This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1682.

• In London, the King's Company and the Duke's Company join to form the United Company of actors.^[1]
• In Paris, the Bibliothèque Mazarine reopens at the Collège des Quatre-Nations.
• In Japan, Ihara Saikaku's The Life of an Amorous Man (好色一代男, Kōshoku Ichidai Otoko, "The Man Who Spent His Life in Love") inaugurates what becomes known as ukiyo-zōshi ("books of the floating world"), the first major genre of popular Japanese fiction.

• October 2 – Birgitte Christine Kaas, Norwegian poet and translator (died 1761)^[2][3]
• October 29 – Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (died 1761)
• Unknown date – Jacopo Facciolati, Paduan lexicographer and philologist (died 1769)

• March 12 – Francis Sempill, Scottish poet and wit (born c. 1616)
• October 19 – Sir Thomas Browne, English polymath and poet (born 1605)
• November 14 – Rijcklof van Goens, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies 1678-1681 and travel writer (born 1619)
• Unknown dates
  • Philip Hunton, English clergyman and political writer (born c. 1600)
  • Francisco Núñez de Pineda y Bascuñán, Chilean writer and soldier (born 1607 in literature)