:1969 in Wales

• Secretary of State for Wales – George Thomas
• Archbishop of Wales – Glyn Simon, Bishop of Llandaff{{cite book|title=Who was who|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HT4OAQAAMAAJ|year=1971|publisher=A. & C. Black|page=728| isbn=978-0-312-87746-0 }}
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales
• E. Gwyndaf Evans (outgoing){{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}}
• Tilsli (incoming){{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/589 589]|isbn=978-0-19-211586-7 }}

• 1 April – Registration of births and deaths in the Welsh language is allowed for the first time.{{cite book|title=Halsbury's Statutes of England|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EYNQAQAAIAAJ|year=1985| publisher=Butterworths | isbn=978-0-406-04323-8 }}
• May – Deep mining of slate at Oakeley Quarry, Blaenau Ffestiniog, ceases.{{cite book|title=Candles to Caplamps: the Story of Gloddfa Ganol|first=J. G.|last=Isherwood|publisher=Gloddfa Ganol|year=1980}}
• 22 May – Engineer Morien Morgan becomes Director of the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough, Hampshire, having been knighted in the New Year Honours.{{cite book|title=Flight International|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zn07AAAAMAAJ|date=January 1969|publisher=IPC Transport Press Limited}}
• 1 June – The South Wales Constabulary is created by merging the police forces of Glamorgan, Cardiff, Swansea and Merthyr Tydfil.
• 11 June – The Prince of Wales' (now Charles III) new standard is flown for the first time.
• 20 June – Llandudno Cable Car opened, the longest gondola lift system in the UK.
• 30 June – Two members of the Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru (Movement for the Defence of Wales) are killed whilst placing a bomb outside government offices in Abergele in an attempt to disrupt the following day's events.{{cite web|url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/welsh-politics/welsh-politics-news/2008/11/20/militants-key-role-in-coming-of-devolution-left-ignored-deliberately-91466-22299413/|first=Martin|last=Shipton|title='Militants' key role in coming of devolution left ignored deliberately'|work=WalesOnline|date=2008-11-20|accessdate=2010-07-22}}
• 1 July
• The Prince of Wales (now Charles III) is invested with his title at Caernarfon Castle.{{cite book|author=John S. Ellis|title=Investiture: Royal Ceremony and National Identity in Wales, 1911-1969|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CiQTAQAAIAAJ|year=2008|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-0-7083-2000-6}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/archives/from-the-archives-july-2-1969-charles-crowned-prince-of-wales/article28251520.ece|title=From the Archives (July 2, 1969): Charles crowned Prince of Wales|date=2019-07-02|work=The Hindu|access-date=2019-07-02|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2019/07/01/prince-charles-celebrates-50th-anniversary-investiture-prince/|title=Prince Charles celebrates 50th anniversary of investiture as Prince of Wales - with cake|last=Furness|first=Hannah|date=2019-07-01|work=The Telegraph|access-date=2019-07-02|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}
• Six members of the Free Wales Army are convicted in Swansea of public order and firearms offences; three are imprisoned.
• 3 July – Swansea is granted city status.
• 25 July – The Development of Tourism Act 1969 paves the way for creation of the Wales Tourist Board.
• 22 August – Closure of Dinorwic slate quarry.
• November – Clashes between police and anti-apartheid protesters occur when the touring South African rugby team play Swansea.{{cite book|author=Martin Polley|title=Moving the Goalposts: A History of Sport and Society in Britain since 1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OzpKIiMW1GEC&pg=PA31|date=11 September 2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-76688-8|pages=31}} A silent protest takes place at an Ebbw Vale match.
• December – Serious damage at Lluest-wen Reservoir requires emergency evacuation and repairs.

• Dafydd Iwan co-founds Sain Recordiau Cyf, which would become the major Welsh-language record label.

• National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Flint)
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – James Nicholas
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – Dafydd Rowlands
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal – Emyr Jones

• Glyn Mills Ashton – Angau yn y Crochan
• Pennar Davies – Meibion Darogan
• Rhys Davies – Print of a Hare's Foot
• T. Glynne Davies – Hedydd yn yr Haul
• R. F. Delderfield – Come Home, Charlie, and Face Them
• Raymond Garlick – A Sense of Europe
• Glyn Jones – The Dragon Has Two Tongues
• T. J. Morgan – Dydd y Farn Ac Ysgrifau Eraill
• Dennis Selby – Sanctity: or There's No Such Thing as a Naked Sailor
• John Griffith Williams – Pigau'r Sêr

• Urien Wiliam – Cawl Cennin

• John Fitzgerald – Cadwyn Cenedl
• D. Gwenallt Jones – Y Coed
• Gwilym R. Jones – Cerddi
• John Ormond – Requiem and Celebration
• Penguin Book of Welsh Verse

• Amen Corner – Explosive Company (album)
• Blonde on Blonde – Contrasts (album)
• Man – 2 Ozs of Plastic with a Hole in the Middle

• Huw Jones – Dŵr ("Water") (protest song)

• Jeffrey Lewis – Mutations I
• Mansel Thomas – Mini-Variations on a Welsh Theme
• David Wynne – Cymric Rhapsody no. 2

• Richard Burton stars in Anne of the Thousand Days.
• Hywel Bennett stars in The Virgin Soldiers.

• Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg (the Welsh Language Society) publishes a pamphlet entitled Broadcasting in Wales: To Enrich or Destroy Our National Life?

• Philip Madoc has roles in Manhunt!, The Avengers, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), The Champions and The Detective, among others.

• Miri Mawr (children's)

• BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Tony Lewis{{cite news |title=BBC Wales Sport Personality winners |work=BBC Sport |date=10 December 2012 |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/wales/20670643 |access-date=29 July 2021}}
• Cricket – Glamorgan win the County Championship.
• Rugby union – Wales win the Five Nations Championship and take the Triple Crown.
• football – Cardiff City win the Welsh Cup.

• 6 January – Nicholas A'Hern, race walker
• 20 January – Nicky Wire, musician
• 5 February – Michael Sheen, actor{{cite book|author=((Editors of Chase's Calendar of Events))|title=Chases Calendar of Events, 2012 Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9ssdhFLtb_MC|date=14 October 2011|publisher=McGraw Hill Professional|isbn=978-0-07-176673-9|page=117}}
• 10 February – Francesca Rhydderch, novelist and academic
• 13 February – Gareth Abraham, footballer
• 21 February – James Dean Bradfield, musician{{cite book|author=Graham Betts|title=Complete UK Hit Singles 1952-2006|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FAo5AQAAIAAJ|year=2006|publisher=Collins|isbn=978-0-00-720077-1|page=522}}
• 24 February – Gareth Llewellyn, rugby player
• 1 March – Dafydd Ieuan, musician
• 11 April – Cerys Matthews, singer{{cite book|author=Europa Europa Publications|title=International Who's Who in Popular Music 2008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NYUnAQAAIAAJ|year=2008|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-85743-454-5|page=205}}
• 4 June – Julie Gardner, television producer
• 26 July – Tanni Grey-Thompson, born Carys Grey, wheelchair athlete
• 4 August – Tony Roberts, footballer
• 4 September – Sasha, DJ and record producer{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=crs7AQAAIAAJ |title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of Nineties Music |last=Larkin |first=Colin |date=2000 |publisher=Virgin |isbn=9780753504277 |location=London |pages=340 |language=en}}
• 8 September – Gary Speed, footballer and national manager (died 2011)
• 25 September – Catherine Zeta-Jones, actress{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/8449695/Catherine-Zeta-Jones-a-profile.html |title=Catherine Zeta Jones: a profile |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=13 April 2011 |accessdate=7 February 2013 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120617055050/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/8449695/Catherine-Zeta-Jones-a-profile.html |archivedate=17 June 2012}}
• 8 October – David Abruzzese, footballer
• 23 October – Chris Fry, footballer
• 6 December – Anthony Davies, snooker player
• date unknown – Dyfed Wyn-Evans, operatic baritone

