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List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1971 to
Wales and
its people .
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
Awards
New books
English language
Welsh language
Music
Film
Welsh-language films
Broadcasting
Welsh-language television
Max Boyce appears on the Welsh-language music show, Disc a Dawn .
[13]
English-language television
Sport
Births
11 January -
Tom Ward , actor
23 January -
Scott Gibbs , rugby player
19 March (in
Taunton ) -
Kirsty Williams , politician
[16]
2 April -
Chico Slimani , singer
[17]
18 June -
Lucy Owen , née Cohen, television news presenter
8 July -
Neil Jenkins , rugby player
[18]
18 August (in
Limerick ) -
Aphex Twin , musician
8 September -
Martyn Margetson , footballer
3 October -
Zoe Lyons , comedian
26 October -
Damon Searle , footballer
5 November
18 December -
Jason Hughes , actor
date unknown
Deaths
2 January –
Harold Jones , convicted murderer, 64
[20]
12 January –
Gwenan Jones , historian and politician, 81
[21]
4 March –
Ifan Gruffydd ("Y Gŵr o Baradwys"), author, 75
[22]
8 March –
Harold Lloyd , American comedy actor of Welsh descent, 77
[23]
[24]
18 March –
Jack Gore , Wales international rugby player, 71
9 April –
Dewi Morgan , poet, scholar and journalist, 93
[25]
19 April –
Thomas Evan Nicholas (Niclas y Glais) , writer and political activist, 91
[26]
18 May –
William Mainwaring MP, miners' leader
[27]
20 May –
Waldo Williams , poet, 66
[28]
29 May –
Howell Lewis , Wales international rugby player, 83
5 June –
Clifford Dyment , poet, 57
[29]
5 July –
Idris Jones , chemist and rugby player, 71
11 July –
Brenda Chamberlain , poet and artist, 59
[30]
4 September –
C. E. Vulliamy , author, 85
[31]
1 October –
Bill Davies , cricketer, 65
9 November -
Ceri Richards , artist, 68
[32]
27 November -
Leslie Thomas , politician, 65
1 December -
Jack Jenkins , Wales international rugby player, 91
date unknown
See also
References
^
"Obituary" . The Guardian . 6 February 2008.
^
Who was who . A. & C. Black. 1971. p. 728.
^ Norman Doe (5 March 2020).
A New History of the Church in Wales: Governance and Ministry, Theology and Society . Cambridge University Press. p. 109.
ISBN
978-1-108-49957-6 .
^ Meic Stephens (April 1986).
The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales . Oxford University Press. p. 589.
^
The Times , 4 February 1971; pg. 16; Issue 58090; col D Church news
^ Neil Sean (15 November 2014).
Live from the London Palladium: The World's Most Famous Theatre in the Words of the Stars Who Have Played There . Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 35.
ISBN
978-1-4456-4329-8 .
^
Statutory instruments . 1971.
^ Gearóid Mac Eoin; Anders Ahlqvist; Donncha Ó hAodha (1987).
Third International Conference on Minority Languages: Celtic Papers . Multilingual Matters. p. 58.
ISBN
978-0-905028-64-4 .
^ James R. King (23 February 2001).
The Aluminium Industry . Elsevier. p. 1.
ISBN
978-1-85573-876-8 .
^ Meic Stephens (April 1986).
The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales . Oxford University Press. p. 476.
^ Dr Keith Potter; Dr Pwyll ap Siôn; Professor Kyle Gann (28 December 2013).
The Ashgate Research Companion to Minimalist and Postminimalist Music . Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 495.
ISBN
978-1-4724-0278-3 .
^ Rhianwen Long (15 April 2014).
Merthyr Tydfil Through Time . Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 67.
ISBN
978-1-4456-1833-3 .
^ Gareth Price (12 January 2018).
Broadcasters of BBC Wales . Y Lolfa. p. 64.
ISBN
978-1-78461-535-2 .
^
"BBC Wales Sport Personality winners" . BBC Sport . Retrieved 29 July 2021 .
^ James Rothwell (24 November 2014).
"Glamorgan cricketer Roger Davis on how he nearly suffered same fate as Phil Hughes - but was saved by Rhydian Roberts' grandfather" . WalesOnline . Retrieved 30 September 2019 .
^
"UK: Wales: AMs" . BBC News . Retrieved 30 September 2019 .
^
"Mr Yousseph Chico Slimani" . Company Check . Retrieved 7 December 2019 .
^
"Wales profile" . Archived from the original on 2008-07-20. Retrieved 2022-05-26 . {{
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link )
^
"Chris Addison: The thinking man's comic adjusts to fame" The Independent (13 November 2011). Retrieved 30 September 2019
^
"Murdered Abertillery Girl's Niece Learnt About Tragedy in Book" . BBC.co.uk . 4 August 2018. Retrieved 11 September 2018 .
^ Nerys Ann Jones.
"Jones, Gwenan (1889-1971), educationalist and author" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 30 September 2019 .
^ Bedwyr Lewis Jones.
"Gruffydd, Ifan (1896-1971), author" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 July 2019 .
^
"Died" . March 22, 1971. Archived from
the original on December 21, 2008. Retrieved June 8, 2008 .
^
"Harold Lloyd, Bespectacled Film Comic, Dies of Cancer at 77" .
Los Angeles Times . March 9, 1971. Retrieved June 8, 2008 . Comedian Harold Lloyd, 77, who bumbled through more than 300 films as a bespectacled victim of life's difficulties, died of cancer Monday at his Beverly Hills home.
^ Nerys Ann Jones.
"Morgan, Dewi 'Dewi Teifi'; (1877-1971), poet and journalist" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 December 2019 .
^ D. Ben Rees.
"Nicholas, Thomas Evan ('Niclas y Glais'), (1879-1971), poet, minister of religion and advocate for the Communist Party" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 December 2019 .
^ John Graham Jones.
"Mainwaring, William Henry (1884-1971), Labour politician" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 December 2019 .
^ James Nicholas (1975).
Waldo Williams . University of Wales Press for the Welsh Arts Council. p. 85.
^ Ernest Kay (1976).
The International authors and writers who's who . p. 167.
ISBN
978-0-900332-34-0 .
^ Kate Holman (7 November 1997).
Brenda Chamberlain . University of Wales Press. p. 11.
^ Meic Stephens (23 September 1998).
The new companion to the literature of Wales . University of Wales Press. p. 761.
ISBN
978-0-7083-1383-1 .
^ Oxford University Press (21 June 2012).
Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators . OUP USA. p. 265.
ISBN
978-0-19-992305-2 .
^ Edward Weldon,The Society of American Archivists (1972).
The American Archivist Volume 36.Number 4.October 1973 . p. 408.