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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 16th of January 0550 | EVENT | Gothic War (535 : 554): The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison. |
| 16th of January 0929 | EVENT | Emir Abd-ar-Rahman III established the Caliphate of Cordoba. |
| 16th of January 1120 | EVENT | The Council of Nablus is held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. |
| 16th of January 1362 | EVENT | A storm tide in the North Sea destroys the German city of Rungholt on the island of Strand. |
| 16th of January 1412 | EVENT | The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy. |
| 16th of January 1492 | EVENT | The first grammar of the Spanish language is presented to Queen Isabella I. |
| 16th of January 1547 | EVENT | Ivan IV of Russia aka Ivan the Terrible becomes Tsar of Russia. |
| 16th of January 1556 | EVENT | Philip II becomes King of Spain. |
| 16th of January 1572 | EVENT | Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England. |
| 16th of January 1581 | EVENT | The English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism. |
| 16th of January 1605 | EVENT | The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid. |
| 16th of January 1707 | EVENT | The Scottish Parliament ratifies the Act of Union, paving the way for the creation of Great Britain. |
| 16th of January 1761 | EVENT | The British capture Pondicherry, India from the French. |
| 16th of January 1780 | EVENT | American Revolution: Battle of Cape St. Vincent. |
| 16th of January 1786 | EVENT | The Commonwealth of Virginia enacted the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson. |
| 16th of January 1809 | EVENT | Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruna. |
| 16th of January 1847 | EVENT | John C. Fremont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory. |
| 16th of January 1883 | EVENT | The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil Service, is passed. |
| 16th of January 1896 | EVENT | Defeat of Cymru Fydd at South Wales Liberal Federation AGM, Newport, Monmouthshire. |
| 16th of January 1900 | EVENT | The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands. |
| 16th of January 1909 | EVENT | Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole. |
| 16th of January 1919 | EVENT | Temperance movement: The United States ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification. |
| 16th of January 1920 | EVENT | The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris. |
| 16th of January 1924 | EVENT | Eleftherios Venizelos becomes Prime Minister of Greece for the fourth time. |
| 16th of January 1938 | EVENT | The Benny Goodman Orchestra performed the first jazz concert at Carnegie Hall. |
| 16th of January 1939 | EVENT | The Irish Republican Army (IRA) begins a bombing and sabotage campaign in England. |
| 16th of January 1942 | EVENT | Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard. |
| 16th of January 1945 | EVENT | Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Fuhrerbunker. |
| 16th of January 1956 | EVENT | President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine. |
| 16th of January 1968 | EVENT | The Youth International Party is founded. |
| 16th of January 1969 | EVENT | Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, in protest against the Soviets' crushing of the Prague Spring the year before. |
| 16th of January 1969 | EVENT | Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk. |
| 16th of January 1970 | EVENT | Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects. |
| 16th of January 1979 | EVENT | The Shah of Iran flees Iran with his family and relocates to Egypt. |
| 16th of January 1986 | EVENT | First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force. |
| 16th of January 1991 | EVENT | The United States goes to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War (U.S. Time). |
| 16th of January 1992 | EVENT | El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City ending the 12-year Salvadoran civil war that claimed at least 75,000. |
| 16th of January 2001 | EVENT | Congolese President Laurent-Desire Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards. |
| 16th of January 2001 | EVENT | US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish-American War. |
| 16th of January 2002 | EVENT | The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida, and the remaining members of the Taliban. |
| 16th of January 2003 | EVENT | The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry. |
| 16th of January 2006 | EVENT | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state. |
| 16th of January 1093 | BIRTHDAY | Isaac Komnenos, son of Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos (d. after 1152) |
| 16th of January 1245 | BIRTHDAY | Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England (d. 1296) |
| 16th of January 1409 | BIRTHDAY | Rene I of Naples (d. 1480) |
| 16th of January 1477 | BIRTHDAY | Johannes Schoner, German astronomer and cartographer (d. 1547) |
| 16th of January 1501 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Denny, confidant of King Henry VIII of England (d. 1559) |