• 20 January – Roy Evans, footballer, 25 (car crash)
• 3 February – Trevor Thomas, dual-code rugby player, 61
• 14 February – Ernest Roberts, judge, 78{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s2-ROBE-GOO-1890|title=Roberts, Sir Ernest Handforth Goodman (1890-1969), judge|author=Evan David Jones|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=2 July 2019}}
• 10 March – Jimmy Wilde, boxer, 76{{cite book|author1=Peter Stead|author2=Gareth Williams|title=Wales and Its Boxers: The Fighting Tradition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=emMNAQAAMAAJ|year=2008|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-0-7083-1915-4|page=70}}
• 18 March – Llewellyn Alston, Royal Welch Fusiliers, 78
• 20 March – Arthur E. Powell, Theosophist writer, 86
• 26 March (in Australia) – Elizabeth Williams Berry, jockey of Welsh parentage, 114{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23804804/mother_berry_obit_billings_gazette_1969/|title=Mother Berry Dies at 114|date=27 March 1969|work=The Billings Gazette|access-date=6 July 2019|via=Newspapers.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706235346/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23804804/mother_berry_obit_billings_gazette_1969/|archive-date=6 July 2019|url-status=live}}
• 27 March – David Lloyd, tenor, 56{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s2-LLOY-GEO-1912|title=Lloyd, David George (1912-1969), singer|author=Huw Williams|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=2 July 2019}}
• 31 March – Percy Jones, Wales international rugby player, 82
• 5 April – Mal Griffiths, footballer, 50
• 15 April
• John Davies, dual code rugby player, 28 (heart attack){{cite web|url=https://www.dewsburyrams.co.uk/2020/06/08/when-derby-victory-was-marred-by-tragedy-by-david-hyomes/|title=When derby victory was marred by tragedy|author=David Hyomes|website=Dewsbury Rams|access-date=12 February 2021}}
• Cowboy Morgan Evans, Texan rodeo rider of Welsh descent, 66
• 20 April – Watkin Roberts, missionary, 82Conley, Joseph F. (2000), Drumbeats that Changed the World: A History of the Regions Beyond Missionary Union and the West Indies Mission, 1873-1999 (William Carey Library), p. 507
• 4 May – Albert Stock, Wales international rugby player, 72
• 7 May – Stan Awbery, trade unionist and politician, 80{{cite book|author=Michael Stenton|title=Who's who of British Members of Parliament: A Biographical Dictionary of the House of Commons Based on Annual Volumes of Dod's Parliamentary Companion and Other Sources|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r73XAAAAMAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Harvester Press|isbn=978-0-85527-335-4|page=11}}
• 21 May – Ben Beynon, Welsh rugby union international and Swansea Town player, 75{{cite web|url=http://www.espnscrum.com/wales/rugby/player/2592.html|title=Ben Beynon player profile|website=ESPN Scrum.com}}
• 23 May – Sir Evan Owen Williams, English-born Welsh engineer, 79
• 28 May – Rhys Williams, actor, 71{{cite book|last1=Ellenberger|first1=Allan R.|title=Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries: A Directory|date=2001|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786450190|page=101|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZraJCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA101|access-date=18 July 2017|language=en}}
• 7 July – William David Davies, theologian, 72{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s2-DAVI-DAV-1897|title=Davies, William David [P.] (1897-1969), minister (Presb.), college tutor and author|author=Gomer Morgan Roberts|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=25 December 2019}}
• 26 July – Noel Hopkins, clergyman and organist, 77The Times, Tuesday, 29 Jul 1969; pg. 8; Issue 57624; col G Obituary The Very Rev. N.T. Hopkins
• 12 August – Air Commodore James Bevan Bowen, RAF officer, 86Obituary (Obituaries) The Times Saturday, 16 Aug 1969; pg. 12; Issue 57640; col G
• 19 August – Percy Thomas, architect, 85{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s2-THOM-EDW-1883|title=Thomas, Sir Percy Edward (1883-1969), architect and planning consultant|author=Norman Percy Thomas|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=2 July 2019}}
• 1 October – Dai Richards, footballer, 62{{Cite book |last=Matthews |first=Tony |title=Birmingham City: A Complete Record |publisher=Breedon Books |year=1995 |isbn=978-1-85983-010-9 |location=Derby |page=119}}
• 5 October – Sir Edward John Davies, judge in colonial service, 71[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-48270 "Davies, Sir (Edward) John"], Who Was Who (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2007). Retrieved 3 April 2018.
• 15 October – Charlie Phillips, footballer, 59{{cite book |last=Matthews |first=Tony |title=Birmingham City: A Complete Record |year=1995 |publisher=Breedon Books |location=Derby |pages=117–18 |isbn=978-1-85983-010-9}}
• 18 October – Emrys Hughes, politician, 75{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s2-HUGH-DAN-1894|title=Hughes, Emrys (1884-1969), politician, journalist and author|author=John Graham Jones|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=2 July 2019}}
• 11 November – Robert Thomas Jenkins, historian, 88{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s2-JENK-THO-1881|title=Jenkins, Robert Thomas (1881–1969), historian, man of letters, editor of Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig and the Dictionary of Welsh Biography|last=Williams|first=John Gwynn|work=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|year=2007|publisher=National Library of Wales|accessdate=19 February 2009}}
• 21 November – D. B. Wyndham-Lewis, author, 78
• 7 December
• Bill Roberts, Wales international rugby union player, 60
• (in London) Hugh Williams, dramatist, 65
• 20 December – Eleanor Evans, actress, singer and director, 76Stone, David. [http://diamond.boisestate.edu/gas/whowaswho/G/GibsonRobert.htm "Robert Gibson"], {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091001180956/http://diamond.boisestate.edu/gas///whowaswho/G/GibsonRobert.htm |date=1 October 2009 }} Who Was Who in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, 26 August 2007, accessed 26 November 2009

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