Arts and Literature
- Dic Jones loses the National Eisteddfod chair on a technicality.
- Actor Stanley Baker is given a knighthood, a few months before his death.
- Griff Rhys Jones becomes Vice-President of the Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club.
- Mistar Urdd is created by Wynne Melville Jones.
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