About the day » Wednesday January 16, 2013Calender converter

• Claire op den Brouw, Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Elfriede Stuy (85), Gera
• Cornelis Anthonius Schoenmaker (73), Beverwijk
• Cornelis Machiel van der Ende (67)
• Clemens Corneel Hoebrechts (92), Sint-Truiden, België
• Diderika Jacobina van der Laaken (94), Leiden
• Donald Albert Alfred Unknown (74), South Burnett Crematorium Chapel Kingaroy Queensland Australia
• Clarence van Meekeren (80), Milford Nursing Home, Milford, Iowa
• Donald Alfred Farnham (73), Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia
• Eleanor Cecillia Kirschensteiner (87), Wellington, Lorain, Ohio, United States
• Cornelis Anthonius Schoenmaker (73), de Sichting 'De Hartenkamp' in Beverwijk

• 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

• 2012 » Gustav Leonhardt, Dutch pianist, conductor, and musicologist (b. 1928)
• 2012 » Jimmy Castor, American singer-songwriter and saxophonist (b. 1940)
• 2012 » Joe Bygraves, Jamaican-English boxer (b. 1931)
• 2012 » Lorna Kesterson, American journalist and politician (b. 1925)
• 2012 » Sigursteinn Gíslason, Icelandic footballer and manager (b. 1968)
• 2013 » André Cassagnes, French technician and toy maker, created the Etch A Sketch (b. 1926)
• 2013 » Glen P. Robinson, American businessman, founded Scientific Atlanta (b. 1923)
• 2013 » Gussie Moran, American tennis player and sportscaster (b. 1923)
• 2013 » Pauline Phillips, American journalist and radio host, created Dear Abby (b. 1918)
• 2013 » Wayne D. Anderson, American baseball player and coach (b. 1930)

• 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, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
• March 22 » At least 37 people are killed and 200 are injured after a fire destroys a camp containing Burmese refugees near Ban Mae, Thailand.
• April 29 » A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, injures 43 people.
• June 7 » A bus catches fire in the Chinese city of Xiamen, killing at least 47 people and injuring more than 34 others.
• June 30 » Nineteen firefighters die controlling a wildfire in Yarnell, Arizona.
• October 11 » A migrant boat sinks in the Channel of Sicily, with at least 34 people drowning.
• October 16 » Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes on approach to Pakse International Airport in Laos, killing 49 people.

The temperature on January 16, 2013 was between -12.9 °C and -1.7 °C and averaged -7.2 °C. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (83%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.