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
Pierre Jules Cé+C774sar JanssenAssociate
Julius BartelsAssociate
Antonio MarussiAssociate
Pietro CaturegliAssociate
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter BaadeAssociate
Sears Cook WalkerAssociate
Richard SchorrAssociate
Karl Ludwig HardingAssociate
Carl Frederick GaussAssociate
Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm KlinkerfuesAssociate
Camille Guillaume BigourdanAssociate
Lambert Adolphe Jacques QueteletAssociate
Otto Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Johann Franz EnckeAssociate
Alfred Harrison JoyAssociate
George Washington HoughAssociate
Brian JacobAssociate
Jens Frederik Wilhelm SchroeterAssociate
Jean Alfred GautierAssociate
Baron Ercole DembowskiAssociate
Carl Theodor Robert LutherAssociate
Edmund WeissAssociate
Paul Auguste Ernest LaugierAssociate
Bertil LindbladAssociate
Jean Louis PonsAssociate
Herman SchultzAssociate
Hannes Olof Gösta AlfvénAssociate
Dirk BrouwerAssociate
Eduard LutherAssociate
Jean Charles Rodolphe RadauAssociate
Maximilian Ritter von WeisseAssociate
Baron Fabian Jacob WredeAssociate
Magnus NyrénAssociate
Alexander Dallas BacheAssociate
Francisco Miranda da Costa LôboAssociate
Count Philippe Gustave Doulcet PontécoulantAssociate
Bohumil SternberkAssociate
Gaetano CacciatoreAssociate
Heinrich Christian SchumacherAssociate
Jean-Baptiste BiotAssociate
Giovanni CeloriaAssociate
Ernest Benjamin EsclangonAssociate
Frederik KaiserAssociate
Baron Bernhard August von LindenauAssociate
Gerhard MüllerAssociate
Niccolò CacciatoreAssociate
Adolf Christian Wilhelm SchurAssociate
André Joseph Alexandre CouderAssociate
Pietro TacchiniAssociate
Lewis Morris RutherfurdAssociate
Michael KamienskiAssociate
Johan Oskar BacklundAssociate
Mathieu Prosper HenryAssociate
Jean Marie François Joseph CoulombAssociate
Claude Louis MathieuAssociate
Nathaniel BowditchAssociate
Paul Pierre HenryAssociate
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
Karl SchwarzschildAssociate
Benjamin Apthorp GouldAssociate
Albrecht Otto Johannes UnsöldAssociate
William Wilson MorganAssociate
Marie Alfred CornuAssociate
Baron Marie Charles Théodore DamoiseauAssociate
Iosif Samuilovich ShklovskiiAssociate
Friedrich Magnus SchwerdAssociate
Fritz CohnAssociate
Karl Friedrich KnorreAssociate
Harold Clayton UreyAssociate
Guiseppe PiazziAssociate
Yngve ÖhmanAssociate
Lorenzo RespighiAssociate
Daniel ChalongeAssociate
Julius Heinrich G. FranzAssociate
Solon Irving BaileyAssociate
Aristarch Apollonievic BelopolskyAssociate
León Herrero y GarcíaAssociate
Willem de SitterAssociate
Daniel Alberto ValencioAssociate
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
Joseph von FraunhoferAssociate
James Edward KeelerAssociate
Georges LecointeAssociate
Edouard Benjamin BaillaudAssociate
Henri Alexandre DeslandresAssociate
Edward Charles PickeringAssociate
Paul GuthnickAssociate
Charles Greeley AbbotAssociate
Jean DufayAssociate
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
Hermann Albert KoboldAssociate
William Henry PickeringAssociate
Seth Carlo ChandlerAssociate
Johann Joseph von LittrowAssociate
Friedrich TietjenAssociate
Friedrich August Theodor WinneckeAssociate
William Wallace CampbellAssociate
Francis (Francesco) de VicoAssociate
Annibale RiccòAssociate
Johan August Hugo GyldénAssociate