1996 Event Caroline Frolic, Miss Ontario, crowned Miss Renaissance USA 1973 Death Arna Bontemps, writer (Harlem Renaissance), dies at 72 in Nashville 1971 Death Sean O. Riada, born in County Limerick, Ireland, bandleader, composer, influential in 1960's traditional Irish music renaissance, dies at 40 1943 Birthday Keith Reif, born in England, rocker, Yardbirds-For Your Love, Renaissance 1939 Event Renaissance Big 5 win 1st pro basketball championship 1931 Birthday Sean O. Riada, born in County Limerick, Ireland, bandleader, composer, influential in 1960's traditional Irish music renaissance 1923 Event 1st Black pro Basketball team, "Renaissance," organizes 1922 Event Black Renaissance begins Harlem NY 1865 Birthday Bernard Berenson, art critic, Italian Painters of the Renaissance 1549 Birthday Henric Spieghel, Dutch Renaissance poet, Hertspiegel 1544 Birthday Torquato Tasso, born in Italy, Renaissance poet, Aminta, Apologia 1527 Event Spanish and German Imperial troops sack Rome; ending Renaissance 1472 Birthday Fra Bartolomeo, monk, Florentine Renaissance painter 1471 Birthday Albrecht Durer, Nurnberg Germany, Renaissance painter/print maker 1468 Birthday Paul III, last Renaissance pope, 1534-49 1449 Birthday Domenico Ghirlandajo, Italy, renaissance painter 1336 Death Giotto di Bondone, Italian Renaissance painter, dies at about 71
