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What historical figures should Moffat/Smith meet?

The Dogon.

The sigi happens only once every 60 years and marks the renewal of the generations. It also marks the rebirth of the white dwarf star near the star Sirius.This dance goes back many centuries. However, Western astronomers had only discovered the star in 1928 and photo-graphed it in 1970. The Dogon taught that the sacred star orbited Sirius every 60 years. The astronomers discovered that they were correct.
 
The Dogon.

The sigi happens only once every 60 years and marks the renewal of the generations. It also marks the rebirth of the white dwarf star near the star Sirius.This dance goes back many centuries. However, Western astronomers had only discovered the star in 1928 and photo-graphed it in 1970. The Dogon taught that the sacred star orbited Sirius every 60 years. The astronomers discovered that they were correct.

In the Whoniverse, the Dogon are an alien race and their sixth eye has weird powers.

Seriously, you can Google this shit but not a Torchwood episode?
 
Or something like passing a scruffy young man in the street carrying some paints. After they pass the Doctor turns and says. "Don't look but that was Adolf Hitler, terrible painter..."
 

He's already met Davros. ;)

Seriously, though, I'd be all for that. They would never go that route, though. A story where he maybe has a chance to maim or kill him and does nothing, sort of like "Fires of Pompeii".

Maybe it should be a brief, fleeting encounter, like Hitler's cameo in Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade.

That could work. The Doctor and his companion see him, the companion starts going all off about, "Doctor, we should stop him!" and he replies how some things can't be changes, etc etc.
 
Slightly OT, but I highly recommend the Big Finish audio Son of the Dragon, in which Peter Davison's Fifth Doctor does indeed encounter Vlad the Impaler, played excellently by Rome's James Purefoy.
 
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