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
Marcel Gilles Jozef MinnaertAssociate
Eugène Joseph DelporteAssociate
Wilhelm FoersterAssociate
Maximilian Ritter von WeisseAssociate
Baron Fabian Jacob WredeAssociate
William Henry PickeringAssociate
Otto Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Michael KamienskiAssociate
George Ellery HaleAssociate
Robert Grant AitkenAssociate
Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht TempelAssociate
Hermann Carl VogelAssociate
Ormsby MacKnight MitchelAssociate
Asaph HallAssociate
Gerhard MüllerAssociate
Richard SchorrAssociate
Carl Theodor AlbrechtAssociate
Johannes Franz HartmannAssociate
Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur AuwersAssociate
Ludwig Franz Benedikt BiermannAssociate
Jens Frederik Wilhelm SchroeterAssociate
Bohumil SternberkAssociate
Julius BartelsAssociate
Karl Friedrich KnorreAssociate
Samuel Alfred MitchellAssociate
Baron Ercole DembowskiAssociate
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter BaadeAssociate
Francisco Miranda da Costa LôboAssociate
Herman SchultzAssociate
Armin Otto LeuschnerAssociate
William Lewis ElkinAssociate
Lewis BossAssociate
James Edward KeelerAssociate
Georges LecointeAssociate
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
Benjamin PeirceAssociate
Heinrich Christian SchumacherAssociate
Pietro CaturegliAssociate
Gerard MollAssociate
Gerald Maurice ClemenceAssociate
Charles TrépiedAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Takesi NagataAssociate
Camille Guillaume BigourdanAssociate
Adolf Christian Wilhelm SchurAssociate
Hannes Olof Gösta AlfvénAssociate
Hermann Albert KoboldAssociate
Urbain Jean Joseph Le VerrierAssociate
Didrik Magnus Axel MöllerAssociate
André Joseph Alexandre CouderAssociate
Solomon Borisovich Pikel’nerAssociate
Lewis Morris RutherfurdAssociate
Alexander Dallas BacheAssociate
Iosif Samuilovich ShklovskiiAssociate
Jean Marie François Joseph CoulombAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Hans LudendorffAssociate
Hervé Étienne Auguste Albans FayeAssociate
Ejnar HertzsprungAssociate
Dirk BrouwerAssociate
Karl SchwarzschildAssociate
John Macon ThomeAssociate
Johan Oskar BacklundAssociate
Antonio MarussiAssociate
Baron Marie Charles Théodore DamoiseauAssociate
Johann Gottfried GalleAssociate
Friedrich August Theodor WinneckeAssociate
Jean-Baptiste BiotAssociate
Friedrich Magnus SchwerdAssociate
Giovanni CeloriaAssociate
Abbé Henri GrégoireAssociate
Edward Singleton HoldenAssociate
Lorenzo RespighiAssociate
Gaetano CacciatoreAssociate
Virpi NiemelaAssociate
Marian Albertovich Kowalksi (Kovalsky)Associate
Sears Cook WalkerAssociate
Willem de SitterAssociate
Niccolò CacciatoreAssociate
Carl Theodor Robert LutherAssociate
Jean Felix Adolphe GambartAssociate
Henri Alexandre DeslandresAssociate
Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo PlanaAssociate
Adrien-Marie LegendreAssociate
Eduard LutherAssociate
Jean DufayAssociate
Gen. Gustave-Auguste FerriéAssociate
Milton Lasell HumasonAssociate
Marie Alfred CornuAssociate
Carl Nicolaus Adalbert KruegerAssociate
Bertil LindbladAssociate
Magnus NyrénAssociate
Emile PlantamourAssociate
Nathaniel BowditchAssociate
Solon Irving BaileyAssociate
Carl Wolfgang Benjamin GoldschmidtAssociate
Charles Joseph C1728‰tienne WolfAssociate
Daniel ChalongeAssociate
Boris Vasilievich KukarkinAssociate
Francis (Francesco) de VicoAssociate
Charles Augustus YoungAssociate