– A Legend Film Stanley Baker stars in The Games. Hugh Griffith appears in Start the Revolution Without Me. Welsh-language films None Broadcasting 6 April – HTV starts broadcasting in colour from the Wenvoe transmitting station and from this day becomes known on air as HTV rather than Harlech Television. Coverage of the Llangollen International Eisteddfod is the first colour programme to be made by BBC Wales. Welsh-language television Fo a Fe makes a star of Ryan Davies, who goes on to make three series of Ryan a Ronnie in Welsh with his partner Ronnie Williams. English-language television Sport Boxing – Eddie Avoth wins the Commonwealth lightweight title. Show Jumping – David Broome wins the individual Show Jumping World Championship. Snooker – Ray Reardon wins the World Professional Snooker Championship for the first time. David Broome wins BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year. Births 1 January – Brian Law, footballer 7 March – Cameron Toshack, footballer 19 March – Tracey Hinton, athlete 2 April – Jason Perry, footballer 15 April – Rebecca John, television presenter 19 May – Stuart Cable, rock musician and television presenter (died 2010) 25 May – Robert Croft, cricketer 18 June – Lucy Owen, television presenter 22 June – Paul Davies, snooker player 18 July – Gruff Rhys, rock musician 27 July (in England) – David Davies, politician 30 July – Alun Cairns, politician 9 August – Lee Jones, football goalkeeper 19 August – Me One (Eric Martin), singer-songwriter and rapper 26 September – Kevin Lloyd, footballer October – Helen Stokes-Lampard, chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners 11 October (in England) – Andy Marriott, goalkeeper 14 November – Derwyn Jones, rugby union player 27 November – Stephen Evans, actor and comedy writer 29 December – Aled Jones, singer and radio presenter 31 December – Louise Rickard, rugby union player Deaths 3 January – Trefor Morgan, financier, 55 4 January – David John Williams (D. J. Williams), author and Plaid Cymru politician, 84 23 January – Ifan ab Owen Edwards, founder of the Urdd, 74 26 January – Albert Evans-Jones (Cynan), poet, 74 2 February – Bertrand Russell, philosopher, 97 16 February – Bil Perry, Wales international rugby player, 83 22 February – Roddy Hughes, actor, 78 20 April – Thomas Iorwerth Ellis, academic, 70 29 April – Bryn Evans, Welsh rugby international, 68 7 May Annie Davies, radio and TV producer, 59 Jack