| 16th of January 1616 | BIRTHDAY | Francois de Vendome, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (d. 1669) |
| 16th of January 1626 | BIRTHDAY | Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (d. 1699) |
| 16th of January 1634 | BIRTHDAY | Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter, Norwegian poet (d. 1716) |
| 16th of January 1675 | BIRTHDAY | Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French writer (d. 1755) |
| 16th of January 1728 | BIRTHDAY | Niccolo Piccinni, Italian composer (d. 1800) |
| 16th of January 1749 | BIRTHDAY | Vittorio Alfieri, Italian dramatist (d. 1803) |
| 16th of January 1757 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Goodwin Keats, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1834) |
| 16th of January 1807 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Henry Davis, American Civil War Admiral (d. 1877) |
| 16th of January 1815 | BIRTHDAY | Henry W. Halleck, American Civil War general (d. 1872) |
| 16th of January 1821 | BIRTHDAY | John C. Breckinridge, American lawyer and politician; 14th Vice President of the United States and Confederate general (d. 1875) |
| 16th of January 1834 | BIRTHDAY | Robert R. Hitt, American politician (d. 1906) |
| 16th of January 1836 | BIRTHDAY | King Francis II of the Two Sicilies (d. 1894) |
| 16th of January 1838 | BIRTHDAY | Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917) |
| 16th of January 1844 | BIRTHDAY | Ismail Qemali, Albanian nationalist (d. 1919) |
| 16th of January 1853 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Michelin, French industrialist (d. 1931) |
| 16th of January 1853 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov, Russian philosopher (d. 1900) |
| 16th of January 1853 | BIRTHDAY | Gen Sir Ian Hamilton, British military commander (d. 1947) |
| 16th of January 1853 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, English actor and theatre manager (d. 1937) |
| 16th of January 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Gordon Craig, English actor, producer, director and scenic designer (d. 1966) |
| 16th of January 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Busser, French composer (d. 1973) |
| 16th of January 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Robert W. Service, Canadian poet (d. 1958) |
| 16th of January 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Leonor Michaelis, German enzyme kinetic theorist (d. 1947) |
| 16th of January 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Carey, American silent film actor (d. 1947) |
| 16th of January 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (d. 1967) |
| 16th of January 1886 | BIRTHDAY | John Hamilton, American actor (d. 1958) |
| 16th of January 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Osip Brik, Russian writer (d. 1945) |
| 16th of January 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Daisy Kennedy, Australian violinist (d. 1981) |
| 16th of January 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Irving Mills, American jazz music publisher (d. 1985) |
| 16th of January 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Nat Schachner, American author (d. 1955) |
| 16th of January 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Ruth Rose, American screenwriter (d. 1978) |
| 16th of January 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Pellicer, Mexican poet (d. 1977) |
| 16th of January 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret Booth, American film editor (d. 2002) |
| 16th of January 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Irving Rapper, UK-US film director (d. 1999) |
| 16th of January 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Zamboni, American inventor (d. 1988) |
| 16th of January 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Fulgencio Batista, Cuban leader (d. 1973) |
| 16th of January 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (d. 1945) |
| 16th of January 1903 | BIRTHDAY | William Grover-Williams, English-French racing driver and WWII resistance fighter (d. 1945) |
| 16th of January 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Ernesto Halffter, Spanish composer and conductor (d. 1989) |
| 16th of January 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Diana Wynyard, British actress (d. 1964) |
| 16th of January 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Knox, Canadian actor (d. 1995) |
| 16th of January 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Nitze, American government official (d. 2004) |
| 16th of January 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Gunther Prien, German World War II submarine captain (d. 1941) |
| 16th of January 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Ethel Merman, American actress and singer (d. 1984) |
| 16th of January 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Dizzy Dean, American baseball player (d. 1974) |
| 16th of January 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Lapebie, French cyclist (d. 1996) |
| 16th of January 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Eduardo Frei Montalva, Chilean politician (d. 1982) |
| 16th of January 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Wagner, American choral musician (d. 1992) |
