What day of the week was August 1, 1970?

The day of the week August 1st, 1970 fell on was a Saturday.

David James the English footballer and manager was born on 01 August in 1970. As was Elon Lindenstrauss the Israeli mathematician, Fields Medalist .

Frances Farmer the American actress and singer (b. 1913) died on this day in 1970. As did Otto Heinrich Warburg the German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883) .