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
León Herrero y GarcíaAssociate
William Lewis ElkinAssociate
Marian Albertovich Kowalksi (Kovalsky)Associate
Thaddeus BanachiewiczAssociate
Eduard SchönfeldAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
Lambert Adolphe Jacques QueteletAssociate
Theodor Alexandrovitch BredichinAssociate
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Palm Henry Lewis Pruss von BoguslawskiAssociate
Paul GuthnickAssociate
Charles TrépiedAssociate
Jean Abraham Chrétien OudemansAssociate
Carl Nicolaus Adalbert KruegerAssociate
Marcel Gilles Jozef MinnaertAssociate
Karl Hermann StruveAssociate
Jean Louis PonsAssociate
Richard SchorrAssociate
Adrien-Marie LegendreAssociate
Wilhelm DöllenAssociate
Jean François AragoAssociate
Jean Charles Rodolphe RadauAssociate
Johann Karl Friedrich ZöllnerAssociate
Carl BremikerAssociate
Boris Vasilievich KukarkinAssociate
Ormsby MacKnight MitchelAssociate
Count Philippe Gustave Doulcet PontécoulantAssociate
Jens Frederik Wilhelm SchroeterAssociate
Johan August Hugo GyldénAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm August ArgelanderAssociate
Friedrich KüstnerAssociate
John Macon ThomeAssociate
Otto Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Herman SchultzAssociate
Rev. Johann Georg HagenAssociate
Hervé Étienne Auguste Albans FayeAssociate
Giovan Battista DonatiAssociate
Samuel Alfred MitchellAssociate
Heinrich Christian SchumacherAssociate
Carl Christian BruhnsAssociate
Maurice LoewyAssociate
Johann Gottfried GalleAssociate
Lewis Morris RutherfurdAssociate
Sears Cook WalkerAssociate
Adolf Christian Wilhelm SchurAssociate
George Ellery HaleAssociate
Gerald Maurice ClemenceAssociate
Gerard MollAssociate
William Otto BrunnerAssociate
Asaph HallAssociate
Jean Felix Adolphe GambartAssociate
Pietro CaturegliAssociate
Bohumil SternberkAssociate
Guiseppe PiazziAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm BesselAssociate
Johannes Franz HartmannAssociate
Didrik Magnus Axel MöllerAssociate
Karl SchwarzschildAssociate
George Phillips BondAssociate
Gen. Gustave-Auguste FerriéAssociate
Hans Georg KienleAssociate
Anders Severin DonnerAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Takesi NagataAssociate
Lorenzo RespighiAssociate
Friedrich Magnus SchwerdAssociate
William Cranch BondAssociate
Edward Charles PickeringAssociate
William Henry PickeringAssociate
Ejnar HertzsprungAssociate
Carlo BrioschiAssociate
Robert EmdenAssociate
Annibale de GasparisAssociate
Hisashi KimuraAssociate
Pietro TacchiniAssociate
Gaetano CacciatoreAssociate
Charles Eugène DelaunayAssociate
Robert Grant AitkenAssociate
Edward Singleton HoldenAssociate
Giovanni CeloriaAssociate
Heber Doust CurtisAssociate
Iosif Samuilovich ShklovskiiAssociate
Armin Otto LeuschnerAssociate
Johann Franz EnckeAssociate
Niccolò CacciatoreAssociate
Johann von [John] LamontAssociate
Eugène Joseph DelporteAssociate
Carl Theodor AlbrechtAssociate
Carl Frederick GaussAssociate
Albrecht Otto Johannes UnsöldAssociate
Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur AuwersAssociate
Annibale RiccòAssociate
Brian JacobAssociate
Samuel Pierpont LangleyAssociate
Julius BartelsAssociate