1930 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1930 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

17 March - The South Wales Daily Post and Cambria Daily Leader merge in Swansea.
9 May - An elephant from the Monmouth mop fair escapes, and wades in the River Monnow before recapture.
13 September - Rhosydd Quarry ceases slate production. Neighbouring Croesor Quarry also closes this year.
24 December - In London, Harry Grindell Matthews demonstrates his device to project pictures to the clouds.
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Production begins at Cefn Coed Colliery, the world's deepest anthracite mine.
The Crumlin branch of the Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal is closed.
The first youth hostel of the Youth Hostels Association, the first in the UK, is opened at Pennant Hall in the Conwy valley near Llanrwst.
A. H. Dodd succeeds Sir John Edward Lloyd as Professor of History at University of Wales, Bangor.
Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones becomes Foreign Affairs Secretary to David Lloyd George.
John Edward Jones becomes Secretary of Plaid Cymru.
Thomas Lewis becomes first chairman of the Medical Research Society.

The first Welsh Books Festival is held in Cardiff.
John Ballinger, first Librarian of the National Library of Wales, is knighted for his services to librarianship.

Symphony in Two Flats, starring Ivor Novello, an adaptation of Novello's West End play

28 January - David Morris, politician (died 2007)
7 February - Peter Jones, sports broadcaster (died 1990)
7 March (in London) - Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, photographer (died 2017)
7 April - Cliff Morgan, rugby player and television presenter (died 2013)
28 June - Edward Millward, politician (died 2020)
1 July - Ron Hughes, footballer
9 July - Stuart Williams, footballer (died 2013)
10 July - Wyn Roberts, Baron Roberts of Conwy, politician (died 2013)
14 July - R. H. Williams, rugby player
8 August - Terry Nation, screenwriter (died 1997)
28 August (in London) - Windsor Davies, actor (died 2019 in France)
1 September - Emrys James, actor (died 1989)
21 September - John Morgan, comedian (died 2004)
23 September - Ellis Evans, academic (died 2013)
14 October - Alan Williams, politician (died 2014)
19 October - Mavis Nicholson, television presenter (died 2022)
11 November - Vernon Handley, conductor (died 2008)
12 November - Irma Chilton, children's writer in Welsh and English (died 1990)
4 December - Brian Morris, Baron Morris of Castle Morris, poet and critic (died 2001)
12 December (in London) - Gwyneth Dunwoody, politician (died 2008)
date unknown - Aneurin Jones, painter (died 2017)