What day of the week was April 17, 1940?

The day of the week April 17th, 1940 fell on was a Wednesday.

Eric Dancer the British businessman and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Devon was born on 17 April in 1940. As was Billy Fury the English singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1983) , John McCririck the English journalist , Chuck Menville the American animator and screenwriter (d. 1992) , Anja Silja the German soprano .