- Rowley, William by Gracie Gomez
1585?–1642?, English playwright and actor. He collaborated with many noted dramatists, including Dekker, Ford, and Webster; his best work, notably The Changeling. (1622), was written with Thomas Middleton. Of Rowley's own plays, All's Lost by Lust. (1622) is considered to be his best.
- Mustafa I by Natalia Daniels
1591–1639?, Ottoman sultan (1617–18, 1622–23), brother and successor of Ahmed I to the throne of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey). Set aside for incompetence, he was succeeded in 1618 by his nephew Osman II, who was executed in 1622. Mustafa, who was probably insane, returned to the throne only to be displaced by another nephew, Murad IV. During Mustafa's reign additional territory was lost to ...
- Rolfe, John by Isaac Thompson
1585–1622, English colonist in Virginia. He reached the colony in May, 1610, and introduced (1612) the regular cultivation of tobacco, which became Virginia's staple. A widower, he fell in love with and married (1614) Pocahontas, daughter of the Native American chief Powhatan. They went to England in 1616, and there she died (1617). He returned to Virginia, remarried, and held several offices. He ...
- Godefroy by Amaya Goodman
Family of French scholars.Denis Godefroy, 1549–1622, was a Calvinist who fled (c.1580) to Geneva and later became a professor of law at Strasbourg and Heidelberg. He compiled an edition (1583) of the Corpus Juris Civilis, which may be called the first modern edition. His son,Théodore Godefroy, 1580–1649, became a Roman Catholic, was royal historiographer of France, and took part in the ...
- Pecquet by Brendan Beck
Pecquet, Jean 1622-1674.French anatomist who first described (1647) the thoracic duct.