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
Charles Greeley AbbotAssociate
Willem de SitterAssociate
Marian Albertovich Kowalksi (Kovalsky)Associate
George Willis RitcheyAssociate
Jean-Baptiste BiotAssociate
Charles TrépiedAssociate
Henri Alexandre DeslandresAssociate
Ejnar HertzsprungAssociate
Julius BauschingerAssociate
Jean DufayAssociate
Theodor Ritter von OppolzerAssociate
Adrien-Marie LegendreAssociate
Hervé Étienne Auguste Albans FayeAssociate
Henry Augustus RowlandAssociate
Antonio AbettiAssociate
Carl Nicolaus Adalbert KruegerAssociate
Maurice LoewyAssociate
Julius ScheinerAssociate
Viktor Amazaspovich AmbartsumianAssociate
Don Felipe BauzáAssociate
Pietro CaturegliAssociate
Count Barnaba OrianiAssociate
Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo PlanaAssociate
Johann Gottfried GalleAssociate
Edward Singleton HoldenAssociate
Giorgio AbettiAssociate
Gerald Maurice ClemenceAssociate
Francis (Francesco) de VicoAssociate
Hubert Anson NewtonAssociate
Boris Vasilievich KukarkinAssociate
Giovanni Virginio SchiaparelliAssociate
Giovanni Battista AmiciAssociate
Heinrich Louis D’ArrestAssociate
Emile PlantamourAssociate
Nathaniel BowditchAssociate
John Macon ThomeAssociate
Friedrich KüstnerAssociate
Johann Georg von SoldnerAssociate
Hans Carl Frederik Christian SchjellerupAssociate
(Carl Hermann) Gustav MüllerAssociate
Jean Felix Adolphe GambartAssociate
Hendrik Gerard van de Sande BakhuyzenAssociate
Friedrich August Theodor WinneckeAssociate
Frank SchlesingerAssociate
Milton Lasell HumasonAssociate
Gen. Gustave-Auguste FerriéAssociate
Aristarch Apollonievic BelopolskyAssociate
Charles Dillon PerrineAssociate
Sears Cook WalkerAssociate
Andrei Borisovich SevernyAssociate
Virpi NiemelaAssociate
Johann Friedrich Julius SchmidtAssociate
Marie Henri AndoyerAssociate
Giovanni CeloriaAssociate
Jean Abraham Chrétien OudemansAssociate
Abbé Henri GrégoireAssociate
Gaetano CacciatoreAssociate
Cyrille Joseph SouillartAssociate
Eduard SchönfeldAssociate
Nils Christofer DunérAssociate
Hans Georg KienleAssociate
Annibale de GasparisAssociate
Thaddeus BanachiewiczAssociate
Niccolò CacciatoreAssociate
Marcel Gilles Jozef MinnaertAssociate
Robert EmdenAssociate
Charles Joseph C1728‰tienne WolfAssociate
Pierre DaussyAssociate
Charles Augustus YoungAssociate
Otto Hermann Leopold HeckmannAssociate
Ormsby MacKnight MitchelAssociate
Johann Franz EnckeAssociate
Richard SchorrAssociate
Jean François AragoAssociate
Marie Alfred CornuAssociate
Pietro TacchiniAssociate
Hisashi KimuraAssociate
Carl Frederick GaussAssociate
Armin Otto LeuschnerAssociate
Christian August Friedrich PetersAssociate
(Johann) Rudolf WolfAssociate
Carl Wolfgang Benjamin GoldschmidtAssociate
George William HillAssociate
Jens Frederik Wilhelm SchroeterAssociate
William Joseph HusseyAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm August ArgelanderAssociate
Daniel ChalongeAssociate
Jules Henri PoincaréAssociate
Jean Alfred GautierAssociate
Fritz CohnAssociate
Samuel Alfred MitchellAssociate
Christian Heinrich Friedrich PetersAssociate
Pierre Henri PuiseuxAssociate
Johann von [John] LamontAssociate
Hermann GoldschmidtAssociate
Herman SchultzAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Albrecht Otto Johannes UnsöldAssociate
Siméon Denis PoissonAssociate
Urbain Jean Joseph Le VerrierAssociate