1931

1931 was the year operated as a gangster in Chicago. His plan was unwittingly defeated by the Fourth Doctor. (PROSE: The Duke of Dominoes) Monarch's ship began to receive radio signals from Earth in this year. (TV: Four to Doomsday)

It was one of the years visited by the First Doctor, Steven Taylor and Sara Kingdom at Christmas as they unknowingly followed Robert's distress signal. (PROSE: The Little Drummer Boy)

Thomas Campbell Brockless, the father of Tommy Brockless, died of a heart attack at the age of fifty-seven in June. (TV: To the Last Man)

January

 * 26 - Actor Alfred Lynch was born.

February

 * 15 - Actress Claire Bloom was born.
 * 21 - Actor Kenneth Seeger was born.

March

 * 1 - Actor Neville Barber was born.
 * 14 - Actor Gordon Faith was born.
 * 15 - Actor James Ellis was born.
 * 26 - Actor George Raistrick was born.
 * 26 - Actor Leonard Nimoy was born.
 * 27 - Actor Tony Calvin was born.
 * 29 - Actor Peter Russell was born.

April

 * 1 - Actor George Baker was born.
 * 4 - Director Derek Martinus was born.
 * 9 - Actor Jon Rollason was born.
 * 16 - Actor Godfrey James was born.
 * 27 - Writer and actor Glyn Jones was born.

May

 * 8 - Director Douglas Camfield was born.
 * 18 - Actor John Fraser was born.
 * 20 - Actor Michael Spice was born.

June

 * 2 - Actress June Bland was born.
 * 11 - Actor Colin Bell was born.
 * 14 - Actor Kenneth Cope was born.

July

 * 16 - Writer Robert Banks Stewart was born.
 * 20 - Actor Roy Skelton was born.
 * 26 - Actor Arnold Chazen was born.

August

 * 9 - Actress Alethea Charlton was born.
 * 25 - Actor Bryan Mosley was born in Leeds.
 * 25 - Actor Peter Gilmore was born.
 * 31 - Actor Dennis Tate was born in Iowa.

October

 * 10 - Writer, script editor and actor Victor Pemberton was born.
 * 28 - Actor John Slavid was born.

November

 * 7 - Actor Rio Fanning was born.
 * 10 - Actor Don Henderson was born.
 * 16 - Actor Kenneth Watson was born.

December

 * 2 - Film cameraman Dick Bush was born.

Unknown date

 * Actor Cy Town was born.
 * Actor Max Faulkner was born.