About the day » Sunday January 16, 2000Calender converter

• Adrianus Marinus van Tillo (82), Bergen op Zoom, N-Br, NL
• Albert Hendrik Folbert (48), Vriezenveen
• Antje Kuiper (89)
• Cornelia de Beer (86), Elburg, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana Josephina Maria Daelmans (67)
• Ansgar Mathias Eliassen (85), Hamarøy, Nordland, Norge
• Catharina Clasina Smulders (78)
• Arendje Vreugdenhil (96), Maasdijk
• Armand van Dorst (70), Kapellen-Antwerp, België
• Aleida Johanna ( Lei ) Derksen (97), Arnhem, Nederland

• 1988 » Jorge Torres Nilo, Mexican footballer
• 1988 » Nicklas Bendtner, Danish footballer
• 1991 » Matt Duchene, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1993 » Amandine Hesse, French tennis player
• 1993 » Hannes Anier, Estonian footballer
• 1994 » Chris Smith, Australian rugby league player
• 1995 » Mikaela Turik, Australian-Canadian cricketer
• 1996 » Kim Jennie, Korean singer
• 1998 » Cameron Murray, Australian rugby league player
• 2003 » Adriana Hernández, Mexican rhythmic gymnast

• 1995 » Eric Mottram, English poet and critic (b. 1924)
• 1996 » Kaye Webb, English journalist and publisher (b. 1914)
• 1996 » Marcia Davenport, American author and critic (b. 1903)
• 1999 » Jim McClelland, Australian lawyer, jurist, and politician, 12th Minister for Industry and Science (b. 1915)
• 2000 » Robert R. Wilson, American physicist and academic (b. 1914)
• 2001 » Auberon Waugh, English author and journalist (b. 1939)
• 2002 » Robert Hanbury Brown, English astronomer and physicist (b. 1916)
• 2003 » Richard Wainwright, English politician (b. 1918)
• 2004 » Kalevi Sorsa, Finnish politician 34th Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1930)
• 2005 » Marjorie Williams, American journalist and author (b. 1958)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
• April 19 » Air Philippines Flight 541 crashes in Samal, Davao del Norte, killing all 131 people on board.
• May 3 » The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
• May 25 » Liberation Day of Lebanon: Israel withdraws its army from Lebanese territory (with the exception of the disputed Shebaa farms zone) 18 years after the invasion of 1982.
• September 26 » The MSExpress Samina sinks off Paros in the Aegean Sea killing 80 passengers.
• October 11 » NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission.
• November 9 » Uttarakhand officially becomes the 27th state of India, formed from thirteen districts of northwestern Uttar Pradesh.

The temperature on January 16, 2000 was between 2.7 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.