:1944 in Wales

• Archbishop of Wales
• Charles Green, Bishop of Bangor (died 7 May)
• David Prosser, Bishop of St David's (elected)
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Crwys

• 22 January - Wynford Vaughan-Thomas reports for the BBC from the Battle of Anzio.{{cite book|author=Robert Niemi|title=History in the Media: Film and Television|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WVFhcBcv_X8C&pg=PA110|year=2006|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-57607-952-2|pages=110}}
• 23 January - An RAF Halifax bomber crashes in the Elan Valley, killing nine crew.
• 28 March - Cardiff Blitz: Nine people are killed in an air raid on Cardiff.
• 11 April - An RAF Lancaster bomber crashes near Llanwrtyd Wells, killing eight crew.
• 16 August - Lt. Tasker Watkins leads a bayonet charge at Barfour in Normandy, winning the Victoria Cross for his courage.{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s11-WATK-TAS-1918|title=Watkins, Sir Tasker (1918-2007), barrister and judge|author=John Griffith Williams|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=2 May 2019}}
• 17 October - The first "Welsh Day" debate takes place in the House of Commons (UK).
• 11 November - A US Dakota C-47 with four crew crashes into cliffs above Llyn Dulyn.{{cite web|url=https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/dry-spell-reveals-ghostly-reminder-21093275|title=Dry spell reveals ghostly reminder of Snowdonia lake's war-time tragedies|date=20 July 2021|website=Daily Post|access-date=21 July 2021}}
• 10 December - American Liberty ship Dan Beard is torpedoed off Strumble Head, resulting in the deaths of 29 crew.{{cite book|title=Reference Wales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-j0ro22GZU8C|year=1994|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-0-7083-1234-6|page=242}}
• 20 December - An American B-24 Liberator plane crashes into the sea off Anglesey, killing eight crew.
• Plaid Cymru transfers its head office from Caernarfon to Cardiff.
• Morgan Phillips becomes Secretary of the Labour Party (UK), a position he will hold until 1961.{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s2-PHIL-WAL-1902|title=Phillips, Morgan Walter (1902-1963), general secretary of the Labour Party|author=Mary Auronwy James|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=2 May 2019}}
• Sir Thomas Williams Phillips becomes permanent secretary of the new government ministry created to implement the national insurance system.
• Sir David Brunt is awarded the royal medal of the Royal Society for his work in meteorology.
• Politician Goronwy Owen and naval architect Llewellyn Soulsby are knighted.{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s2-SOUL-GOR-1885|title=Soulsby, Sir Llewellyn Thomas|author=Mary Auronwy James|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=2 May 2019}}

• 2 October - Dylan Thomas is best man at the wedding of his friend and fellow poet Vernon Watkins in London - but fails to turn up.
• BBC commentator Alun Williams marries Perrie Hopkin Morris, daughter of Sir Rhys Hopkin Morris.

• National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Llandybie)
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - D. Lloyd Jenkins
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - J. M. Edwards
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - withheld

• Rhys Davies – Black Venus
• Fred Hando - The Pleasant Land of Gwent{{cite book|title=Antiquarian Book Monthly Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ldNMAQAAIAAJ|year=1985|publisher=ABMR Publications|page=273}}
• Jack Jones - The Man David
• Alun Lewis - The Last Inspection
• Sir Percy Emerson Watkins - A Welshman Remembers
• Sir Ifor Williams - Lectures on early Welsh Poetry

• Thomas Rowland Hughes - William Jones
• Edward Morgan Humphreys - Ceulan y Llyn Du{{cite book|author=Meic Stephens|title=The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00meic|url-access=registration|date=April 1986|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00meic/page/272 272]|isbn=978-0-19-211586-7 }}
• T. H. Parry-Williams - O'r Pedwar Gwynt{{cite book|author=John Buchanan-Brown|title=Cassell's Encyclopaedia of World Literature: Biographies L-Z|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AIEYAAAAIAAJ|year=1953|publisher=Morrow|page=292|isbn=9780688002282 }}

• James Kitchener Davies - Meini Gwagedd{{cite book|title=Poetry Wales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sc9lAAAAMAAJ|year=1981|publisher=C. Davies|page=40}}
• Emlyn Williams - The Druid's Rest

• Harry Parr Davies - Jenny Jones (musical)
• Grace Williams - Sea Sketches

• The Halfway House, starring Mervyn Johns, Glynis Johns and Rachel Thomas, is set in Wales.

• August - Wynford Vaughan-Thomas reports on the liberation of Paris for BBC radio.
• Launch of the Noson Lawen series on BBC radio.

