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
Jack Meadows
Leon Knopoff
Arnold Wolfendale
David Le Conte
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm BesselAssociate
James Edward KeelerAssociate
Georges LecointeAssociate
Walter Ernst FrickeAssociate
Giovanni Battista AmiciAssociate
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
George Phillips BondAssociate
William Cranch BondAssociate
Eduard HeisAssociate
Baron Ercole DembowskiAssociate
Hendrik Gerard van de Sande BakhuyzenAssociate
Charles TrépiedAssociate
Bohumil SternberkAssociate
Hermann Albert KoboldAssociate
Carl Vilhelm Ludvig CharlierAssociate
Frederick Hanley SearesAssociate
Carlo BrioschiAssociate
Christian August Friedrich PetersAssociate
Benjamin Apthorp GouldAssociate
Edwin Brant FrostAssociate
Francisco Miranda da Costa LôboAssociate
Ernesto CapocciAssociate
Jules Henri PoincaréAssociate
Alexander Alexandrovich MikhailovAssociate
Simon NewcombAssociate
Friedrich Robert HelmertAssociate
Pietro Angelo SecchiAssociate
Christian Heinrich Friedrich PetersAssociate
Pierre Henri PuiseuxAssociate
Ottaviano Fabrizio MossottiAssociate
Marie Henri AndoyerAssociate
Johann Karl Friedrich ZöllnerAssociate
John Macon ThomeAssociate
Siméon Denis PoissonAssociate
Wilhelm FoersterAssociate
André Joseph Alexandre CouderAssociate
Thaddeus BanachiewiczAssociate
Adolphus Cornelius PetersenAssociate
Adm. Ernest Amédée Barthélémy MouchezAssociate
Marie Paul Auguste Charles FabryAssociate
Antonio CollaAssociate
Iosif Samuilovich ShklovskiiAssociate
Johann Joseph von LittrowAssociate
George Washington HoughAssociate
Paul GuthnickAssociate
Jean Marie François Joseph CoulombAssociate
Hugo von SeeligerAssociate
Francisco CarliniAssociate
Sears Cook WalkerAssociate
Karl Ludwig von LittrowAssociate
Marian Albertovich Kowalksi (Kovalsky)Associate
Svein RosselandAssociate
Lambert Adolphe Jacques QueteletAssociate
Theodor Ritter von OppolzerAssociate
Cmdr Matthew Fontaine MauryAssociate
Jean François AragoAssociate
Hubert Anson NewtonAssociate
Johann Heinrich von MädlerAssociate
Johan August Hugo GyldénAssociate
Bruno Benedetto RossiAssociate
Ludwig Franz Benedikt BiermannAssociate
Count Barnaba OrianiAssociate
Felix-Victor MauvaisAssociate
Baron Marie Charles Théodore DamoiseauAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm August ArgelanderAssociate
Giovanni Sante Gaspero SantiniAssociate
Lewis BossAssociate
Jean Louis PonsAssociate
Carl Nicolaus Adalbert KruegerAssociate
Rev. Johann Georg HagenAssociate
William Lewis ElkinAssociate
Willem de SitterAssociate
Jean Charles Rodolphe RadauAssociate
Adrien-Marie LegendreAssociate
Count Philippe Gustave Doulcet PontécoulantAssociate
Boris Vasilievich KukarkinAssociate
Mathieu Prosper HenryAssociate
Henri Alexandre DeslandresAssociate
(Carl Hermann) Gustav MüllerAssociate
Friedrich KüstnerAssociate
Paul Pierre HenryAssociate
George Ellery HaleAssociate
Pietro TacchiniAssociate
Camille Guillaume BigourdanAssociate
Jean DufayAssociate
George Willis RitcheyAssociate
Asaph HallAssociate
Francis (Francesco) de VicoAssociate
Augustus Ludovick BuschAssociate
Jean Abraham Chrétien OudemansAssociate
Marcel Gilles Jozef MinnaertAssociate
León Herrero y GarcíaAssociate
Albrecht Otto Johannes UnsöldAssociate