| 16th of January 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Leslie H. Martinson, American television and film director. |
| 16th of January 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Lucock, Australian politician and Presbyterian minister (d. 1996) |
| 16th of January 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Karcher, founded the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain (d. 2008) |
| 16th of January 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Nel Benschop, Dutch poet (d. 2005) |
| 16th of January 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Clem Jones, Australian Lord Mayor of Brisbane (d. 2007) |
| 16th of January 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Stirling Silliphant, American writer (d. 1996) |
| 16th of January 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Allan Ekelund, Swedish film producer (d. 2009) |
| 16th of January 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Alberto Crespo, Argentine racing driver (d. 1991) |
| 16th of January 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Elliott Reid, American actor |
| 16th of January 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Francesco Scavullo, American photographer (d. 2004) |
| 16th of January 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Ernesto Bonino, Italian singer (d. 2008) |
| 16th of January 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Gene Feist, American stage actor and producer |
| 16th of January 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Hecht, American poet (d. 2004) |
| 16th of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (d. 2002) |
| 16th of January 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Pilar Lorengar, Spanish soprano (d. 1996) |
| 16th of January 1928 | BIRTHDAY | William Kennedy, American author |
| 16th of January 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Clarence Ray Allen, American murderer (d. 2006) |
| 16th of January 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Podhoretz, US writer, foreign policy adviser |
| 16th of January 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Johannes Rau, German politician (d. 2006) |
| 16th of January 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Robert L. Park, American physicist |
| 16th of January 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Dian Fossey, American zoologist (d. 1985) |
| 16th of January 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Sontag, American writer (d. 2004) |
| 16th of January 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Marilyn Horne, American opera singer |
| 16th of January 1935 | BIRTHDAY | A.J. Foyt, American race car driver and team owner |
| 16th of January 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Lorraine Bayly, Australian actress |
| 16th of January 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Luiz Bueno, Brazilian racing driver |
| 16th of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Jo Soares, Brazilian author, musician and TV personality |
| 16th of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Angelil, Canadian music executive |
| 16th of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Lynn, American singer |
| 16th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Gavin Bryars, English composer and double bassist |
| 16th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Ferneyhough, British composer |
| 16th of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Stafford, American singer and songwriter |
| 16th of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Gerd Klier, German footballer (d. 2011) |
| 16th of January 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Kabir Bedi, Indian actor |
| 16th of January 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Ronnie Milsap, American singer and songwriter |
| 16th of January 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Katia Ricciarelli, Italian soprano |
| 16th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Magdalen Nabb, British author (d. 2007) |
| 16th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Jane Olson, American political activist |
| 16th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Harvey Proctor, British politician |
| 16th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Dr. Laura Schlessinger, American radio talk show host |
| 16th of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Dalvanius Prime, New Zealand entertainer (d. 2002) |
| 16th of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Ruth Reichl, American magazine editor |
| 16th of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | John Carpenter, American film director |
| 16th of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Cliff Thorburn, Canadian snooker player |
| 16th of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Refshauge, Australian politician, Deputy Premier of New South Wales |
| 16th of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Caroline Munro, British actress |
| 16th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Castro, Australian author |
| 16th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Debbie Allen, American dancer and choreographer |
