1942 in Wales

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Incumbents

30 January – Scarweather lightvessel in Swansea Bay sinks.^[1]
28 March – St Nazaire Raid: Lt-Commander Stephen Halden Beattie steers HMS Campbeltown through an enemy attack, winning the Victoria Cross for his courage under fire.
25 April – A Nazi German Luftwaffe Junkers 88 crashes into a hill near Builth Wells. Two crew members are killed, the other two taken prisoner.
25 May – The Glamorganshire Canal closes.
20 July – An RAF Lockheed Hudson crashes near Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, killing thirteen crew.
30 July – A Heinkel 111 crashes on Pwllheli beach, killing three crew. The survivor is captured.
11 August
- An American Flying Fortress crashes in the Berwyn range, killing its six crew.
- An RAF Wellington bomber crashes into St Brides Bay, killing six Polish crew.
18 August – The body of a German pilot is washed ashore at Newton on the South Wales coast. He is buried in the village of Nottage.
22 October – The Welsh Courts Act is passed, allowing the Welsh language to be used in courts of law.
31 October – An RAF Wellington collides in mid-air with an RAF Bristol Beaufort near Bangor, killing seven crew.
16 November – An RAF Lancaster bomber crashes into Dolwen Hill, Llanerfyl, near Welshpool, killing seven crew.
The South Wales Coal Dust Research Committee is set up.
During the building of RAF Valley, a hoard of La Tène metalwork is found in Llyn Cerrig Bach.

Football
- 9 May – Wales defeat England 1-0
- 24 October – Wales defeat England 2-1

2 January – Billy Hullin, Wales international rugby union player
1 February – Terry Jones, writer, comedian and actor
15 February – Leslie Griffiths, Methodist minister and politician
9 March – John Cale, experimental rock musician
13 March
- John Mantle, dual-code rugby player
- Meic Stevens, singer-songwriter
28 March – Neil Kinnock, politician
1 April – Karl Francis, film-maker
5 April – Peter Greenaway, film-maker
20 May – Lynn Davies, athlete
21 May – David Hunt, Secretary of State for Wales 1990-93
25 May – Ron Davies, footballer
8 June – Doug Mountjoy, snooker player
13 July – Hywel Gwynfryn, television presenter
17 July – Spencer Davis, musician
18 July – Roger Cecil, painter (d.2015)
20 July – Sylvia Heal, politician
16 September – Barrie Hole, footballer
16 September – Jeff Young, rugby player
24 November – Craig Thomas, thriller writer (d.2011)
5 September – Chris Corbett, rugby player
12 September – Delme Thomas, rugby player
2 December – Brian Evans, footballer (d.2003)

1 January – John Baldwin Hoystead Meredith, Welsh-Australian soldier and doctor
7 January – Edward Arthur Lewis, historian
27 January – Tom Barlow, Welsh rugby player and cricketer, 77
10 February – Felix Powell, musician, 63
15 February – Frank Treharne Jones, lawyer
22 March – Ebenezer Griffith-Jones, academic
24 March – Will Osborne, Wales international rugby union player, 66
22 April
- John John Evans, journalist
- James Morgan Pryse, Welsh-descended American author, publisher, theosophist and founder of the Gnostic Society, 96
14 May – Walter Watkins, footballer
10 July – Sydney Curnow Vosper, artist, 75
22 July – Gilbert Joyce, Bishop of Monmouth, 76
6 August – Francis Green, antiquary
12 September – Valentine Baker, pilot, 54 (killed in flying accident)
24 September – David Walters (Eurof), minister and author
10 October – Geraint Goodwin, novelist and short story writer, 39
14 October – Jem Evans, Wales international rugby union player, 75
26 October – Richard Mathias, politician, 79
7 December – Lionel Beaumont Thomas, businessman, British Army officer and politician, 49
22 December – Elias Henry Jones, British Army officer, educationist and author, 59

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