1940

May

 * The Doctor and Donna Noble, near the Dover cliffs in the UK, worked to prevent a Nemonite invasion from derailing a Second World War counterattack called Operation Dynamo. (BBCR: The Nemonite Invasion)


 * 27th May-4th June - British Army soldiers were evacuated from Dunkirk (this event was noted by the Matrix as a significant part of the Web of Time. (BFA: Neverland) The Seventh Doctor convinced Adolf Hitler to allow the evacuation to proceed. (NA: Timewyrm: Exodus) The First Doctor was present at the evacuation itself. (NA: Just War, PDA: Byzantium!)

October

 * 12th October - The New Regency Theatre, formerly owned and operated by Henry Gordon Jago, was destroyed in the Blitz. (JAL: Swan Song)

December

 * The Doctor visited Guernsey. (NA: Just War)
 * A Berserker Pendant was lost in an air raid on Park Vale Barracks, on the future site of Park Vale Comprehensive School. (SJA: The Mark of the Berserker)

Unknown dates

 * The last in an eight year series of child abductions by the Pied Piper occured in America. (SJA: The Day of the Clown)

January

 * 11 - R.J. Bell was born.
 * 19 - Mike Reid, who had an uncredited role as a soldier in DW: The War Machines and appewered as Frank Butcher in DW: Dimensions in Time was born in Hackney, London.

February

 * 20 - Judy Cornwell was born.

March

 * 13 - Christopher Gable was born.

April

 * 2 - Sean Barry-Weske was born.
 * 15 - Sean Caffrey was born.
 * 26 - Harry Fielder was born.

May

 * 18 - Ray Lonnen was born.
 * 28 - Frank Cox was born.

June

 * 4 - David Collings was born.
 * 7 - Ronald Pickup, who played the physician in DW: The Reign of Terror, was born in Chester, England.
 * 8 - Carole Ann Ford, who portrayed Susan Foreman, was born.

July

 * 7 - Ringo Starr, who appeared as himself, as part of The Beatles in DW: The Chase, was born in Liverpool.
 * 28 - Brigit Forsyth was born.
 * 31 - Louise Pajo was born.

August

 * 9 - Bernard Holley was born.
 * 18 - Barry Justice, who played King Charles IX in DW: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve, was born in Lucknow, India.
 * 25 - John J. Carney was born.

September

 * 3 - Pauline Collins, who played Samantha Briggs in DW: The Faceless Ones and Victoria in DW: Tooth and Claw, was born in Exmouth, Devon, England.

October

 * 9 - John Lennon, who appewered as himself, as part of The Beatles in DW: The Chase, was born in Liverpool.
 * 12 - Gawn Grainger was born.
 * 29 - Angela Douglas was born.

November

 * 1 - Yvonne Antrobus was born.
 * 17 - William Simons was born.
 * 24 - Alan Lake was born.

December

 * 11 - Tony Adams was born.
 * 15 - Pennant Roberts was born.

Unknown date

 * Mark Heath, who played Ralph in DW: The Moonbase, was born in Kingston, Jamaica.
 * Barry Stanton was born.
 * Ben Howard was born.
 * John Gregg was born.