Editing 1712 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[Sir Richard Acton, 5th Baronet]], English baronet (d. [[1791]])
* [[January 2]] &ndash; [[Marie-Angélique Memmie Le Blanc]], French feral child (d. [[1775]])
* [[January 5]]
** [[Ludwig van Beethoven (1712–1773)|Ludwig van Beethoven]], Flemish-born German professional singer and music director, grandfather of the well known composer of the same name (d. [[1773]])
** [[Hongzhou (prince)|Hongzhou]], Manchu prince of the Qing dynasty (d. [[1770]])
* [[January 17]] &ndash; [[John Stanley (composer)|John Stanley]], English composer and organist (d. [[1786]])
* [[January 24]]
** [[Frederick the Great]], King of Prussia (1740–1786) (d. [[1786]])
** [[Charles Moore, 1st Earl of Charleville]], Irish peer (d. [[1764]])
** [[Georg Friedrich Schmidt]], German engraver and designer (d. [[1775]])
* [[January 26]] &ndash; [[James Habersham]], merchant and statesman in the British North American colony of Georgia (d. [[1775]])
* [[January 28]] &ndash; [[Tokugawa Ieshige]], ninth ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (d. [[1761]])
* [[January 29]] &ndash; [[Ralph Bigland]], English officer of arms (d. [[1784]])
* [[February 2]] &ndash; [[Lydia Taft]], American suffragist (d. [[1778]])
* [[February 12]] &ndash; [[Felton Hervey]], aristocratic English politician (d. [[1773]])
* [[February 19]] &ndash; [[Arthur Devis]], English painter (d. [[1787]])
* [[February 20]] &ndash; [[Sir Cordell Firebrace, 3rd Baronet]], English landowner and politician (d. [[1759]])
* [[February 22]] &ndash; [[Péter Bod]], Hungarian theologian and historian (d. [[1768]])
* [[February 26]] &ndash; [[Nasir Jung]], Nizam of Hyderabad State (d. [[1750]])
* [[February 28]] &ndash; [[Louis-Joseph de Montcalm]], French general (d. [[1759]])
* [[March 4]] &ndash; [[Joachim Friedrich Henckel]], Prussian surgeon at Charité hospital in Berlin (d. [[1779]])
* [[March 8]] &ndash; [[John Fothergill (physician)|John Fothergill]], British botanist (d. [[1780]])
* [[March 12]]
** [[Sir Hew Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet]], Scottish politician and MP for Haddington Burghs on two occasions (d. [[1790]])
** [[Ioan II Mavrocordat]], prince of Moldva (d. [[1747]])
* [[March 14]] &ndash; [[Charles-Antoine Jombert]], French bookseller and publisher (d. [[1784]])
* [[March 15]] &ndash; [[Lambert Krahe]], German history painter and art collector (d. [[1790]])
* [[March 19]]
** [[Joseph Frye]], American general (d. [[1794]])
** [[Henry Gervais]], Anglican priest in Ireland (d. [[1790]])
* [[March 22]] &ndash; [[Edward Moore (dramatist)|Edward Moore]], English dramatist (d. [[1757]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Restoration and 18th-Century Drama |date=November 1980 |publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education |isbn=978-1-349-16422-6 |page=109 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OD9dDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA109 |language=en }}{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* [[March 27]]
** [[Claude Bourgelat]], French veterinary surgeon (d. [[1779]])
** [[Jane Mecom]], American correspondent, youngest sister of Benjamin Franklin and one of his closest confidants (d. [[1794]])
* [[March 28]] &ndash; [[Empress Xiaoxianchun]], empress consort of Qing dynasty China (d. [[1748]])
* [[March 31]] &ndash; [[Anders Johan von Höpken]], Swedish politician (d. [[1789]])