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
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
Charles Greeley AbbotAssociate
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
James Edward KeelerAssociate
Georges LecointeAssociate
Bohumil SternberkAssociate
Johan August Hugo GyldénAssociate
Charles TrépiedAssociate
Baron Marie Charles Théodore DamoiseauAssociate
Hermann Albert KoboldAssociate
Rev. Johann Georg HagenAssociate
William Lewis ElkinAssociate
Willem de SitterAssociate
Antonio AbettiAssociate
Frederick Hanley SearesAssociate
Christian August Friedrich PetersAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Julius BauschingerAssociate
Johann Karl Friedrich ZöllnerAssociate
Jules Henri PoincaréAssociate
Alexander Alexandrovich MikhailovAssociate
Simon NewcombAssociate
Mathieu Prosper HenryAssociate
Henri Alexandre DeslandresAssociate
Giorgio AbettiAssociate
Theodor Alexandrovitch BredichinAssociate
Pietro Angelo SecchiAssociate
Christian Heinrich Friedrich PetersAssociate
Pierre Henri PuiseuxAssociate
Ottaviano Fabrizio MossottiAssociate
Viktor Amazaspovich AmbartsumianAssociate
Palm Henry Lewis Pruss von BoguslawskiAssociate
Don Felipe BauzáAssociate
John Macon ThomeAssociate
Siméon Denis PoissonAssociate
Paul Pierre HenryAssociate
George Ellery HaleAssociate
Adolphus Cornelius PetersenAssociate
Adm. Ernest Amédée Barthélémy MouchezAssociate
Jean DufayAssociate
Giovanni Battista AmiciAssociate
Iosif Samuilovich ShklovskiiAssociate
Johann Joseph von LittrowAssociate
Asaph HallAssociate
Francis (Francesco) de VicoAssociate
Augustus Ludovick BuschAssociate
Hendrik Gerard van de Sande BakhuyzenAssociate
Carl BremikerAssociate
Hugo von SeeligerAssociate
Sears Cook WalkerAssociate
Karl Ludwig von LittrowAssociate
Marian Albertovich Kowalksi (Kovalsky)Associate
León Herrero y GarcíaAssociate
Svein RosselandAssociate
Lambert Adolphe Jacques QueteletAssociate
Theodor Ritter von OppolzerAssociate
Cmdr Matthew Fontaine MauryAssociate
Johannes Franz HartmannAssociate
Hervé Étienne Auguste Albans FayeAssociate
Heinrich Louis D’ArrestAssociate
Hubert Anson NewtonAssociate
Johann Heinrich von MädlerAssociate
Bruno Benedetto RossiAssociate
Count Barnaba OrianiAssociate
Felix-Victor MauvaisAssociate
Johann Gottfried GalleAssociate
Marie Henri AndoyerAssociate
Carl Christian BruhnsAssociate
Giovanni Sante Gaspero SantiniAssociate
Jean Louis PonsAssociate
Carl Nicolaus Adalbert KruegerAssociate
Thaddeus BanachiewiczAssociate
Jean Charles Rodolphe RadauAssociate
Adrien-Marie LegendreAssociate
Count Philippe Gustave Doulcet PontécoulantAssociate
Boris Vasilievich KukarkinAssociate
(Carl Hermann) Gustav MüllerAssociate
Jean Felix Adolphe GambartAssociate
William Otto BrunnerAssociate
Friedrich KüstnerAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm BesselAssociate
Pietro TacchiniAssociate
Gen. Gustave-Auguste FerriéAssociate
Nils Christofer DunérAssociate
Jean François AragoAssociate
George Phillips BondAssociate
George Willis RitcheyAssociate
Jean Abraham Chrétien OudemansAssociate
Pierre DaussyAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm August ArgelanderAssociate
William Cranch BondAssociate
Marcel Gilles Jozef MinnaertAssociate
Robert EmdenAssociate
Carlo BrioschiAssociate
Albrecht Otto Johannes UnsöldAssociate
Johann Georg von SoldnerAssociate
Henry Augustus RowlandAssociate
Annibale de GasparisAssociate