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
Arnold Wolfendale
David Le Conte
Jack Meadows
Leon Knopoff
Magnus NyrénAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Hans LudendorffAssociate
Herman SchultzAssociate
Daniel Alberto ValencioAssociate
Andrei Borisovich SevernyAssociate
Marq. Pierre Simon de LaplaceAssociate
André Joseph Alexandre CouderAssociate
Johan Oskar BacklundAssociate
Solomon Borisovich Pikel’nerAssociate
Rev. Johann Georg HagenAssociate
Antonio MarussiAssociate
Julius Heinrich G. FranzAssociate
Gerald Maurice ClemenceAssociate
Heinrich Christian SchumacherAssociate
Charles Augustus YoungAssociate
Mathieu Prosper HenryAssociate
Cyrille Joseph SouillartAssociate
Jean Marie François Joseph CoulombAssociate
Pietro CaturegliAssociate
Charles Joseph C1728‰tienne WolfAssociate
Joseph von FraunhoferAssociate
Adolf Christian Wilhelm SchurAssociate
Paul Pierre HenryAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Lewis Morris RutherfurdAssociate
George Ellery HaleAssociate
Carl Theodor Robert LutherAssociate
Friedrich TietjenAssociate
Pierre Jules Cé+C774sar JanssenAssociate
Theodor Alexandrovitch BredichinAssociate
Baron Marie Charles Théodore DamoiseauAssociate
Palm Henry Lewis Pruss von BoguslawskiAssociate
(Johann) Rudolf WolfAssociate
Asaph HallAssociate
William Wilson MorganAssociate
Eduard LutherAssociate
Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm KlinkerfuesAssociate
Karl SchwarzschildAssociate
León Herrero y GarcíaAssociate
Johannes Franz HartmannAssociate
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
Bertil LindbladAssociate
Alfred Harrison JoyAssociate
Solon Irving BaileyAssociate
Willem de SitterAssociate
Alfred WolferAssociate
Yngve ÖhmanAssociate
Carl BremikerAssociate
Gaetano CacciatoreAssociate
Friedrich Magnus SchwerdAssociate
Baron Franz Xaver von ZachAssociate
Paul Auguste Ernest LaugierAssociate
Edouard Benjamin BaillaudAssociate
Henri Alexandre DeslandresAssociate
Giovanni CeloriaAssociate
Lorenzo RespighiAssociate
Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo PlanaAssociate
Emile PlantamourAssociate
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
Jean DufayAssociate
Walter Ernst FrickeAssociate
Niccolò CacciatoreAssociate
Baron Bernhard August von LindenauAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Charles Greeley AbbotAssociate
Claude Louis MathieuAssociate
Frederik KaiserAssociate
Carl Christian BruhnsAssociate
Francis (Francesco) de VicoAssociate
Svante Elis StrömgrenAssociate
Heinrich Louis D’ArrestAssociate
Julius BauschingerAssociate
Edwin Brant FrostAssociate
Charles Dillon PerrineAssociate
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
Michael KamienskiAssociate
Antonio AbettiAssociate
Marie Alfred CornuAssociate
Annibale RiccòAssociate
François Félix TisserandAssociate
Viktor Amazaspovich AmbartsumianAssociate
Don Felipe BauzáAssociate
Fritz CohnAssociate
Johann Karl Friedrich ZöllnerAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav SpörerAssociate
Giorgio AbettiAssociate
William Otto BrunnerAssociate
Daniel ChalongeAssociate
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
Paul Henri StroobantAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm BesselAssociate
Giovanni Battista AmiciAssociate
Marie Paul Auguste Charles FabryAssociate
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
George Phillips BondAssociate
Wilhelm FoersterAssociate