* 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 – Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims it for France and names it Louisiana.

* 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 – 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

* June 5 – Roger Cotes, English mathematician and philosopher ( b. 1682 )

* Roger Boyle, 2nd Earl of Orrery ( 1646 – 1682 )

" By her he had besides five daughters, two sons, of whom the eldest, Roger ( 1646-1681 or 1682 ), succeeded as 2nd earl of Orrery.

Roger L ' Estrange attacked Pordage in the ‘ Observator ’ for 5 April 1682 on account of ‘ A brief History of all the Papists ' bloudy Persecutions ,’ calling him ‘ limping Pordage, a son of the famous Familist about Reading and the author of several libels ,’ one against L ' Estrange.

This site became the centre of English trade in Indonesia until 1682.

* 1682 – Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Royalist commander in the English Civil War ( b. 1619 )

* 1720 – Calico Jack Rackham, English pirate ( b. 1682 )

* 1605 – Thomas Browne, English writer ( d. 1682 )

Two men independently developed the octant around 1730: John Hadley ( 1682 – 1744 ), an English mathematician, and Thomas Godfrey ( 1704 – 1749 ), a glazier in Philadelphia.

* February 2 – William Benson, English architect and self serving Whig place-holder ( b. 1682 )

* October 19 – Sir Thomas Browne English physician and philosopher ( d. 1682 )

** Thomas Herbert, English traveller and historian ( d. 1682 )

* December 17 – Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Royalist commander in the English Civil War ( d. 1682 )

* April 19 – Nicholas Saunderson, English scientist and mathematician ( b. 1682 )

* May 24 – Jonathan Wild, English criminal ( b. 1682 )

** Jane Wiseman, English actress, poet and playwright ( b. c. 1682 )

The first recorded use of red-brown as a color name in English was in 1682.

The English conquered the New Netherland colony in 1664, but the situation did not really change until 1682, when the area was included in William Penn's charter for Pennsylvania.

Its government was set up by William Penn in about 1682 to become primarily a refuge for persecuted English Quakers ; but others were welcomed.

Claude Lorrain, (), traditionally just Claude in English ( also Claude Gellée, his real name, or in French Claude Gellée, (), dit le Lorrain ) ( c. 1600 – 21 or 23 November 1682 ) was an artist of the Baroque era who was active in Italy, and is admired for his achievements in landscape painting.

In 1682, English King Charles II awarded the Delaware territories to William Penn in settlement of family debts, and Penn reorganized all three Delaware counties: Deale County become Sussex County, and St. Jones County became Kent County, in recognition of Penn's homelands in Sussex County, England.

Thomas Farnsworth, an English Quaker, was credited with being the first European settler in the Bordentown area in 1682, when he moved his family up river from Burlington.

# Rupert ( 1619 – 1682 ) of English Civil War fame.

Sir Thomas Browne ( 19 October 1605 – 19 October 1682 ) was an English author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including medicine, religion, science and the esoteric.