What day of the week was September 17, 1879?

The day of the week September 17th, 1879 fell on was a Wednesday.

Rube Foster the American baseball player and manager (d. 1930) was born on 17 September in 1879. As was Periyar E. V. Ramasamy the Indian businessman, politician, and activist (d. 1973) .

Eugène Viollet-le-Duc the French architect and theorist (b. 1814) died on this day in 1879.