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
Baron Fabian Jacob WredeAssociate
André Joseph Alexandre CouderAssociate
Charles Dillon PerrineAssociate
Otto Hermann Leopold HeckmannAssociate
Carl Theodor Robert LutherAssociate
Jean Marie François Joseph CoulombAssociate
Annibale de GasparisAssociate
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
Carl Nicolaus Adalbert KruegerAssociate
Gerhard MüllerAssociate
Eduard LutherAssociate
Dirk BrouwerAssociate
Robert EmdenAssociate
Adrien-Marie LegendreAssociate
Bertil LindbladAssociate
Johann Georg von SoldnerAssociate
Charles TrépiedAssociate
Boris Vasilievich KukarkinAssociate
Baron Marie Charles Théodore DamoiseauAssociate
Jean-Baptiste BiotAssociate
George William HillAssociate
William Joseph HusseyAssociate
Annibale RiccòAssociate
Carl Frederick GaussAssociate
Friedrich KüstnerAssociate
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
Johann Franz EnckeAssociate
Magnus NyrénAssociate
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
Willem de SitterAssociate
Christian August Friedrich PetersAssociate
Andrei Borisovich SevernyAssociate
Baron Bernhard August von LindenauAssociate
Gerald Maurice ClemenceAssociate
Robert Grant AitkenAssociate
Jean Alfred GautierAssociate
Eduard HeisAssociate
Abbé Henri GrégoireAssociate
Jules Henri PoincaréAssociate
Claude Louis MathieuAssociate
Pietro CaturegliAssociate
Henri Alexandre DeslandresAssociate
Christian Heinrich Friedrich PetersAssociate
Pierre Henri PuiseuxAssociate
Cyrille Joseph SouillartAssociate
Carl Theodor AlbrechtAssociate
Nathaniel BowditchAssociate
Frederick Hanley SearesAssociate
Jean DufayAssociate
Siméon Denis PoissonAssociate
Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur AuwersAssociate
John Macon ThomeAssociate
Adolphus Cornelius PetersenAssociate
Julius BartelsAssociate
Friedrich Robert HelmertAssociate
Pietro Angelo SecchiAssociate
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter BaadeAssociate
Ernest Benjamin EsclangonAssociate
Francis (Francesco) de VicoAssociate
Aristarch Apollonievic BelopolskyAssociate
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
Heinrich Louis D’ArrestAssociate
William Wilson MorganAssociate
Sears Cook WalkerAssociate
Hans Georg KienleAssociate
Lambert Adolphe Jacques QueteletAssociate
Gaetano CacciatoreAssociate
George Washington HoughAssociate
Hugo von SeeligerAssociate
Friedrich August Theodor WinneckeAssociate
Giovanni CeloriaAssociate
Yngve ÖhmanAssociate
Carl Wolfgang Benjamin GoldschmidtAssociate
Jean Charles Rodolphe RadauAssociate
Niccolò CacciatoreAssociate
Hannes Olof Gösta AlfvénAssociate
Svein RosselandAssociate
Virpi NiemelaAssociate
Jean Louis PonsAssociate
Alexander Dallas BacheAssociate
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
Hisashi KimuraAssociate
Hermann GoldschmidtAssociate
Johann Joseph von LittrowAssociate
Bruno Benedetto RossiAssociate
Count Philippe Gustave Doulcet PontécoulantAssociate
Julius Heinrich G. FranzAssociate
Peter Andreas HansenAssociate
Karl Ludwig von LittrowAssociate
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
Pietro TacchiniAssociate
Johann von [John] LamontAssociate
Nils Christofer DunérAssociate
Svante Elis StrömgrenAssociate
Cmdr Matthew Fontaine MauryAssociate
Marie Alfred CornuAssociate
Johan Oskar BacklundAssociate
Joseph von FraunhoferAssociate
Giovanni Sante Gaspero SantiniAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav SpörerAssociate