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
Guiseppe PiazziAssociate
Hannes Olof Gösta AlfvénAssociate
John Macon ThomeAssociate
Alexander Dallas BacheAssociate
Edwin Brant FrostAssociate
Michael KamienskiAssociate
Richard SchorrAssociate
Ottaviano Fabrizio MossottiAssociate
Otto Hermann Leopold HeckmannAssociate
Carl Theodor Robert LutherAssociate
Augustus Ludovick BuschAssociate
Alexander Alexandrovich MikhailovAssociate
Simon NewcombAssociate
Iosif Samuilovich ShklovskiiAssociate
Edward Charles PickeringAssociate
Jens Frederik Wilhelm SchroeterAssociate
Herman SchultzAssociate
Bertil LindbladAssociate
Nils Christofer DunérAssociate
Wilhelm FoersterAssociate
Adm. Ernest Amédée Barthélémy MouchezAssociate
Sears Cook WalkerAssociate
Johan Oskar BacklundAssociate
Eduard LutherAssociate
Karl Ludwig HardingAssociate
Marie Paul Auguste Charles FabryAssociate
William Henry PickeringAssociate
Heinrich Christian SchumacherAssociate
George William HillAssociate
William Joseph HusseyAssociate
Pierre DaussyAssociate
Karl Friedrich KnorreAssociate
Ludwig Franz Benedikt BiermannAssociate
Adolf Christian Wilhelm SchurAssociate
Lewis BossAssociate
Baron Bernhard August von LindenauAssociate
Theodor Ritter von OppolzerAssociate
Lewis Morris RutherfurdAssociate
James Edward KeelerAssociate
Georges LecointeAssociate
Count Barnaba OrianiAssociate
Eduard HeisAssociate
Claude Louis MathieuAssociate
Hubert Anson NewtonAssociate
Friedrich August Theodor WinneckeAssociate
Karl SchwarzschildAssociate
Pietro TacchiniAssociate
William Lewis ElkinAssociate
Hermann Albert KoboldAssociate
Solon Irving BaileyAssociate
Camille Guillaume BigourdanAssociate
Wilhelm DöllenAssociate
Virpi NiemelaAssociate
Friedrich Magnus SchwerdAssociate
(Carl Hermann) Gustav MüllerAssociate
Benjamin PeirceAssociate
Lorenzo RespighiAssociate
Edouard Benjamin BaillaudAssociate
Friedrich Robert HelmertAssociate
Solomon Borisovich Pikel’nerAssociate
Albrecht Otto Johannes UnsöldAssociate
Johann Georg von SoldnerAssociate
Charles Greeley AbbotAssociate
Dirk BrouwerAssociate
Benjamin Apthorp GouldAssociate
Giovan Battista DonatiAssociate
Harold Clayton UreyAssociate
Pietro CaturegliAssociate
Jean Abraham Chrétien OudemansAssociate
Charles Augustus YoungAssociate
Jean-Baptiste BiotAssociate
George Washington HoughAssociate
Gerald Maurice ClemenceAssociate
Charles Joseph C1728‰tienne WolfAssociate
Daniel Alberto ValencioAssociate
Julius BauschingerAssociate
Andrei Borisovich SevernyAssociate
Marian Albertovich Kowalksi (Kovalsky)Associate
Antonio AbettiAssociate
Hervé Étienne Auguste Albans FayeAssociate
Marcel Gilles Jozef MinnaertAssociate
(Johann) Rudolf WolfAssociate
Viktor Amazaspovich AmbartsumianAssociate
Don Felipe BauzáAssociate
Johann Joseph von LittrowAssociate
Paul GuthnickAssociate
Cyrille Joseph SouillartAssociate
Annibale RiccòAssociate
Giorgio AbettiAssociate
Johann Gottfried GalleAssociate
Ormsby MacKnight MitchelAssociate
Adrien-Marie LegendreAssociate
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
Giovanni Battista AmiciAssociate
Nathaniel BowditchAssociate
Karl Ludwig von LittrowAssociate
Carl Nicolaus Adalbert KruegerAssociate
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
Anders Severin DonnerAssociate
Cmdr Matthew Fontaine MauryAssociate