What day of the week was February 17, 2012?

The day of the week February 17th, 2012 fell on was a Friday.

Robert Carr the English engineer and politician, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1916) died on this day in 2012. As did Clarence Dart the American captain and pilot (b. 1920) , Michael Davis the American singer-songwriter and bass player (MC5) (b. 1943) , Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn the Dutch mathematician and theorist (b. 1918) , Ulric Neisser the German-American psychologist and academic (b. 1928) , Howie Nunn the American baseball player (b. 1935) .