What day of the week was August 21, 2012?

The day of the week August 21st, 2012 fell on was a Tuesday.

Tissa David the Hungarian-American animator (b. 1921) died on this day in 2012. As did Georg Leber the German politician, Federal Minister of Defence for Germany (b. 1920) , Gary Mara the Australian rugby player (b. 1962) , Taketoshi Naito the Japanese actor (b. 1926) , J. Frank Raley the American politician (b. 1926) , Don Raleigh the Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1926) , Guy Spitaels the Belgian politician, 7th Minister-President of the Walloon Region (b. 1931) , William Thurston the American mathematician (b. 1946) .