Births
- 4 January - Professor Brian Josephson
- 17 January - Leighton Rees, darts champion
- 23 January - Ted Rowlands, politician
- 1 March - David Broome, show jumping champion
- 16 May - Sir Gareth Roberts, physicist (died 2007)
- 7 June - Tom Jones, singer
- 29 June - John Dawes, rugby player
- 3 September - Eduardo Hughes Galeano, Uruguayan writer of Welsh descent
- 12 September - Patrick Mower, Welsh-descended actor
- 14 October - Christopher Timothy, actor (in Bala, Gwynedd)
- 13 December - Klaus Armstrong-Braun, environmentalist
- 24 December - John Marek, politician
- date unknown
- Donald Evans, poet
- Keith Miles, novelist and screenwriter
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