What day of the week was August 31, 2012?

The day of the week August 31st, 2012 fell on was a Friday.

Max Bygraves the English-Australian actor and singer (b. 1922) died on this day in 2012. As did Joe Lewis the American martial artist and actor (b. 1944) , Carlo Maria Martini the Italian cardinal (b. 1927) , Kashiram Rana the Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1938) , John C. Shabaz the American judge and politician (b. 1931) , Sergey Leonidovich Sokolov the Russian commander and politician, 6th Minister of Defence for The Soviet Union (b. 1911) , Norbert Walter the German economist (b. 1944) .