| 16th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Damo Suzuki, Japanese singer (Can) |
| 16th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Schimmel, American Comedian (d. 2010) |
| 16th of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Glenn Ordway, American radio talk show host |
| 16th of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | King Fuad II of Egypt |
| 16th of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | L. Blaine Hammond, NASA astronaut |
| 16th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Jay Mathews, American neo-Nazi (d. 1984) |
| 16th of January 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry M. Linenger, NASA astronaut |
| 16th of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Jol, Dutch football manager |
| 16th of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Dale, Canadian actress |
| 16th of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Safronov, Russian journalist (d. 2007) |
| 16th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Jurijs Andrejevs, Latvian footballer |
| 16th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Ricardo Darin, Argentine actor |
| 16th of January 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Anatoli Boukreev, Russian climber (d. 1997) |
| 16th of January 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Lena Ek, Swedish politician |
| 16th of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Sade, Nigerian-born singer |
| 16th of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Juanita Bynum, American televangelist |
| 16th of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Raven, English musician (Killing Joke) (d. 2007) |
| 16th of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Joel Fitzgibbon, Australian politician |
| 16th of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Tracey Moore, voice actress |
| 16th of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Webb, British musician (Talk Talk, .O.rang) |
| 16th of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | James May, English television presenter |
| 16th of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Jill Sobule, American singer-songwriter |
| 16th of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Maxine Jones, American singer (En Vogue) |
| 16th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | David Chokachi, American actor |
| 16th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Per Yngve "Dead" Ohlin, Swedish black metal vocalist (Mayhem) (d. 1991) |
| 16th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Jones Jr., American boxer |
| 16th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Neil Back, England rugby player |
| 16th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Garth Ennis, Irish comic book author |
| 16th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Brendan O'Hare, Scottish drummer (Teenage Fanclub, Telstar Ponies) |
| 16th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Villone, American baseball player |
| 16th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Sergi Bruguera, Spanish tennis player |
| 16th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Ruben Bagger, Danish footballer |
| 16th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Dameon Clarke, Canadian actor |
| 16th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Ezra Hendrickson, Vincentian footballer |
| 16th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Yuri Drozdov, Russian footballer |
| 16th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Ang Christou, Australian rules footballer |
| 16th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Salah Hissou, Moroccan long-distance runner |
| 16th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Horn, American football player |
| 16th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Richard T. Jones, American actor |
| 16th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Page, Australian musician and actor |
| 16th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Alen Peternac, Croatian footballer |
| 16th of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Josie Davis, American actress |
| 16th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Marlon Anderson, American baseball player |
| 16th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Moss, English model |
| 16th of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Strause, American visual effects creator |
| 16th of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Gillian Iliana Waters, American actress |
| 16th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Viktor Maslov, Russian racing driver |
| 16th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Martina Moravcova, Slovak female swimmer |
| 16th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Foster, American basketball player |
| 16th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Ariel Zeevi, Israeli judoka |
| 16th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Alfredo Amezaga, Mexican baseball player |
| 16th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Anthony Fernandez, Filipino actor |
