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
Jack Meadows
Leon Knopoff
Arnold Wolfendale
David Le Conte
Giovanni Battista AmiciAssociate
Friedrich KüstnerAssociate
Emile PlantamourAssociate
Edwin Brant FrostAssociate
Francisco Miranda da Costa LôboAssociate
Karl Hermann StruveAssociate
Eduard HeisAssociate
Jean Abraham Chrétien OudemansAssociate
Hendrik Gerard van de Sande BakhuyzenAssociate
Wilhelm FoersterAssociate
André Joseph Alexandre CouderAssociate
Marcel Gilles Jozef MinnaertAssociate
Marie Paul Auguste Charles FabryAssociate
Pietro TacchiniAssociate
Otto Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Charles Dillon PerrineAssociate
Benjamin Apthorp GouldAssociate
Giovanni CeloriaAssociate
Jean Marie François Joseph CoulombAssociate
Ormsby MacKnight MitchelAssociate
Maurice LoewyAssociate
Marie Henri AndoyerAssociate
Annibale RiccòAssociate
Friedrich Robert HelmertAssociate
Gaetano CacciatoreAssociate
Ludwig Franz Benedikt BiermannAssociate
Lewis BossAssociate
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
Niccolò CacciatoreAssociate
Albrecht Otto Johannes UnsöldAssociate
Thaddeus BanachiewiczAssociate
Hans Georg KienleAssociate
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
Brian JacobAssociate
Samuel Alfred MitchellAssociate
Bohumil SternberkAssociate
George Washington HoughAssociate
Paul GuthnickAssociate
Edmund WeissAssociate
Baron Marie Charles Théodore DamoiseauAssociate
Harold Clayton UreyAssociate
Christian August Friedrich PetersAssociate
Marie Alfred CornuAssociate
William Lewis ElkinAssociate
Willem de SitterAssociate
Jean François AragoAssociate
Maximilian Ritter von WeisseAssociate
Baron Fabian Jacob WredeAssociate
Daniel Alberto ValencioAssociate
Camille Guillaume BigourdanAssociate
Hisashi KimuraAssociate
Frederick Hanley SearesAssociate
Pietro Angelo SecchiAssociate
Christian Heinrich Friedrich PetersAssociate
Pierre Henri PuiseuxAssociate
Daniel ChalongeAssociate
Henri Alexandre DeslandresAssociate
Gerard MollAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm August ArgelanderAssociate
Jules Henri PoincaréAssociate
Johan August Hugo GyldénAssociate
Fritz CohnAssociate
Adolphus Cornelius PetersenAssociate
Gerhard MüllerAssociate
Didrik Magnus Axel MöllerAssociate
Johann von [John] LamontAssociate
Siméon Denis PoissonAssociate
Rev. Johann Georg HagenAssociate
Jean DufayAssociate
Dirk BrouwerAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Takesi NagataAssociate
Hugo von SeeligerAssociate
Francis (Francesco) de VicoAssociate
Friedrich TietjenAssociate
Samuel Pierpont LangleyAssociate
Iosif Samuilovich ShklovskiiAssociate
Mathieu Prosper HenryAssociate
Jean-Baptiste BiotAssociate
Svein RosselandAssociate
Lambert Adolphe Jacques QueteletAssociate
Seth Carlo ChandlerAssociate
Marq. Pierre Simon de LaplaceAssociate
Paul Pierre HenryAssociate
George Ellery HaleAssociate
Hervé Étienne Auguste Albans FayeAssociate
Heinrich Louis D’ArrestAssociate
Armin Otto LeuschnerAssociate
Bruno Benedetto RossiAssociate
Asaph HallAssociate
William Wallace CampbellAssociate
Johann Gottfried GalleAssociate
Urbain Jean Joseph Le VerrierAssociate
Jean Charles Rodolphe RadauAssociate
Johannes Franz HartmannAssociate
Nathaniel BowditchAssociate