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
Marian Albertovich Kowalksi (Kovalsky)Associate
Annibale de GasparisAssociate
Karl Ludwig von LittrowAssociate
Nathaniel BowditchAssociate
Karl Ludwig HardingAssociate
Robert EmdenAssociate
Cmdr Matthew Fontaine MauryAssociate
Herman SchultzAssociate
Antoine François Joseph Yvon VillarceauAssociate
George Washington HoughAssociate
Johann Heinrich von MädlerAssociate
(Johann) Rudolf WolfAssociate
Robert Grant AitkenAssociate
Felix-Victor MauvaisAssociate
Heinrich Christian SchumacherAssociate
(Carl Hermann) Gustav MüllerAssociate
Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur AuwersAssociate
Carl Nicolaus Adalbert KruegerAssociate
Carl Frederick GaussAssociate
Aristarch Apollonievic BelopolskyAssociate
Lewis Morris RutherfurdAssociate
Carl Theodor AlbrechtAssociate
Johann Franz EnckeAssociate
Adrien-Marie LegendreAssociate
Adolf Christian Wilhelm SchurAssociate
Christian August Friedrich PetersAssociate
Anders Severin DonnerAssociate
Baron Franz Xaver von ZachAssociate
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter BaadeAssociate
Boris Vasilievich KukarkinAssociate
Jean Alfred GautierAssociate
Jules Henri PoincaréAssociate
Alfred WolferAssociate
Julius BartelsAssociate
Christian Heinrich Friedrich PetersAssociate
Pierre Henri PuiseuxAssociate
Jean Abraham Chrétien OudemansAssociate
Gen. Ferdinando ViscontiAssociate
Friedrich KüstnerAssociate
Siméon Denis PoissonAssociate
Marcel Gilles Jozef MinnaertAssociate
Johann Georg von SoldnerAssociate
Karl SchwarzschildAssociate
Adolphus Cornelius PetersenAssociate
Pietro CaturegliAssociate
Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht TempelAssociate
Hermann Carl VogelAssociate
Mathieu Prosper HenryAssociate
Lorenzo RespighiAssociate
Charles Eugène DelaunayAssociate
Ormsby MacKnight MitchelAssociate
Gerald Maurice ClemenceAssociate
Ernest Benjamin EsclangonAssociate
Friedrich Magnus SchwerdAssociate
Heber Doust CurtisAssociate
Paul Pierre HenryAssociate
Alexander Dallas BacheAssociate
Benjamin Apthorp GouldAssociate
Eugène Joseph DelporteAssociate
Andrei Borisovich SevernyAssociate
Hannes Olof Gösta AlfvénAssociate
Lambert Adolphe Jacques QueteletAssociate
Johann Karl Friedrich ZöllnerAssociate
Maurice LoewyAssociate
Samuel Alfred MitchellAssociate
Cyrille Joseph SouillartAssociate
Jean Charles Rodolphe RadauAssociate
León Herrero y GarcíaAssociate
Johan Oskar BacklundAssociate
Jean Louis PonsAssociate
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
Hans Georg KienleAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Giovanni CeloriaAssociate
Theodor Alexandrovitch BredichinAssociate
Annibale RiccòAssociate
Count Philippe Gustave Doulcet PontécoulantAssociate
Baron Ercole DembowskiAssociate
Gerard MollAssociate
Gaetano CacciatoreAssociate
Charles TrépiedAssociate
Julius Heinrich G. FranzAssociate
Palm Henry Lewis Pruss von BoguslawskiAssociate
Paul GuthnickAssociate
Francisco Miranda da Costa LôboAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Takesi NagataAssociate
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
Didrik Magnus Axel MöllerAssociate
Niccolò CacciatoreAssociate
Hisashi KimuraAssociate
Joseph von FraunhoferAssociate
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
Carl BremikerAssociate
Johan August Hugo GyldénAssociate
John Macon ThomeAssociate