• Polish-born expressionist painter Josef Herman begins 11 years living and working in Ystradgynlais.

• Boxing - Syd Worgan beats Tommy Davies for the vacant Welsh featherweight title.{{cite book|title=Coal; the NCB Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nk5wHqhG4HgC|year=1952}}
• Football - The first post-war match between Wales and England ends in a 1 - 0 victory for Wales.

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• 21 January – Peter Rodrigues, footballer
• 17 February – Karl Jenkins, composer{{cite book|author=John Chilton|title=Who's Who of British Jazz: 2nd Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DGuvAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA193|date=1 May 2004|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-0-8264-2389-4|pages=193}}
• 1 March – Dai Morgan Evans, English-born archaeologist (died 2017){{cite news|author=Howard Williams |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/17/dai-morgan-evans-obituary |title=Dai Morgan Evans obituary |newspaper=The Guardian |date=17 April 2017 |accessdate=29 April 2017}}
• 6 March – Billy Raybould, Wales international rugby player
• 12 March – Tammy Jones, singer
• 24 March
• Mary Balogh, novelist
• Steve Jones, biologist

{{Who's Who | author=Anon| title=Jones, Prof. (John) Stephen | id = U22395 | year = 2011 | doi = | edition = online Oxford University Press|location=Oxford}}

• 31 March – Myfanwy Talog, actress (died 1995){{cite web|title=Myfanwy Talog|website=British Film Institute|date=2020|accessdate=31 March 2020|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba20b6ba0|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020081206/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba20b6ba0|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 20, 2020}}
• 4 April – Ronnie Rees, footballer
• 8 April – Hywel Bennett, actor (died 2017){{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/aug/04/hywel-bennett-obituary|title=Hywel Bennett obituary|date=4 August 2017|author=Anthony Hayward|website=The Guardian|access-date=3 February 2020}}
• 15 April – Dave Edmunds, musician{{cite book|author1=Patricia Romanowski Bashe|author2=Holly George-Warren|author3=Jon Pareles|title=The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_hKFAAAAIAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Fireside|isbn=978-0-684-81044-7|page=1975}}
• 16 April – Llew Smith, politician (died 2021){{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jun/22/llew-smith-obituary|title=Llew Smith obituary|date=22 June 2021|author=Julia Langdon|website=The Guardian|access-date=22 July 2021}}
• 5 May
• Roger Rees, actor (died 2015 in the United States){{cite book|author1=Contemporary|author2=Contemporary Books|title=Chase's Annual Events: The Day-By-Day Directory to 1994|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zQoBM1qCk5wC|year=1993|publisher=Contemporary books|isbn=978-0-8092-3732-6|page=193}}
• John Rhys-Davies, actor{{cite book|author=Brad Linaweaver|title=Sliders: The Episode Guide : the Classic Episodes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1SDugAAQxVAC|year=1998|publisher=TV Books|isbn=978-1-57500-053-4|page=21}}
• 20 May – Kathrin Thomas, magistrate{{cite web|title=Birthdays today|url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2013-5-20.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130520080952/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2013-5-20.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= 20 May 2013 |publisher=The Telegraph|accessdate=16 May 2014|date=20 May 2013|quote=Mrs Kathrin Thomas, Lord–Lieutenant for Mid Glamorgan, 69 }}
• 3 June – Dilwyn John, footballer
• 11 June – Alan Howarth, Baron Howarth of Newport, politician{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2122321.stm|title=Alan Howarth|date=17 October 2002|website=BBC News|access-date=22 July 2021}}
• 16 June – Brian Protheroe, English-born singer and actor of Welsh parentage
• 7 July – Glenys Kinnock, English-born politician (died 2023){{cite web|url=https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/local-news/politician-glenys-kinnock-of-holyhead-2773097|title=Politician Glenys Kinnock of Holyhead|date=19 April 2013|website=North Wales Daily Post|access-date=1 May 2019}}
• 7 July – Angharad Rees, actress (died 2012){{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18940018|title=BBC News - Poldark actress Angharad Rees dies from cancer|publisher=Bbc.co.uk|accessdate=2012-07-21|date=21 July 2012}}
• 31 July
• Endaf Emlyn, TV presenter, musician and director
• Betty Williams, politician
• 3 September – John Cooper, serial killer
• 9 October – Desmond Barrit, actor
• 21 October – Mandy Rice-Davies, socialite (died 2014){{cite book|author=Harris M. Lentz III|title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2014|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=11diCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA288|date=30 April 2015|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-7666-4|pages=288}}
• 6 November – Gerallt Lloyd Owen, poet (died 2014){{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/cymrufyw/28311175|title=Gerallt Lloyd Owen wedi marw|date=15 July 2014|language=cy|website=BBC Cymru Fyw|access-date=1 May 2019}}
• 14 November – Eurfyl ap Gwilym, economist and politician
• 29 November – Gareth Wardell, politician{{cite book|title=Guide to the House of Commons|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cXaIAAAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Times Books| isbn=9780723002574 }}
• 18 December – (Roger) Deke Leonard, rock musician (died 2017){{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/mar/06/deke-leonard-obituary|title=Deke Leonard obituary|date=26 March 2017|author=Michael Heatley|website=The Guardian|access-date=1 May 2019}}
• 24 December – Meirion Pennar, translator and son of Pennar Davies (died 2010){{cite web|url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2010/12/18/academic-and-poet-meirion-pennar-dies-at-65-91466-27846677/|title=Academic and poet Meirion Pennar dies at 65|author=Steve Dube|publisher=Western Mail|date= 18 December 2010|accessdate=19 December 2010}}

