What day of the week was July 17, 1894?

The day of the week July 17th, 1894 fell on was a Tuesday.

Georges Lemaître the Belgian priest, astronomer, and cosmologist (d. 1966) was born on 17 July in 1894.

Leconte de Lisle the French poet (b. 1818) died on this day in 1894. As did Josef Hyrtl the Austrian anatomist and biologist (b. 1810) .