About the day » Friday January 16, 2009Calender converter

• Carol M. Mueller (79)
• Adriana Hoogenboezem (87), Driebergen-Rijsenburg
• Bernard Joseph Vanhommerig (72), Bocholtz, Limburg, Netherlands
• Anna Horthansia Beindorff (80), Winschoten
• Albert LAROYE (89), Warneton,7784,Hainaut,Wallonie,Belgique,Le Gheer
• Adriaantje Hilletje Roskam (76)
• Bernard Joseph Vanhommerig (72), Bocholtz
• Albertina Berendina Wilhelmina Koenderink (85), Varsseveld
• Barbara Maria Theresia de Nijs (77), Heemskerk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Cornelia Besseling (95), Leiden

• 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

• 2006 » Stanley Biber, American soldier and physician (b. 1923)
• 2007 » Benny Parsons, American race car driver and sportscaster (b. 1941)
• 2009 » Andrew Wyeth, American painter (b. 1917)
• 2009 » Joe Erskine, American boxer and runner (b. 1930)
• 2009 » John Mortimer, English lawyer and author (b. 1923)
• 2010 » Glen Bell, American businessman, founded Taco Bell (b. 1923)
• 2010 » Jyoti Basu, Indian lawyer and politician, 9th Chief Minister of West Bengal (b. 1914)
• 2010 » Takumi Shibano, Japanese author and translator (b. 1926)
• 2012 » Jimmy Castor, American singer-songwriter and saxophonist (b. 1940)
• 2012 » Joe Bygraves, Jamaican-English boxer (b. 1931)

• 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 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 16.5 million citizens.
• January 1 » Sixty-six people die in a nightclub fire in Bangkok, Thailand.
• June 1 » Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew are killed.
• June 1 » General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
• October 9 » First lunar impact of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.
• December 3 » A suicide bombing at a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, kills 25 people, including three ministers of the Transitional Federal Government.
• December 17 » MVDanny F II sinks off the coast of Lebanon, resulting in the deaths of 44 people and over 28,000 animals.

The temperature on January 16, 2009 was between 0.1 °C and 3.7 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.