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
Svante Elis StrömgrenAssociate
Herman SchultzAssociate
Jean DufayAssociate
Ejnar HertzsprungAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm BesselAssociate
Solomon Borisovich Pikel’nerAssociate
George Ellery HaleAssociate
Urbain Jean Joseph Le VerrierAssociate
Jean François AragoAssociate
George Phillips BondAssociate
Friedrich August Theodor WinneckeAssociate
François Félix TisserandAssociate
Heinrich Christian SchumacherAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav SpörerAssociate
Asaph HallAssociate
Francis (Francesco) de VicoAssociate
Pierre Jules Cé+C774sar JanssenAssociate
Augustus Ludovick BuschAssociate
Edward Singleton HoldenAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm August ArgelanderAssociate
William Cranch BondAssociate
Virpi NiemelaAssociate
Paul Henri StroobantAssociate
Adolf Christian Wilhelm SchurAssociate
Johannes Franz HartmannAssociate
Hervé Étienne Auguste Albans FayeAssociate
Magnus NyrénAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Hans LudendorffAssociate
Heinrich Louis D’ArrestAssociate
Alfred Harrison JoyAssociate
Carlo BrioschiAssociate
Lewis Morris RutherfurdAssociate
Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm KlinkerfuesAssociate
Johann Gottfried GalleAssociate
Antonio MarussiAssociate
Paul Auguste Ernest LaugierAssociate
Antoine François Joseph Yvon VillarceauAssociate
Harlow ShapleyAssociate
Karl SchwarzschildAssociate
Milton Lasell HumasonAssociate
Charles Joseph C1728‰tienne WolfAssociate
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Friedrich Magnus SchwerdAssociate
Jean Felix Adolphe GambartAssociate
Carl Theodor Robert LutherAssociate
Frederik KaiserAssociate
Charles Augustus YoungAssociate
Lorenzo RespighiAssociate
Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo PlanaAssociate
Karl Hermann StruveAssociate
William Wilson MorganAssociate
Gen. Gustave-Auguste FerriéAssociate
Eduard LutherAssociate
Nils Christofer DunérAssociate
Michael KamienskiAssociate
Gen. Ferdinando ViscontiAssociate
Emile PlantamourAssociate
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
Bertil LindbladAssociate
(Johann) Rudolf WolfAssociate
Yngve ÖhmanAssociate
Pierre DaussyAssociate
Ludwig Franz Benedikt BiermannAssociate
Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht TempelAssociate
Hermann Carl VogelAssociate
Otto Hermann Leopold HeckmannAssociate
Otto Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Charles Dillon PerrineAssociate
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
Annibale de GasparisAssociate
Robert EmdenAssociate
Baron Bernhard August von LindenauAssociate
Lewis BossAssociate
Alfred WolferAssociate
Abbé Henri GrégoireAssociate
Claude Louis MathieuAssociate
Pietro CaturegliAssociate
George William HillAssociate
William Joseph HusseyAssociate
Robert Grant AitkenAssociate
Baron Franz Xaver von ZachAssociate
Annibale RiccòAssociate
Karl Friedrich KnorreAssociate
Gerald Maurice ClemenceAssociate
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
Carl Frederick GaussAssociate
James Edward KeelerAssociate
Georges LecointeAssociate
Carl Theodor AlbrechtAssociate
Camille Guillaume BigourdanAssociate
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
Johann Franz EnckeAssociate
Wilhelm DöllenAssociate
Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur AuwersAssociate