and Spanish forces. December 8 – The Great New Orleans Fire (1794) burns over 200 buildings in the French Quarter. December 23 – St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans is dedicated. Date unknown The Ayrshire (Earl of Carrick's Own) Yeomanry, a British Yeomanry Cavalry Regiment, is formed by the Earl of Cassillis at Culzean Castle, Ayrshire. The Oban distillery is built in Scotland. Births January 7 – Eilhard Mitscherlich, German chemist (d. 1863) February 11 – Charlotta Eriksson, Swedish actor (d. 1862) February 20 – William Carleton, Irish novelist (d. 1869) February 21 – Antonio López de Santa Anna, Mexican general and President of Mexico (d. 1876) March 5 Robert Cooper Grier, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1870) Joseph Livesey, English temperance movement campaigner (d. 1884) April 10 – Matthew Calbraith Perry, American commodore (d. 1858) April 11 – Edward Everett, American politician (d. 1865) May 17 – Anna Brownell Jameson, British writer (d. 1860) May 24 – William Whewell, English scientist, philosopher and historian of science (d. 1866) May 27 – Cornelius Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur (d. 1877) June 16 – María Trinidad Sánchez, heroine of the Dominican War of Independence (d. 1846) July 5 – Sylvester Graham, American nutritionist, inventor (d. 1851) July 7 – Frances Stackhouse Acton, British botanist, archaeologist, writer and artist (d. 1881) July 18 – Feargus O'Connor, Irish political radical, Chartist leader (d. 1855) July 28 – Charles Longley, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1868) August 8 – Francesco Puccinotti, Italian pathologist (d. 1872) September 24 – Jeanne Villepreux-Power, French marine biologist (d. 1871) November 3 – William Cullen Bryant, American poet (d. 1878) November 10 – Robert Towns, merchant, founder of Townsville, Queensland, Australia (d. 1873) Date unknown Caroline Howard Gilman, American author (d. 1888) Gustafva Lindskog, Swedish athlete (d. 1851) Deaths January 4 – Nicolas Luckner, Marshal of France (executed) (b. 1722) January 6 Pierre Bouchet, French physician (b. 1752) Maurice d'Elbée, French Revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1752) January 8 – Justus Möser, German statesman (b. 1720) January 11 – Caroline Townshend, 1st Baroness Greenwich, English peeress (b. 1717) January 16 – Edward Gibbon, English historian (b. 1737) January 28 – Henri de la Rochejaquelein, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1772) January 31 – Mariot Arbuthnot, British admiral (b. 1711) February 10 – Jacques Roux, French priest (b. 1752) February 12 – Mahadaji Shinde, Maratha emperor of India (1764–1794) March