About the day » Thursday January 16, 1969Calender converter

• David Mermet Bolomey, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Mary Jane Koltz († 1969)
• Heath William Hansel († 2001)
• Jennie Winter, Vollenhove, Nederland († 2021)
• Gerrit Anton Keizer († 2016)
• Reiner Brenn († 1976)
• Veronique Ferket († 1970)
• Rowdy Rosseau, Axel,, Zeeland, Nederland († 2003)

• Adolf Leopold Beeckaert (79), Staden
• Aaltje Zwiggelaar (82)
• * Mathijs Coenen (88)
• Anna Cornelia Groeneveld (87), Zevenbergen
• Aaltje Gerrits Zwiggelaar (82), Hoogeveen, Netherlands
• Anna Hubertina Erdkamp (89), Roermond
• Agnes Esther Magdalena Meyer (79)
• Antje Pieters Sekema (87)
• Aleid Engelina Mennink (86)
• Amos E Tingle (52)

• 1966 » Jack McDowell, American baseball player
• 1968 » Rebecca Stead, American author
• 1969 » Marinus Bester, German footballer
• 1969 » Neil Back, English rugby player and coach
• 1969 » Roy Jones Jr., American boxer
• 1969 » Stevie Jackson, Scottish guitarist and songwriter
• 1970 » Ron Villone, American baseball player and coach
• 1971 » Jonathan Mangum, American actor
• 1971 » Josh Evans, American film producer, screenwriter and actor
• 1971 » Sergi Bruguera, Spanish tennis player and coach

• 1962 » Frank Hurley, Australian photographer, director, producer, and cinematographer (b. 1885)
• 1967 » Robert J. Van de Graaff, American physicist and academic (b. 1901)
• 1968 » Bob Jones Sr., American evangelist, founded Bob Jones University (b. 1883)
• 1968 » Panagiotis Poulitsas, Greek archaeologist and judge (b. 1881)
• 1969 » Vernon Duke, Russian-American composer and songwriter (b. 1903)
• 1971 » Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist (b. 1890)
• 1972 » Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor, created Alvin and the Chipmunks (b. 1919)
• 1972 » Teller Ammons, American soldier and politician, 28th Governor of Colorado (b. 1895)
• 1973 » Edgar Sampson, American musician and composer (b. 1907)
• 1975 » Israel Abramofsky, Russian-American painter (b. 1888)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Robert
4. Peter
5. Richard
6. Hendrik
7. Cornelis
8. Edwin
9. Mark
10. Michael
11. Marcel
12. David
13. Pieter
14. Willem
15. Patrick
16. Ronald

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Monique
4. Sandra
5. Elisabeth
6. Jolanda
7. Esther
8. Karin
9. Ingrid
10. Yvonne
11. Anna
12. Petra
13. Miranda
14. Cornelia
15. Anita
16. Catharina

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 12.8 million citizens.
• March 3 » Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
• June 23 » IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry.
• July 16 » Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy, Florida.
• August 12 » Violence erupts after the Apprentice Boys of Derry march in Derry, Northern Ireland, resulting in a three-day communal riot known as the Battle of the Bogside.
• August 14 » The Troubles: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland as political and sectarian violence breaks out, marking the start of the 37-year Operation Banner.
• November 17 » Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki, Finland to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.

The temperature on January 16, 1969 was between 3.6 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.