1916

Events

• The First Doctor and his granddaughter Susan Foreman were caught in a Zeppelin raid. (DW: Planet of Giants)

• Church historian Owen Chadwick was born. While punting with Romana at Cambridge in 1980, the Fourth Doctor mentioned Chadwick as one of the university's great alumni. (DW: Shada, DW: The Five Doctors)

• The Third Doctor, Jo Grant and Liz Shaw visited Russia and met Rasputin. (PDA: The Wages of Sin)

Behind the scenes

February

• 7 - John Baskcomb (Luigi Rossini in DW: Terror of the Autons) was born.
• 13 - Joseph Fürst (Zaroff in DW: The Underwater Menace) was born.
• 17 - David Blake Kelly (Benjamin Briggs in DW: The Chase and Jacob Kewper in DW: The Smugglers) was born.

April

• 5 - Peter Sargent (a film cameraman for Doctor Who) was born.
• 10 - John Alderson, who played Wyatt Earp in DW: The Gunfighters, was born in Horden, England.
• 29 - William Squire (the Shadow in DW: The Armageddon Factor) was born.

May

• 2 - Peggy Mount (the Stallslady in DW: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy) was born.

June

• 19 - George Pravda was born.
• 24 - Neil Wilson (Sam Seeley in DW: Spearhead from Space) was born.

August

• 3 - Anthony Steven (writer of DW: The Twin Dilemma) was born.
• 20 - Bernard Archard (Bragen in DW: The Power of the Daleks and Marcus Scarman in DW: Pyramids of Mars) was born.

October

• 5 - Ronald Leigh-Hunt (Julian Radnor in DW: The Seeds of Death and Commander Stevenson in DW: Revenge of the Cybermen) was born.

November

• 23 - Michael Gough was born.

December

• 25 - Edward Burnham was born.
• 27 - Noel Johnson, who played King Thous in DW: The Underwater Menace and Charles Grover in DW: Invasion of the Dinosaurs, was born in Birmingham, England.
• 28 - Dennis Edwards, who played Gomer in DW: The Invasion of Time, was born.