What day of the week was January 17, 1887?

The day of the week January 17th, 1887 fell on was a Monday.

Ola Raknes the Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (d. 1975) was born on 17 January in 1887.

William Giblin the Australian politician, 13th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1840) died on this day in 1887.