January 16:

• 1839 - William More Gabb was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
• 1991 - Preston Cloud died of pneumonia, brought on as a complication of Lou Gehrig's disease in Santa Barbara, California, USA at age 78.
• 2013 - J. Alistair Crame found differences in the neogastropod taxa present at Earth's poles as far back as the early Cenozoic, suggesting that the polar faunas started becoming distinct from each other earlier than traditionally believed.