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
Edouard Benjamin BaillaudAssociate
Hubert Anson NewtonAssociate
Andrei Borisovich SevernyAssociate
Dirk BrouwerAssociate
Nils Christofer DunérAssociate
Charles Greeley AbbotAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Cyrille Joseph SouillartAssociate
Jean-Baptiste BiotAssociate
(Carl Hermann) Gustav MüllerAssociate
Karl Friedrich KnorreAssociate
Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo PlanaAssociate
Pierre DaussyAssociate
George Willis RitcheyAssociate
Julius BauschingerAssociate
Emile PlantamourAssociate
Henry Augustus RowlandAssociate
Antonio AbettiAssociate
James Edward KeelerAssociate
Georges LecointeAssociate
Julius ScheinerAssociate
Julius Heinrich G. FranzAssociate
Viktor Amazaspovich AmbartsumianAssociate
Don Felipe BauzáAssociate
Pietro CaturegliAssociate
Brian JacobAssociate
François Félix TisserandAssociate
Jean Abraham Chrétien OudemansAssociate
Abbé Henri GrégoireAssociate
Giorgio AbettiAssociate
Edmund WeissAssociate
Gerald Maurice ClemenceAssociate
Wilhelm DöllenAssociate
Giovanni Virginio SchiaparelliAssociate
Joseph von FraunhoferAssociate
Giovanni Battista AmiciAssociate
Hermann Albert KoboldAssociate
Armin Otto LeuschnerAssociate
Maximilian Ritter von WeisseAssociate
Baron Fabian Jacob WredeAssociate
Nathaniel BowditchAssociate
Marcel Gilles Jozef MinnaertAssociate
Charles Dillon PerrineAssociate
Hans Carl Frederik Christian SchjellerupAssociate
Hendrik Gerard van de Sande BakhuyzenAssociate
Antoine François Joseph Yvon VillarceauAssociate
Ormsby MacKnight MitchelAssociate
Giovan Battista DonatiAssociate
Frank SchlesingerAssociate
Gerhard MüllerAssociate
Urbain Jean Joseph Le VerrierAssociate
Aristarch Apollonievic BelopolskyAssociate
Johann Friedrich Julius SchmidtAssociate
Carl Wolfgang Benjamin GoldschmidtAssociate
Marie Henri AndoyerAssociate
Giovanni CeloriaAssociate
Gaetano CacciatoreAssociate
Samuel Alfred MitchellAssociate
Christian August Friedrich PetersAssociate
Eduard SchönfeldAssociate
Hermann GoldschmidtAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Hans LudendorffAssociate
Walter Ernst FrickeAssociate
Marian Albertovich Kowalksi (Kovalsky)Associate
Svante Elis StrömgrenAssociate
Ejnar HertzsprungAssociate
Thaddeus BanachiewiczAssociate
Niccolò CacciatoreAssociate
Gen. Ferdinando ViscontiAssociate
Christian Heinrich Friedrich PetersAssociate
Pierre Henri PuiseuxAssociate
Peter Andreas HansenAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav SpörerAssociate
Edward Singleton HoldenAssociate
Antonio MarussiAssociate
Jules Henri PoincaréAssociate
Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht TempelAssociate
Hermann Carl VogelAssociate
Gerard MollAssociate
Adolphus Cornelius PetersenAssociate
Anders Severin DonnerAssociate
Richard SchorrAssociate
Edwin Brant FrostAssociate
Jean François AragoAssociate
Marie Alfred CornuAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Takesi NagataAssociate
Carl Nicolaus Adalbert KruegerAssociate
Siméon Denis PoissonAssociate
Paul Henri StroobantAssociate
Didrik Magnus Axel MöllerAssociate
Adrien-Marie LegendreAssociate
Jens Frederik Wilhelm SchroeterAssociate
Harlow ShapleyAssociate
Carl Theodor Robert LutherAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm August ArgelanderAssociate
Daniel ChalongeAssociate
Boris Vasilievich KukarkinAssociate
Fritz CohnAssociate
Lambert Adolphe Jacques QueteletAssociate