What day of the week was February 8, 1998?

The day of the week February 8th, 1998 fell on was a Sunday.

Halldór Laxness the Icelandic author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902) died on this day in 1998. As did Enoch Powell the English soldier and politician (b. 1912) , Rocke Robertson the Canadian physician and academic (b. 1912) , Julian Simon the American economist and author (b. 1932) .