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
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
Maximilian Ritter von WeisseAssociate
Baron Fabian Jacob WredeAssociate
Karl Ludwig von LittrowAssociate
Wilhelm FoersterAssociate
Giovanni Sante Gaspero SantiniAssociate
Hans Georg KienleAssociate
Magnus NyrénAssociate
Cmdr Matthew Fontaine MauryAssociate
Marie Paul Auguste Charles FabryAssociate
Charles TrépiedAssociate
Johann Heinrich von MädlerAssociate
Baron Marie Charles Théodore DamoiseauAssociate
William Otto BrunnerAssociate
Felix-Victor MauvaisAssociate
Willem de SitterAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm BesselAssociate
Hisashi KimuraAssociate
Gerhard MüllerAssociate
George Phillips BondAssociate
Milton Lasell HumasonAssociate
Henri Alexandre DeslandresAssociate
George Willis RitcheyAssociate
William Cranch BondAssociate
Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo PlanaAssociate
Carl Wolfgang Benjamin GoldschmidtAssociate
Robert Grant AitkenAssociate
Henry Augustus RowlandAssociate
Johann von [John] LamontAssociate
Carlo BrioschiAssociate
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur AuwersAssociate
William Lewis ElkinAssociate
John Macon ThomeAssociate
Jean DufayAssociate
Emile PlantamourAssociate
William Wilson MorganAssociate
Hermann GoldschmidtAssociate
Carl Theodor AlbrechtAssociate
Samuel Pierpont LangleyAssociate
Francis (Francesco) de VicoAssociate
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter BaadeAssociate
Otto Hermann Leopold HeckmannAssociate
Julius ScheinerAssociate
Yngve ÖhmanAssociate
Peter Andreas HansenAssociate
Julius BartelsAssociate
Marq. Pierre Simon de LaplaceAssociate
Charles Dillon PerrineAssociate
Giovanni Virginio SchiaparelliAssociate
Johann Georg von SoldnerAssociate
Sears Cook WalkerAssociate
Heinrich Louis D’ArrestAssociate
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
George William HillAssociate
William Joseph HusseyAssociate
Maurice LoewyAssociate
Gerald Maurice ClemenceAssociate
Hans Carl Frederik Christian SchjellerupAssociate
Pietro CaturegliAssociate
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
Alexander Dallas BacheAssociate
Frank SchlesingerAssociate
Andrei Borisovich SevernyAssociate
Karl Ludwig HardingAssociate
Hannes Olof Gösta AlfvénAssociate
Hervé Étienne Auguste Albans FayeAssociate
Ludwig Franz Benedikt BiermannAssociate
Eduard HeisAssociate
Johann Friedrich Julius SchmidtAssociate
Pierre Jules Cé+C774sar JanssenAssociate
Cyrille Joseph SouillartAssociate
Friedrich August Theodor WinneckeAssociate
Johann Gottfried GalleAssociate
Alfred Harrison JoyAssociate
Pietro TacchiniAssociate
Christian August Friedrich PetersAssociate
Johan Oskar BacklundAssociate
Eduard SchönfeldAssociate
Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm KlinkerfuesAssociate
Virpi NiemelaAssociate
Nils Christofer DunérAssociate
Lewis BossAssociate
Jean Felix Adolphe GambartAssociate
Giovanni CeloriaAssociate
Paul Auguste Ernest LaugierAssociate
Christian Heinrich Friedrich PetersAssociate
Pierre Henri PuiseuxAssociate
Alexander Alexandrovich MikhailovAssociate
Simon NewcombAssociate
Gaetano CacciatoreAssociate
Friedrich Robert HelmertAssociate
Pierre DaussyAssociate
Jules Henri PoincaréAssociate
Ottaviano Fabrizio MossottiAssociate
Gen. Gustave-Auguste FerriéAssociate