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
Leon Knopoff
Arnold Wolfendale
David Le Conte
Jack Meadows
Willem de SitterAssociate
Thaddeus BanachiewiczAssociate
Milton Lasell HumasonAssociate
Eduard SchönfeldAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Henri Alexandre DeslandresAssociate
Theodor Alexandrovitch BredichinAssociate
Carl Theodor Robert LutherAssociate
Frederik KaiserAssociate
Julius Heinrich G. FranzAssociate
Palm Henry Lewis Pruss von BoguslawskiAssociate
Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo PlanaAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
William Wilson MorganAssociate
Eduard LutherAssociate
Michael KamienskiAssociate
Karl Ludwig HardingAssociate
Joseph von FraunhoferAssociate
Richard SchorrAssociate
Jean DufayAssociate
Emile PlantamourAssociate
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
Jean François AragoAssociate
Bertil LindbladAssociate
Francis (Francesco) de VicoAssociate
Augustus Ludovick BuschAssociate
Carl BremikerAssociate
Yngve ÖhmanAssociate
Jens Frederik Wilhelm SchroeterAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm August ArgelanderAssociate
Otto Hermann Leopold HeckmannAssociate
Charles Dillon PerrineAssociate
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
Svante Elis StrömgrenAssociate
Herman SchultzAssociate
Heinrich Louis D’ArrestAssociate
Baron Bernhard August von LindenauAssociate
Karl Friedrich KnorreAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav SpörerAssociate
Claude Louis MathieuAssociate
George William HillAssociate
William Joseph HusseyAssociate
Friedrich August Theodor WinneckeAssociate
François Félix TisserandAssociate
Heinrich Christian SchumacherAssociate
Carl Christian BruhnsAssociate
Lewis Morris RutherfurdAssociate
James Edward KeelerAssociate
Georges LecointeAssociate
Walter Ernst FrickeAssociate
Virpi NiemelaAssociate
Paul Henri StroobantAssociate
Adolf Christian Wilhelm SchurAssociate
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
Eduard HeisAssociate
Antoine François Joseph Yvon VillarceauAssociate
Harlow ShapleyAssociate
William Otto BrunnerAssociate
Hermann Albert KoboldAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm BesselAssociate
Christian August Friedrich PetersAssociate
Benjamin Apthorp GouldAssociate
Edwin Brant FrostAssociate
Karl SchwarzschildAssociate
Nils Christofer DunérAssociate
George Phillips BondAssociate
Jules Henri PoincaréAssociate
Alexander Alexandrovich MikhailovAssociate
Simon NewcombAssociate
Friedrich Robert HelmertAssociate
Charles Augustus YoungAssociate
Lorenzo RespighiAssociate
Christian Heinrich Friedrich PetersAssociate
Pierre Henri PuiseuxAssociate
Ottaviano Fabrizio MossottiAssociate
Charles Joseph C1728‰tienne WolfAssociate
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Friedrich Magnus SchwerdAssociate
Pierre DaussyAssociate
William Cranch BondAssociate
Siméon Denis PoissonAssociate
Wilhelm FoersterAssociate
Gen. Ferdinando ViscontiAssociate
Carlo BrioschiAssociate
Adolphus Cornelius PetersenAssociate
Adm. Ernest Amédée Barthélémy MouchezAssociate
Marie Paul Auguste Charles FabryAssociate
Karl Hermann StruveAssociate
Johann Joseph von LittrowAssociate
George Washington HoughAssociate
Paul GuthnickAssociate
Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht TempelAssociate
Hermann Carl VogelAssociate
Gerald Maurice ClemenceAssociate
Robert Grant AitkenAssociate
(Johann) Rudolf WolfAssociate