On 6 June, the franchise is awarded to the Wales Television Association. Welsh-language television Colegau Cerdd Her Yr Ifanc English-language television 1 January – Broadcast of the first weekly episode of an eight-part serialization by BBC Wales of How Green Was My Valley. Johnny Morris narrates the imported children's TV series Tales of the Riverbank. Sport Boxing – Dick Richardson wins the European Heavyweight title. Brian Curvis wins the British and Commonwealth welterweight titles. Summer Olympics – David Broome wins a bronze medal on Sunsalve in the individual show jumping event. Tennis – Mike Davies wins the British hard court title. He also becomes the first Welsh man to reach a Wimbledon final where he partners Bobby Wilson in the Men's Doubles. BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Brian Curvis Births January – Anne Boden, banking executive 16 January – Alun Huw Davies, vascular surgeon 30 January – Peter Black AM, politician (in Wirral) 6 February – Jeremy Bowen, journalist and television presenter 14 February – Dawn Bowden, politician 15 February – Russell Coughlin, footballer (d. 2016) 18 February – Rhys Parry Jones, actor 26 February – Roger Lewis, academic, biographer and journalist 30 April – Martin Phillips, darts player 3 May – Geraint Davies, politician 4 May – Elfyn Edwards, golfer 9 May – Jillian Lane, spiritual medium (d. 2013) 13 June – Sir Clive Buckland Lewis, judge 19 June – Andrew Dilnot, economist, statistician and academic 23 June – Ricky Evans, rugby union player 29 June – Helen Mary Jones, politician (in Colchester) 13 July – Ian Hislop, satirist 24 July – Gwilym Emyr Owen III, US-born singer-songwriter of Welsh descent 1 August – Lesley Griffiths, politician 18 September Carolyn Harris, politician Ian Lucas, politician 29 October – Sue Jones, Dean of Liverpool 12 December – Kelvin Smart, flyweight boxer 24 December – Carol Vorderman, television personality (in Bedford) date unknown Nigel Davies, chess player Lisa Francis, politician Gareth Jones, orchestral and choral conductor Malcolm Pryce, novelist (in Shrewsbury) William Owen Roberts, novelist and dramatist Deaths 2 January – Leila Megàne, opera singer, c. 69 13 January – Reginald Herbert, 15th Earl of Pembroke, 79 17 January – E. Llwyd Williams, minister and poet, 53 19 January – Charles Jones, Wales rugby international, 66 27 January – Joseph "Joe" Jones, dual-code rugby international, 60 25 February – Sir Edward Enoch Jenkins, judge, 65 30 March –