What day of the week was June 17, 1898?

The day of the week June 17th, 1898 fell on was a Friday.

M. C. Escher the Dutch illustrator (d. 1972) was born on 17 June in 1898. As was Carl Hermann the German physicist and academic (d. 1961) , Harry Patch the English soldier and firefighter (d. 2009) .

Edward Burne-Jones the English painter (b. 1833) died on this day in 1898.