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
Aristarch Apollonievic BelopolskyAssociate
Giovan Battista DonatiAssociate
Herman SchultzAssociate
Brian JacobAssociate
Claude Louis MathieuAssociate
Friedrich Robert HelmertAssociate
Francisco CarliniAssociate
Edmund WeissAssociate
Harold Clayton UreyAssociate
Karl Friedrich KnorreAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm August ArgelanderAssociate
Ernest Benjamin EsclangonAssociate
Heinrich Christian SchumacherAssociate
James Edward KeelerAssociate
Georges LecointeAssociate
Lewis Morris RutherfurdAssociate
Maximilian Ritter von WeisseAssociate
Baron Fabian Jacob WredeAssociate
Daniel Alberto ValencioAssociate
Andrei Borisovich SevernyAssociate
Adolf Christian Wilhelm SchurAssociate
Magnus NyrénAssociate
George Washington HoughAssociate
Paul GuthnickAssociate
Cyrille Joseph SouillartAssociate
Gerhard MüllerAssociate
Hermann Albert KoboldAssociate
Anders Severin DonnerAssociate
Karl SchwarzschildAssociate
Friedrich TietjenAssociate
Lorenzo RespighiAssociate
Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo PlanaAssociate
Johan August Hugo GyldénAssociate
Julius Heinrich G. FranzAssociate
Friedrich Magnus SchwerdAssociate
William Wilson MorganAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Emile PlantamourAssociate
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
Rev. Johann Georg HagenAssociate
Joseph von FraunhoferAssociate
Yngve ÖhmanAssociate
Augustus Ludovick BuschAssociate
Charles Eugène DelaunayAssociate
Palm Henry Lewis Pruss von BoguslawskiAssociate
Mathieu Prosper HenryAssociate
Johann Joseph von LittrowAssociate
Heber Doust CurtisAssociate
Theodor Alexandrovitch BredichinAssociate
Charles Dillon PerrineAssociate
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
Cmdr Matthew Fontaine MauryAssociate
Eugène Joseph DelporteAssociate
Paul Pierre HenryAssociate
George Ellery HaleAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Karl Ludwig von LittrowAssociate
Marian Albertovich Kowalksi (Kovalsky)Associate
Felix-Victor MauvaisAssociate
Robert Grant AitkenAssociate
Annibale RiccòAssociate
Asaph HallAssociate
Johann Heinrich von MädlerAssociate
Carl BremikerAssociate
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
Johannes Franz HartmannAssociate
Svante Elis StrömgrenAssociate
Adrien-Marie LegendreAssociate
Carl Theodor AlbrechtAssociate
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
León Herrero y GarcíaAssociate
Carl Nicolaus Adalbert KruegerAssociate
Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur AuwersAssociate
Walter Ernst FrickeAssociate
Friedrich August Theodor WinneckeAssociate
François Félix TisserandAssociate
Julius BartelsAssociate
Baron Ercole DembowskiAssociate
Carl Christian BruhnsAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav SpörerAssociate
Boris Vasilievich KukarkinAssociate
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter BaadeAssociate
Edwin Brant FrostAssociate
Francisco Miranda da Costa LôboAssociate
Frederick Hanley SearesAssociate
Christian August Friedrich PetersAssociate
Virpi NiemelaAssociate
Paul Henri StroobantAssociate
Friedrich KüstnerAssociate
Pietro Angelo SecchiAssociate
Christian Heinrich Friedrich PetersAssociate
Pierre Henri PuiseuxAssociate
Ottaviano Fabrizio MossottiAssociate
William Otto BrunnerAssociate
Jules Henri PoincaréAssociate
Alexander Alexandrovich MikhailovAssociate
Simon NewcombAssociate
Antoine François Joseph Yvon VillarceauAssociate
Harlow ShapleyAssociate