What day of the week was July 17, 2014?

The day of the week July 17th, 2014 fell on was a Thursday.

Henry Hartsfield the American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1933) died on this day in 2014. As did Otto Piene the German sculptor and academic (b. 1928) , J. Sasikumar the Indian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1928) .