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
Guiseppe PiazziAssociate
Francisco CarliniAssociate
Giovanni Virginio SchiaparelliAssociate
Benjamin Apthorp GouldAssociate
Edwin Brant FrostAssociate
Carl Theodor AlbrechtAssociate
Maximilian Ritter von WeisseAssociate
Baron Fabian Jacob WredeAssociate
Daniel Alberto ValencioAssociate
Andrei Borisovich SevernyAssociate
Hermann Albert KoboldAssociate
Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur AuwersAssociate
Hans Carl Frederik Christian SchjellerupAssociate
Samuel Alfred MitchellAssociate
Julius BartelsAssociate
Cyrille Joseph SouillartAssociate
Friedrich Robert HelmertAssociate
Edward Charles PickeringAssociate
Baron Marie Charles Théodore DamoiseauAssociate
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter BaadeAssociate
Gerhard MüllerAssociate
Frank SchlesingerAssociate
Marie Paul Auguste Charles FabryAssociate
Willem de SitterAssociate
William Henry PickeringAssociate
Wilhelm FoersterAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Friedrich TietjenAssociate
Johann Friedrich Julius SchmidtAssociate
Gerard MollAssociate
Henri Alexandre DeslandresAssociate
Theodor Alexandrovitch BredichinAssociate
George Washington HoughAssociate
Paul GuthnickAssociate
Palm Henry Lewis Pruss von BoguslawskiAssociate
Leon Knopoff
Arnold Wolfendale
David Le Conte
Jack Meadows