The abbey was now brought into order within and without, and once more flourished to such a degree that the two French Benedictine antiquarians Edmond Martène and Ursin Durand, who visited the monastery in 1718, stated in their Voyage littéraire that of all the monasteries in Germany, Prüm showed the best spirit, and study was zealously pursued.

* Nils Ursin ( ex-Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus ) – keyboards

* 1897 – Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper, La Fronde, in Paris.

* 1864 – Marguerite Durand, French suffragette ( d. 1936 )

During the Restoration ( 1814 – 30 ), Louis XVIII and Charles X between them added 135 pieces at a cost of 720, 000 francs and created the department of Egyptian antiquities curated by Champollion, increased by more than 7, 000 works with the acquisition of antiquities in the Edmé-Antoine Durand, the Egyptian collection of Henry Salt or the second collection former by Bernardino Drovetti.

* 1936 – Marguerite Durand, French journalist and feminist ( b. 1864 )

Around the same time, Durand, a former student of Giovanni Battista Viotti ( 1755 – 1824 ), became a celebrated violinist.

* 1893 – The treaty of the Durand Line is signed between present day Pakistan and Afghanistan ; the Durand Line has gained international recognition as an international border between the two nations.

Numerical approximations of roots of polynomial equations in one unknown is easily done on a computer by the Jenkins-Traub method, Laguerre's method, Durand – Kerner method or by some other root-finding algorithm.

* Barthélémy Durand Valantin 1848 – 1850 ( Mixed race )

* Jean Baptiste Léonard Durand, Voyage au Sénégal 1785 – 1786, Paris, Agasse, 1802.

* March 16 – Marguerite Durand, French journalist and feminist leader ( b. 1864 )

* December 9 – The first issue of the feminist newspaper La Fronde is published by Marguerite Durand.

* January 24 – Marguerite Durand, French actress, journalist, and feminist leader ( d. 1936 )

* January 9 – Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer ( b. 1510 )

* November 1 – Guillaume Durand, French canonist and writer

He presented his solution, that amounts in modern terms to a combination of the Durand – Kerner method with the homotopy continuation principle, in 1891.

* Charles-Alexandre Léon Durand Linois ( 1761 – 1848 ), admiral during the time of Napoleon Bonaparte

* 1881 – Pierre Durand invents the tubular pipe compound needle.

On July 26, 1949, when Afghanistan – Pakistan relations were rapidly deteriorating, a loya jirga was held in Afghanistan after a military aircraft from the Pakistan Air Force bombed a village on the Afghan side of the Durand Line.

* Anthony Durand ( 1956 – 2009 ), micaceous potter

The simple Durand – Kerner and the slightly more complicated Aberth method simultaneously finds all the roots using only simple complex number arithmetic.

# William F. Durand ( Stanford University ) ( 1916 – 1918 )

Braid ’ s work had a strong influence on a number of important French medical figures, especially Étienne Eugène Azam ( 1822 – 1899 ) of Bordeaux ( Braid ’ s principal French “ disciple ”), the anatomist Pierre Paul Broca ( 1824 – 1880 ), the physiologist Joseph Pierre Durand de Gros ( 1826 – 1901 ), and the eminent hypnotherapist and co-founder of the Nancy School Ambroise-Auguste Liébeault ( 1823 – 1904 ).

* 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 )

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