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
Lorenzo RespighiAssociate
Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo PlanaAssociate
Carl Christian BruhnsAssociate
Friedrich Magnus SchwerdAssociate
Boris Vasilievich KukarkinAssociate
George Washington HoughAssociate
Ernest Benjamin EsclangonAssociate
Paul GuthnickAssociate
Emile PlantamourAssociate
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
William Wilson MorganAssociate
Friedrich KüstnerAssociate
William Otto BrunnerAssociate
Yngve ÖhmanAssociate
Johan August Hugo GyldénAssociate
Ernesto CapocciAssociate
George Phillips BondAssociate
Carl Vilhelm Ludvig CharlierAssociate
Charles Dillon PerrineAssociate
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
Solon Irving BaileyAssociate
Rev. Johann Georg HagenAssociate
Svante Elis StrömgrenAssociate
Anders Severin DonnerAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm BesselAssociate
Annibale RiccòAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav SpörerAssociate
William Cranch BondAssociate
Maurice LoewyAssociate
Edouard Benjamin BaillaudAssociate
Friedrich August Theodor WinneckeAssociate
Mathieu Prosper HenryAssociate
François Félix TisserandAssociate
Julius Heinrich G. FranzAssociate
Arnold Wolfendale
David Le Conte
Jack Meadows
Leon Knopoff