Obituaries

About the Database of Obituaries

This database lists obituaries of Fellows, Associates and Honorary Members of the RAS from the 1820s onwards. The obituaries were published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), Memoirs of the RAS, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society (QJRAS) and Astronomy and Geophysics (A&G). Links to obituaries published elsewhere are also provided where possible (for an explanatory list of abbreviated journal titles, see here). This listing of the historical membership of the Royal Astronomical Society was originally compiled by Anthony J. Kinder, and digitised in 2008 by Ian Ridpath.

This resource has made use of the Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

NameBornDiedElectedMembership status
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Solomon Borisovich Pikel’nerAssociate
Ottaviano Fabrizio MossottiAssociate
Robert Grant AitkenAssociate
Friedrich August Theodor WinneckeAssociate
François Félix TisserandAssociate
Heinrich Christian SchumacherAssociate
Theodor Alexandrovitch BredichinAssociate
Alexander Alexandrovich MikhailovAssociate
Simon NewcombAssociate
Friedrich Robert HelmertAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav SpörerAssociate
Palm Henry Lewis Pruss von BoguslawskiAssociate
Adm. Ernest Amédée Barthélémy MouchezAssociate
Carl Theodor AlbrechtAssociate
Wilhelm FoersterAssociate
André Joseph Alexandre CouderAssociate
Virpi NiemelaAssociate
Paul Henri StroobantAssociate
Adolf Christian Wilhelm SchurAssociate
Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur AuwersAssociate
Marie Paul Auguste Charles FabryAssociate
Antonio CollaAssociate
Lewis Morris RutherfurdAssociate
Julius BartelsAssociate
Jean Marie François Joseph CoulombAssociate
Carl BremikerAssociate
Johann Joseph von LittrowAssociate
George Washington HoughAssociate
Paul GuthnickAssociate
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter BaadeAssociate
Francisco CarliniAssociate
Antoine François Joseph Yvon VillarceauAssociate
Harlow ShapleyAssociate
Theodor Ritter von OppolzerAssociate
Cmdr Matthew Fontaine MauryAssociate
Karl SchwarzschildAssociate
Karl Ludwig von LittrowAssociate
Marian Albertovich Kowalksi (Kovalsky)Associate
Lorenzo RespighiAssociate
Carl Christian BruhnsAssociate
Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo PlanaAssociate
Count Barnaba OrianiAssociate
Felix-Victor MauvaisAssociate
Charles Joseph C1728‰tienne WolfAssociate
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Friedrich Magnus SchwerdAssociate
Hubert Anson NewtonAssociate
Johann Heinrich von MädlerAssociate
Johan August Hugo GyldénAssociate
Baron Marie Charles Théodore DamoiseauAssociate
Charles Augustus YoungAssociate
Emile PlantamourAssociate
Adrien-Marie LegendreAssociate
Hannes Olof Gösta AlfvénAssociate
William Lewis ElkinAssociate
Willem de SitterAssociate
Karl Hermann StruveAssociate
Carl Nicolaus Adalbert KruegerAssociate
Rev. Johann Georg HagenAssociate
Alexander Dallas BacheAssociate
Gen. Ferdinando ViscontiAssociate
Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht TempelAssociate
Hermann Carl VogelAssociate
William Otto BrunnerAssociate
(Carl Hermann) Gustav MüllerAssociate
Henri Alexandre DeslandresAssociate
(Johann) Rudolf WolfAssociate
Boris Vasilievich KukarkinAssociate
Mathieu Prosper HenryAssociate
George Phillips BondAssociate
Otto Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm BesselAssociate
Charles Dillon PerrineAssociate
Friedrich KüstnerAssociate
Paul Pierre HenryAssociate
George Ellery HaleAssociate
Johan Oskar BacklundAssociate
Jean DufayAssociate
Baron Franz Xaver von ZachAssociate
Annibale RiccòAssociate
William Cranch BondAssociate
Jean Abraham Chrétien OudemansAssociate
Francis (Francesco) de VicoAssociate
Augustus Ludovick BuschAssociate
Alfred WolferAssociate
Asaph HallAssociate
Heinrich Louis D’ArrestAssociate
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
Johannes Franz HartmannAssociate
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
Carlo BrioschiAssociate
Marcel Gilles Jozef MinnaertAssociate
León Herrero y GarcíaAssociate
Hervé Étienne Auguste Albans FayeAssociate
Johann Gottfried GalleAssociate
Bohumil SternberkAssociate
Charles TrépiedAssociate
Ormsby MacKnight MitchelAssociate