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
Marie Paul Auguste Charles FabryAssociate
Antonio CollaAssociate
Adm. Ernest Amédée Barthélémy MouchezAssociate
Wilhelm FoersterAssociate
Willem de SitterAssociate
Benjamin Apthorp GouldAssociate
Johann Joseph von LittrowAssociate
Pierre Jules Cé+C774sar JanssenAssociate
Francisco CarliniAssociate
Baron Franz Xaver von ZachAssociate
George Willis RitcheyAssociate
Henri Alexandre DeslandresAssociate
Friedrich TietjenAssociate
George Washington HoughAssociate
Alfred WolferAssociate
Henry Augustus RowlandAssociate
Karl Ludwig von LittrowAssociate
Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm KlinkerfuesAssociate
Jean DufayAssociate
Theodor Ritter von OppolzerAssociate
Cmdr Matthew Fontaine MauryAssociate
Alfred Harrison JoyAssociate
Guiseppe PiazziAssociate
Hubert Anson NewtonAssociate
Johann Heinrich von MädlerAssociate
Paul GuthnickAssociate
Julius ScheinerAssociate
Count Barnaba OrianiAssociate
Felix-Victor MauvaisAssociate
Paul Auguste Ernest LaugierAssociate
Francis (Francesco) de VicoAssociate
Heinrich Louis D’ArrestAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Giovanni Virginio SchiaparelliAssociate
William Lewis ElkinAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Edward Charles PickeringAssociate
Robert Grant AitkenAssociate
Theodor Alexandrovitch BredichinAssociate
Johann Karl Friedrich ZöllnerAssociate
Johan August Hugo GyldénAssociate
Hans Carl Frederik Christian SchjellerupAssociate
(Carl Hermann) Gustav MüllerAssociate
Frederik KaiserAssociate
Palm Henry Lewis Pruss von BoguslawskiAssociate
Mathieu Prosper HenryAssociate
Paul Pierre HenryAssociate
Svante Elis StrömgrenAssociate
William Henry PickeringAssociate
Carl Theodor AlbrechtAssociate
Rev. Johann Georg HagenAssociate
Frank SchlesingerAssociate
Michael KamienskiAssociate
Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur AuwersAssociate
Augustus Ludovick BuschAssociate
François Félix TisserandAssociate
Julius BartelsAssociate
Carl BremikerAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav SpörerAssociate
Johann Friedrich Julius SchmidtAssociate
Jean Abraham Chrétien OudemansAssociate
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter BaadeAssociate
León Herrero y GarcíaAssociate
Paul Henri StroobantAssociate
Marcel Gilles Jozef MinnaertAssociate
Hervé Étienne Auguste Albans FayeAssociate
Nils Christofer DunérAssociate
George Ellery HaleAssociate
Eduard SchönfeldAssociate
Ormsby MacKnight MitchelAssociate
Maurice LoewyAssociate
Karl Friedrich KnorreAssociate
Johann Gottfried GalleAssociate
Pierre DaussyAssociate
Antoine François Joseph Yvon VillarceauAssociate
Harlow ShapleyAssociate
Asaph HallAssociate
Carl Christian BruhnsAssociate
Johannes Franz HartmannAssociate
Hannes Olof Gösta AlfvénAssociate
Richard SchorrAssociate
James Edward KeelerAssociate
Georges LecointeAssociate
Alexander Dallas BacheAssociate
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Samuel Alfred MitchellAssociate
Jean Felix Adolphe GambartAssociate
Jens Frederik Wilhelm SchroeterAssociate
Benjamin PeirceAssociate
William Otto BrunnerAssociate
Wilhelm DöllenAssociate
Karl Hermann StruveAssociate
Solomon Borisovich Pikel’nerAssociate
Hermann Albert KoboldAssociate
Gen. Gustave-Auguste FerriéAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm BesselAssociate