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List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1985 to
Wales and
its people .
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
Robat Powell becomes the first Welsh learner to win the Chair at the National Eisteddfod (see below).
[9]
Awards
New books
English language
Welsh language
Music
Downtown Julie Brown makes her debut on
Club MTV .
"Dwylo Dros y Môr", performed by various artists, is the Welsh charity song released in coordination with
Band Aid .
Aled Jones – Aled Jones With The BBC Welsh Chorus (album)
Living Legends – Better Dead Than Wed
Film
Welsh-language films
Broadcasting
Welsh-language television
English-language television
Sport
Births
2 January –
Mark Evans , musical theatre actor, singer, dancer and choreographer
9 January –
Elen Evans , rugby player
[16]
23 February –
Shaun Hopkins , rugby player
3 March –
David Davies , swimmer
[17]
8 April –
Gareth Rees , cricketer
16 April –
Mark Baker , historian and author
13 May
31 May –
Laura Daniels , lawn bowler
[18]
16 June –
Craig Morgan , footballer
17 July –
Tom Cullen , actor
30 August –
Richard Duffy , international footballer
11 September –
Daniel Parslow , footballer
19 September –
Alun Wyn Jones , international rugby union captain
[19]
24 September –
Kimberley Nixon , actress
10 October –
Marina Lambrini Diamandis , singer
14 December –
Alex Pennie , musician
15 November –
Simon Spender , footballer
25 December
28 December –
Nicola Davies , footballer
[20]
date unknown –
Claire Jones , harpist
Deaths
19 January –
Tom Richards , athlete, 74
26 January –
David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech , 66 (car accident)
[21]
9 March –
John Tudor Jones , journalist, poet, critic, broadcaster, and translator, 81
29 March –
Rae Jenkins , violinist and conductor
[22]
4 April –
Kate Roberts , author, 94
[23]
21 April –
Owen Temple-Morris , barrister and politician, 88
[24]
22 April – Sir
Thomas Parry , academic, 80
[25]
8 May –
Tom Hooson , politician, 52 (cancer)
[26]
9 June –
Clifford Evans , actor, 73
July -
Roger Ashton (footballer) , footballer, 63
1 September –
Saunders Lewis , writer, 91
[27]
14 September –
Niel Morgan , cricketer and diplomat, 81
17 September –
Laura Ashley , designer, 60 (brain haemorrhage after fall)
[28]
18 September –
Iorwerth Evans , rugby player, 79
28 October
4 November –
Hilda Vaughan , novelist, 93
17 December –
Gwyn Richards , dual-code rugby player, 79
27 December –
Len Richards , footballer, 74
date unknown –
Dewi-Prys Thomas , architect
[30]
See also
References
^ Stephen Bates (19 March 2018).
"Lord Crickhowell obituary" . The Guardian . Retrieved 19 March 2020 .
^ Doe, Norman (5 March 2020).
A New History of the Church in Wales: Governance and Ministry, Theology and Society . Cambridge University Press. p. 119.
ISBN
978-1-108-60320-1 .
^
"WJ Gruffydd: Writer who helped keep alive the Welsh tradition" . The Independent . 20 July 2011. Retrieved 11 May 2022 .
^
"Other Notices | The Gazette" . www.thegazette.co.uk . Retrieved 2023-10-30 .
^
"Management Plan 2014 - 2019" (PDF) . clwydianrangeanddeevalleyaonb.org.uk . p. 3. Retrieved 30 October 2023 .
^ Steven Pye (12 May 2018).
"When Swansea City were relegated through all four divisions in four years" . The Guardian . Retrieved 22 November 2018 .
^
"The secret billionaire" . The Independent . 26 July 2000.
Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 22 November 2018 .
^ Nick Parry (14 December 2005).
"Town's forgotten nuclear bunker" . BBC News . Retrieved 22 November 2018 .
^
"Chaired Bard Robat Powell: How can one learn a language?" . Parallel.cymru . 24 July 2018. Retrieved 22 November 2018 .
^ Lady Olwen Carey Evans; Mary Garner (1 January 1985).
Lloyd George was My Father: The Autobiography of Lady Olwen Carey Evans . Gomer Press.
ISBN
978-0-86383-112-6 .
^
"Helfa Drysor" . UKGameshows. Retrieved 24 May 2019 .
^ Peter Shuttleworth (17 November 2017).
"Fireman Sam at 30: Prince George's favourite cartoon celebrates" . BBC . Retrieved 8 October 2019 .
^
"World Cup 1986" . Internationals on ITV 1984-present . ITV Football 1968–83. 13 October 2012. Archived from
the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2012 .
^ McCallum, Andrew; Reynolds, Jim (11 September 1985).
"Manager Stein dies at match" . The Herald . Herald & Times Group. Retrieved 21 April 2012 .
^
"BBC Wales Sport Personality winners" . BBC Sport . 10 December 2012. Retrieved 2 August 2021 .
^
"Elen Evans" . Eurosport . Retrieved 25 February 2019 .
^
"David Davies" . British Swimming (archived) . Archived from
the original on 26 September 2008. Retrieved 16 December 2019 .
^
"Lawn Bowls | Athlete Profile: Laura DANIELS - Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games" . results.gc2018.com . Retrieved 9 March 2021 .
^
"Alun Wyn Jones, rugby player" . BBC Wales . Retrieved 16 December 2019 .
^
Nicola Davies –
UEFA competition record (
archive )
^ "Lord Harlech killed in crash". Shropshire Star . 26 January 1985. p. 1.
^ Johns-Davies, Jayne Marilyn (2006). Rae Jenkins FRAM, MBE: the life story of Welsh conductor and musician 1903 to 1985 . p. 28.
^
Morgan, Derec Llwyd (1991), Kate Roberts . Writers of Wales series. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
ISBN
0-7083-1115-6 . An introduction to her work in English.
^ Who was Who: A Companion to Who's Who, 1981-1990, A. & C. Black, p. 747
^ Derec Llwyd Morgan.
"Parry, Sir Thomas (1904-1985), scholar, Librarian of the National Library of Wales, University Principal, poet" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 17 March 2019 .
^ John Graham Jones.
"Hooson, Tom Ellis (1933-1985), Conservative politician" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 17 March 2019 .
^ T. Robin Chapman.
"Lewis, John Saunders (1893-1985), politician, critic and dramatist" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 17 March 2019 .
^ Slesin, Suzanne (18 September 1985).
"Laura Ashley, British Designer, Is Dead at 60" . The New York Times . Retrieved 8 December 2018 .
^ R. McHenry; Daphne Daume; J.E. Davis (April 1986).
Britannica book of the year: 1986 . Encyclopaedia Britannica. p.
127 .
ISBN
978-0-85229-437-6 .
^ Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales (1976).
An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan: pt. 1. pt. a. The early castles from the Norman Conquest to 1217 . H.M.S.D. p. x.
ISBN
978-0-11-300035-7 .