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
Leon Knopoff
Arnold Wolfendale
David Le Conte
Jack Meadows
Marie Alfred CornuAssociate
Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur AuwersAssociate
Eduard SchönfeldAssociate
Didrik Magnus Axel MöllerAssociate
Johann von [John] LamontAssociate
Robert EmdenAssociate
Anders Severin DonnerAssociate
Carl Theodor AlbrechtAssociate
Camille Guillaume BigourdanAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Takesi NagataAssociate
Annibale de GasparisAssociate
Daniel ChalongeAssociate
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter BaadeAssociate
Samuel Pierpont LangleyAssociate
Fritz CohnAssociate
Julius BartelsAssociate
Abbé Henri GrégoireAssociate
Carl Frederick GaussAssociate
Richard SchorrAssociate
Marq. Pierre Simon de LaplaceAssociate
Johann Franz EnckeAssociate
Dirk BrouwerAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Armin Otto LeuschnerAssociate
Jean Alfred GautierAssociate
Charles Eugène DelaunayAssociate
Jens Frederik Wilhelm SchroeterAssociate
Benjamin PeirceAssociate
Heber Doust CurtisAssociate
Jean-Baptiste BiotAssociate
Eugène Joseph DelporteAssociate
Seth Carlo ChandlerAssociate
Alexander Dallas BacheAssociate
Svante Elis StrömgrenAssociate
Herman SchultzAssociate
Ejnar HertzsprungAssociate
Hannes Olof Gösta AlfvénAssociate
Solomon Borisovich Pikel’nerAssociate
Urbain Jean Joseph Le VerrierAssociate
Edward Singleton HoldenAssociate
Friedrich August Theodor WinneckeAssociate
François Félix TisserandAssociate
Heinrich Christian SchumacherAssociate
Carl Wolfgang Benjamin GoldschmidtAssociate
Ernest Benjamin EsclangonAssociate
William Wallace CampbellAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav SpörerAssociate
Pierre Jules Cé+C774sar JanssenAssociate
Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm KlinkerfuesAssociate
Johan Oskar BacklundAssociate
Nathaniel BowditchAssociate
Virpi NiemelaAssociate
Paul Henri StroobantAssociate
Adolf Christian Wilhelm SchurAssociate
Magnus NyrénAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Hans LudendorffAssociate
Alfred Harrison JoyAssociate
Hermann GoldschmidtAssociate
Lewis Morris RutherfurdAssociate
Baron Ercole DembowskiAssociate
Antonio MarussiAssociate
Paul Auguste Ernest LaugierAssociate
Peter Andreas HansenAssociate
Antoine François Joseph Yvon VillarceauAssociate
Harlow ShapleyAssociate
Carl Vilhelm Ludvig CharlierAssociate
Aristarch Apollonievic BelopolskyAssociate
Karl SchwarzschildAssociate
Milton Lasell HumasonAssociate
Francisco Miranda da Costa LôboAssociate
Ernesto CapocciAssociate
Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo PlanaAssociate
Charles Joseph C1728‰tienne WolfAssociate
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Friedrich Magnus SchwerdAssociate
Carl Theodor Robert LutherAssociate
Frederik KaiserAssociate
Julius Heinrich G. FranzAssociate
Charles Augustus YoungAssociate
Lorenzo RespighiAssociate
Emile PlantamourAssociate
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
Bertil LindbladAssociate
André Joseph Alexandre CouderAssociate
Solon Irving BaileyAssociate
Karl Hermann StruveAssociate
William Wilson MorganAssociate
Eduard LutherAssociate
Michael KamienskiAssociate
Karl Ludwig HardingAssociate
Joseph von FraunhoferAssociate
Antonio CollaAssociate
Gen. Ferdinando ViscontiAssociate
Hermann Carl VogelAssociate
Otto Hermann Leopold HeckmannAssociate