1965 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1965 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

May – Opening of Llandegfedd Reservoir by Newport Corporation.
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 officially opens.
15 June – The Hughes-Parry Committee submits its report on the legal status of the Welsh language.
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.
*Mount Stuart Primary School, Cardiff, appoints Betty Campbell, the first black female head teacher in Wales

12 December – The Beatles' last live U.K. tour concludes with two performances at the Capitol, Cardiff.
Tom Jones releases the film theme, "What's New Pussycat?" as a single.
Rockfield Studios 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.
Glynis Johns stars in Mary Poppins.
Tryweryn, the Story of a Valley.

February - BBC2 is received in South Wales for the first time, as a result of a new transmitter.
date unknown - Arwel Hughes becomes Head of Music at BBC Wales.

7 January – Sarah Edwards, actress, 83
18 January – Ernest Evans, politician, 79
29 January – T. Harri Jones, poet and academic, 43
4 February
*Hugh Morriston Davies, thoracic surgeon, 85
*Llywelyn Williams, politician, 53
5 February – Sir David Brunt, meteorologist, 78
1 April – Sir John William Bowen, trade unionist and politician, 88
22 April – Glyn Stephens, Wales international rugby union captain, 73
3 May – Howard Spring, novelist, 76
29 May – Steve Morris, Wales international rugby player, 68
16 June – Dai Parker, Wales and British Lion rugby player, 60
17 July – Dan Lewis, footballer
18 August – Christmas Price Williams, politician, 83
24 August – Elvyn Bowen, cricketer, 58
30 August – Llew Edwards, boxer, 72
11 September – Trevor Preece, cricketer, 82
1 October – Gareth Hughes, actor, 71
9 October – Russell Taylor, Wales international rugby player, 50
16 October – Hywel Davies, radio broadcaster, television interviewer and writer, 46
22 October – William Williams, Victoria Cross recipient, 75
31 October – John Roberts, Wales international rugby player, 59
4 November – Ifor Williams, academic, 84
8 November – George Hall, politician, 83
23 November – Murray Humphreys, Chicago mobster of Welsh descent, 66
26 December – Llewelyn Alberic Emilius Price-Davies, Victoria Cross recipient, 87
29 December – Claude Warner, cricketer, 83