What day of the week was August 21, 1940?

The day of the week August 21st, 1940 fell on was a Wednesday.

Dominick Harrod the English journalist (d. 2013) was born on 21 August in 1940. As was Endre Szemerédi the Hungarian-American mathematician .

Hermann Obrecht the Swiss politician (b. 1882) died on this day in 1940. As did Ernest Thayer the American poet (b. 1863) , Leon Trotsky the Russian politician and theorist (b. 1879) .