What day of the week was August 17, 2012?

The day of the week August 17th, 2012 fell on was a Friday.

Aase Bjerkholt the Norwegian politician (b. 1915) died on this day in 2012. As did Pál Bogár the Hungarian basketball player (b. 1927) , Joey Kovar the American model (b. 1983) , John Lynch-Staunton the Canadian politician (b. 1930) , Lou Martin the Irish-English pianist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1949) , Shirley W. Palmer-Ball the American politician (b. 1930) , Victor Poor the American engineer, developed the Datapoint 2200 (b. 1933) , Patrick Ricard the French businessman (b. 1945) , John Lynch-Staunton the Canadian politician (b. 1930) .