What day of the week was December 8, 2013?

The day of the week December 8th, 2013 fell on was a Sunday.

There were 17 days until Christmas.

John Cornforth the Australian-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917) died on this day in 2013. As did Shirley E. Flynn the American historian and author (b. 1929) , Mado Maurin the French actress (b. 1915) , Don Mitchell the American actor (b. 1943) , Hung Sin-nui the Chinese actress and singer (b. 1924) , Sándor Szokolay the Hungarian composer and academic (b. 1931) .