What day of the week was August 2, 2012?

The day of the week August 2nd, 2012 fell on was a Thursday.

Ruy de Freitas the Brazilian basketball player (b. 1916) died on this day in 2012. As did Mihaela Ursuleasa the Romanian pianist (b. 1978) , Gilbert Prouteau the French poet and director (b. 1917) , Marguerite Piazza the American soprano (b. 1926) , Bernd Meier the German footballer (b. 1972) , John Keegan the English historian and journalist (b. 1934) , Jimmy Jones the American singer-songwriter (b. 1930) , Magnus Isacsson the Canadian director and producer (b. 1948) , Gabriel Horn the English biologist (b. 1927) , Amos Hakham the Israeli scholar (b. 1921) , Herman van Ham the Dutch chef (b. 1931) .