| 16th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Brenden Morrow, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 16th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Aaliyah, American R&B singer/actress (d. 2001) |
| 16th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Ward, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 16th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Seydou Keita, Malian footballer |
| 16th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Michelle Wild, Hungarian model |
| 16th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Pujols, Dominican-born baseball player |
| 16th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Lin Manuel Miranda, American actor, composer, lyricist (In The Heights) |
| 16th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Valensi, American guitarist (The Strokes) |
| 16th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Zamora, English footballer |
| 16th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Tuncay Sanl?, Turkish footballer |
| 16th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Preston, British singer (The Ordinary Boys) |
| 16th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Emanuel Pogatetz, Austrian footballer |
| 16th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Stephan Lichtsteiner, Swiss footballer |
| 16th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Jared Slingerland, Canadian musician |
| 16th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Richter, Danish footballer |
| 16th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Gintaras Janusevicius, Lithuanian pianist |
| 16th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Flacco, American football player |
| 16th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Paula Pareto, Argentine judoka |
| 16th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Mason Gamble, American actor |
| 16th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Lauren McAvoy, British fashion model |
| 16th of January 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Nicklas Bendtner, Danish footballer |
| 16th of January 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Yvonne Zima, American actress |
| 16th of January 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Duchene, Canadian hockey player |
| 16th of January 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Maja Keuc, Slovenian singer |
| 16th of January 0960 | DEATH | Polyeuctus, Patriarch of Constantinople |
| 16th of January 1327 | DEATH | Nikephoros Choumnos, Byzantine scholar and statesman (Born 1250/55) |
| 16th of January 1387 | DEATH | Elizabeth of Bosnia, Hungarian queen and regent (Born 1340) |
| 16th of January 1400 | DEATH | John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, English politician (Born 1352) |
| 16th of January 1545 | DEATH | George Spalatin, German reformer (Born 1484) |
| 16th of January 1547 | DEATH | Johannes Schoner, German astronomer and cartographer (Born 1477) |
| 16th of January 1554 | DEATH | Christiern Pedersen, Danish humanist (Born 1480) |
| 16th of January 1585 | DEATH | Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, English admiral (Born 1512) |
| 16th of January 1659 | DEATH | Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (Born 1580) |
| 16th of January 1710 | DEATH | Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (Born 1675) |
| 16th of January 1711 | DEATH | Blessed Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (Born 1651) |
| 16th of January 1747 | DEATH | Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (Born 1680) |
| 16th of January 1748 | DEATH | Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (Born 1684) |
| 16th of January 1750 | DEATH | Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshall (Born 1667) |
| 16th of January 1752 | DEATH | Francis Blomefield, English topographer (Born 1705) |
| 16th of January 1794 | DEATH | Edward Gibbon, English historian (Born 1737) |
| 16th of January 1809 | DEATH | John Moore, British general (Born 1761) |
| 16th of January 1817 | DEATH | Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman (Born 1759) |
| 16th of January 1826 | DEATH | Lindley Murray, grammarian (Born 1745) |
| 16th of January 1834 | DEATH | Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician (Born 1769) |
| 16th of January 1856 | DEATH | Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (Born 1795) |
| 16th of January 1864 | DEATH | Anton Schindler, Austrian biographer of Beethoven (Born 1795) |
| 16th of January 1865 | DEATH | Edmond Francois Valentin About, French writer (Born 1828) |
| 16th of January 1879 | DEATH | Octave Cremazie, French Canadian poet (Born 1827) |
| 16th of January 1886 | DEATH | Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian opera composer (Born 1834) |
| 16th of January 1891 | DEATH | Leo Delibes, French composer (Born 1836) |
| 16th of January 1898 | DEATH | Charles Pelham Villiers, British Member of Parliament (Born 1802) |
| 16th of January 1901 | DEATH | Arnold Bocklin, Swiss painter (Born 1827) |
| 16th of January 1901 | DEATH | Hiram Revels, first African-American to serve in the U. S. Senate (Born 1822) |
| 16th of January 1901 | DEATH | Jules Barbier, French opera librettist (Born 1825) |
| 16th of January 1906 | DEATH | Marshall Field, American entrepreneur (Born 1834) |
