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
Svante Elis StrömgrenAssociate
Herman SchultzAssociate
Friedrich KüstnerAssociate
Paul Pierre HenryAssociate
Johan Oskar BacklundAssociate
Friedrich August Theodor WinneckeAssociate
François Félix TisserandAssociate
Heinrich Christian SchumacherAssociate
Jean Felix Adolphe GambartAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav SpörerAssociate
Jean Abraham Chrétien OudemansAssociate
Virpi NiemelaAssociate
Marcel Gilles Jozef MinnaertAssociate
Paul Henri StroobantAssociate
Adolf Christian Wilhelm SchurAssociate
León Herrero y GarcíaAssociate
Gen. Gustave-Auguste FerriéAssociate
Nils Christofer DunérAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Lewis Morris RutherfurdAssociate
Ormsby MacKnight MitchelAssociate
Theodor Alexandrovitch BredichinAssociate
Maurice LoewyAssociate
Pierre DaussyAssociate
Antoine François Joseph Yvon VillarceauAssociate
Guiseppe PiazziAssociate
Harlow ShapleyAssociate
Palm Henry Lewis Pruss von BoguslawskiAssociate
Karl SchwarzschildAssociate
Annibale de GasparisAssociate
Solon Irving BaileyAssociate
Hans Georg KienleAssociate
Robert EmdenAssociate
Charles Joseph C1728‰tienne WolfAssociate
Samuel Alfred MitchellAssociate
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Carl BremikerAssociate
Friedrich Magnus SchwerdAssociate
Abbé Henri GrégoireAssociate
Pietro CaturegliAssociate
Edouard Benjamin BaillaudAssociate
Charles Augustus YoungAssociate
Edward Charles PickeringAssociate
Lorenzo RespighiAssociate
Gerald Maurice ClemenceAssociate
Karl Hermann StruveAssociate
Carl Frederick GaussAssociate
Charles Greeley AbbotAssociate
Gen. Ferdinando ViscontiAssociate
William Henry PickeringAssociate
Hisashi KimuraAssociate
Johann Franz EnckeAssociate
Wilhelm DöllenAssociate
(Johann) Rudolf WolfAssociate
Gerard MollAssociate
Jean Alfred GautierAssociate
Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht TempelAssociate
Hermann Carl VogelAssociate
Carl Christian BruhnsAssociate
Julius BauschingerAssociate
Didrik Magnus Axel MöllerAssociate
Otto Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Johann von [John] LamontAssociate
Antonio AbettiAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Takesi NagataAssociate
Giovan Battista DonatiAssociate
Gaetano CacciatoreAssociate
Viktor Amazaspovich AmbartsumianAssociate
Don Felipe BauzáAssociate
Alfred WolferAssociate
Samuel Pierpont LangleyAssociate
Giovanni CeloriaAssociate
Giorgio AbettiAssociate
Baron Franz Xaver von ZachAssociate
Annibale RiccòAssociate
William Otto BrunnerAssociate
Carl Wolfgang Benjamin GoldschmidtAssociate
Ernest Benjamin EsclangonAssociate
Niccolò CacciatoreAssociate
Giovanni Battista AmiciAssociate
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm BesselAssociate
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
Marq. Pierre Simon de LaplaceAssociate
George Phillips BondAssociate
Armin Otto LeuschnerAssociate
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
Hermann GoldschmidtAssociate
Charles TrépiedAssociate
Benjamin PeirceAssociate
Hendrik Gerard van de Sande BakhuyzenAssociate
Bohumil SternberkAssociate
William Cranch BondAssociate
Peter Andreas HansenAssociate
Anders Severin DonnerAssociate