About the day » Wednesday January 16, 1867Calender converter

• Aaltje Brus, Breedenbroek († 1910)
• Aaltje ZONDAG, Drouwenerveen (Borger), Drenthe, Nederland († 1960)
• Alida Catharina de Graaff, Haarlem († 1869)
• Anna Geertruij Witteveen, Amsterdam
• Aaltje Luiting, Harderwijk († 1941)
• Anne Geertruij Witteveen, Amsterdam, Nederland
• Anna Maria Puts († 1913)
• Aaltje Luiting, Harderwijk, Nederland († 1941)
• Antje Hoogeboom, Harenkarspel,Gemeente Schagen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Goedendorp, Rockanje († 1934)

• Anna Maria Wilmink (26), Lonneker, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aagje Hogenes (16), Koudekerk aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonie Thomas Nicolaas Beerenfinger (2), Leiden
• Antonie Kooreman (69), Amersfoort
• Abigail (Abby) Chandler (60), Providence, Rhode Island
• Albertjen Klaas' Visser (67), Enkhuizen
• Anthonie Lodewijk Santing (3), Heemstede
• Abraham Smoor (75), Oostvoorne, 3233, Nederland
• Albertjen (Albertje) Visscher (Visser) (67), Enkhuizen
• Goes, Zeist

• 1853 » André Michelin, French businessman, co-founded the Michelin Tyre Company († 1931)
• 1853 » Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton, Greek-English general († 1947)
• 1853 » Johnston Forbes-Robertson, English actor and manager († 1937)
• 1870 » Jüri Jaakson, Estonian businessman and politician, State Elder of Estonia († 1942)
• 1872 » Henri Büsser, French organist, composer, and conductor († 1973)
• 1874 » Robert W. Service, English-Canadian poet and author († 1958)
• 1875 » Leonor Michaelis, German biochemist and physician († 1949)
• 1876 » Claude Buckenham, English cricketer and footballer († 1937)
• 1878 » Harry Carey, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1947)
• 1880 » Samuel Jones, American high jumper († 1954)

• 1834 » Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician and academic (b. 1769)
• 1856 » Thaddeus William Harris, American entomologist and botanist (b. 1795)
• 1864 » Anton Schindler, Austrian secretary and author (b. 1795)
• 1865 » Edmond François Valentin About, French journalist and author (b. 1828)
• 1879 » Octave Crémazie, Canadian-French poet and bookseller (b. 1827)
• 1886 » Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer and academic (b. 1834)
• 1891 » Léo Delibes, French pianist and composer (b. 1836)
• 1898 » Charles Pelham Villiers, English lawyer and politician (b. 1802)
• 1901 » Arnold Böcklin, Swiss painter and academic (b. 1827)
• 1901 » Jules Barbier, French poet and playwright (b. 1825)

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
• The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
• February 28 » Seventy years of Holy See–United States relations are ended by a Congressional ban on federal funding of diplomatic envoys to the Vatican and are not restored until January 10, 1984.
• May 15 » Canadian Bank of Commerce opens for business in Toronto, Ontario. The bank would later merge with Imperial Bank of Canada to become what is CIBC in 1961.
• July 17 » Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the first dental school in the U.S. that is affiliated with a university.
• August 28 » The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.
• October 18 » United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.
• October 21 » The Medicine Lodge Treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate to a reservation in western Oklahoma.

The temperature on January 16, 1867 was about -1.8 °C. There was 9 mm of rain. The air pressure was 15 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%.