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
Didrik Magnus Axel MöllerAssociate
Lewis BossAssociate
Christian August Friedrich PetersAssociate
Daniel Alberto ValencioAssociate
Andrei Borisovich SevernyAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Takesi NagataAssociate
Urbain Jean Joseph Le VerrierAssociate
Solon Irving BaileyAssociate
Augustus Ludovick BuschAssociate
Eduard HeisAssociate
Christian Heinrich Friedrich PetersAssociate
Pierre Henri PuiseuxAssociate
Baron Franz Xaver von ZachAssociate
Cyrille Joseph SouillartAssociate
Frederik KaiserAssociate
Jules Henri PoincaréAssociate
Alfred WolferAssociate
Edouard Benjamin BaillaudAssociate
Paul GuthnickAssociate
Baron Marie Charles Théodore DamoiseauAssociate
Adolphus Cornelius PetersenAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Hans LudendorffAssociate
William Lewis ElkinAssociate
Willem de SitterAssociate
Michael KamienskiAssociate
Camille Guillaume BigourdanAssociate
Siméon Denis PoissonAssociate
Charles Greeley AbbotAssociate
Friedrich TietjenAssociate
Annibale RiccòAssociate
Friedrich Robert HelmertAssociate
Antonio MarussiAssociate
Henri Alexandre DeslandresAssociate
Johan August Hugo GyldénAssociate
Jack Meadows
Leon Knopoff
Arnold Wolfendale
David Le Conte