1953 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1953 to Wales and its people .
Broadcasting
Welsh-language television
1 March – First broadcast of a television programme entirely in Welsh: a religious service from the Tabernacle Baptist Chapel, Cardiff.Teledu i Blant (children's programme)Telewele (children's programme)English-language television
Births
10 February – Jeffrey John , Dean of St Albans15 March - Alan Couch , footballer11 April – Rhodri Glyn Thomas AM , politician12 April – Huw Edwards , Labour politician, MP for Monmouth 1991–1992 and 1997–200526 April – Andy Secombe , voice actor and fantasy novelist7 July – Eleri Rees , judge11 July – Nigel Rees , footballer20 July – Dave Evans , singer10 August – Gillian Elisa , actress, singer and comedian2 September – Keith Allen , comedian and actor28 October – Phil Dwyer , footballer16 November – Griff Rhys Jones , actor, comedian and television presenterShani Rhys James , Australian-born painterHywel Williams , Plaid Cymru politician, MP for Caernarfon, later Arfon 2001–Deaths
10 January – Howell Elvet Lewis ("Elved"), poet and Archdruid, 927 March – Jack Williams , Victoria Cross recipient, 6620 March – Fred Parfitt , Wales international rugby player, 8324 March – Mary of Teck , Princess of Wales 1910–1936, queen consort of the United Kingdom 1936–1952, 856 April – Idris Davies , poet, 4830 April – Sir David Rocyn-Jones , medical practitioner and President of the WRU, 902 May – Thomas Mardy Rees , author, 81/8223 May – Henry McLaren, 2nd Baron Aberconway , industrialist, horticulturalist and politician, 745 June – Elizabeth Mary Jones ("Moelona "), novelist, 7518 June – Reg Plummer , Wales and British Lion rugby union player, 6426 August – Rachel Barrett , Welsh editor and suffragette, 779 November – Dylan Thomas , poet, 3911 November – John Glyn Davies , poet and children's writer, 8326 November – Sir Ivor Atkins , organist and choirmaster, 8327 November – T. F. Powys , Anglo-Welsh writer, 7717 December – David Rees Griffiths , poet, 71References
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