– All Seasons shall be Sweet Film Rachel Thomas, Meredith Edwards and Megs Jenkins appear with John Mills and Hayley Mills in Tiger Bay. Hugh Griffith wins the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Ben-Hur. Broadcasting Statistics show that 50% of households in Wales have television licences. The BBC Third Programme becomes available on VHF from Wenvoe. Welsh-language television Lili Lon (children's programme) Trysor o Gân (Treasury of Song) English-language television Ivor the Engine (children's programme) Sports Athletics – The Welsh Games are held for the first time. Boxing – Former world flyweight champion Jimmy Wilde is elected to the American Boxing Hall of Fame. BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Graham Moore Births 30 January – Cynthia Carter, journalist, author, and academic 25 February – Mike Peters, musician 21 March – Colin Jones, boxer 24 April – Paula Yates, television presenter (died 2000) 3 May – Eddie Niedzwiecki, footballer 8 May – Jillian Evans MEP, politician 17 May – Paul Whitehouse, comedian 20 May – Annabel Giles, model 28 May – Steve Strange, born Steven Harrington, pop singer/promoter (died 2015) 18 June – Jocelyn Davies AM, politician 5 September – Mike Ruddock, rugby coach 7 November – Richard Barrett, composer 26 November – Dai Davies MP, politician date unknown – Paul Henry, poet Deaths 1 January – Dan Jones, Wales international rugby player, 83 13 January – Henry Weale, Victoria Cross recipient, 61 3 February – Sir Evan Williams, 1st Baronet, industrialist, 87 21 February – Kathleen Freeman, classical scholar, 61 24 February – Sid Judd, international rugby player, 30 3 March – Billy Bancroft, rugby and cricket player, 88 21 April – David Bell, writer and curator, 43 26 May – Thomas Baker Jones, Wales international rugby player, 96 18 June – Nantlais Williams, poet and preacher, 84 2 July – Ivor Davies, rugby player, 67 7 July – Frank Williams, Wales international rugby player, 49 23 July – George Davies, international rugby player, 83 5 August – D. W. Davis, Governor of Idaho, 86 9 August – John Hart Evans, rugby player, 78 15 October – Thomas Wynford Rees, army officer, 61 23 October – Anthony Windham Jones, rugby player, 80 16 November – Fanny Winifred Edwards, teacher and writer, 83 17 November – David Owen Morgan, zoologist, 66 27 November – Grenville Morris, footballer, 81 10 December – W. R.