| 16th of January 1917 | DEATH | George Dewey, American admiral (Born 1837) |
| 16th of January 1919 | DEATH | Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, President of Brazil (Born 1848) |
| 16th of January 1920 | DEATH | Reginald De Koven, American music critic and operetta composer (Born 1859) |
| 16th of January 1924 | DEATH | Winifred Cochrane, Countess of Dundonald, Scottish philanthropist (Born 1859) |
| 16th of January 1935 | DEATH | Ma Barker, American criminal (Born 1871) |
| 16th of January 1936 | DEATH | Albert Fish, American serial killer (Born 1870) |
| 16th of January 1942 | DEATH | Carole Lombard, American actress (Born 1908) |
| 16th of January 1942 | DEATH | Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, son of Queen Victoria (Born 1850) |
| 16th of January 1942 | DEATH | Ernst Scheller, German Nazi politician (Born 1899) |
| 16th of January 1957 | DEATH | Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor (Born 1867) |
| 16th of January 1957 | DEATH | 1st Earl of Athlone, British royal, brother of Queen Mary (Born 1874) |
| 16th of January 1962 | DEATH | Ivan Mestrovic, Croatian sculptor (Born 1883) |
| 16th of January 1962 | DEATH | Frank Hurley, Australian photographer (Born 1885) |
| 16th of January 1963 | DEATH | Ike Quebec, American tenor-saxophone player (Born 1918) |
| 16th of January 1967 | DEATH | Robert J. Van de Graaff, American nuclear physicist (Born 1901) |
| 16th of January 1968 | DEATH | Bob Jones, Sr, American evangelist (Born 1883) |
| 16th of January 1969 | DEATH | Vernon Duke, American composer and songwriter (Born 1903) |
| 16th of January 1971 | DEATH | Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist (Born 1890) |
| 16th of January 1972 | DEATH | Teller Ammons, American politician (Born 1895) |
| 16th of January 1972 | DEATH | Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. (David Seville), American actor (Born 1919) |
| 16th of January 1979 | DEATH | Ted Cassidy, American actor (Born 1932) |
| 16th of January 1979 | DEATH | August Heissmeyer, German SS officer (Born 1897) |
| 16th of January 1981 | DEATH | Bernard Lee, English actor (Born 1908) |
| 16th of January 1982 | DEATH | Red Smith, American sports columnist (Born 1905) |
| 16th of January 1985 | DEATH | Robert Fitzgerald, American poet and translator (Born 1910) |
| 16th of January 1986 | DEATH | Herbert W. Armstrong, American evangelist, author, and publisher (Born 1892) |
| 16th of January 1987 | DEATH | Bertram Wainer, Australian abortion rights campaigner (Born 1928) |
| 16th of January 1988 | DEATH | Ballard Berkeley, English actor (Born 1904) |
| 16th of January 1988 | DEATH | Andrija Artukovic, Croatian war criminal (Born 1899) |
| 16th of January 1989 | DEATH | Prem Nazir, Malayalam actor (Born 1926) |
| 16th of January 1993 | DEATH | Jon Pall Sigmarsson, Icelandic strength athlete (Born 1960) |
| 16th of January 1993 | DEATH | Glenn Corbett, American actor (Born 1930) |
| 16th of January 1995 | DEATH | Eric Mottram, English poet, teacher, critic, and editor (Born 1924) |
| 16th of January 1996 | DEATH | Marcia Davenport, American author and music critic (Born 1903) |
| 16th of January 1997 | DEATH | Ennis Cosby, son of entertainer Bill Cosby (Born 1969) |
| 16th of January 1997 | DEATH | Markus Hoffmann, German actor (Born 1971) |
| 16th of January 1998 | DEATH | Dimitris Horn, Greek actor (Born 1921) |
| 16th of January 1999 | DEATH | Jim McClelland, Australian solicitor and politician (Born 1915) |
| 16th of January 2000 | DEATH | John Morris Rankin, Canadian musical entertainer (Born 1959) |
| 16th of January 2000 | DEATH | Will "Dub" Jones, American singer (The Coasters) (Born 1928) |
| 16th of January 2001 | DEATH | Auberon Waugh, British author and journalist (Born 1939) |
| 16th of January 2001 | DEATH | Laurent-Desire Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Born 1939) |
| 16th of January 2002 | DEATH | Bobo Olson, American boxer (Born 1928) |
| 16th of January 2002 | DEATH | Robert Hanbury Brown, British astronomer and physicist (Born 1916) |
| 16th of January 2002 | DEATH | Eddie Meduza, Swedish composer (Born 1948) |
| 16th of January 2002 | DEATH | Michael Anthony Bilandic, Mayor of Chicago (Born 1923) |
| 16th of January 2002 | DEATH | Ron Taylor, American actor (Born 1952) |
| 16th of January 2003 | DEATH | Richard Wainwright, English politician (Born 1918) |
| 16th of January 2004 | DEATH | Kalevi Sorsa, Prime Minister of Finland (Born 1930) |
| 16th of January 2005 | DEATH | Marjorie Williams, American journalist (Born 1958) |
| 16th of January 2006 | DEATH | Stanley Biber, American surgeon (Born 1923) |
| 16th of January 2007 | DEATH | Ron Carey, American actor (Born 1935) |
| 16th of January 2007 | DEATH | Benny Parsons, American racecar driver and commentator (Born 1941) |
| 16th of January 2009 | DEATH | Joe Erskine, American boxer and long distance runner (Born 1930) |
| 16th of January 2009 | DEATH | John Mortimer, British barrister, screenwriter and author. (Born 1923) |
| 16th of January 2009 | DEATH | Andrew Wyeth, American realist painter (Born 1917) |
| 16th of January 2010 | DEATH | Glen Bell, WW2 Veteran and the founder of Taco Bell. (Born 1923) |