What day of the week was August 29, 2003?

The day of the week August 29th, 2003 fell on was a Friday.

Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim the Iraqi politician (b. 1939) died on this day in 2003. As did Michel Constantin the French actor (b. 1924) , Patrick Procktor the English painter (b. 1936) .

Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim the the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.