page_title: 1512
section_title: Births
hierarchical_section_title: 1512 / Births
caption_attribution_description: Portrait engraving (135mm by 187mm) of Gerard Mercator: This was published in the first volume of Joannis Francisci Foppens' Bibliotheca Belgica in 1739.[1][2]
context_page_description: Year 1512 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.
context_section_description: January 13 – Gaspar de Quiroga y Vela, General Inquisitor of Spain (d. 1594)
  January 17 – Sibylle of Cleves, electress consort of Saxony (d. 1554)
  January 31 – Henry, King of Portugal and Cardinal (d. 1580)
  February 3 – John Hamilton, archbishop of St Andrews (d. 1571)
  February 22 – Pedro Agustín, Spanish Catholic bishop (d. 1572)
  March 5 – Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer (d. 1594)
  April 10 – James V of Scotland, King of Scots (d. 1542)
  April 23 – Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel, Chancellor of the University of Oxford (d. 1580)
  April 30 – George II, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels, Count of Glatz (d. 1553)
  July 5 – Cristoforo Madruzzo, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1578)
  July 25 – Diego de Covarubias y Leyva, Spanish jurist, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Cuenca (d. 1577)
  August ? – Catherine Parr, English queen consort (d. 1548)
  August 27 – Friedrich Staphylus, German theologian (d. 1564)
  November 4 – Hu Zongxian, Chinese general (d. 1565)
  November 9 – Jon Simonssøn, Norwegian humanist (d. 1575)
  November 11 – Marcin Kromer, Prince-Bishop of Warmia (d. 1589)
  December 21 – Boniface IV, Marquess of Montferrat, Italian nobleman (d. 1530)
  date unknown
  Robert Recorde, Welsh physician and mathematician (d. 1558)
  Gissur Einarsson, first Lutheran bishop in Iceland (d. 1548)
caption: Gerardus Mercator
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