About the day » Friday March 16, 2007Calender converter

• Jisella Patricia van Gorkum, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

• Adrianus Jacobus van der Bol (81), Delft, Nederland
• Delwyn Doppenberg (42), Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota
• Anna Stuiver (71), Vledder
• Adrianus Koot (78), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Alberta Mossink (80), Hoogland
• Antje van der Meij (68), Bolsward
• Anna Wilhelmina Teerink (98), Wehl, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Abraham Nathan de Bruin (94)
• Christina Manni (99), Goes, Zeeland, Nederland
• Bernardus Cornelis van WAARD (76), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1989 » Blake Griffin, American basketball player
• 1989 » Jung So-min, South Korean actress
• 1990 » Andre Young, American basketball player
• 1991 » Reggie Bullock, American basketball player
• 1991 » Wolfgang Van Halen, American bassist
• 1993 » George Ford, English rugby union player
• 1993 » Marine Lorphelin, Miss France
• 1994 » Joel Embiid, Cameroonian basketball player
• 1995 » Inga Janulevičiūtė, Lithuanian figure skater
• 1997 » Florian Neuhaus, German football player

• 2003 » Rachel Corrie, American activist (b. 1979)
• 2004 » Vilém Tauský, Czech conductor and composer (b. 1910)
• 2005 » Dick Radatz, American baseball player (b. 1937)
• 2005 » Ralph Erskine, English architect, designed The London Ark (b. 1914)
• 2005 » Todd Bell, American football player (b. 1958)
• 2007 » Manjural Islam Rana, Bangladeshi cricketer (b. 1984)
• 2008 » Bill Brown, Australian cricketer and soldier (b. 1912)
• 2008 » Gary Hart, American wrestler and manager (b. 1942)
• 2008 » Ivan Dixon, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1931)
• 2010 » Ksenija Pajčin, Serbian singer, dancer and model (b. 1977)

• 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 Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
• January 1 » Adam Air Flight 574 breaks apart in mid-air and crashes near the Makassar Strait, Indonesia killing all 102 people on board.
• July 16 » An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and 6.6 aftershock occurs off the Niigata coast of Japan killing eight people, injuring at least 800 and damaging a nuclear power plant.
• July 25 » Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president.
• September 4 » Three terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Qaeda are arrested in Germany after allegedly planning attacks on both the Frankfurt International airport and US military installations.
• September 12 » Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of plunder.
• December 13 » The Treaty of Lisbon is signed by members states of the European Union.

The temperature on March 16, 2007 was between 6.6 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (24%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.