What day of the week was April 17, 2003?

The day of the week April 17th, 2003 fell on was a Thursday. There were 3 days until Easter Sunday. First day of Passover for Jewish people.

Robert Atkins the American physician and cardiologist, created the Atkins diet (b. 1930) died on this day in 2003. As did H. B. Bailey the American race car driver (b. 1936) , John Paul Getty the Jr., American-English philanthropist (b. 1932) , Earl King the American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1934) , Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova the Russian conjoined twins (b. 1950) , Yiannis Latsis the Greek businessman (b. 1910) .