About the day » Sunday January 17, 2016Calender converter

• Dezley Devano Berlips, Almere
• Stans Blockx, Mol, 2400, Antwerpen, België

• Edwina (Dean) Hussey (100), Saint Petersburg, Pinellas, Florida, VS
• Donald Lee Huisman (85)
• Charles B Todd ?**** (63)
• Henry Haak (82), Sioux Center, Sioux County, Iowa
• Diderika Dirkje Snoeij (90)
• Ardeth Elaine Fink (71), Onbekend
• Adrianus Martinus Sluijs (94), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Gerritje Ouwehand (89), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Emma Bernarda Goormans (81)
• August,cyriel Donckers (81), Antwerpen

• 1990 » Santiago Tréllez, Colombian footballer
• 1991 » Alise Post, American BMX rider
• 1991 » Esapekka Lappi, Finnish Rally Driver
• 1991 » Slade Griffin, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 » Trevor Bauer, American baseball player
• 1993 » Frankie Cocozza, British singer
• 1994 » Mark Steketee, Australian cricketer
• 1998 » Jeff Reine-Adelaide, French footballer
• 1998 » Sophie Molineux, Australian cricketer
• 2000 » Devlin DeFrancesco, Canadian race car driver

• 2014 » Francine Lalonde, Canadian educator and politician (b. 1940)
• 2014 » Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, Indian spiritual leader, 52nd Da'i al-Mutlaq (b. 1915)
• 2015 » Don Harron, Canadian actor and screenwriter (b. 1924)
• 2015 » Faten Hamama, Egyptian actress and producer (b. 1931)
• 2015 » Ken Furphy, English footballer and manager (b. 1931)
• 2016 » Blowfly, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1939)
• 2016 » Melvin Day, New Zealand painter and historian (b. 1923)
• 2016 » Sudhindra Thirtha, Indian religious leader (b. 1926)
• 2016 » V. Rama Rao, Indian lawyer and politician, 12th Governor of Sikkim (b. 1935)
• 2017 » Tirrel Burton, American football player and coach (b. 1929)

• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called 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 17.0 million citizens.
• January 15 » The Kenyan Army suffers its worst defeat ever in a battle with Al-Shabaab Islamic insurgents in El-Adde, Somalia. An estimated 150 Kenyan soldiers are killed in the battle.
• January 16 » Thirty-three out of 126 freed hostages are injured and 23 killed in terrorist attacks in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on a hotel and a nearby restaurant.
• March 11 » At least 21 people are killed by flooding and mudslides in and around São Paulo, Brazil, following heavy rain.
• May 23 » Eight bombings were carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in Jableh and Tartus, coastline cities in Syria. One hundred eighty-four people were killed and at least 200 people injured.
• September 17 » Two bombs explode in Seaside Park, New Jersey, and Manhattan. Thirty-one people are injured in the Manhattan bombing.
• November 8 » Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the BJP party led NDA government, publicly announced the withdrawal of ₹500 and ₹1000 denomination banknotes only a few hours before the implementation/imposition of diktat, i.e. from midnight, starting of November 9 (9-11 as per Indian date recordings), from the Indian economy, without popular consent, rendering 86% of Indian currency in circulation invalid.

The temperature on January 17, 2016 was between -5.6 °C and 3.0 °C and averaged -1.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (72%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.