1932

In 1932, Odd Bob the Clown (alias the Pied Piper) started an eight-year period of abducting children while travelling across America. (TV: The Day of the Clown)

In Cardiff, The Ritz dance club opened. (TV: Captain Jack Harkness)

Events

 * The Doctor met Donald Bradman and took five wickets for New South Wales. (TV: Four to Doomsday)

January

 * 17 - John Cater, who played Professor Krimpton in TV: The War Machines, was born in London.

February

 * 13 - David Neal was born.

March

 * 5 - Gertan Klauber (the Galley Master in TV: The Romans and Ola in TV: The Macra Terror) was born.
 * 5 - Stuart Walker, the designer for TV: The Savages, was born.
 * 9 - Peter Hill (the manager in TV: Day of the Daleks) was born.
 * 14 - Carey Blyton, who provided incidental music for Doctor Who, was born.
 * 21 - Tom Watson, who played Ramo in TV: The Underwater Menace, was born in Auchinleck, Strathclyde, Scotland.
 * 24 - Barry Wilsher (Heslington in TV: The Faceless Ones) was born.
 * 27 - Patrick Newell ( Colonel Faraday in TV: The Android Invasion) was born.

April

 * 6 - Leon Eagles was born in Cardiff.

May

 * 13 - Terry Scully (Fewsham in TV: The Seeds of Death) was born.
 * 21 - Jay Neill (a Pikeman in TV: The Masque of Mandragora, Silvey in The Invisible Enemy and Klimt in Underworld) was born.

June

 * 8 - Maurice Good, who played Phineas Clanton in TV: The Gunfighters, was born.
 * 11 - Ed Bishop (Flint in BFDWU: Full Fathom Five) was born.
 * 16 - Stephen Hubay (Petrov in The War Games) was born.

July

 * 26 - Neil McCarthy (George Patrick Barnham in TV: The Mind of Evil and Thawn in TV: The Power of Kroll) was born.
 * 28 - Roy Scammell, actor and stunt arranger, was born.

August

 * 9 - Denys Hawthorne (Rudge in TV: Terror of the Vervoids) was born.
 * 11 - John Gorrie (director of TV: ''The Keys of Marinus) was born.
 * 20 - Anthony Ainley, who played the Master through the last eight years of the original Doctor Who television series, was born in London.
 * 24 - William Morgan Sheppard (the older Canton Delaware in TV: The Impossible Astronaut) was born.
 * 31 - Roy Castle, who played Ian in Dr. Who and the Daleks, was born.

September

 * 4 - Edward de Souza, who played Marc Cory in TV: Mission to the Unknown, was born.
 * 4 - Dinsdale Landen (Dr. Judson in TV: The Curse of Fenric) was born.
 * 16 - Bill Meilen (Froyn in TV: The Daleks' Master Plan) was born.

October

 * 02 - Gabriel Woolf, who played Sutekh in Doctor Who and several other characters for Big Finish, was born.

November

 * William Hartnell made his motion picture debut in Say It with Music.
 * 12 - Carmen Munroe (Fariah in the Doctor Who serial The Enemy of the World) was born.
 * 18 - Trevor Baxter (George Litefoot in TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang and for Big Finish Productions) was born.

December

 * 1 - Dennis Spooner, a writer and Script editor for Doctor Who, was born.
 * 6 - Declan Mulholland was born.
 * 9 - Wendy Gifford (Miss Garrett in TV: The Ice Warriors) was born.

Unknown date

 * Shane Rimmer, who played Seth Harper in TV: The Gunfighters, was born in Toronto, Canada.
 * The Fourth Doctor visited Norfolk to find the acclaimed dancer, Ernestina Stott and realised that she and Mrs Wibbsey had been possessed by Hornets. (Hornets' Nest 2:  The Dead Shoes)