What day of the week was October 5, 2004?

The day of the week October 5th, 2004 fell on was a Tuesday.

Rodney Dangerfield the American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1921) died on this day in 2004. As did William H. Dobelle the American biologist (b. 1941) , Maurice Wilkins the New Zealand-English physicist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916) .