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
Carl Frederick GaussAssociate
André Joseph Alexandre CouderAssociate
Charles Greeley AbbotAssociate
Solomon Borisovich Pikel’nerAssociate
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
Johann Franz EnckeAssociate
Svante Elis StrömgrenAssociate
Herman SchultzAssociate
Gen. Ferdinando ViscontiAssociate
Jean Alfred GautierAssociate
Jean Marie François Joseph CoulombAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav SpörerAssociate
(Johann) Rudolf WolfAssociate
Carl Wolfgang Benjamin GoldschmidtAssociate
Heinrich Christian SchumacherAssociate
Eduard HeisAssociate
Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht TempelAssociate
Hermann Carl VogelAssociate
Nathaniel BowditchAssociate
Antonio AbettiAssociate
Lewis Morris RutherfurdAssociate
Seth Carlo ChandlerAssociate
Hermann GoldschmidtAssociate
Hermann Albert KoboldAssociate
Julius BauschingerAssociate
Paul Henri StroobantAssociate
Adolf Christian Wilhelm SchurAssociate
William Wallace CampbellAssociate
Ottaviano Fabrizio MossottiAssociate
Giorgio AbettiAssociate
Harlow ShapleyAssociate
Alfred WolferAssociate
Peter Andreas HansenAssociate
Alexander Alexandrovich MikhailovAssociate
Simon NewcombAssociate
Ernest Benjamin EsclangonAssociate
Baron Marie Charles Théodore DamoiseauAssociate
Viktor Amazaspovich AmbartsumianAssociate
Don Felipe BauzáAssociate
Baron Franz Xaver von ZachAssociate
Friedrich Robert HelmertAssociate
Adm. Ernest Amédée Barthélémy MouchezAssociate
Aristarch Apollonievic BelopolskyAssociate
Willem de SitterAssociate
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
Giovanni Battista AmiciAssociate
Karl SchwarzschildAssociate
Henri Alexandre DeslandresAssociate
Hendrik Gerard van de Sande BakhuyzenAssociate
Lorenzo RespighiAssociate
Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo PlanaAssociate
Charles TrépiedAssociate
Johann Joseph von LittrowAssociate
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Friedrich Magnus SchwerdAssociate
George Washington HoughAssociate
Ernesto CapocciAssociate
Theodor Ritter von OppolzerAssociate
Cmdr Matthew Fontaine MauryAssociate
Emile PlantamourAssociate
Carl Vilhelm Ludvig CharlierAssociate
Karl Ludwig HardingAssociate
Karl Ludwig von LittrowAssociate
Marian Albertovich Kowalksi (Kovalsky)Associate
Jean DufayAssociate
Karl Hermann StruveAssociate
Johann Karl Friedrich ZöllnerAssociate
Count Barnaba OrianiAssociate
Felix-Victor MauvaisAssociate
Francis (Francesco) de VicoAssociate
Hubert Anson NewtonAssociate
Johann Heinrich von MädlerAssociate
Julius Heinrich G. FranzAssociate
Marie Henri AndoyerAssociate
Charles Dillon PerrineAssociate
John Macon ThomeAssociate
Antonio CollaAssociate
Adrien-Marie LegendreAssociate
Thaddeus BanachiewiczAssociate
Carl Nicolaus Adalbert KruegerAssociate
Joseph von FraunhoferAssociate
Heinrich Louis D’ArrestAssociate
Otto Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Mathieu Prosper HenryAssociate
Francisco CarliniAssociate
(Carl Hermann) Gustav MüllerAssociate
Annibale RiccòAssociate
Boris Vasilievich KukarkinAssociate
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
Paul Pierre HenryAssociate
Sears Cook WalkerAssociate
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
Friedrich KüstnerAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Jean François AragoAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm August ArgelanderAssociate
Jean Abraham Chrétien OudemansAssociate
Theodor Alexandrovitch BredichinAssociate
Bohumil SternberkAssociate
Palm Henry Lewis Pruss von BoguslawskiAssociate