What day of the week was August 16, 1888?

The day of the week August 16th, 1888 fell on was a Thursday.

Armand J. Piron the American violinist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1943) was born on 16 August in 1888.

John Pemberton the American chemist, invented Coca-Cola (b. 1831) died on this day in 1888.