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• 8 January - John Newell Evans, Welsh-born farmer and politician in Canada, 97{{cite web |url=http://search.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/sn-4E75D75/view/Deaths/find-adv%2B%20callnumber=%28%221944-09-636096%22%20%29%20AND%20microfilm=%28b13181%29%20%2B%2B%2B%2B/1 |title=Vital Event Death Registration |publisher=BC Archives |accessdate=2011-08-27 }}{{Dead link|date=May 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• 11 January - Richard Powell, Wales international rugby player, 79
• 5 March - Alun Lewis, poet, 28 (accidentally shot)
• 20 March - William Retlaw Williams, lawyer and historian, 80 or 81
• 31 March - Talfryn Evans, cricketer, 29
• 7 May - Charles Green, Bishop of Monmouth, Bishop of Bangor and Archbishop of Wales, 79
• 17 May - John Lloyd Morgan, lawyer and MP, 83{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s2-MORG-LLO-1861|title=Morgan, John Lloyd (1861-1944), county court judge|author=Thomas Mardy Rees|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=19 September 2019}}
• 24 May - Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet, politician, 83
• 27 May - Griffith Hartwell Jones, academic, 85{{cite news|date=30 May 1944|page=6|title=Rev. Dr. G. H. Jones|work=The Times}}
• June - Dai Davies, footballer, 63/64
• 16 June - David Davies, 1st Baron Davies, philanthropist and MP, 64{{cite book |title= Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Mosley, Charles |editor-link=Charles Mosley (genealogist) |edition=107 |year= 2003 |pages=1049–1050 |ref=Burke |isbn=0-9711966-2-1}}
• 25 June - James Atkin, Baron Atkin, judge, 76
• 5 August - Maurice Turnbull, cricketer, 38 (killed in action){{cite book|author1=John Stern|author2=Marcus Williams|title=The Essential Wisden: An Anthology of 150 Years of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ne8EAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA942|date=7 January 2014|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-1-4081-7896-6|pages=942}}
• 5 August - Ethel Lina White, crime novelist, 68
• 20 September - Oliver Morris, rugby player and footballer, 27 (killed in action){{cite web|url=http://www.therhinos.co.uk/news/24183.php|title=True Heroes Remembered|publisher=therhinos.co.uk|date=31 December 2014|accessdate=1 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150114204147/http://www.therhinos.co.uk/news/24183.php|archive-date=14 January 2015|url-status=dead}}
• 21 September - Bob Jones, rugby union player, 69
• 25 September - David Davies, 2nd Baron Davies, 29 (killed in battle){{cite book|title=Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0SIMAQAAMAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Kelly's Directories}}
• 30 September- David Harris Davies, Wales international rugby union player, 66[http://www.espnscrum.com/wales/rugby/player/1624.html David Davies player profile] Scrum.com
• 5 October - Laura Evans-Williams, singer, 61{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s2-EVAN-LAU-1883|title=EVANS-WILLIAMS, LAURA (1883-1944), singer|author=Thomas Iorwerth Ellis|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=23 January 2019}}
• 27 October - Clem Lewis, rugby player, 54
• 19 November - Watkin Williams, Bishop of Bangor, 99{{cite book|title=Who was who|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4ooYAAAAIAAJ|year=1967|publisher=A. & C. Black|page=1242}}
• 8 December - Sir William Jenkins, MP for Neath, 73

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