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
Hermann Carl VogelAssociate
Otto Hermann Leopold HeckmannAssociate
Charles Eugène DelaunayAssociate
Niccolò CacciatoreAssociate
Otto Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Charles Dillon PerrineAssociate
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
Johan Oskar BacklundAssociate
Lewis BossAssociate
Baron Bernhard August von LindenauAssociate
Eugène Joseph DelporteAssociate
Alfred WolferAssociate
Claude Louis MathieuAssociate
George William HillAssociate
William Joseph HusseyAssociate
Baron Franz Xaver von ZachAssociate
Annibale RiccòAssociate
Karl Friedrich KnorreAssociate
Camille Guillaume BigourdanAssociate
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
James Edward KeelerAssociate
Georges LecointeAssociate
Walter Ernst FrickeAssociate
Marie Alfred CornuAssociate
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
Fritz CohnAssociate
Charles TrépiedAssociate
Daniel ChalongeAssociate
Bohumil SternberkAssociate
Eduard HeisAssociate
Baron Ercole DembowskiAssociate
Dirk BrouwerAssociate
Frederick Hanley SearesAssociate
Christian August Friedrich PetersAssociate
Benjamin Apthorp GouldAssociate
Edwin Brant FrostAssociate
Francisco Miranda da Costa LôboAssociate
Solon Irving BaileyAssociate
Hermann Albert KoboldAssociate
Jean-Baptiste BiotAssociate
Pietro Angelo SecchiAssociate
Christian Heinrich Friedrich PetersAssociate
Pierre Henri PuiseuxAssociate
Ottaviano Fabrizio MossottiAssociate
Edouard Benjamin BaillaudAssociate
Johann Karl Friedrich ZöllnerAssociate
Jules Henri PoincaréAssociate
Alexander Alexandrovich MikhailovAssociate
Simon NewcombAssociate
Friedrich Robert HelmertAssociate
Adolphus Cornelius PetersenAssociate
Adm. Ernest Amédée Barthélémy MouchezAssociate
Marie Paul Auguste Charles FabryAssociate
Charles Greeley AbbotAssociate
Seth Carlo ChandlerAssociate
John Macon ThomeAssociate
Siméon Denis PoissonAssociate
Wilhelm FoersterAssociate
André Joseph Alexandre CouderAssociate
William Wallace CampbellAssociate
Hugo von SeeligerAssociate
Iosif Samuilovich ShklovskiiAssociate
Johann Joseph von LittrowAssociate
George Washington HoughAssociate
Paul GuthnickAssociate
Jean Marie François Joseph CoulombAssociate
Julius BauschingerAssociate
Svein RosselandAssociate
Lambert Adolphe Jacques QueteletAssociate
Theodor Ritter von OppolzerAssociate
Cmdr Matthew Fontaine MauryAssociate
Antonio AbettiAssociate
Nathaniel BowditchAssociate
Sears Cook WalkerAssociate
Karl Ludwig von LittrowAssociate
Marian Albertovich Kowalksi (Kovalsky)Associate
Viktor Amazaspovich AmbartsumianAssociate
Don Felipe BauzáAssociate
Bruno Benedetto RossiAssociate
Count Barnaba OrianiAssociate
Felix-Victor MauvaisAssociate
Baron Marie Charles Théodore DamoiseauAssociate
Giorgio AbettiAssociate
Hubert Anson NewtonAssociate
Johann Heinrich von MädlerAssociate
Johan August Hugo GyldénAssociate
Rev. Johann Georg HagenAssociate
William Lewis ElkinAssociate
Willem de SitterAssociate
Giovanni Battista AmiciAssociate
Ernesto CapocciAssociate
Jean Charles Rodolphe RadauAssociate
Adrien-Marie LegendreAssociate
Carl Vilhelm Ludvig CharlierAssociate
Aristarch Apollonievic BelopolskyAssociate
Giovanni Sante Gaspero SantiniAssociate
Jean Louis PonsAssociate
Carl Nicolaus Adalbert KruegerAssociate