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
León Herrero y GarcíaAssociate
Pietro TacchiniAssociate
Ormsby MacKnight MitchelAssociate
Johann Gottfried GalleAssociate
Edouard Benjamin BaillaudAssociate
Carl Theodor Robert LutherAssociate
Heinrich Christian SchumacherAssociate
Albrecht Otto Johannes UnsöldAssociate
Dirk BrouwerAssociate
Bertil LindbladAssociate
Lambert Adolphe Jacques QueteletAssociate
Lewis Morris RutherfurdAssociate
Charles Greeley AbbotAssociate
Eduard LutherAssociate
Adolf Christian Wilhelm SchurAssociate
Harold Clayton UreyAssociate
Samuel Alfred MitchellAssociate
Carl Wolfgang Benjamin GoldschmidtAssociate
Jean-Baptiste BiotAssociate
Jean Felix Adolphe GambartAssociate
Daniel Alberto ValencioAssociate
Hans Georg KienleAssociate
Hermann GoldschmidtAssociate
Julius BauschingerAssociate
Nils Christofer DunérAssociate
Baron Bernhard August von LindenauAssociate
Jean Charles Rodolphe RadauAssociate
Gen. Gustave-Auguste FerriéAssociate
Antonio AbettiAssociate
Jean Louis PonsAssociate
Karl SchwarzschildAssociate
Gerard MollAssociate
Peter Andreas HansenAssociate
Viktor Amazaspovich AmbartsumianAssociate
Don Felipe BauzáAssociate
Pierre DaussyAssociate
Lorenzo RespighiAssociate
Giorgio AbettiAssociate
Count Philippe Gustave Doulcet PontécoulantAssociate
Claude Louis MathieuAssociate
Friedrich Magnus SchwerdAssociate
Hisashi KimuraAssociate
Didrik Magnus Axel MöllerAssociate
Giovanni Battista AmiciAssociate
Annibale de GasparisAssociate
Johann Georg von SoldnerAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Takesi NagataAssociate
Nathaniel BowditchAssociate
Robert EmdenAssociate
Friedrich August Theodor WinneckeAssociate
Pietro CaturegliAssociate
Friedrich TietjenAssociate
Hendrik Gerard van de Sande BakhuyzenAssociate
Gerald Maurice ClemenceAssociate
Johann Franz EnckeAssociate
Karl Ludwig HardingAssociate
Virpi NiemelaAssociate
Carl Frederick GaussAssociate
Andrei Borisovich SevernyAssociate
Johann von [John] LamontAssociate
Wilhelm DöllenAssociate
Aristarch Apollonievic BelopolskyAssociate
Marie Henri AndoyerAssociate
Guiseppe PiazziAssociate
Annibale RiccòAssociate
Jean Alfred GautierAssociate
Cyrille Joseph SouillartAssociate
Samuel Pierpont LangleyAssociate
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
Ejnar HertzsprungAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
Marq. Pierre Simon de LaplaceAssociate
Thaddeus BanachiewiczAssociate
Giovan Battista DonatiAssociate
Gaetano CacciatoreAssociate
Ernest Benjamin EsclangonAssociate
Charles Joseph C1728‰tienne WolfAssociate
Johann Joseph von LittrowAssociate
Edward Charles PickeringAssociate
Giovanni CeloriaAssociate
Edward Singleton HoldenAssociate
Charles Augustus YoungAssociate
Frederick Hanley SearesAssociate
Niccolò CacciatoreAssociate
Magnus NyrénAssociate
Jean François AragoAssociate
Karl Ludwig von LittrowAssociate
William Henry PickeringAssociate
Cmdr Matthew Fontaine MauryAssociate
Pietro Angelo SecchiAssociate
Pierre Jules Cé+C774sar JanssenAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm August ArgelanderAssociate
(Johann) Rudolf WolfAssociate
Johann Heinrich von MädlerAssociate
François Félix TisserandAssociate
Felix-Victor MauvaisAssociate
Milton Lasell HumasonAssociate
Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm KlinkerfuesAssociate