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
Arnold Wolfendale
David Le Conte
Jack Meadows
Leon Knopoff
Svante Elis StrömgrenAssociate
Herman SchultzAssociate
Ejnar HertzsprungAssociate
Solomon Borisovich Pikel’nerAssociate
Giovanni Battista AmiciAssociate
Urbain Jean Joseph Le VerrierAssociate
Jean Felix Adolphe GambartAssociate
Friedrich August Theodor WinneckeAssociate
François Félix TisserandAssociate
Heinrich Christian SchumacherAssociate
Hendrik Gerard van de Sande BakhuyzenAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav SpörerAssociate
Pierre Jules Cé+C774sar JanssenAssociate
Edward Singleton HoldenAssociate
Gen. Gustave-Auguste FerriéAssociate
Nils Christofer DunérAssociate
Virpi NiemelaAssociate
Paul Henri StroobantAssociate
Adolf Christian Wilhelm SchurAssociate
Magnus NyrénAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Hans LudendorffAssociate
Alfred Harrison JoyAssociate
Lewis Morris RutherfurdAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm KlinkerfuesAssociate
Pierre DaussyAssociate
Theodor Alexandrovitch BredichinAssociate
Antonio MarussiAssociate
Paul Auguste Ernest LaugierAssociate
Antoine François Joseph Yvon VillarceauAssociate
Harlow ShapleyAssociate
Palm Henry Lewis Pruss von BoguslawskiAssociate
Marie Henri AndoyerAssociate
Annibale de GasparisAssociate
Karl SchwarzschildAssociate
Thaddeus BanachiewiczAssociate
Milton Lasell HumasonAssociate
Robert EmdenAssociate
Abbé Henri GrégoireAssociate
Charles Joseph C1728‰tienne WolfAssociate
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Augustus Ludovick BuschAssociate
Friedrich Magnus SchwerdAssociate
Carl BremikerAssociate
Carl Theodor Robert LutherAssociate
Frederik KaiserAssociate
Charles Augustus YoungAssociate
Lorenzo RespighiAssociate
Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo PlanaAssociate
Emile PlantamourAssociate
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
Jean François AragoAssociate
Bertil LindbladAssociate
Carl Frederick GaussAssociate
Karl Hermann StruveAssociate
William Wilson MorganAssociate
Eduard LutherAssociate
Michael KamienskiAssociate
Johann Franz EnckeAssociate
Wilhelm DöllenAssociate
Gen. Ferdinando ViscontiAssociate
Carl Christian BruhnsAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm August ArgelanderAssociate
Otto Hermann Leopold HeckmannAssociate
Jean Alfred GautierAssociate
(Johann) Rudolf WolfAssociate
Yngve ÖhmanAssociate
Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht TempelAssociate
Hermann Carl VogelAssociate
Baron Bernhard August von LindenauAssociate
Otto Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Charles Dillon PerrineAssociate
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
Giovan Battista DonatiAssociate
Annibale RiccòAssociate
William Otto BrunnerAssociate
Karl Friedrich KnorreAssociate
Alfred WolferAssociate
Claude Louis MathieuAssociate
George William HillAssociate
William Joseph HusseyAssociate
Carl Wolfgang Benjamin GoldschmidtAssociate
Ernest Benjamin EsclangonAssociate
Baron Franz Xaver von ZachAssociate
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
George Phillips BondAssociate
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm BesselAssociate
James Edward KeelerAssociate
Georges LecointeAssociate
Hermann GoldschmidtAssociate
Bohumil SternberkAssociate
William Cranch BondAssociate
Eduard HeisAssociate