- Mr Nice Kenneth Morris - The Dragon Path Tim Rishton - Film Prince Valiant filmed at Gwrych Castle. Welsh-language films Music John Cale - Walking on Locusts Peter Maxwell Davies - The Doctor of Myddfai (opera) Gillian Elisa - Rhywbeth yn y Glas. Karl Jenkins - Diamond Music Donna Lewis - Now in a Minute Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic. Broadcasting The Broadcasting Act 1996 changes the funding formula for S4C. Welsh-language television Heno (Welsh-language news programme, broadcast until 2001 and returned in 2012). English-language television Barry Welsh is Coming In the Blood, presented by Steve Jones Sport BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Ryan Giggs Football The Welsh Football Trust is founded. Llansantffraid F.C. win the Welsh Cup and are offered sponsorship by Total Network Solutions. Snooker Mark Williams wins the Welsh Open tournament in Cardiff. Births 25 February - Laura Halford, rhythmic gymnast 25 April - Kizzy Crawford, Bajan-Welsh folk-pop crossover singer-songwriter 17 May - Seb Davies, rugby player 25 July - Jarrod Evans, rugby player 1 August - Gemma Evans, footballer 14 September - Shaun Evans, rugby player 2 October - Keston Davies, footballer 28 November - Owen Evans, footballer Deaths 16 January - Dai Ward, footballer, 61 7 March - Aled Eames, historian, 74 11 March - Sir Granville Beynon, physicist, 81 14 March - Dewi Bebb, Wales rugby union player, 57 16 March - Harry Peacock, Wales rugby union player, 87 14 April - Mervyn Levy, artist and critic, 81 7 May - Taffy Williams, soldier, 62 27 July - Billy Rees, footballer, 72 29 August - Dillwyn Thomas, cricketer, 91 5 September - Clem Thomas, rugby player, 67 24 September - I. E. S. Edwards, Egyptologist, 87 26 October - Huw Owen, theologian and academic, 69 10 November - Dafydd Orwig, politician and academic, 68 9 December Diana Morgan, playwright and screenwriter, 86 Ivor Roberts-Jones, sculptor, 83 29 December - Pennar Davies, poet and theologian, 85 date unknown Thomas Nathaniel Davies, artist and teacher Thomas David Frank Evans, WWII prisoner-of-war Harry Hanford, footballer, 88 Thyrza Anne Leyshon, painter, 103 See also 1996 in Northern Ireland References Wales