What day of the week was January 17, 1942?

The day of the week January 17th, 1942 fell on was a Saturday.

Muhammad Ali the American boxer was born on 17 January in 1942. As was Ita Buttrose the Australian journalist , Ulf Hoelscher the German violinist , Nigel McCulloch the English bishop , Nancy Parsons the American actress (d. 2001) .

Walther von Reichenau the German field marshal (b. 1884) died on this day in 1942.