What day of the week was April 16, 1972?

The day of the week April 16th, 1972 fell on was a Sunday.

Conchita Martínez the Spanish-American tennis player was born on 16 April in 1972. As was Tracy K. Smith the American poet and educator , John McGuinness the English motorcycle racer .

Yasunari Kawabata the Japanese author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899) died on this day in 1972.