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
(Carl Hermann) Gustav MüllerAssociate
William Wallace CampbellAssociate
Antoine François Joseph Yvon VillarceauAssociate
Hervé Étienne Auguste Albans FayeAssociate
Jean Charles Rodolphe RadauAssociate
Marian Albertovich Kowalksi (Kovalsky)Associate
Camille Guillaume BigourdanAssociate
Giovan Battista DonatiAssociate
George Ellery HaleAssociate
Jean Louis PonsAssociate
Johann Gottfried GalleAssociate
Jean Abraham Chrétien OudemansAssociate
Maurice LoewyAssociate
Eduard HeisAssociate
Asaph HallAssociate
Annibale RiccòAssociate
Count Philippe Gustave Doulcet PontécoulantAssociate
Iosif Samuilovich ShklovskiiAssociate
Adrien-Marie LegendreAssociate
Carl Vilhelm Ludvig CharlierAssociate
Johannes Franz HartmannAssociate
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
Carl Nicolaus Adalbert KruegerAssociate
Dirk BrouwerAssociate
Ernesto CapocciAssociate
Marcel Gilles Jozef MinnaertAssociate
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
Gen. Ferdinando ViscontiAssociate
Jean Felix Adolphe GambartAssociate
Boris Vasilievich KukarkinAssociate
Jean-Baptiste BiotAssociate
Friedrich Robert HelmertAssociate
Ormsby MacKnight MitchelAssociate
Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht TempelAssociate
Hermann Carl VogelAssociate
Arnold Wolfendale
David Le Conte
Jack Meadows
Leon Knopoff
Mark Birkinshaw