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
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
Anders Severin DonnerAssociate
Bohumil SternberkAssociate
Asaph HallAssociate
Charles TrépiedAssociate
Augustus Ludovick BuschAssociate
Julius Heinrich G. FranzAssociate
Aristarch Apollonievic BelopolskyAssociate
León Herrero y GarcíaAssociate
Frederick Hanley SearesAssociate
Christian August Friedrich PetersAssociate
Johannes Franz HartmannAssociate
Joseph von FraunhoferAssociate
Johann Karl Friedrich ZöllnerAssociate
Jules Henri PoincaréAssociate
Alexander Alexandrovich MikhailovAssociate
Simon NewcombAssociate
Charles Eugène DelaunayAssociate
Pietro Angelo SecchiAssociate
Christian Heinrich Friedrich PetersAssociate
Pierre Henri PuiseuxAssociate
Ottaviano Fabrizio MossottiAssociate
Heber Doust CurtisAssociate
John Macon ThomeAssociate
Siméon Denis PoissonAssociate
Eugène Joseph DelporteAssociate
Adolphus Cornelius PetersenAssociate
Adm. Ernest Amédée Barthélémy MouchezAssociate
Hans Georg KienleAssociate
Iosif Samuilovich ShklovskiiAssociate
Johann Joseph von LittrowAssociate
Hugo von SeeligerAssociate
Robert Grant AitkenAssociate
Sears Cook WalkerAssociate
Karl Ludwig von LittrowAssociate
Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur AuwersAssociate
Svein RosselandAssociate
Lambert Adolphe Jacques QueteletAssociate
Theodor Ritter von OppolzerAssociate
Cmdr Matthew Fontaine MauryAssociate
Hisashi KimuraAssociate
Carl Theodor AlbrechtAssociate
Walter Ernst FrickeAssociate
Hubert Anson NewtonAssociate
Johann Heinrich von MädlerAssociate
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter BaadeAssociate
Baron Ercole DembowskiAssociate
Bruno Benedetto RossiAssociate
Count Barnaba OrianiAssociate
Felix-Victor MauvaisAssociate
Julius BartelsAssociate
Edwin Brant FrostAssociate
Francisco Miranda da Costa LôboAssociate
Giovanni Sante Gaspero SantiniAssociate
Jean Louis PonsAssociate
Johann von [John] LamontAssociate
Jean Charles Rodolphe RadauAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Count Philippe Gustave Doulcet PontécoulantAssociate
Theodor Alexandrovitch BredichinAssociate
Samuel Pierpont LangleyAssociate
Pietro CaturegliAssociate
(Carl Hermann) Gustav MüllerAssociate
Palm Henry Lewis Pruss von BoguslawskiAssociate
Gerald Maurice ClemenceAssociate
Abbé Henri GrégoireAssociate
Marie Paul Auguste Charles FabryAssociate
Marq. Pierre Simon de LaplaceAssociate
Alexander Dallas BacheAssociate
Wilhelm FoersterAssociate
André Joseph Alexandre CouderAssociate
Pietro TacchiniAssociate
Hannes Olof Gösta AlfvénAssociate
George Willis RitcheyAssociate
Carl BremikerAssociate
Jean Marie François Joseph CoulombAssociate
Jean Abraham Chrétien OudemansAssociate
Marcel Gilles Jozef MinnaertAssociate
Ejnar HertzsprungAssociate
Johan Oskar BacklundAssociate
Albrecht Otto Johannes UnsöldAssociate
Johann Georg von SoldnerAssociate
Henry Augustus RowlandAssociate
Baron Marie Charles Théodore DamoiseauAssociate
Brian JacobAssociate
Julius ScheinerAssociate
Ormsby MacKnight MitchelAssociate
Maurice LoewyAssociate
Giovanni CeloriaAssociate
Carl Wolfgang Benjamin GoldschmidtAssociate
Edmund WeissAssociate
Harold Clayton UreyAssociate
Guiseppe PiazziAssociate
Carl Christian BruhnsAssociate
Pierre Jules Cé+C774sar JanssenAssociate
Gaetano CacciatoreAssociate
Edward Singleton HoldenAssociate
Giovanni Virginio SchiaparelliAssociate
Alfred Harrison JoyAssociate