:1965 in Wales

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• Secretary of State for Wales – Jim Griffiths
• Archbishop of Wales – Edwin Morris, Bishop of Monmouth
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Cynan

• May – Opening of Llandegfedd Reservoir by Newport Corporation.{{cite web|url=http://www.newportpast.com/hd/chronology.htm|work=Newport Past|title=Chronology of the Twentieth Century|first=Haydn|last=Davis|accessdate=2015-03-08}}
• 17 May – Thirty-one miners are killed in a mining accident at the Cambrian Colliery, Clydach Vale, Rhondda.
• 24 May – The first drive-on car ferry service between Fishguard and Rosslare Harbour (Ireland) officially opens.
• 15 June – The Hughes-Parry Committee submits its report on the legal status of the Welsh language.[https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1965/jun/24/hughes-parry-committee-report Hansard 1965.]
• 21 October – Official opening of Llyn Celyn reservoir.
• 17 December – A landslide on the main railway line at Bridgend kills a train driver and co-driver.
• unknown dates
• Foundation of Undeb y Cymraeg Byw ("Union of Living Welsh").
• Mount Stuart Primary School, Cardiff, appoints Betty Campbell, the first black female head teacher in Wales{{cite news|title=Wales's First Black Headteacher commemorated in striking artwork|url=https://www.cardiffnewsroom.co.uk/releases/c25/30841.html|publisher=Cardiff Newsroom|date=28 February 2023|access-date=2 October 2024}}

• National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Newtown, Montgomeryshire)
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – William David Williams
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – Tom Parri Jones
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal – Eigra Lewis Roberts

• Peter Bryan George – Commander-1
• Julian Mitchell – The White Father

• Bedwyr Lewis Jones (ed.) – Blodeugerdd o'r Bedwaredd Ganrif ar Bymtheg
• Gwilym Meredydd Jones – Dawns yr Ysgubau

• 12 December – The Beatles' last live U.K. tour concludes with two performances at the Capitol, Cardiff.{{cite web|title=Live: Capitol Cinema, Cardiff|work=The Beatles Bible|url=http://www.beatlesbible.com/1965/12/12/live-capitol-cinema-cardiff-3/|date=1965-12-12|accessdate=2014-02-19}}
• Tom Jones releases the film theme, "What's New Pussycat?" as a single.
• Rockfield Studios (near Rockfield, Monmouthshire) becomes the world's first residential recording studio.

• Richard Burton stars in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, for which he would be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.{{cite web|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1966|title=The 38th Academy Awards 1966|website=Oscars|access-date=29 December 2018}}
• Glynis Johns stars in Mary Poppins.
• Tryweryn, the Story of a Valley (film made by Friars School, Bangor).{{cite web|url=https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-tryweryn-the-story-of-a-valley-1965-online|title=Tryweryn, the Story of a Valley|website=BFI Online|access-date=29 December 2018}}

• 26 March – Harold Pinter's play The Homecoming has its world première at the New Theatre, Cardiff.{{cite news|authorlink=Benedict Nightingale|title=review: The Homecoming at Cardiff|last=Nightingale|first=Benedict|newspaper=The Guardian|date=1965-03-27|page=6}}

• February - BBC2 is received in South Wales for the first time, as a result of a new transmitter.{{cite book|author1=David Maxwell Barlow|author2=Tom O'Malley|author3=Philip Mitchell|title=The media in Wales: voices of a small nation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ezhiAAAAMAAJ|year=2005|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-0-7083-1840-9|page=131}}
• date unknown - Arwel Hughes becomes Head of Music at BBC Wales.{{cite book|author=Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons|title=Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H1k6AQAAIAAJ|year=1965|publisher=H.M. Stationery Office}}

• Dafydd Iwan begins appearing regularly on TWW's Y Dydd.{{cite book|author=Jamie Medhurst|title=A History of Independent Television in Wales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YXyvBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA140|date=1 June 2010|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-0-7083-2308-3|pages=140}}

• As I See It, presented by Gwyn Thomas

• Rugby union – Wales win the Triple Crown for the first time in 13 years.
• BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Clive Rowlands{{cite web |title=BBC Wales Sport Personality winners |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/wales/20670643 |website=BBC Sport |access-date=29 July 2021}}

• 5 January – Vinnie Jones, footballer (in Watford, England){{cite book|author=Vinnie Jones|title=It's Been Emotional|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ke41DQAAQBAJ&pg=PA9|date=17 July 2014|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-4711-2759-5|pages=9–}}
• 22 February – Steve Speirs, born Steven Roberts, actor
• 2 March (in Bangor, County Down) – Lembit Öpik, politician
• 6 March – Allan Bateman, rugby player
• 1 April – Alexandra Shân "Tiggy" Legge-Bourke, royal nanny{{cite book|author=Francis Wheen|title=Hoo-hahs and Passing Frenzies: Collected Journalism, 1991-2001|url=https://archive.org/details/hoohahspassingfr0000whee|url-access=registration|year=2002|publisher=Atlantic|isbn=978-1-903809-42-6}}
• 9 April – Colin Pascoe, footballer
• April – Manon Antoniazzi, née Jenkins, Chief Executive and Clerk of the Senedd
• 3 May – Rob Brydon, comedian and actor{{cite book|author=Rob Brydon|title=Small Man in a Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ugv6OkzjDxMC&pg=PT8|year=2012|publisher=Penguin Books, Limited|isbn=978-0-241-95482-9|pages=8}}
• 8 May – Andy Dibble, footballer
• 11 May – Jeremy Goss, footballer
• 16 May – Vincent Regan, actor
• 25 August – David Taylor, soccer player and manager
• 13 September – Andrew Williams, cricketer
• 16 October – Floyd Havard, British super-featherweight boxing champion
• 30 October – Michael Tremellen, cricketer
• 9 November – Bryn Terfel, bass-baritone singer
• date unknown – Patrick Jones, poet and author

