Editing 1612 (section)

===January&ndash;March===
* [[January 17]] &ndash; [[Thomas Fairfax]], English Civil War general (d. [[1671]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Geoffrey Ridsdill Smith|author2=Margaret Toynbee|author3=Peter Young|title=Leaders of the Civil Wars, 1642-1648|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jGyuAAAAIAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Roundwood Press|isbn=978-0-900093-56-2|page=59|language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 21]] &ndash; [[Henry Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz]], Stadtholder of Groningen, Friesland and Drenthe (d. [[1640]])
* [[January 22]] &ndash; [[Daniel Zwicker]], German physician (d. [[1678]])
* [[January 23]] &ndash; [[George FitzGerald, 16th Earl of Kildare]], Irish earl (d. [[1660]])
* [[February 1]] &ndash; [[William West (died 1670)|William West]], English politician (d. [[1670]])
* [[February 2]] &ndash; [[Thomas Wentworth, 5th Baron Wentworth]], English baron and politician (d. [[1665]])
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[Arthur Spry]], English politician (d. [[1685]])
* [[February 5]] &ndash; [[Crown Prince Sohyeon]], Korean crown prince (d. [[1645]])
* [[February 6]] &ndash; [[Antoine Arnauld]], French theologian (d. [[1694]])
* [[February 7]] &ndash; [[Thomas Killigrew]], English dramatist and theatre manager (d. [[1683]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Christopher Baker|title=Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1720: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SDy-MtS9mvgC&pg=PA206|year=2002|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-30827-7|pages=206}}</ref>
* [[February 9]] &ndash; [[Pier Francesco Mola]], Italian painter of the High Baroque (d. [[1666]])
* [[February 15]] &ndash; [[Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve]], French military officer, founder of Montreal in New France (d. [[1676]])
* [[February 20]] &ndash; [[Richard Olmsted (settler)|Richard Olmsted]], Connecticut settler (d. [[1687]])
* [[February 21]] &ndash; [[Lorenzo Imperiali]], Italian cardinal (d. [[1673]])
* [[February 22]] ''(bapt.)'' &ndash; [[George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol]], English statesman (d. [[1677]])
* [[March 20]] &ndash; [[Anne Bradstreet]], née Dudley, English-born American Puritan poet (d. [[1672]])