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
Joseph von FraunhoferAssociate
Thaddeus BanachiewiczAssociate
Gen. Ferdinando ViscontiAssociate
Emile PlantamourAssociate
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
Bertil LindbladAssociate
Karl Hermann StruveAssociate
William Wilson MorganAssociate
Eduard LutherAssociate
Heber Doust CurtisAssociate
Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht TempelAssociate
Hermann Carl VogelAssociate
Otto Hermann Leopold HeckmannAssociate
Charles Eugène DelaunayAssociate
William Otto BrunnerAssociate
(Johann) Rudolf WolfAssociate
Yngve ÖhmanAssociate
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm BesselAssociate
Baron Bernhard August von LindenauAssociate
Eugène Joseph DelporteAssociate
Seth Carlo ChandlerAssociate
Jean François AragoAssociate
George Phillips BondAssociate
Otto Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Charles Dillon PerrineAssociate
Claude Louis MathieuAssociate
George William HillAssociate
William Joseph HusseyAssociate
William Wallace CampbellAssociate
Baron Franz Xaver von ZachAssociate
Annibale RiccòAssociate
Karl Friedrich KnorreAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm August ArgelanderAssociate
William Cranch BondAssociate
Alfred WolferAssociate
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
James Edward KeelerAssociate
Georges LecointeAssociate
Walter Ernst FrickeAssociate
Carlo BrioschiAssociate
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
Bohumil SternberkAssociate
Eduard HeisAssociate
Baron Ercole DembowskiAssociate
Charles TrépiedAssociate
Frederick Hanley SearesAssociate
Christian August Friedrich PetersAssociate
Benjamin Apthorp GouldAssociate
Edwin Brant FrostAssociate
Francisco Miranda da Costa LôboAssociate
Ernesto CapocciAssociate
Hermann Albert KoboldAssociate
Carl Vilhelm Ludvig CharlierAssociate
Pietro Angelo SecchiAssociate
Christian Heinrich Friedrich PetersAssociate
Pierre Henri PuiseuxAssociate
Ottaviano Fabrizio MossottiAssociate
Johann Karl Friedrich ZöllnerAssociate
Jules Henri PoincaréAssociate
Alexander Alexandrovich MikhailovAssociate
Simon NewcombAssociate
Friedrich Robert HelmertAssociate
Adolphus Cornelius PetersenAssociate
Adm. Ernest Amédée Barthélémy MouchezAssociate
Marie Paul Auguste Charles FabryAssociate
Antonio CollaAssociate
John Macon ThomeAssociate
Siméon Denis PoissonAssociate
Wilhelm FoersterAssociate
André Joseph Alexandre CouderAssociate
Hugo von SeeligerAssociate
Francisco CarliniAssociate
Ludwig Franz Benedikt BiermannAssociate
Iosif Samuilovich ShklovskiiAssociate
Johann Joseph von LittrowAssociate
George Washington HoughAssociate
Paul GuthnickAssociate
Jean Marie François Joseph CoulombAssociate
Svein RosselandAssociate
Lambert Adolphe Jacques QueteletAssociate
Theodor Ritter von OppolzerAssociate
Cmdr Matthew Fontaine MauryAssociate
Sears Cook WalkerAssociate
Karl Ludwig von LittrowAssociate
Marian Albertovich Kowalksi (Kovalsky)Associate
Lewis BossAssociate
Bruno Benedetto RossiAssociate
Count Barnaba OrianiAssociate
Felix-Victor MauvaisAssociate
Baron Marie Charles Théodore DamoiseauAssociate
Robert Grant AitkenAssociate
Hubert Anson NewtonAssociate
Johann Heinrich von MädlerAssociate
Johan August Hugo GyldénAssociate
Jean Charles Rodolphe RadauAssociate
Adrien-Marie LegendreAssociate
Carl Theodor AlbrechtAssociate