August 8th: Today in WHO-story:
Births
1907 - George Cormack (Dalios in The Time Monster and K'Anpo Rimpoche in Planet of the Spiders)
1917 - Earl Cameron (Glyn Williams in The Tenth Planet: [At time of writing, he is currently the oldest surviving actor to have appeared in Doctor Who]); John Baker (Time Lord in Colony in Space, Charles in The Visitation and an extra in Planet of the Spiders)
1928 - Rashid Karapiet (Rita's Father in The God Complex)
1930 - Terry Nation (writer of The Daleks, The Keys of Marinus, The Dalek Invasion of Earth, The Chase, Mission to the Unknown, The Daleks' Master Plan, Planet of the Daleks, Death to the Daleks, Genesis of the Daleks, The Android Invasion and Destiny of the Daleks; creator of the Daleks, Davros, Thals, Kaleds and Kraals)
1934 - Keith Barron (Captain Striker in Enlightenment and Isaac Barclay in the Big Finish audio Plague of the Daleks)
1979 - Rosanna Lavelle (Barbara Smith in the Sarah Jane Adventures story The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith); Pooja Shah (Miss Shah in the Class stories For Tonight We Might Die and Co-owner of a Lonely Heart)
Deaths
1980 - Simon Lack (Professor Kettering in The Mind of Evil and Zadek in The Androids of Tara) aged 66
2009 - Alan Chuntz (Chauffeur in The Seeds of Doom; extra & stuntman on The Invasion, The Seeds of Death, The Ambassadors of Death to The Mind of Evil, The Sea Devils, The Three Doctors, The Green Death, Planet of the Spiders, Genesis of the Daleks, Revenge of the Cybermen, The Face of Evil, The Talons of Weng-Chiang, State of Decay and The Visitation) aged 88
2012 - Christopher Whittingham (Carson in Earthshock) aged 63
2015 - Susan Sheridan (Simon & Mrs. Streeter in the Big Finish audio The Hollows of Time) aged 68
Episodes
1964 - The Reign of Terror, Episode One ('A Land of Fear'): 6.9 million viewers
1985 - Slipback, Episodes Five & Six (BBC Radio 4)
Releases
1985 - Issue 104 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
1991 - Issue 177 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)
2013 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 28 (Big Finish Productions)
2015 - Torchwood: The Dying Room (Big Finish)
Behind-the-Scenes
2011 - Recording of the fifth series of Big Finish's Doctor Who spin-off Jago & Litefoot took place
2012 - Recording of the Big Finish audio anthology 1001 Nights took place