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
Paul Henri StroobantAssociate
Adolf Christian Wilhelm SchurAssociate
Magnus NyrénAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Hans LudendorffAssociate
Alfred Harrison JoyAssociate
Hermann GoldschmidtAssociate
Jean-Baptiste BiotAssociate
Antoine François Joseph Yvon VillarceauAssociate
Harlow ShapleyAssociate
Antonio MarussiAssociate
Paul Auguste Ernest LaugierAssociate
Peter Andreas HansenAssociate
Hannes Olof Gösta AlfvénAssociate
Seth Carlo ChandlerAssociate
Alexander Dallas BacheAssociate
Karl SchwarzschildAssociate
Milton Lasell HumasonAssociate
Anders Severin DonnerAssociate
William Wallace CampbellAssociate
Charles Augustus YoungAssociate
Lorenzo RespighiAssociate
Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo PlanaAssociate
Charles Joseph C1728‰tienne WolfAssociate
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Friedrich Magnus SchwerdAssociate
Carl Theodor Robert LutherAssociate
Frederik KaiserAssociate
Julius Heinrich G. FranzAssociate
Gen. Ferdinando ViscontiAssociate
Emile PlantamourAssociate
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
Bertil LindbladAssociate
Johan Oskar BacklundAssociate
Nathaniel BowditchAssociate
Karl Hermann StruveAssociate
William Wilson MorganAssociate
Eduard LutherAssociate
Michael KamienskiAssociate
Karl Ludwig HardingAssociate
Joseph von FraunhoferAssociate
Heber Doust CurtisAssociate
Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht TempelAssociate
Hermann Carl VogelAssociate
Otto Hermann Leopold HeckmannAssociate
Charles Eugène DelaunayAssociate
(Johann) Rudolf WolfAssociate
Yngve ÖhmanAssociate
Ernesto CapocciAssociate
Baron Bernhard August von LindenauAssociate
Eugène Joseph DelporteAssociate
Carl Vilhelm Ludvig CharlierAssociate
Aristarch Apollonievic BelopolskyAssociate
Otto Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Charles Dillon PerrineAssociate
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
Baron Franz Xaver von ZachAssociate
Annibale RiccòAssociate
Karl Friedrich KnorreAssociate
Alfred WolferAssociate
Claude Louis MathieuAssociate
George William HillAssociate
William Joseph HusseyAssociate
Walter Ernst FrickeAssociate
Antonio CollaAssociate
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
Solon Irving BaileyAssociate
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
James Edward KeelerAssociate
Georges LecointeAssociate
Francisco CarliniAssociate
Bohumil SternberkAssociate
Eduard HeisAssociate
Baron Ercole DembowskiAssociate
Edouard Benjamin BaillaudAssociate
Charles TrépiedAssociate
Benjamin Apthorp GouldAssociate
Edwin Brant FrostAssociate
Francisco Miranda da Costa LôboAssociate
Hermann Albert KoboldAssociate
Charles Greeley AbbotAssociate
Frederick Hanley SearesAssociate
Christian August Friedrich PetersAssociate
Ottaviano Fabrizio MossottiAssociate
Johann Karl Friedrich ZöllnerAssociate
Jules Henri PoincaréAssociate
Alexander Alexandrovich MikhailovAssociate
Simon NewcombAssociate
Friedrich Robert HelmertAssociate
Pietro Angelo SecchiAssociate
Christian Heinrich Friedrich PetersAssociate
Pierre Henri PuiseuxAssociate
Adolphus Cornelius PetersenAssociate
Adm. Ernest Amédée Barthélémy MouchezAssociate
Marie Paul Auguste Charles FabryAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Julius BauschingerAssociate
John Macon ThomeAssociate
Siméon Denis PoissonAssociate