1916

History of the Doctor Who Universe

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


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


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

February

 * 2 - Olaf Pooley is born.
 * 7 - John Baskcomb is born.
 * 13 - Joseph Fürst is born.

April

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

May

 * 2 - Peggy Mount is born.

June

 * 24 - Neil Wilson is born.

August

 * 20 - Bernard Archard is born.

December

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