1929

October

 * The Wall Street Stock Market Crash triggers the Great Depression, which lasts until 1941. (DW: Daleks in Manhattan)

Winter

 * A Triskele known as Engineer Prime crash-landed in England. The British military recovered the stranded alien and planned to return it to its people in exchange for advanced military technology. (BFA: Storm Warning)

Dates unknown

 * The Seventh Doctor and Ace operated a speakeasy called Doc's in Chicago. (NA: Blood Harvest)

January

 * 5 - Norman Kay is born.
 * 14 - Peter Barkworth is born.
 * 29 - Stephanie Bidmead, who played Maaga in Galaxy 4, is born in Birmingham, England.
 * 30 - Victor Winding is born.

February

 * 5 - John Nettleton is born.
 * 16 - Kevin Manser, Dalek Operator for numerous episodes of Doctor Who and the film Dr. Who and the Daleks, is born in Adelaide, Australia.
 * 17 - Philip Latham is born.

March

 * 16 - John Breslin is born.
 * 23 - James Maxwell is born.

April

 * 3 - Michael Hayes is born.
 * 12 - Elspet Gray is born.
 * 18 - Peter Jeffrey, who played the pilot in The Macra Terror and Count Grendel in The Androids of Tara, is born in Bristol.

June

 * 16 - Damaris Hayman is born.
 * 20 - Paul Bernard is born.

July

 * 21 - John Woodvine is born.

August

 * 10 - Peter Diamond, who played numerous roles and performed many of the stunts in the original Doctor Who series, is born.

September

 * 7 - T. P. McKenna is born.
 * 18 - Elizabeth Spriggs is born.
 * 27 - Barbara Murray is born.

October

 * 20 - Colin Jeavons, who played Damon in The Underwater Menace and George Tracey in A Girl's Best Friend, is born in Newport, Monmouthshire.
 * 24 - Clifford Rose is born.

November

 * 9 - Eric Thompson, who played Viscount Gaston de Leran in "The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve," is born in Sleaford, England.
 * 13 - Eric Lindsay is born.
 * 14 - Don McKillop (Bert the Landlord in The Dæmons) is born in Carlisle, Cumberland, England, UK.
 * 26 - William Dysart, who played Alexander McLaren in The Highlanders and Reegan in The Ambassadors of Death, is born.

December

 * 16 - Nicholas Courtney, who played Bret Vyon in The Daleks' Master Plan and Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, is born in Cairo, Egypt.
 * 17 - Jacqueline Hill, who played companion Barbara Wright and Lexa in Meglos, is born.

Unknown date

 * Frank Mills is born.