What day of the week was August 12, 1979?

The day of the week August 12th, 1979 fell on was a Sunday.

D. J. Houlton the American baseball player was born on 12 August in 1979. As was Cindy Klassen the Canadian speed skater , Austra SkujytÄ— the Lithuanian pentathlete .

Ernst Boris Chain the German biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906) died on this day in 1979.