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1532 : End of the Inca Empire On November 16, 1532, while the Inca empire is in civil war, Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro trapped the Inca emperor Atahualpa in the city of Cajamarca with an invitation to a feast with 5,000 of his soldiers, unarmed. Pizarro opened fire killing all the Inca soldiers. The emperor was taken prisoner. He was executed the following year.
1849 : Dostoyevsky sentenced to death On November 16, 1849, Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sentenced to death for anti-government activities. The execution suspended at the last moment and he was sent to a labor camp in Siberia for four years.
1945 : Operation Paperclip On November 16, 1945, the United States brought secretly in the country 88 German scientists who worked for Nazi Germany, in the construction of V1 and V2 rockets. The United States were determined to get this technology and to prevent the Soviets from recruiting the same people for the same reasons.
1988 : Benazir Bhutto elected leader of Pakistan On November 16, 1988, Benazir Bhutto was elected as head of the Pakistan. Following the death of President Zia, who had come to power by a coup in 1977, Bhutto had returned from her exile in England and launched a campaign for free elections that her party, the Pakistan Peoples Party, won.

Clark Gable
Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing.

Jean Chardin, Esploratore francese (1643)
Louis-Honoré Fréchette, Poeta canadese (1839)
Jules Violle, Fisico francese (1841)
Joan Lindsay, Scrittrice australiana (1896)
Nnamdi Azikiwe, Primo presidente della Nigeria (1904)
Renée Saint-Cyr, Attrice francese (1904)
Burgess Meredith, Attore americano (1907)
Madeleine Cinquin (soeur Emmanuelle), Suora francese-belga (1908)
José Saramago, Scrittore portoghese, Premio Nobel per la letteratura (1922)
Robin McKinley, Scrittrice americana (1952)
Jacques Gamblin, Attore francese (1957)
Marg Helgenberger, Attrice americana (1958)
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Attrice italiana (1964)
Dean McDermott, Attore americano (1966)
Lisa Bonet, Attrice americana (1967)
Melvin Stewart, Nuotatore americano (1968)
Alexander Popov, Nuotatore russo (1971)
Maurizio Margaglio, Pattinatore italiano (1974)
Oksana Baiul, Pattinatrice ucraina (1977)
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Attrice americana (1977)
Nicole Gius, Sciatrice italiana (1980)
Ronald Pognon, Atleta francese (1982)

Max Abraham, Fisico tedesco (1922)
Clark Gable, Attore americano (1960)
Achille Zavatta, Pagliaccio francese (1993)
Daniel Nathans, Microbiologo americano, Premio Nobel per la Fisiologia e Medicina (1999)
Henry Taube, Chimico americano, Premio Nobel (2005)
Milton Friedman, Economista americano (2006)
Antonio de Nigris, Calciatore messicano (2009)
Edward Woodward, Attore inglese (2009)