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
Jean DufayAssociate
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
Lambert Adolphe Jacques QueteletAssociate
Julius BauschingerAssociate
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
Dirk BrouwerAssociate
Antonio AbettiAssociate
Rev. Johann Georg HagenAssociate
Karl Friedrich KnorreAssociate
George Washington HoughAssociate
Carl Theodor Robert LutherAssociate
Johann Karl Friedrich ZöllnerAssociate
Viktor Amazaspovich AmbartsumianAssociate
Don Felipe BauzáAssociate
Francis (Francesco) de VicoAssociate
Jean-Baptiste BiotAssociate
Giorgio AbettiAssociate
Heinrich Louis D’ArrestAssociate
Magnus NyrénAssociate
Eduard LutherAssociate
Jean Charles Rodolphe RadauAssociate
Giovanni Battista AmiciAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
James Edward KeelerAssociate
Georges LecointeAssociate
Frederick Hanley SearesAssociate
Bertil LindbladAssociate
Jean Louis PonsAssociate
Hervé Étienne Auguste Albans FayeAssociate
George Ellery HaleAssociate
Pietro Angelo SecchiAssociate
Count Philippe Gustave Doulcet PontécoulantAssociate
Johann Gottfried GalleAssociate
Hendrik Gerard van de Sande BakhuyzenAssociate
Asaph HallAssociate
Svante Elis StrömgrenAssociate
Hermann Albert KoboldAssociate
Nathaniel BowditchAssociate
Johannes Franz HartmannAssociate
Baron Bernhard August von LindenauAssociate
François Félix TisserandAssociate
Gerald Maurice ClemenceAssociate
Mathieu Prosper HenryAssociate
Claude Louis MathieuAssociate
Marie Henri AndoyerAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav SpörerAssociate
Hugo von SeeligerAssociate
Pietro CaturegliAssociate
Jean Felix Adolphe GambartAssociate
Nils Christofer DunérAssociate
Paul Henri StroobantAssociate
William Wilson MorganAssociate
Aristarch Apollonievic BelopolskyAssociate
Paul Pierre HenryAssociate
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
Svein RosselandAssociate
Gen. Gustave-Auguste FerriéAssociate
Thaddeus BanachiewiczAssociate
Pierre DaussyAssociate
Yngve ÖhmanAssociate
Guiseppe PiazziAssociate
Antoine François Joseph Yvon VillarceauAssociate
Harlow ShapleyAssociate
Bruno Benedetto RossiAssociate
Annibale de GasparisAssociate
Marian Albertovich Kowalksi (Kovalsky)Associate
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
Giovanni Sante Gaspero SantiniAssociate
León Herrero y GarcíaAssociate
Robert EmdenAssociate
Jean François AragoAssociate
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Gaetano CacciatoreAssociate
Edward Charles PickeringAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm August ArgelanderAssociate
Giovanni CeloriaAssociate
Carl Frederick GaussAssociate
Karl Hermann StruveAssociate
Carl Nicolaus Adalbert KruegerAssociate
Niccolò CacciatoreAssociate
William Henry PickeringAssociate
Johann Franz EnckeAssociate
Wilhelm DöllenAssociate
Gen. Ferdinando ViscontiAssociate
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
Adrien-Marie LegendreAssociate
Jean Alfred GautierAssociate
Edmund WeissAssociate
Boris Vasilievich KukarkinAssociate
George Willis RitcheyAssociate
Brian JacobAssociate
Abbé Henri GrégoireAssociate
Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht TempelAssociate
Hermann Carl VogelAssociate
Johann Joseph von LittrowAssociate
Maximilian Ritter von WeisseAssociate