What day of the week was March 8, 2013?

The day of the week March 8th, 2013 fell on was a Friday. There were 23 days until Easter Sunday.

Haseeb Ahsan the Pakistani cricketer (b. 1939) died on this day in 2013. As did Hartmut Briesenick the German shot putter (b. 1949) , Hakob Hakobian the Egyptian-Armenian painter (b. 1923) , John O'Connell the Irish politician (b. 1927) , George Saimes the American football player (b. 1941) , Raymond Telles the American politician and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Costa Rica (b. 1915) , Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin the German soldier and publisher (b. 1922) , Ginny Wood the American environmentalist, co-founded the Alaska Conservation Society (b. 1917) .