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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1955 to Wales and its people.
Arts and literature
The Gold Medal for Architecture is introduced to the National Eisteddfod.
Bertrand Russell retires to Plas Penrhyn, Penrhyndeudraeth.
The Guild for the Promotion of Welsh Music is founded.
National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Pwllheli)
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – Gwilym Ceri Jones
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – W. J. Gruffydd
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal – William Thomas Gruffydd
Emyr Humphreys wins the Somerset Maugham Award for Hear and Forgive.
Kingsley Amis – That Uncertain Feeling
Islwyn Ffowc Elis – Ffenestri Tua'r Gwyll
(Edwin) Stuart Evans – Elegy for the Death of a Clown (poem)
Gwilym Thomas Hughes – Ei Seren tan Gwmwl
Elisabeth Inglis-Jones – The Story of Wales
Dylan Thomas – A Child's Christmas in Wales (posthumously published)
Louie Myfanwy Thomas writing as Jane Ann Jones – Plant y Foty
R. S. Thomas – Song at the Year's Turning (poems)
Richard Vaughan – Son of Justin
Saunders Lewis – Siwan
Grace Williams – Penillion
Stanley Baker plays Richmond in Laurence Olivier's film of Richard III.
The Constant Husband, starring Rex Harrison, with opening scenes filmed on location at New Quay and Aberaeron in 1954, includes some Welsh dialogue.
The Welsh Home Service becomes available on VHF from Wenvoe
January – First televised Welsh-language play, Cap Wil Tomos
Cricket – Wilf Wooller becomes an England Test selector.
Rugby Union
22 January – Ken Jones becomes Wales's most capped player (36) in a game against England.
12 March – Wales beat Ireland 21–3 at the National Stadium, Cardiff.
26 March – Wales win the Five Nations Championship for the fourth time this decade.
BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – John Disley
22 January – Clive Griffiths, footballer
4 March – Joey Jones, footballer
2 May – Peter Sayer, footballer
22 May – Maggie Jones, Baroness Jones of Whitchurch, politician
9 June – Alun Pugh, politician
21 June (in Sunderland) – Janet Ryder, politician
22 June – Green Gartside, musician
2 August – Alun Davies, biologist
4 August – Steve Jones, marathon runner
8 August – Gordon Davies, footballer
3 September – Eirian Williams, snooker referee
12 October – Brian Flynn, footballer and manager
17 November – Amanda Levete, architect
7 December – Mihangel Morgan, author and academic
Martyn Jones, painter
5 January – Douglas Marsden-Jones, Wales and British Lions rugby player, 61
25 January – Robert Dewi Williams, teacher, clergyman and author, 84
26 January – Gwilym Davies, Baptist minister, 75
29 January – Sir Rhys Rhys-Williams, politician, 89
19 March – Tom Evans, Wales international rugby player, 72
2 April – Billy O'Neill, Welsh international rugby player, 76
27 April – Ambrose Bebb, author, 60
19 May – Percy Bush, Wales international rugby union player, 75
21 June – Eric Evans, rugby union player and administrator, 61
13 July – Ruth Ellis, murderer, 28 (hanged)
28 August – Sir Lewis Lougher, businessman and politician, 83
28 September – Lionel Rees, airman, Victoria Cross recipient, 71
14 October – Harry Parr Davies, songwriter, 41
15 October – Thomas Jones (T. J.), founder of Coleg Harlech, 85
30 October – Bert Dauncey, Wales international rugby player, 83
1 November – Ronw Moelwyn Hughes, politician, 58
15 December – V. E. Nash-Williams, archaeologist, 58
date unknown – Melbourne Johns, munitions worker and wartime secret agent, 55
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