1949

Events

 * Honoré Lechasseur was employed by Emily Blandish to find the Doctor. (TN: The Cabinet of Light)
 * Julia Hardwick, later known as Julia Baker, died more than sixty years after being transported into the past from the early 21st century by the Weeping Angels. (WC: A Ghost Story for Christmas)

February

 * 6 February - Carmen Gómez (Anita in DW: The Two Doctors) was born.

April

 * 14 - Christopher Whittingham, who played a crew member on DW: Earthshock, was born.

May

 * 13 - Zoë Wanamaker, Honourary CBE, who played Lady Cassandra in DW: The End of the World and DW: New Earth, was born in New York City.
 * 24 - Jim Broadbent, who played the non-canonical Eleventh Doctor in The Curse of Fatal Death, was born.
 * Rob Edwards, Chub in DW: The Robots of Death and one of the voices of Xoanon in DW: The Face of Evil, was born.

June

 * 13 - Simon Callow, who has played Charles Dickens twice on Doctor Who, was born.

August

 * 4 - Russ Karel, an Assistant floor manager for Doctor Who, was born.

September

 * 26 - Anne Robinson (Anne Droid, DW: Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways) was born.

October

 * 14 - Katy Manning, who portrayed companion Jo Grant in the original television series and also provides the voice for Iris Wildthyme, was born in Guildford, Surrey.