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January 15, 2001
Born on Tuesday January 16, 2001
- Cèlia Stroink, Barcelona († 2001)
- Luca Houben, Heel
Died on Tuesday January 16, 2001
- Alida Klasina BLAAUBOER (86), Alkmaar Noord-Holland Netherlands
- Bertus van der Linden (68), Kaatsheuvel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
- Aaron O. Cottle Jr (75), Scottsdale, Maricopa County, Arizona, Verenigde Staten
- Cornelia Duinmeijer (94), Heemskerk
- Adriana Johanna Catharina van der Donk (77), 's-Hertogenbosch
- Catherine Frances HONIG (82), Los Angeles County, California
- (Private) Wharmby (81), Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
- Ada de Laat (63), Oisterwijk, NB, Nederland
- Anna Maria van der Hoeven (86), Leeuwarden
- Alcebíades Pereira Machado (99), Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brasil
Born on January 16
- 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
Died on January 16
- 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)
- 2006 » Stanley Biber, American soldier and physician (b. 1923)
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Source: Wikipedia Historical events 2001
- 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 16.0 million citizens.
- January 12 » Downtown Disney opens to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
- March 16 » A series of bomb blasts that took place in the city of Shijiazhuang, China killed 108 people and injured 38 others, was the biggest mass murder in China in decades.
- May 27 » Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
- August 6 » Erwadi fire incident, 28 mentally ill persons tied to a chain were burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu.
- October 17 » Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi becomes the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack.
- October 26 » The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
Weather January 16, 2001
The temperature on January 16, 2001 was between -6.4 °C and 1.9 °C and averaged -3.1 °C. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (87%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.