• 7 January – Sarah Edwards, actress, 83{{cite book|author=Evelyn Mack Truitt|title=Who was who on screen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=irZmAAAAMAAJ|date=1 July 1977|publisher=Bowker|isbn=978-0-8352-0914-4|page=139}}
• 18 January – Ernest Evans, politician, 79{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s2-EVAN-ERN-1885|title=Evans, Ernest (1885-1965), county court judge, M.P.|author=Evan David Jones|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=19 March 2020}}
• 29 January – T. Harri Jones, poet and academic, 43 (suicide){{cite book|author=Belinda Humfrey|title='Fire green as grass': studies of the creative impulse in Anglo-Welsh poetry and short stories of the twentieth century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=euVZAAAAMAAJ|date=March 1995|publisher=Gomer|isbn=978-1-85902-168-2|page=112}}
• 4 February
• Hugh Morriston Davies, thoracic surgeon, 85{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s2-DAVI-MOR-1879|title=Davies, Hugh Morriston (1879-1965), probably the most outstanding pioneer of thoracic surgery in Britain|author=Emyr Wyn Jones|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=19 March 2020}}
• Llywelyn Williams, politician, 53{{cite book|author=Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons|title=Journals of the House of Commons|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TbdWAAAAYAAJ|year=1964|publisher=order of the House of Commons|page=124}}
• 5 February – Sir David Brunt, meteorologist, 78{{cite book|title=Indian Journal of Meteorology & Geophysics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4pscAQAAIAAJ|year=1965|publisher=India Meteorological Department|page=527}}
• 1 April – Sir John William Bowen, trade unionist and politician, 88"Obituary: Sir William Bowen", The Times, 2 April 1965
• 22 April – Glyn Stephens, Wales international rugby union captain, 73
• 3 May – Howard Spring, novelist, 76{{cite book|author=Marion Ursula Howard Spring|title=Howard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=soAPAAAAMAAJ|year=1967|publisher=Collins|page=13}}
• 29 May – Steve Morris, Wales international rugby player, 68
• 16 June – Dai Parker, Wales and British Lion rugby player, 60
• 17 July (in Scarborough) – Dan Lewis, footballer
• 18 August – Christmas Price Williams, politician, 83{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s2-WILL-PRI-1881|title=Williams, Christmas Price (1881-1965), politician and engineer|author=John Graham Jones|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=19 March 2020}}
• 24 August – Elvyn Bowen, cricketer, 58
• 30 August – Llew Edwards, boxer, 72
• 11 September – Trevor Preece, cricketer, 82
• 1 October – Gareth Hughes, actor, 71{{cite book|author=John A. Willis|title=Screen World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3MczAQAAIAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Crown Publishers|page=237}}
• 9 October – Russell Taylor, Wales international rugby player, 50
• 16 October – Hywel Davies, radio broadcaster, television interviewer and writer, 46{{cite web|title=Hywel Davies|url=https://biography.wales/article/s2-DAVI-HYW-1919|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|last=Williams|first=Griffith John|accessdate= 23 May 2017}}
• 22 October – William Williams, Victoria Cross recipient, 75{{cite book|author=Max Arthur|title=Symbol of Courage: The Men Behind the Medal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7JjBbZwtikwC&pg=PA684|year=2005|publisher=Pan Macmillan|isbn=978-0-330-49133-4|pages=684}}
• 31 October – John Roberts, Wales international rugby player, 59
• 4 November – Ifor Williams, academic, 84{{cite book|author=British Academy|title=Interpreters of Early Medieval Britain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NVLJD0nweukC&pg=PA304|year=2002|publisher=British Academy|isbn=978-0-19-726277-1|pages=304}}
• 8 November – George Hall, politician, 83{{cite book|author=Frank C. Roberts|title=Obituaries from the Times|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8iUOAQAAMAAJ|year=1961|publisher=Newspaper Archive Developments Limited|page=335}}
• 23 November – Murray Humphreys, Chicago mobster of Welsh descent, 66{{cite book|author=Virgil W. Peterson|title=The Mob: 200 Years of Organized Crime in New York|url=https://archive.org/details/mob200yearsofor00pete|url-access=registration|year=1983|publisher=Green Hill Publishers|isbn=978-0-89803-123-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/mob200yearsofor00pete/page/416 416]}}
• 26 December – Llewelyn Alberic Emilius Price-Davies, Victoria Cross recipient, 87{{cite book|author=Max Arthur|title=Symbol of Courage: The Men Behind the Medal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7JjBbZwtikwC&pg=PA684|year=2005|publisher=Pan Macmillan|isbn=978-0-330-49133-4|pages=671}}
• 29 December – Claude Warner, cricketer, 83

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