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
Arnold Wolfendale
David Le Conte
Jack Meadows
Leon Knopoff
Svein RosselandAssociate
Lambert Adolphe Jacques QueteletAssociate
Nils Christofer DunérAssociate
Hermann Albert KoboldAssociate
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Seth Carlo ChandlerAssociate
Charles Greeley AbbotAssociate
Karl Ludwig HardingAssociate
Bruno Benedetto RossiAssociate
Theodor Alexandrovitch BredichinAssociate
William Wallace CampbellAssociate
Pierre DaussyAssociate
Friedrich Robert HelmertAssociate
Charles TrépiedAssociate
Carl Theodor Robert LutherAssociate
Palm Henry Lewis Pruss von BoguslawskiAssociate
Bohumil SternberkAssociate
Jean Charles Rodolphe RadauAssociate
Julius BauschingerAssociate
William Wilson MorganAssociate
Eduard LutherAssociate
Giovanni Sante Gaspero SantiniAssociate
Jean Louis PonsAssociate
Hervé Étienne Auguste Albans FayeAssociate
Antonio AbettiAssociate
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
Bertil LindbladAssociate
Carl BremikerAssociate
George Washington HoughAssociate
Viktor Amazaspovich AmbartsumianAssociate
Don Felipe BauzáAssociate
Yngve ÖhmanAssociate
Count Philippe Gustave Doulcet PontécoulantAssociate
Johann Gottfried GalleAssociate
Friedrich August Theodor WinneckeAssociate
Giorgio AbettiAssociate
Ernesto CapocciAssociate
Marian Albertovich Kowalksi (Kovalsky)Associate
Giovanni Battista AmiciAssociate
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
Carl Vilhelm Ludvig CharlierAssociate
Virpi NiemelaAssociate
Wilhelm DöllenAssociate
John Macon ThomeAssociate
Baron Bernhard August von LindenauAssociate
Iosif Samuilovich ShklovskiiAssociate
Claude Louis MathieuAssociate
George Willis RitcheyAssociate
Carl Christian BruhnsAssociate
Jean Felix Adolphe GambartAssociate
Hendrik Gerard van de Sande BakhuyzenAssociate
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
Sears Cook WalkerAssociate
Benjamin Apthorp GouldAssociate
Henry Augustus RowlandAssociate
Antonio CollaAssociate
Carl Nicolaus Adalbert KruegerAssociate
Gen. Gustave-Auguste FerriéAssociate
Giovan Battista DonatiAssociate
Adrien-Marie LegendreAssociate
Guiseppe PiazziAssociate
Francisco CarliniAssociate
Charles Augustus YoungAssociate
Boris Vasilievich KukarkinAssociate
Mathieu Prosper HenryAssociate
Marie Henri AndoyerAssociate
Julius ScheinerAssociate
William Otto BrunnerAssociate
Charles Joseph C1728‰tienne WolfAssociate
Thaddeus BanachiewiczAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm BesselAssociate
Robert EmdenAssociate
Friedrich KüstnerAssociate
Paul Pierre HenryAssociate
George Phillips BondAssociate
Giovanni Virginio SchiaparelliAssociate
Annibale de GasparisAssociate
Alexander Alexandrovich MikhailovAssociate
Simon NewcombAssociate
Edward Charles PickeringAssociate
Ottaviano Fabrizio MossottiAssociate
Paul GuthnickAssociate
William Cranch BondAssociate
Hans Carl Frederik Christian SchjellerupAssociate
(Johann) Rudolf WolfAssociate
Carlo BrioschiAssociate
William Henry PickeringAssociate
Johann Franz EnckeAssociate
León Herrero y GarcíaAssociate
Jean François AragoAssociate
Pietro TacchiniAssociate
Adm. Ernest Amédée Barthélémy MouchezAssociate
Frank SchlesingerAssociate
Carl Frederick GaussAssociate
Anders Severin DonnerAssociate