham Jones.
"Evans, Ioan Lyonel (1927-1984), Labour politician" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 23 January 2021 .
^ Rev J. R. Lloyd Thomas.
The Times (London, England), Thursday, 19 April 1984; p. 14; Issue 61810
^ Hugh Massingberd (2006).
The Spectator . F.C. Westley. p. 72.
^
"Player profile: Wilf Hughes" . ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 23 January 2021 .
^
Who was who: A Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those who Died . A. & C. Black. 1981. p. 815.
ISBN
978-0-7136-3336-8 .
^ Barrass, M. B.
"Air Vice-Marshal Meredith Thomas" . Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation . Retrieved 2 April 2012 .
^
Downie, A. W. ; Smith, C. E. G.; Tobin, J. O. . (1985). "David Gwynne Evans. 6 September 1909-13 June 1984".
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society . 31 : 172–196.
doi :
10.1098/rsbm.1985.0007 .
JSTOR
769924 .
^
The Antiquaries Journal . Oxford University Press. 1985. p. 590.
^ England, Royal College of Surgeons of (26 May 2015).
"Jones, Peter Henry - Biographical entry" . Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online . Retrieved 29 December 2017 .
^ J. Randy Taraborrelli (25 March 2011).
Elizabeth: The Biography of Elizabeth Taylor . Pan Macmillan. p. 507.
ISBN
978-1-4472-0226-4 .
^ The Record Collector . J. F. E. Dennis. 1987. p. 245.
^ Roland Turner (1985).
The Annual Obituary . St. Martin's. p. 456.
^
"Margaret Phillips Dies at 61; Veteran Broadway Actress" New York Times (11 September 1984).
^ John Graham Jones.
"West, Daniel Granville, Baron Granville-West of Pontypool (1904-1984), Labour politician" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 February 2021 .
^ Crown, Hannah (12 October 2009).
"Brighton bombing: 25th anniversary of Sir Anthony Berry's death remembered" . Thisislocallondon. Archived from
the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 14 October 2009 .
^
Who was who: A Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those who Died . A. & C. Black. 1981. p. 188.
ISBN
978-0-7136-3336-8 .
^ John Graham Jones.
"Jones, Thomas William ('Tom'), Baron Maelor of Rhos (1898-1984), Labour politician" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 February 2021 .
^ Ann Evory; Hal May (October 1985).
Contemporary Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers . Gale. p.
350 .
ISBN
978-0-8103-1915-8 .