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
Theodor Ritter von OppolzerAssociate
Jules Henri PoincaréAssociate
Abbé Henri GrégoireAssociate
Charles Joseph C1728‰tienne WolfAssociate
Hubert Anson NewtonAssociate
Ernest Benjamin EsclangonAssociate
Jean Marie François Joseph CoulombAssociate
Maurice LoewyAssociate
Cyrille Joseph SouillartAssociate
Christian Heinrich Friedrich PetersAssociate
Pierre Henri PuiseuxAssociate
Carl BremikerAssociate
Charles Augustus YoungAssociate
Annibale RiccòAssociate
Count Barnaba OrianiAssociate
Siméon Denis PoissonAssociate
Johann von [John] LamontAssociate
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
Adolphus Cornelius PetersenAssociate
Marie Alfred CornuAssociate
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
Pietro TacchiniAssociate
Carl Christian BruhnsAssociate
Samuel Pierpont LangleyAssociate
Fritz CohnAssociate
(Johann) Rudolf WolfAssociate
Daniel ChalongeAssociate
(Carl Hermann) Gustav MüllerAssociate
Baron Marie Charles Théodore DamoiseauAssociate
Marq. Pierre Simon de LaplaceAssociate
Frederick Hanley SearesAssociate
Willem de SitterAssociate
Lambert Adolphe Jacques QueteletAssociate
Ejnar HertzsprungAssociate
Albrecht Otto Johannes UnsöldAssociate
William Otto BrunnerAssociate
Edward Singleton HoldenAssociate
Robert Grant AitkenAssociate
Alfred WolferAssociate
Pietro Angelo SecchiAssociate
Julius Heinrich G. FranzAssociate
Henri Alexandre DeslandresAssociate
Carl Wolfgang Benjamin GoldschmidtAssociate
Baron Franz Xaver von ZachAssociate
Jean Abraham Chrétien OudemansAssociate
Harold Clayton UreyAssociate
Jean DufayAssociate
Jean Louis PonsAssociate
George Phillips BondAssociate
Carl Theodor AlbrechtAssociate
Marcel Gilles Jozef MinnaertAssociate
Joseph von FraunhoferAssociate
Jean Charles Rodolphe RadauAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm BesselAssociate
Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur AuwersAssociate
Hermann GoldschmidtAssociate
Seth Carlo ChandlerAssociate
Daniel Alberto ValencioAssociate
Count Philippe Gustave Doulcet PontécoulantAssociate
William Cranch BondAssociate
Julius BartelsAssociate
William Wallace CampbellAssociate
Ormsby MacKnight MitchelAssociate
Hugo von SeeligerAssociate
Francis (Francesco) de VicoAssociate
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter BaadeAssociate
Pierre Jules Cé+C774sar JanssenAssociate
Peter Andreas HansenAssociate
Heinrich Louis D’ArrestAssociate
Armin Otto LeuschnerAssociate
Svante Elis StrömgrenAssociate
Alfred Harrison JoyAssociate
Svein RosselandAssociate
Carlo BrioschiAssociate
Milton Lasell HumasonAssociate
Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm KlinkerfuesAssociate
Paul Auguste Ernest LaugierAssociate
Samuel Alfred MitchellAssociate
Bruno Benedetto RossiAssociate
Friedrich TietjenAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav SpörerAssociate
Johann Karl Friedrich ZöllnerAssociate
Urbain Jean Joseph Le VerrierAssociate
Paul Henri StroobantAssociate
Hannes Olof Gösta AlfvénAssociate
Ernesto CapocciAssociate
Walter Ernst FrickeAssociate
Alexander Dallas BacheAssociate
Karl Ludwig HardingAssociate
Carl Vilhelm Ludvig CharlierAssociate
Giovanni Sante Gaspero SantiniAssociate
Otto Hermann Leopold HeckmannAssociate
Frederik KaiserAssociate
Gerard MollAssociate
Harlow ShapleyAssociate
Guiseppe PiazziAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Takesi NagataAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Nils Christofer DunérAssociate