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
Wilhelm FoersterAssociate
Giovanni CeloriaAssociate
(Johann) Rudolf WolfAssociate
Yngve ÖhmanAssociate
Gaetano CacciatoreAssociate
Ludwig Franz Benedikt BiermannAssociate
Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht TempelAssociate
Hermann Carl VogelAssociate
George Washington HoughAssociate
Paul GuthnickAssociate
Lewis BossAssociate
Otto Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Charles Dillon PerrineAssociate
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
Niccolò CacciatoreAssociate
Baron Bernhard August von LindenauAssociate
Alfred WolferAssociate
Claude Louis MathieuAssociate
Baron Franz Xaver von ZachAssociate
Robert Grant AitkenAssociate
Annibale RiccòAssociate
Karl Friedrich KnorreAssociate
Johan August Hugo GyldénAssociate
Marie Alfred CornuAssociate
Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur AuwersAssociate
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
James Edward KeelerAssociate
Georges LecointeAssociate
Anders Severin DonnerAssociate
Carl Theodor AlbrechtAssociate
Camille Guillaume BigourdanAssociate
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
Rev. Johann Georg HagenAssociate
William Lewis ElkinAssociate
Daniel ChalongeAssociate
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter BaadeAssociate
Charles TrépiedAssociate
Fritz CohnAssociate
Julius BartelsAssociate
Bohumil SternberkAssociate
Mathieu Prosper HenryAssociate
George Ellery HaleAssociate
Frederick Hanley SearesAssociate
Christian August Friedrich PetersAssociate
Dirk BrouwerAssociate
Hermann Albert KoboldAssociate
Paul Pierre HenryAssociate
Asaph HallAssociate
Charles Eugène DelaunayAssociate
Pietro Angelo SecchiAssociate
Christian Heinrich Friedrich PetersAssociate
Pierre Henri PuiseuxAssociate
Ottaviano Fabrizio MossottiAssociate
Heber Doust CurtisAssociate
Johann Karl Friedrich ZöllnerAssociate
Jean-Baptiste BiotAssociate
Jules Henri PoincaréAssociate
Alexander Alexandrovich MikhailovAssociate
Simon NewcombAssociate
León Herrero y GarcíaAssociate
Eugène Joseph DelporteAssociate
Seth Carlo ChandlerAssociate
Alexander Dallas BacheAssociate
Adolphus Cornelius PetersenAssociate
Adm. Ernest Amédée Barthélémy MouchezAssociate
Johannes Franz HartmannAssociate
Hervé Étienne Auguste Albans FayeAssociate
Hannes Olof Gösta AlfvénAssociate
John Macon ThomeAssociate
Siméon Denis PoissonAssociate
Hugo von SeeligerAssociate
Johann Gottfried GalleAssociate
William Wallace CampbellAssociate
Iosif Samuilovich ShklovskiiAssociate
Johann Joseph von LittrowAssociate
Karl Ludwig von LittrowAssociate
Marian Albertovich Kowalksi (Kovalsky)Associate
Johan Oskar BacklundAssociate
Nathaniel BowditchAssociate
Svein RosselandAssociate
Lambert Adolphe Jacques QueteletAssociate
Theodor Ritter von OppolzerAssociate
Cmdr Matthew Fontaine MauryAssociate
Sears Cook WalkerAssociate
Hubert Anson NewtonAssociate
Johann Heinrich von MädlerAssociate
Baron Ercole DembowskiAssociate
Bruno Benedetto RossiAssociate
Count Barnaba OrianiAssociate
Felix-Victor MauvaisAssociate
Jean Felix Adolphe GambartAssociate
Giovanni Sante Gaspero SantiniAssociate
Jean Louis PonsAssociate
Carl Nicolaus Adalbert KruegerAssociate
Carl Vilhelm Ludvig CharlierAssociate
Aristarch Apollonievic BelopolskyAssociate
Jean Charles Rodolphe RadauAssociate
Adrien-Marie LegendreAssociate