Question: When was the actor who played the War Doctor born?

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John Hurt: Sir John Vincent Hurt, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (22 January 1940 – 25 January 2017) was an English actor whose screen and stage career spanned more than 50 years.  Hurt was regarded as one of Britain's finest actors; director David Lynch described him as "simply the greatest actor in the world".

Doctor Who: Legacy (video game): Doctor Who: Legacy is a match-3 puzzle RPG video game released on 27 November 2013 based upon the BBC television programme.  It is a free-to-play game release to coincide with the 50th Anniversary of the popular BBC sci-fi TV show, with rights licensed by BBC Worldwide.  The game launched focusing on the 11th Doctor (as played by Matt Smith), then later shifted the focus to the 12th Doctor (played by Peter Capaldi), upon his debut in the show.  New characters and content are added to the game regularly upon them being "signed off" with both the actors and the BBC brand team.  The game includes every incarnation of the Doctor from the television series (including the War Doctor) and well over 200 companions from both Classic and Modern Doctor Who.  The game also closely followed Series 8 and 9 of the show with new levels launching each weekend alongside each episode and included new characters, costumes, and enemies from most of the episodes.

The War Doctor (audio drama series): The War Doctor, announced in October 2015, is a Big Finish Productions audio play series based on the TV show "Doctor Who".  It sees the return of Sir John Hurt as the War Doctor, a role he previously portrayed in the TV story "The Name of the Doctor" as well as more prominently in the 50th Anniversary special "The Day of the Doctor".  The series consists of four box sets, each made up of three hour-long episodes, the first released in December 2015, the remaining three volumes followed across 2016 and into 2017.

Fiskeville, Rhode Island: Fiskeville is a small village in the south west corner of Cranston, Rhode Island, United States, the south east corner of the Town of Scituate, Rhode Island and across the northern side of Coventry, Rhode Island.  The village's Main Street forms the border between Cranston and Scituate.  Fiskeville grew up as one of several mill towns along the Pawtuxet River in the mid-1800s.  The Fiskeville textile mill was formed by Dr. Caleb Fiske, a Revolutionary War doctor turned businessman in 1812.  The village became home to those who worked in the mill, mostly immigrants from Portugal, France, Italy and England.  Fiskeville is usually associated with Cranston rather than with Scituate as most of the original buildings including Dr. Fiske's residence were in Cranston.  Although the mill and about a dozen nearby mill houses were in Scituate.  Poets Karen Haskell and Darcie Dennigan both grew up, a few doors down from each other, in the 1970s and 1980s on Main Street in Fiskeville.

Tony Atkins: Tony (Anthony Michael) Atkins AM is a medical doctor born on 4 February 1943 in Elwood, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia.

War Doctor: The War Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television programme "Doctor Who".  He was portrayed by the English actor John Hurt.  Although he precedes Christopher Eccleston's Ninth Doctor in the show's fictional chronology, his first onscreen appearance came eight years after Eccleston's; the War Doctor was retroactively created by showrunner Steven Moffat for productions celebrating the show's 50th anniversary.

Makhanda (prophet): "Makhanda (also spelled Makana"') who was also known as Nxele (The left-handed) (died 25 December 1819) was a Xhosa warrior, war doctor, philosopher and prophet who, during the Xhosa Wars, led an attack against the British garrison at Grahamstown in 1819.

Alfonso Ortiz Tirado: Alfonso Ortiz Tirado was an opera singer and doctor born in Álamos, Sonora, Mexico in 1893.  His musical talent was apparent early in life, but he studied at the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria and university to become a doctor.  He specialized in gynecology as well as general medicine, and eventually became the personal physician of Frida Kahlo and performed surgery on Agustín Lara.  As a musician, he studied under José Pierson and soon afterward had a successful international career as an opera singer, earning the label of “tenor of the Americas.”  He was often cast for productions of L'elisir d'amore and Madame Butterfly.  He earned a large sum of money doing this, and used it to establish a children’s hospital in Mexico City.  Ortiz died in 1960, and was interred at the Panteón Frances de la Piedad.  The Festival de Canto Operístico Tirado in the state of Sonora was named after him.

MacMahon family: John MacMahon, an Irish doctor born in Limerick, was naturalised in France in 1749 and married Charlotte Le Belin, Dame d'Eguilly, on 13 April 1750.  The same year he was created Marquis d'Eguilly by King Louis XV.  His son, the second Marquis, served in the American War of Independence and was a founding member of the Society of the Cincinnati.  A grandson of the first Marquis, Patrice de MacMahon, served with distinction as a general in the Crimean War and later in the Austro-Sardinian War, winning the Battle of Magenta on 4 June 1859.  The following day he was created Duc de Magenta by the Emperor Napoleon III.  The marquesal title held by the senior line of the family was inherited by the younger, ducal line in 1894 and both titles still remain extant.

Engines of War (Doctor Who): Engines of War is a BBC Books original novel written by George Mann and based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who".  It features the War Doctor.

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Answer: 22 January 1940