1960 in Wales

• Archbishop of Wales – Edwin Morris, Bishop of Monmouth
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales
  • William Morris (outgoing)
  • Trefin (incoming)

• 1 January – Portmeirion Pottery is established when Susan Williams-Ellis and her husband Euan Cooper-Willis (managers of the gift shop at her father's village of Portmeirion) take over Gray's Pottery in Stoke-on-Trent (England).[1]
• 5 January – Closure of the Swansea and Mumbles Railway (opened to passengers in 1807 and by this date operated by double-deck electric trams).[2] The service is replaced by buses operated by its owner South Wales Transport.
• 28 June – Forty-five miners are killed in an accident at Six Bells Colliery, Monmouthshire.[3]
• 6 August – At Llandaff Cathedral a service of thanksgiving attended by Queen Elizabeth II is held to mark the end of eleven years' restoration work following air raid damage in 1941.[4]
• 5 September – Poet and peace campaigner Waldo Williams is sentenced at Haverfordwest to imprisonment for six weeks for non-payment of income tax (a protest against defence spending).[5]
• 3 November – Esso opens the first oil refinery at Milford Haven.[6]

• 29 September – Ricky Valance is the first male Welsh singer to hit number one in the charts, with his cover version of Tell Laura I Love Her.

• Glynis Johns stars in The Sundowners.
• Rachel Roberts stars in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, becoming the first Welsh actress to win a BAFTA for Best British Actress.
• Keith Baxter appears alongside Orson Welles in Chimes at Midnight.

September – The Wales Television Association is formed.[13] On 6 June, the franchise is awarded to the Wales Television Association.

• 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.[14] 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[15]

• January – Anne Boden, banking executive[16]
• 16 January – Alun Huw Davies, vascular surgeon[17]
• 30 January – Peter Black AM, politician (in Wirral)
• 6 February – Jeremy Bowen, journalist and television presenter[18]
• 14 February – Dawn Bowden, politician[19]
• 15 February – Russell Coughlin, footballer (d. 2016)[20]
• 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[21]
• 4 May – Elfyn Edwards, golfer
• 9 May – Jillian Lane, spiritual medium (d. 2013)[22]
• 13 June – Sir Clive Buckland Lewis, judge[23]
• 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]
• 24 July – Gwilym Emyr Owen III, US-born singer-songwriter of Welsh descent
• 1 August – Lesley Griffiths, politician
• 18 September
  • Carolyn Harris, politician[25]
  • Ian Lucas, politician[26]
• 29 October – Sue Jones, Dean of Liverpool[27]
• 12 December – Kelvin Smart, flyweight boxer
• 24 December – Carol Vorderman, television personality (in Bedford)[28]
• 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[29]

Margaret Lindsay Williams, died 4 June

Aneurin Bevan, died 6 July

• 2 January – Leila Megàne, opera singer, c. 69[30]
• 13 January – Reginald Herbert, 15th Earl of Pembroke, 79[31]
• 17 January – E. Llwyd Williams, minister and poet, 53[32]
• 19 January – Charles Jones, Wales rugby international, 66[33]
• 27 January – Joseph "Joe" Jones, dual-code rugby international, 60
• 25 February – Sir Edward Enoch Jenkins, judge, 65[34]
• 30 March – Edward Evans, politician and disability campaigner, 77[35][36]
• 11 April – William Llewellyn Morgan, Wales international rugby union player, 76
• 7 May – Mai Jones, songwriter, 61[37]
• 23 May – John Edwards, politician, 77[38]
• 4 June – Margaret Lindsay Williams, artist, 71
• 19 June – Thomas Alwyn Lloyd, architect, 78[39]
• 27 June – Harry Pollitt, politician, 69[40]
• 30 June – John Morgan Lloyd, musician and composer, 79[41]
• 6 July – Aneurin Bevan, politician, 62[42]
• 9 July – John Dyke, Wales international rugby union player, 76
• 24 August – Dai Edwards, Wales dual-code rugby international, 64[43]
• 25 August – Tommy Jones-Davies, Wales international rugby player, 54
• 30 August – "Taffy" Jones, First World War flying ace, 64[44]
• 31 August – Edith Picton-Turbervill, social reformer, writer and politician, 88[45]
• 3 September – Frank Hawkins, rugby international, 75
• 27 September – George Morgan Trefgarne, 1st Baron Trefgarne, politician, 66[46]
• 29 October – Horace Williams, footballer, c. 60
• 19 December
  • Billy Bowen, dual-code rugby player, 63[47]
  • Helen Parry Eden, Welsh-descended poet, 75[48]
• 20 December – Harry Uzzell, Wales international rugby union captain, 77
• 22 December – Evan Davies, politician, 85[49]

• 1960 in Northern Ireland