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
Jack Meadows
Leon Knopoff
Arnold Wolfendale
David Le Conte
Hans Georg KienleAssociate
Johannes Franz HartmannAssociate
Hervé Étienne Auguste Albans FayeAssociate
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
Bertil LindbladAssociate
André Joseph Alexandre CouderAssociate
Karl SchwarzschildAssociate
Karl Hermann StruveAssociate
Seth Carlo ChandlerAssociate
Charles Greeley AbbotAssociate
William Wilson MorganAssociate
Eduard LutherAssociate
Gen. Ferdinando ViscontiAssociate
William Wallace CampbellAssociate
Johann Gottfried GalleAssociate
Jean Marie François Joseph CoulombAssociate
Friedrich Magnus SchwerdAssociate
(Johann) Rudolf WolfAssociate
Carl Christian BruhnsAssociate
Yngve ÖhmanAssociate
Lorenzo RespighiAssociate
Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo PlanaAssociate
Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht TempelAssociate
Hermann Carl VogelAssociate
Hisashi KimuraAssociate
Julius BauschingerAssociate
Baron Bernhard August von LindenauAssociate
Otto Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Antonio AbettiAssociate
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
Emile PlantamourAssociate
Baron Franz Xaver von ZachAssociate
Viktor Amazaspovich AmbartsumianAssociate
Don Felipe BauzáAssociate
Jean Felix Adolphe GambartAssociate
Alfred WolferAssociate
William Otto BrunnerAssociate
Giorgio AbettiAssociate
Baron Marie Charles Théodore DamoiseauAssociate
Claude Louis MathieuAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm BesselAssociate
Ernesto CapocciAssociate
Giovanni Battista AmiciAssociate
Gen. Gustave-Auguste FerriéAssociate
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
Willem de SitterAssociate
Charles Dillon PerrineAssociate
George Phillips BondAssociate
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
Johann von [John] LamontAssociate
Carl Vilhelm Ludvig CharlierAssociate
Bohumil SternberkAssociate
Henri Alexandre DeslandresAssociate
William Cranch BondAssociate
Charles TrépiedAssociate
Samuel Pierpont LangleyAssociate
Hendrik Gerard van de Sande BakhuyzenAssociate
Annibale RiccòAssociate
Carlo BrioschiAssociate
Antonio CollaAssociate
Annibale de GasparisAssociate
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
Marq. Pierre Simon de LaplaceAssociate
Robert EmdenAssociate
Jean DufayAssociate
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
Johann Karl Friedrich ZöllnerAssociate
Francisco CarliniAssociate
Marie Henri AndoyerAssociate
Abbé Henri GrégoireAssociate
Alexander Alexandrovich MikhailovAssociate
Simon NewcombAssociate
Francis (Francesco) de VicoAssociate
Ottaviano Fabrizio MossottiAssociate
John Macon ThomeAssociate
Carl Frederick GaussAssociate
Frederick Hanley SearesAssociate
Christian August Friedrich PetersAssociate
Ejnar HertzsprungAssociate
Thaddeus BanachiewiczAssociate
Johann Franz EnckeAssociate
Adm. Ernest Amédée Barthélémy MouchezAssociate
Heinrich Louis D’ArrestAssociate
Jules Henri PoincaréAssociate
Iosif Samuilovich ShklovskiiAssociate
Pierre Jules Cé+C774sar JanssenAssociate
Edward Singleton HoldenAssociate
Jean Alfred GautierAssociate
Johann Joseph von LittrowAssociate
Pietro Angelo SecchiAssociate
Christian Heinrich Friedrich PetersAssociate
Pierre Henri PuiseuxAssociate
Cmdr Matthew Fontaine MauryAssociate
Siméon Denis PoissonAssociate
Sears Cook WalkerAssociate
Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm KlinkerfuesAssociate