Jean-Charles Cornay

Jean-Charles Cornay, was a French missionary of the Paris Foreign Missions Society who was martyred in Vietnam. He was executed in Ha Tay, Tonkin, now Vietnam, during the persecutions of Emperor Minh Mạng.

27 February 1809

Born on the same birth day (27 February): Adam Baldwin • Alexandru Vaida-Voevod • David Young, Baron Young of Graffham • Gene Sarazen • Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure • Jeffrey Pasley • Jonathan Moreira • Peter Whittle (mathematician) • Robert H. Grubbs • Sergei Semak • Sergej Milinković-Savić

Born in the same month (February 1809): Abraham Lincoln • André Dumont (geologist) • Charles Darwin • Cyrus McCormick • Felix Mendelssohn • John Hart (South Australian colonist)