What day of the week was April 16, 1998?

The day of the week April 16th, 1998 fell on was a Thursday.

Alberto Calderón the Argentinian-American mathematician (b. 1920) died on this day in 1998. As did Fred Davis the English snooker player (b. 1913) , Marie-Louise Meilleur the Canadian super-centenarian (b. 1880) .