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
Carl Vilhelm Ludvig CharlierAssociate
Aristarch Apollonievic BelopolskyAssociate
Virpi NiemelaAssociate
Paul Henri StroobantAssociate
Adolf Christian Wilhelm SchurAssociate
Friedrich KüstnerAssociate
Paul Pierre HenryAssociate
George Ellery HaleAssociate
Francisco Miranda da Costa LôboAssociate
Ernesto CapocciAssociate
Lewis Morris RutherfurdAssociate
Jean Abraham Chrétien OudemansAssociate
Asaph HallAssociate
Antoine François Joseph Yvon VillarceauAssociate
Harlow ShapleyAssociate
Johannes Franz HartmannAssociate
Hervé Étienne Auguste Albans FayeAssociate
André Joseph Alexandre CouderAssociate
Solon Irving BaileyAssociate
Karl SchwarzschildAssociate
Marcel Gilles Jozef MinnaertAssociate
León Herrero y GarcíaAssociate
Antonio CollaAssociate
Johann Gottfried GalleAssociate
Jean Marie François Joseph CoulombAssociate
Edouard Benjamin BaillaudAssociate
Charles Joseph C1728‰tienne WolfAssociate
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Friedrich Magnus SchwerdAssociate
Ormsby MacKnight MitchelAssociate
Maurice LoewyAssociate
Francisco CarliniAssociate
Charles Augustus YoungAssociate
Lorenzo RespighiAssociate
Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo PlanaAssociate
Hans Georg KienleAssociate
Charles Greeley AbbotAssociate
Karl Hermann StruveAssociate
Gen. Ferdinando ViscontiAssociate
Emile PlantamourAssociate
Jean Felix Adolphe GambartAssociate
(Johann) Rudolf WolfAssociate
Samuel Alfred MitchellAssociate
Baron Marie Charles Théodore DamoiseauAssociate
Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht TempelAssociate
Hermann Carl VogelAssociate
Hisashi KimuraAssociate
Gen. Gustave-Auguste FerriéAssociate
Willem de SitterAssociate
Antonio AbettiAssociate
Otto Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Charles Dillon PerrineAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Julius BauschingerAssociate
Henri Alexandre DeslandresAssociate
Giorgio AbettiAssociate
Theodor Alexandrovitch BredichinAssociate
Alfred WolferAssociate
Gerard MollAssociate
Viktor Amazaspovich AmbartsumianAssociate
Palm Henry Lewis Pruss von BoguslawskiAssociate
Don Felipe BauzáAssociate
Baron Franz Xaver von ZachAssociate
Annibale RiccòAssociate
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Takesi NagataAssociate
Annibale de GasparisAssociate
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
Didrik Magnus Axel MöllerAssociate
Johann von [John] LamontAssociate
Robert EmdenAssociate
Jean DufayAssociate
Giovanni Battista AmiciAssociate
Bohumil SternberkAssociate
Abbé Henri GrégoireAssociate
Francis (Francesco) de VicoAssociate
Augustus Ludovick BuschAssociate
Hendrik Gerard van de Sande BakhuyzenAssociate
Carl BremikerAssociate
Charles TrépiedAssociate
Samuel Pierpont LangleyAssociate
Armin Otto LeuschnerAssociate
Carl Frederick GaussAssociate
Frederick Hanley SearesAssociate
Christian August Friedrich PetersAssociate
Marq. Pierre Simon de LaplaceAssociate
Johann Franz EnckeAssociate
Heinrich Louis D’ArrestAssociate
Johann Karl Friedrich ZöllnerAssociate
Jules Henri PoincaréAssociate
Jean Alfred GautierAssociate
Pietro Angelo SecchiAssociate
Christian Heinrich Friedrich PetersAssociate
Pierre Henri PuiseuxAssociate