Arts and Literature
- Kyffin Williams is elected to the Royal Academy.
- Andrew Vicari is appointed official painter to the Saudi royal family.
- The Cory Brass Band is the first Welsh band to win the British National Championship.
- The BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra achieves full symphony status.
- Foundation of the Welsh Jazz Society.
- Journalist Hugh Cudlipp is created Baron Cudlipp of Aldingbourne.
- Glyn Daniel becomes Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge.
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