1916

Events

 * The First Doctor and Susan were caught in a zeppelin raid. (DW: Planet of Giants)


 * The War Lords kidnapped soldiers and other personnel from a battlefield near Ypres for use in their war games. (DW: The War Games)


 * Church historian Owen Chadwick was born. While punting with Romana at Cambridge in 1980 the Fourth Doctor mentioned Chadwick as one of the university's great alumni. (DW: Shada, The Five Doctors)

February

 * 2 - Olaf Pooley was born.
 * 7 - John Baskcomb was born.
 * 13 - Joseph Fürst was born.
 * 17 - David Blake Kelly was born.

April

 * 10 - John Alderson, who played Wyatt Earp in The Gunfighters, was born in Horden, England.
 * 29 - William Squire was born.

May

 * 2 - Peggy Mount was born.

June

 * 19 - George Pravda was born.
 * 24 - Neil Wilson was born.

August

 * 3 - Anthony Steven was born.
 * 20 - Bernard Archard was born.

October

 * 5 - Ronald Leigh-Hunt was born.

November

 * 23 - Michael Gough was born.

December

 * 25 - Edward Burnham was born.
 * 27 - Noel Johnson, who played King Thous in The Underwater Menace and Charles Grover in Invasion of the Dinosaurs, was born in Birmingham, England.
 * 28 - Dennis Edwards was born.