12 May

Events

 * 1898 - Actor Edmund Trevithick was born. (PROSE: Nightshade)
 * 1999 - Adelaide Brooke was born. (TV: The Waters of Mars)

Behind the scenes

 * 1942 - Pam St. Clement, who played Pat Butcher in TV: Dimensions in Time, was born at Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex, England.
 * 1942 - Royce Mills, who provided Dalek voices for TV: Resurrection of the Daleks, Revelation of the Daleks, and Remembrance of the Daleks, was born at Tetbury in Gloucestershire.
 * 1957 - Sneh Gupta (Osborn in TV: Resurrection of the Daleks) was born.
 * 1968 - Catherine Tate, who played companion Donna Noble, was born.
 * 1973 - Episode 6 of TV: Planet of the Daleks was first broadcast.
 * 1982 - Humphrey Searle, who provided incidental music for TV: The Myth Makers, died.
 * 2001 - Norman Kay, a composer of incidental music for Doctor Who, died.
 * 2008 - Robert Russell (a guard in TV: The Power of the Daleks and the Caber in TV: Terror of the Zygons) died.