What day of the week was August 5, 2000?

The day of the week August 5th, 2000 fell on was a Saturday.

Otto Buchsbaum the Austrian- Brazilian journalist and activist (b. 1920) died on this day in 2000. As did Tullio Crali the Italian painter (b. 1910) , Alec Guinness the English actor (b. 1914) .