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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1944 to Wales and its people .
Incumbents [ edit ]
Arts and literature [ edit ]
National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Llandybie )
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - D. Lloyd Jenkins
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - J. M. Edwards
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - withheld
New books [ edit ]
English language [ edit ]
Welsh language [ edit ]
New drama [ edit ]
Broadcasting [ edit ]
Visual arts [ edit ]
Boxing - Syd Worgan beats Tommy Davies for the vacant Welsh featherweight title.[11]
Football - The first post-war match between Wales and England ends in a 1 - 0 victory for Wales.
July:Glenys Kinnock October:Mandy Rice-Davies December:Deke Leonard
21 January - Peter Rodrigues , footballer
17 February - Karl Jenkins , composer[12]
1 March – Dai Morgan Evans , English-born archaeologist (died 2017 )[13]
6 March – Billy Raybould , Wales international rugby player
12 March – Tammy Jones , singer
24 March
31 March – Myfanwy Talog , actress (died 1995 )[15]
4 April – Ronnie Rees , footballer
8 April – Hywel Bennett , actor (died 2017 )[16]
15 April – Dave Edmunds , musician[17]
16 April – Llew Smith , politician (died 2021 )[18]
5 May
20 May – Kathrin Thomas , magistrate[21]
3 June – Dilwyn John , footballer
11 June – Alan Howarth, Baron Howarth of Newport , politician[22]
16 June – Brian Protheroe , English-born singer and actor of Welsh parentage
7 July – Glenys Kinnock , English-born politician (died 2023 )[23]
7 July – Angharad Rees , actress (died 2012 )[24]
31 July
Betty Williams , politician
9 October - Desmond Barrit , actor
21 October - Mandy Rice-Davies , socialite (died 2014 )[25]
6 November - Gerallt Lloyd Owen , poet (died 2014 )[26]
14 November - Eurfyl ap Gwilym , economist and politician
29 November - Gareth Wardell , politician[27]
18 December - (Roger) Deke Leonard , rock musician (died 2017 )[28]
24 December – Meirion Pennar , translator and son of Pennar Davies (died 2010 )[29]
May:Charles Green
8 January - John Newell Evans , Welsh-born farmer and politician in Canada, 97[30]
11 January - Richard Powell , Wales international rugby player, 79
5 March - Alun Lewis , poet, 28 (accidentally shot)
20 March - William Retlaw Williams , lawyer and historian, 80 or 81
31 March - Talfryn Evans , cricketer, 29
7 May - Charles Green , Bishop of Monmouth, Bishop of Bangor and Archbishop of Wales, 79
17 May - John Lloyd Morgan , lawyer and MP, 83[31]
24 May - Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet , politician, 83
27 May - Griffith Hartwell Jones , academic, 85[32]
June - Dai Davies , footballer, 63/64
16 June - David Davies, 1st Baron Davies , philanthropist and MP, 64[33]
25 June - James Atkin, Baron Atkin , judge, 76
5 August - Maurice Turnbull , cricketer, 38 (killed in action)[34]
5 August - Ethel Lina White , crime novelist, 68
20 September - Oliver Morris , rugby player and footballer, 27 (killed in action)[35]
21 September - Bob Jones , rugby union player, 69
25 September - David Davies, 2nd Baron Davies , 29 (killed in battle)[36]
30 September - David Harris Davies , Wales international rugby union player, 66[37]
5 October - Laura Evans-Williams , singer, 61[38]
27 October - Clem Lewis , rugby player, 54
19 November - Watkin Williams , Bishop of Bangor, 99[39]
8 December - Sir William Jenkins , MP for Neath, 73
See also [ edit ]
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^ John Buchanan-Brown (1953). Cassell's Encyclopaedia of World Literature: Biographies L-Z ISBN 9780688002282
^ Poetry Wales
^ Coal; the NCB Magazine
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^ Patricia Romanowski Bashe; Holly George-Warren; Jon Pareles (1995). The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll ISBN 978-0-684-81044-7
^ Julia Langdon (22 June 2021). "Llew Smith obituary" . The Guardian . Retrieved 22 July 2021 .
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^ "Alan Howarth" . BBC News . 17 October 2002. Retrieved 22 July 2021 .
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^ Mosley, Charles , ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood ISBN 0-9711966-2-1
^ John Stern; Marcus Williams (7 January 2014). The Essential Wisden: An Anthology of 150 Years of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack ISBN 978-1-4081-7896-6
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^ Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage
^ David Davies player profile Scrum.com
^ Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. "EVANS-WILLIAMS, LAURA (1883-1944), singer" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales . Retrieved 23 January 2019 .
^ Who was who
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