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
Robert Edwin Witton MaddisonFellow
Harald von KlüberFellow
Otto Hermann Leopold HeckmannAssociate
Cecil Reginald BurchFellow
Robert NaismithFellow
John Guy PorterFellow
Cecilia Helena Payne-GaposchkinFellow, later Associate
Jan Hendrik OortFellow, later Associate
Charles Francis RichterFellow
Dr Reginald Lawson WaterfieldFellow
Richard Francis Turney GrangerFellow
Victor Hugo BenioffFellow
Claude de la Cherois CrommelinFellow
Julius BartelsAssociate
Carlyle Smith BealsFellow
Henri MineurFellow
Willem Jacob LuytenFellow
Sir John Anthony CarrollFellow
Joseph Steel HughesFellow
Robert d’Escourt AtkinsonFellow
William Edwin FoxFellow
Leonard Stanley Theodore SymmsFellow
Fritz ZwickyFellow
Rolf MüllerFellow
Reginald Robert Samuel CoxFellow
André Joseph Alexandre CouderAssociate
Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart BlackettFellow
William Michael Herbert GreavesFellow
Otto StruveFellow, later Associate
Perry ByerlyFellow
Yusuke HagiharaFellow
Bohumil SternberkAssociate
William Morley BaxterFellow
Egbert Adriaan KreikenFellow
Martin Christopher JohnsonFellow
William Lionel Edgar BennettFellow
Dudley Stewart PerfectFellow
Rev. Daniel Joseph Kelly O’ConnellFellow
Jean DufayAssociate
Louis Byrne SlichterFellow
Frederick Charles LeonardFellow
Edward Arthur MilneFellow
Shunichi KawasakiFellow
Bertil LindbladAssociate
Hans Georg KienleAssociate
Charles Donald ShaneFellow, later Associate
Daniel ChalongeAssociate
Roland Dale ThompsonFellow
Herman ZanstraFellow, later Associate
Georges LemaîtreFellow, later Associate
Robert StoneleyFellow
William Herbert SteavensonFellow
Svein RosselandAssociate
Alexander ThomFellow
Donald Luther EdwardsFellow
Thomas Noël Burke-GaffneyFellow
Ernst Julius ÖpikFellow
Harold William NewtonFellow
Hamilton Moore JeffersFellow
Leslie John ComrieFellow
Harry Hemley PlaskettFellow
Stavros PlakidisFellow
Harold Clayton UreyAssociate
Jason John NassauFellow
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter BaadeAssociate
Marcel Gilles Jozef MinnaertAssociate
Gerald MertonFellow
Bn Thomas Mackay Cooper of CulrossFellow
John Earle MaxwellFellow
Christopher Clive Langton GregoryFellow
Grigori Abramovich Shajn (Shayn)Fellow, later Associate
Henden Egerton HoughtonFellow
Józef WitkowskiFellow
Edward Lindsay InceFellow
Neal McNeillFellow
Milton Lasell HumasonAssociate
Jan, Jr WoltjerFellow
John Edmund CalthropFellow
Edgar Girard Croker PooleFellow
Robert Raynolds McMathFellow, later Associate
Louis Melville Milne-ThomsonFellow
Sir Harold JeffreysFellow
George (= Jiri) AlterFellow
Lorna Mary SwainFellow
Frederick James HargreavesFellow
Herbert DingleFellow
Julie Marie Vinter HansenFellow
Sir Harold Spencer JonesFellow
Takehiko MatukumaFellow
Harold William ActonFellow
Edwin Powell HubbleFellow, later Associate
Chester Burleigh WattsFellow
Francis Gilbert BrownFellow
Mark Bernard Brewer HeathFellow
Henry Ernest GreenFellow
Brig. Edward Aubrey GlennieFellow
John Stefanos ParaskevopoulosFellow
Knut Emil LundmarkFellow, later Associate
Beno GutenbergFellow
Theralandoor Panchapagesa BhaskaranFellow