What day of the week was August 12, 1996?

The day of the week August 12th, 1996 fell on was a Monday.

Robert Gravel the Canadian actor, director, and playwright (b. 1945) died on this day in 1996. As did Mark Gruenwald the American author and illustrator (b. 1953) , Viktor Hambardzumyan the Georgian-Armenian astrophysicist (b. 1908) .