in a warm-up match for the Rugby World Cup. 29 September - Wales lose to Fiji in their decisive Group B match, and thus fail to reach the quarter-finals of the Rugby World Cup. 29 September - Wales wins the gold medal at the European Mixed Curling Championships in Madrid, Spain. The Welsh team of Adrian Meikle (skip), Lesley Carol (third), Andrew Tanner (second), Blair Hughes (lead) and Chris Wells (alternate) took the Gold Medal in a thrilling Final against Denmark. BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Joe Calzaghe Births 20 September - Ruby Megan Henson, to Wales' celebrity couple, Charlotte Church and Gavin Henson 17 December - James, Viscount Severn, son of the Earl and Countess of Wessex. The child takes his father's subsidiary title of "Viscount Severn" as a courtesy title, in recognition of his mother's Welsh ancestry. Deaths 4 January - Gren, cartoonist, 72 12 January - Berwyn Jones, athlete, 66 14 January - Peter Prendergast, painter, 60 21 January - Peter Clarke, Children's Commissioner for Wales, 58 24 January - David Morris, MEP and peace activist, 76 30 January - Griffith Jones, actor, 97 6 February - Sir Gareth Roberts, physicist, 66 7 February - Brian Williams, Welsh international rugby player, 44 10 February - Bill Clement, Welsh international rugby player and Secretary of the WRU, 91 21 February - John Robins, rugby player, 80 22 February - Edgar Evans, opera singer, 94 1 April - Ivor Wynne Jones, journalist, 80 3 April - Marion Eames, novelist, 85 12 April Len Hill, sportsman, 65 Maldwyn Jones, historian, 84 13 April - Tony Goble, artist, 63 22 May - Ifor Owen, illustrator, 91 11 June - Mercer Simpson, writer, 81 12 June - Colin Fletcher, backpacker and writer, 85 12 August - Alwyn Rice Jones, former Archbishop of Wales and Bishop of St Asaph, 73 16 August Will Edwards, politician, 69 Roland Mathias, poet, 91 6 September - Byron Stevenson, footballer, 50 9 September Steve Jones, rugby player, 55 Sir Tasker Watkins, VC, 88 14 October - Carol Evans, cricketer, 68 31 October (in Málaga) - Ray Gravell, rugby player and radio presenter, 56 15 November - W. S. Jones, author, 87 December Ron Davies, footballer, 75 Richard Williams, conductordate unknown'' - Norman Harris, rugby player See also 2007 in Northern Ireland References