In the year 1612, Axel Oxenstierna persuades the Riksdag of the Estates to grant the Swedish nobility the right and privilege to hold all higher offices of government (Jan 6), Galileo Galilei becomes the first astronomer to observe Neptune, yet he mistakenly catalogues it as a fixed star (Dec 28), many people are hanged for witchcraft in England, the Nagoya Castle is completed in Japan - and all these fine people were born:

1612-xxxx Kerttu Pietarintytär Riippi** (b Kauppila) mother of Anna Niileksentytär Seppälä - Kauppila farm, Teuva, Sweden-Finland (1683/70-71)

1612-0117 Thomas Fairfax* English Civil War general - Denton, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (1671/59)
1612-0119 Petrus Bergius* Finnish bishop/professor at Turku Academy - Husby, Sweden (1691/79)

1612-0202 Thomas Killigrew* dramatist/theatre manager - England (1683/71)
1612-0220 Richard Olmsted* a founding settler of both Hartford and Norwalk, CT - Harwich, England (1687/75)

1612-0320 Anne Bradstreet* (b Dudley) first writer in England’s North American colonies to be published - Northampton, England (1672/60)

1612-0412 Simone Cantarini* Italian painter/etcher - Pesaro, Papal States (1648/36)

1612-0517 Joannes Meyssens* Flemish painter/ engraver/print publisher - Brussels (1670/58)
1612-0525 Henrik Carstenius* bishop - Helsinki, Sweden-Finland (1683/70)

1612-0802 Saskia van Uylenburgh* wife and often the model of Rembrandt - Leeuwarden, Friesland, Dutch Republic (1642/29)

1612-0901 Nicolas Chorier* lawyer/writer/ historian - Vienne, France (1692/79)

1612-1019 Nicolas Chaperon (B) painter/draughtsman/engraver - France (1656/43)
1612-1030 Paul Würtz* Swedish Pomeranian general/diplomat - Husum, Schleswig, Holy Roman Empire (1676/63)

1612-1117 Frans Post* Dutch painter - Haarlem, Spanish Netherlands (1680/67)

Updated 4.4.2023-1
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