1941

January

 * 1 - Professor Bernice Summerfield arrives on Guernsey Island, in the British Channel. (BFBS: Just War (audio drama))
 * 20 - Jack Harkness and Toshiko Sato meets the real Jack Harkness at The Ritz. (TW: Captain Jack Harkness)
 * 21- The Doctor traces a mauve (emergency) signal to London, where he finds a sinister child wearing a gas mask... and meets Captain Jack Harkness. (DW: The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances)

March

 * 1 -6 - Professor Bernice Summerfield, stranded on Nazi-occupied Guernsey Island, uncovers a secret German weapon based on technology from the future. (BFBS: Just War (audio drama))

May

 * 27 - The German battleship Bismarck is sunk, with a loss of 2200 crew members, after engaging British warships in the North Atlantic. The Doctor may have witnessed the sinking. (known history, DW: Terror of the Zygons).

November

 * 2 - "The Way of All Flesh"
 * "Shadow"

March

 * 26 - Richard Dawkins, ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science writer, who had a cameo as himself in The Stolen Earth, is born in Nairobi, Kenya.

April

 * 9 - Hannah Gordon, who played Kirsty McLaren in DW: The Highlanders, is born in Edinburgh, Scotland.

July

 * 28 - Patrick Tull, one of the voices of the Krotons in DW: The Krotons, is born in Sussex, England.

August

 * 4 - Martin Jarvis, who has appeared in several episodes of Doctor Who, is born in Cheltenham,  Gloucestershire, England.

October

 * 20 - Anneke Wills, who portrayed companion Polly Wright, is born in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

December

 * 24 - John Levene, who portrayed Sgt. Benton, is born John Anthony Woods in Salisbury, England.