What day of the week was August 27, 1979?

The day of the week August 27th, 1979 fell on was a Monday.

Giovanni Capitello the American actor and director was born on 27 August in 1979. As was Tian Liang the Chinese diver , Sarah Neufeld the Canadian violinist (Arcade Fire and Bell Orchestre) , Aaron Paul the American actor , Rusty Smith the American speed skater .

Louis Mountbatten the 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, English admiral and politician, 44th Governor-General of India (b. 1900) died on this day in 1979.

A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British retired admiral Louis Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo the Republic of Ireland. Shortly after, 18 British Army soldiers are killed in an ambush near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland.