On 19 December, a number of people important to the production of Doctor Who and its spin-offs either died or were born.

• 1913 - Actor Simon Lack was born.^[1]
• 1915 - Writer Lewis Greifer was born.^[2]
• 1923 - Writer Elwyn Jones was born.^[3]
• 1942 - Actor Ian Talbot was born.^[4]
• 1943 - Actor Sam Kelly was born.^[5]
• 1949 - Actor Jan Chappell was born.^[6]
• 1961 - Actor Matthew Waterhouse was born.^[7]
• 1976 - Actor Peter Ducrow died.^[8]
• 1978 - Actor Duncan Lamont died.^[9]
• 1998 - Artist Ron Turner died.^[10]
• 2000 - Actor Basil Tang died.^[11]
• 2002 - Actor Alan Johns died.^[12]
• 2005 - Actor Don McKillop died.^[13]
• 2009 - Actor Donald Pickering died.^[14]
• 2017 - Actor Jeremy Wilkin died.^[15]
• 2018 - Director Bill Sellars died.^[16]
• 2018 - Actor Dorota Rae died.^[17]
• 2020 - Actor Dorian Van Bramm died.^[18]
• 2022 - Designer John Wood died.^[19]
• 2024 - Actor Joanna Tope died.^[20]