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
Edward Singleton HoldenAssociate
Virpi NiemelaAssociate
Paul Henri StroobantAssociate
Adolf Christian Wilhelm SchurAssociate
Magnus NyrénAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Hans LudendorffAssociate
Alfred Harrison JoyAssociate
Hermann GoldschmidtAssociate
Lewis Morris RutherfurdAssociate
Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm KlinkerfuesAssociate
William Otto BrunnerAssociate
Antonio MarussiAssociate
Paul Auguste Ernest LaugierAssociate
Peter Andreas HansenAssociate
Antoine François Joseph Yvon VillarceauAssociate
Harlow ShapleyAssociate
Robert Grant AitkenAssociate
George Phillips BondAssociate
Karl SchwarzschildAssociate
Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur AuwersAssociate
Milton Lasell HumasonAssociate
Anders Severin DonnerAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm BesselAssociate
Carl Theodor AlbrechtAssociate
William Cranch BondAssociate
Charles Joseph C1728‰tienne WolfAssociate
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Friedrich Magnus SchwerdAssociate
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter BaadeAssociate
Carl Theodor Robert LutherAssociate
Frederik KaiserAssociate
Julius Heinrich G. FranzAssociate
Charles Augustus YoungAssociate
Lorenzo RespighiAssociate
Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo PlanaAssociate
Julius BartelsAssociate
Karl Hermann StruveAssociate
William Wilson MorganAssociate
Eduard LutherAssociate
Michael KamienskiAssociate
Karl Ludwig HardingAssociate
Joseph von FraunhoferAssociate
Carlo BrioschiAssociate
Gen. Ferdinando ViscontiAssociate
Emile PlantamourAssociate
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
Bertil LindbladAssociate
Pietro CaturegliAssociate
(Johann) Rudolf WolfAssociate
Yngve ÖhmanAssociate
Heber Doust CurtisAssociate
Gerald Maurice ClemenceAssociate
Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht TempelAssociate
Hermann Carl VogelAssociate
Otto Hermann Leopold HeckmannAssociate
Charles Eugène DelaunayAssociate
Otto Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Charles Dillon PerrineAssociate
Alexander Dallas BacheAssociate
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
Hannes Olof Gösta AlfvénAssociate
Baron Bernhard August von LindenauAssociate
Eugène Joseph DelporteAssociate
Alfred WolferAssociate
Claude Louis MathieuAssociate
George William HillAssociate
William Joseph HusseyAssociate
Baron Franz Xaver von ZachAssociate
Annibale RiccòAssociate
Karl Friedrich KnorreAssociate
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
Johan Oskar BacklundAssociate
James Edward KeelerAssociate
Georges LecointeAssociate
Walter Ernst FrickeAssociate
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
Baron Ercole DembowskiAssociate
Giovanni CeloriaAssociate
Charles TrépiedAssociate
Gaetano CacciatoreAssociate
Ludwig Franz Benedikt BiermannAssociate
Bohumil SternberkAssociate
Eduard HeisAssociate
Lewis BossAssociate
Frederick Hanley SearesAssociate
Christian August Friedrich PetersAssociate
Benjamin Apthorp GouldAssociate
Edwin Brant FrostAssociate
Francisco Miranda da Costa LôboAssociate
Niccolò CacciatoreAssociate
Hermann Albert KoboldAssociate
Friedrich Robert HelmertAssociate
Pietro Angelo SecchiAssociate
Christian Heinrich Friedrich PetersAssociate
Pierre Henri PuiseuxAssociate
Ottaviano Fabrizio MossottiAssociate
Johann Karl Friedrich ZöllnerAssociate
Jules Henri PoincaréAssociate