July 29th: Today in WHO-story
Births
1905 - Vivienne Bennett (Queen Elizabeth I in The Chase)
1941 - David Warner (Alternative Third Doctor [Big Finish Productions' audio adventures]; Professor Grisenko in Cold War and Lord Azlok in the animated special Dreamland; Big Finish actor - Sir Isaac Newton in the audio anthology Circular Time, Mycroft Holmes in The Worlds of Big Finish and the Bernice Summerfield story The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel, Coordinator Angell in Empathy Games, Professor Boston Schooner in Deimos, Daniel in the first series of the Doctor Who spin-off Graceless, Autarch Siris in The Children of Seth, Professor Arnold Biggs in The Rosemariners, Cuthbert in The Sands of Life/War Against the Laan, The Dalek Contract/The Final Phase and The Pursuit of History/Casualties of Time, Luke Betterman in the Doctor Who spin-off Jago & Litefoot, Edward in the Iris Wildthyme story Dark Side, narrator of The Black Hole, Shadovar in Infernal Devices, the OAP in the Torchwood story Ghost Mission and the Committee in the Torchwood story The Torchwood Archive)
1958 - Marcus Gilbert (Ancelyn in Battlefield)
1969 - Simon Chadwick (Cal Kilburne in the Sarah Jane Adventures story Enemy of the Bane)
1980 - Thomas Nelstrop (Ben Wainwright in Blink)
1982 - Dominic Burgess (Agorax in Bad Wolf)
Deaths
1998 - Nancy Gabrielle (extra in The Highlanders) aged 81
2007 - Mike Reid (BBC EastEnders' Frank Butcher in the BBC Children in Need special Dimensions in Time and an extra in The Myth Makers, The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve and The War Machines) aged 67
Episodes
2011 - Torchwood: Miracle Day, Episode Four ('Escape to LA'): 5.19 million viewers
Releases
1999 - Issue 281 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
2010 - Issue 177 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines)
2013 - Fourth Doctor Time Capsule (DVD box set - region 2)
2016 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 178 (Big Finish)
Behind-the-Scenes
2000 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Shadow of the Scourge took place
2005 - Rewrites to The Christmas Invasion were made
2006 - Recording of the Big Finish audio No Man's Land took place
2010 - Recording of Big Finish's audio adaptation of the unmade TV story The Guardians of Prophecy took place
2014 - Recording of Big Finish's audio adaptation of the Doctor Who novel Damaged Goods took place