* 1682 – Franz Egon of Fürstenberg, Bavarian Catholic archbishop ( b. 1625 )

* 1682 – John Hadley, English mathematician and inventor of the octant ( d. 1744 )

* 1682 – Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Burgundy ( d. 1712 )

He afforded refuge in Ottoman territory to Charles XII of Sweden ( 1682 – 1718 ) after the Swedish defeat at the hands of Peter I of Russia ( 1672 – 1725 ) in the Battle of Poltava of 1709.

* 1682 – William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania.

* 1682 – Avvakum, Russian priest and writer ( b. 1621 )

* Ursin Durand ( 1682 – 1771 )

Born at Elston Hall, Nottinghamshire near Newark-on-Trent, England, the youngest of seven children of Robert Darwin of Elston ( 12 August 1682 – 20 November 1754 ), a lawyer, and his wife Elizabeth Hill ( 1702 – 1797 ).

* Sir George Gordon, 3rd Baronet ( 1637 – 1720 ) ( created Earl of Aberdeen in 1682 )

), 1611 – 1682 ) ( Ottoman Turkish: اوليا چلبى ) was an Ottoman Turkish traveler who journeyed through the territory of the Ottoman Empire and neighboring lands over a period of forty years.

* Lady Mary Gordon ( 1682 – 1753 ), married Alexander Fraser, 13th Lord Saltoun, 26 October 1707

# 1670 – 1682 Prince Rupert of the Rhine

Scottish politics in the late 18th century was dominated by the Whigs, with the benign management of Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll ( 1682 – 1761 ), who was in effect the " viceroy of Scotland " from the 1720s until his death in 1761.

* 1682 – Charles XII of Sweden ( d. 1718 )

* 1682 – Roger Cotes, English mathematician ( d. 1716 )

* 1682 – Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg, German missionary ( d. 1719 )

* 1716 – Roger Cotes, English mathematician ( b. 1682 )

* 1774 – James O ' Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley, English field marshal ( b. 1682 )

* 1620 – Jean Picard, French astronomer ( d. 1682 )

* Joseph Smith ( 1682 – 1770 ), British art collector and consul at Venice

Jacopo Amigoni ( 1682 – 1752 ), also named Giacomo Amiconi, was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period, who began his career in Venice, but traveled and was prolific throughout Europe, where his sumptuous portraits were much in demand.

*** Louisiane, 1682 – 1764 and 1803

In 1682, René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle had claimed a large territory, including the Chicago area, for France.

In 1682 Robert de La Salle canoed down the length of the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico, naming the entire Mississippi basin “ La Louisiane ” in honor of King Louis XIV.

Craighead County was part of the territory claimed by France on April 9, 1682 by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle who laid claim to all of the land drained by the Mississippi River and its assorted tributaries.

It was named after the Yazoo River, which, in turn was named by the French explorer Robert La Salle in 1682 as " Rivière des Yazous " in reference to the Yazoo tribe living near the river's mouth.

In 1682, René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle explored the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, and claimed the entire territory for France as far south as the Gulf of Mexico.

* Robert Carr ( 1637 – 1682 ), British politician, Privy Counsellor of England

* Robert Ker, 3rd Earl of Roxburghe ( c. 1658 – 1682 ), eldest son of the 2nd Earl

* " Pensées Diverses sur l ' Occasion de la Comète " ( 1682 ) translated as " Various Thoughts on the Occasion of the Comet " ( 2000 ) by Robert C. Bartlett, SUNY Press.

John Robartes ' eldest son, Robert, was ambassador to Denmark in 1681, and died there in February 1682.

* 1682 / 83 Robert Peach John Whitby

He married Catherine Brudenell, daughter of Robert Brudenell, 2nd Earl of Cardigan, during the winter of 1682 – 1683.

The assassination plot centred on a group that was convened in 1682 – 3 by Robert West of the Middle Temple, a Green Ribbon Club member: it is now often called the Rye House cabal.

In fact West's contacts with the Monmouth cabal, and knowledge of their intentions, were in part quite indirect ; Thomas Walcott and Robert Ferguson had accompanied Shaftesbury to the Netherlands, in his self-imposed exile of November 1682.

* Robert Arbuthnot, 2nd Viscount of Arbuthnott ( d. 1682 )

* Robert Johnson ( governor ) ( 1682 – 1735 ), South Carolina

The Baronetcy, of Boyle Abbey in the County of Roscommon, had been created in the Baronetage of Ireland in 1682 for his grandfather Robert King.

Robert Ward, uncle of Nicholas Ward, was created a Baronet in 1682 ( see Ward Baronets ).

* 1682: Robert Cavelier, sieur de la Salle reaches the mouth of the Mississippi River and claims the entire Mississippi Valley for France, naming the area Louisiana.

* Robert Pierrepont, 3rd Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull ( c. 1660 – 1682 ), eldest son of Robert Pierrepont ( grandson of the 1st Earl ), died without issue

* In addition to his magnum opus, the Istoria della Compagnia di Gesu for which he wrote 6 volumes, as Jesuit historiographer Bartoli produced 5 Jesuit Lives: Vincenzo Caraffa 1651, Robert Bellarmine 1678, Stanislas Kostka 1678, Francis Borgia 1681, and his science teacher Niccolo Zucchi 1682

He was succeeded as 3rd Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull by Robert ( d. 1682 ), a son of Robert Pierrepont of Thoresby, Nottinghamshire, and as 4th Earl by Robert's brother William ( d. 1690 ).