| 16711 | February 12 | Birth | 1663 – Cotton Mather, English-American minister and author (d. 1728) |
| 16712 | February 12 | Birth | 1665 – Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician (d. 1721) |
| 16713 | February 12 | Birth | 1704 – Charles Pinot Duclos, French author (d. 1772) |
| 16714 | February 12 | Birth | 1728 – Étienne-Louis Boullée, French architect (d. 1799) |
| 16715 | February 12 | Birth | 1752 – Josef Reicha, Czech cellist, composer, and conductor (d. 1795) |
| 16716 | February 12 | Birth | 1753 – François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, French admiral (d. 1798) |
| 16717 | February 12 | Birth | 1761 – Jan Ladislav Dussek, Czech pianist and composer (d. 1812) |
| 16718 | February 12 | Birth | 1768 – Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1835) |
| 16719 | February 12 | Birth | 1775 – Louisa Adams, English-born American wife of John Quincy Adams, 6th First Lady of the United States (d. 1852) |
| 16720 | February 12 | Birth | 1777 – Bernard Courtois, French chemist and academic (d. 1838) |
| 16721 | February 12 | Birth | 1777 – Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, German author and poet (d. 1843) |
| 16722 | February 12 | Birth | 1785 – Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist and chemist (d. 1838) |
| 16723 | February 12 | Birth | 1787 – Norbert Provencher, Canadian bishop and missionary (d. 1853) |
| 16724 | February 12 | Birth | 1788 – Carl Reichenbach, German chemist and philosopher (d. 1869) |
| 16725 | February 12 | Birth | 1791 – Peter Cooper, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Cooper Union (d. 1883) |
| 16726 | February 12 | Birth | 1794 – Alexander Petrov, Russian chess player and composer (d. 1867) |
| 16727 | February 12 | Birth | 1804 – Heinrich Lenz, German-Italian physicist and academic (d. 1865) |
| 16728 | February 12 | Birth | 1809 – Charles Darwin, English geologist and theorist (d. 1882) |
| 16729 | February 12 | Birth | 1809 – Abraham Lincoln, American lawyer and politician, 16th President of the United States (d. 1865) |
| 16730 | February 12 | Birth | 1828 – George Meredith, English author and poet (d. 1909) |
| 16731 | February 12 | Birth | 1855 – Marie-Anne de Bovet, French writer |
| 16732 | February 12 | Birth | 1857 – Eugène Atget, French photographer (d. 1927) |
| 16733 | February 12 | Birth | 1857 – Bobby Peel, English cricketer and coach (d. 1943) |
| 16734 | February 12 | Birth | 1861 – Frank Rinehart, American photographer (d. 1928) |
| 16735 | February 12 | Birth | 1861 – Lou Andreas-Salomé, Russian-German psychoanalyst and author (d. 1937) |
| 16736 | February 12 | Birth | 1865 – Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, Polish poet and author (d. 1940) |
| 16737 | February 12 | Birth | 1869 – Kiến Phúc, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1884) |
| 16738 | February 12 | Birth | 1870 – Marie Lloyd, English actress and singer (d. 1922) |
| 16739 | February 12 | Birth | 1871 – Charlie McGahey, English cricketer (d. 1935) |
| 16740 | February 12 | Birth | 1872 – Oscar Stribolt, Danish actor and director (d. 1927) |