1937

1937 saw the Eighth Doctor, Anji Kapoor and Fitz Kreiner visit Spain in the midst of the Spanish Civil War. Anji and the Doctor stayed in Barcelona and became involved with a group of anarchists. Fitz visited Guernica, Spain and witnessed the town's destruction at the hands of the Luftwaffe, the first real case of total war.

The Doctor identified the Absolute as the cause of disruptions in history and stopped him from causing any more problems. (EDA: History 101)

Elsewhere, the Ninth Doctor attended George VI's coronation. (WEB: Who is Doctor Who?)

Nancy gave birth to Jamie. Being an unwed teenaged mother, she pretended that Jamie was her little brother. (DW: The Doctor Dances)

January

 * 16 - David Arlen (a warrior guard in DW: The Mutants) was born.
 * 28 - John Normington (Morgus in DW: The Caves of Androzani, Trevor Sigma in DW: The Happiness Patrol and Tom Flanagan in TW: Ghost Machine) was born.
 * 31 - Davyd Harries (Shapp in DW: The Armageddon Factor) was born.

March

 * 2 - Henry Stamper (Anton in DW: The Enemy of the World) was born.
 * 16 - Ben Aris (Shears in DW: Invasion of the Dinosaurs) was born.
 * 16 - Peter Rutherford (Roth in DW: The Sontaran Experiment) was born.
 * 17 - Michael Napier-Brown (Arturo Villar in the Doctor Who serial The War Games) was born.
 * 19 - Maurice Roëves (Stotz in DW: The Caves of Androzani) was born.

April

 * 3 - William Gaunt was born.
 * 6 - Katie Cashfield, who portrayed a Thal in DW: The Daleks, was born in London.
 * 6 - Terrence Hardiman (Hawthorne in DW: The Beast Below) was born.
 * 14 - Brian Cullingford was born.
 * 26 - Gareth Gwenlan (Doctor Who production assistant and assistant floor manager) was born.

May

 * 1 - Una Stubbs (Flo in BFA: Horror of Glam Rock) was born.
 * 5 - Delia Derbyshire, music arranger for the original title theme and early stories of Doctor Who, was born in Coventry, West Midlands.
 * 15 - Darrol Blake, who would direct DW: The Stones of Blood, was born.
 * 26 - Derrick Gilbert was born.

June

 * 14 - Michael Ferguson was born.
 * 16 - Michael Kilgarriff was born.
 * 22 - Richard Hampton was born.

July

 * 21 - Brian Ellis, who played a prisoner in DW: The Sontaran Experiment and a brother in DW: The Masque of Mandragora, was born.
 * 22 - Adrienne Hill, who played companion Katarina, was born.

August

 * 1 - Ian Hogg was born.
 * 06 - Barbara Windsor (Peggy Mitchell in DW: Army of Ghosts) was born.

September

 * 16 - Bella Emberg was born.
 * 22 - Tony Caunter, who appeared several times on Doctor Who, was born in Southampton.
 * 28 - Donald Gee (Major Ian Warne in DW: The Space Pirates and Eckersley in DW: The Monster of Peladon) was born.

October

 * 9 - Fiona Cumming was born.
 * 29 - Hugh Futcher (Hickman in DW: The Sea Devils) was born.

November

 * 21 - Ingrid Pitt was born.

December

 * 1937 - Kenneth Colley (Cristophe Zarodnix in BFA: Sisters of the Flame and The Vengeance of Morbius) was born.
 * 10 - Keith James was born.
 * 18 - Derrick Slater (a Security Guard in DW: The Seeds of Death) was born.
 * 21 - Sheila Reid (Etta in DW: Vengeance on Varos) was born.