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
Leon Knopoff
Mark Birkinshaw
Arnold Wolfendale
David Le Conte
Jack Meadows
Jean François AragoAssociate
Walter Ernst FrickeAssociate
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
Sears Cook WalkerAssociate
Karl SchwarzschildAssociate
Hermann Albert KoboldAssociate
(Johann) Rudolf WolfAssociate
Carl Wolfgang Benjamin GoldschmidtAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm August ArgelanderAssociate
Lorenzo RespighiAssociate
Bohumil SternberkAssociate
William Otto BrunnerAssociate
Friedrich Magnus SchwerdAssociate
Guiseppe PiazziAssociate
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
Ejnar HertzsprungAssociate
Hermann GoldschmidtAssociate
Edwin Brant FrostAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm BesselAssociate
George Phillips BondAssociate
Wilhelm DöllenAssociate
Edward Charles PickeringAssociate
Alfred WolferAssociate
Peter Andreas HansenAssociate
Giovanni CeloriaAssociate
Edward Singleton HoldenAssociate
Baron Franz Xaver von ZachAssociate
William Cranch BondAssociate
Gaetano CacciatoreAssociate
William Henry PickeringAssociate
Pietro TacchiniAssociate
Marie Paul Auguste Charles FabryAssociate
Carlo BrioschiAssociate
Wilhelm FoersterAssociate
Marian Albertovich Kowalksi (Kovalsky)Associate
Niccolò CacciatoreAssociate
Giovan Battista DonatiAssociate
Alexander Alexandrovich MikhailovAssociate
Simon NewcombAssociate
Maurice LoewyAssociate
Annibale RiccòAssociate
Iosif Samuilovich ShklovskiiAssociate
Ottaviano Fabrizio MossottiAssociate
Milton Lasell HumasonAssociate
Karl Ludwig HardingAssociate
Albrecht Otto Johannes UnsöldAssociate
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
Adrien-Marie LegendreAssociate
Marie Alfred CornuAssociate
Adm. Ernest Amédée Barthélémy MouchezAssociate
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
Carl Nicolaus Adalbert KruegerAssociate
Harold Clayton UreyAssociate
Daniel ChalongeAssociate
Johann Karl Friedrich ZöllnerAssociate
Boris Vasilievich KukarkinAssociate
Fritz CohnAssociate
Anders Severin DonnerAssociate
Daniel Alberto ValencioAssociate
Theodor Ritter von OppolzerAssociate
William Lewis ElkinAssociate
Frederick Hanley SearesAssociate
Friedrich KüstnerAssociate
Hubert Anson NewtonAssociate
Ludwig Franz Benedikt BiermannAssociate
Benjamin PeirceAssociate
Count Barnaba OrianiAssociate
Otto Hermann Leopold HeckmannAssociate
Robert Grant AitkenAssociate
Pietro Angelo SecchiAssociate
Solomon Borisovich Pikel’nerAssociate
Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur AuwersAssociate
Seth Carlo ChandlerAssociate
Carl Theodor AlbrechtAssociate
Lewis BossAssociate
Hugo von SeeligerAssociate
William Wallace CampbellAssociate
Heber Doust CurtisAssociate
George William HillAssociate
William Joseph HusseyAssociate
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter BaadeAssociate
Charles Eugène DelaunayAssociate
(Carl Hermann) Gustav MüllerAssociate
Friedrich TietjenAssociate
Julius BartelsAssociate
Svein RosselandAssociate
Johann Georg von SoldnerAssociate
Benjamin Apthorp GouldAssociate
Hervé Étienne Auguste Albans FayeAssociate
Camille Guillaume BigourdanAssociate
Hans Georg KienleAssociate
Eugène Joseph DelporteAssociate
Armin Otto LeuschnerAssociate
Bruno Benedetto RossiAssociate
Johann Gottfried GalleAssociate