1929

During 1929, in Chicago, the Seventh Doctor and Ace operated a speakeasy called Doc's. (NA: Blood Harvest)

October

 * The Wall Street stock market crash triggered the Great Depression, which lasted until 1941. (DW: Daleks in Manhattan)

Winter

 * A Triskele known as Engineer Prime crash-landed in England. The British military recovered the stranded alien and planned to return it to its people in exchange for advanced military technology. (BFA: Storm Warning)

January

 * 5 - Norman Kay, who composed Incidental music for Doctor Who, was born.
 * 14 - Peter Barkworth (Clent in DW: The Ice Warriors) was born.
 * 29 - Stephanie Bidmead, who played Maaga in DW: Galaxy 4, was born in Birmingham, England.
 * 30 - Victor Winding (Spencer in DW: The Faceless Ones) was born.

February

 * 5 - John Nettleton (Ernest Matthews in DW: Ghost Light) was born.
 * 16 - Kevin Manser, Dalek Operator for numerous episodes of Doctor Who and the film Dr. Who and the Daleks, was born in Adelaide, Australia.
 * 17 - Philip Latham was born.

March

 * 16 - John Breslin was born.
 * 23 - James Maxwell (Jackson in DW: Underworld) was born.

April

 * 3 - Michael Hayes was born.
 * 12 - Elspet Gray was born.
 * 18 - Peter Jeffrey, who played the pilot in DW: The Macra Terror and Count Grendel in DW: The Androids of Tara, was born in Bristol.

May

 * 28 - Thane Bettany (Tarak in DW: ''State of Decay') was born.

June

 * 1 - Ray Handy, who played a milkman in DW: The Green Death, was born.
 * 16 - Damaris Hayman (Olive Hawthorne in DW: The Dæmons) was born.
 * 19 - Thelma Barlow was born.
 * 20 - Paul Bernard was born.
 * 23 - Kristopher Kum (Fu Peng in DW: The Mind of Evil) was born.

July

 * 21 - John Woodvine was born.

August

 * 10 - Peter Diamond, who played numerous roles and performed many of the stunts in the original Doctor Who series, was born.

September

 * 6 September - Clive Cazes (the Captain of the Guard in the Doctor Who story The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve) was born.
 * 7 - T. P. McKenna was born.
 * 18 - Elizabeth Spriggs was born.
 * 27 - Barbara Murray was born.

October

 * 20 - Colin Jeavons, who played Damon in DW: The Underwater Menace and George Tracey in KAC: A Girl's Best Friend, was born in Newport, Monmouthshire.
 * 24 - Clifford Rose, who played Rorvik in DW: Warriors' Gate, was born.

November

 * 9 - Eric Thompson, who played Viscount Gaston de Leran in DW: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve, was born in Sleaford, England.
 * 13 - Eric Lindsay was born.
 * 14 - Don McKillop (Bert the Landlord in DW: The Dæmons) was born in Carlisle, Cumberland, England, UK.
 * 26 - William Dysart, who played Alexander McLaren in DW: The Highlanders and Reegan in DW: The Ambassadors of Death, was born.
 * 29 - Alan Haywood, who played Hector in DW: The Myth Makers, was born.

December

 * 16 - Nicholas Courtney, who played Bret Vyon in DW: The Daleks' Master Plan and Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, was born in Cairo, Egypt.
 * 17 - Jacqueline Hill, who played companion Barbara Wright and Lexa in DW: Meglos, was born.

Unknown date

 * Frank Mills was born.