1953 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1953 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

July 6 – Dorothy Squires marries Roger Moore in the United States.
date unknown
*Thomas Parry becomes head of the National Library of Wales.
*Waldo Williams leaves the Baptist denomination and becomes a Quaker.
*Robert Frank photographs a Glamorgan mining village for U.S.Camera.
*Susan Williams-Ellis joins her father, Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, in his work on the village of Portmeirion.

8 June – Geraint Evans appears in the première of Benjamin Britten's Gloriana.

1 March – First broadcast of a television programme entirely in Welsh: a religious service from the Tabernacle Baptist Chapel, Cardiff.
Teledu i Blant
''Telewele''

The National Eisteddfod of Wales is broadcast on BBC television, with English commentary by Hywel Davies.

10 February – Jeffrey John, Dean of St Albans
15 March - Alan Couch, footballer
11 April – Rhodri Glyn Thomas AM, politician
12 April – Huw Edwards, Labour politician, MP for Monmouth 1991–1992 and 1997–2005
26 April – Andy Secombe, voice actor and fantasy novelist
8 June – Bonnie Tyler, singer
7 July – Eleri Rees, judge
11 July – Nigel Rees, footballer
20 July – Dave Evans, singer
10 August – Gillian Elisa, actress, singer and comedian
2 September – Keith Allen, comedian and actor
28 October – Phil Dwyer, footballer
16 November – Griff Rhys Jones, actor, comedian and television presenter
Shani Rhys James, Australian-born painter
Hywel Williams, Plaid Cymru politician, MP for Caernarfon, later Arfon 2001–

10 January – Howell Elvet Lewis, poet and Archdruid, 92
7 March – Jack Williams, Victoria Cross recipient, 66
20 March – Fred Parfitt, Wales international rugby player, 83
24 March – Mary of Teck, Princess of Wales 1910–1936, queen consort of the United Kingdom 1936–1952, 85
6 April – Idris Davies, poet, 48
30 April – Sir David Rocyn-Jones, medical practitioner and President of the WRU, 90
2 May – Thomas Mardy Rees, author, 81/82
23 May – Henry McLaren, 2nd Baron Aberconway, industrialist, horticulturalist and politician, 74
5 June – Elizabeth Mary Jones, novelist, 75
18 June – Reg Plummer, Wales and British Lion rugby union player, 64
26 August – Rachel Barrett, Welsh editor and suffragette, 77
9 November – Dylan Thomas, poet, 39
11 November – John Glyn Davies, poet and children's writer, 83
26 November – Sir Ivor Atkins, organist and choirmaster, 83
27 November – T. F. Powys, Anglo-Welsh writer, 77
17 December – David Rees Griffiths, poet, 71