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
Johann Franz EnckeAssociate
Wilhelm DöllenAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Armin Otto LeuschnerAssociate
Carl Frederick GaussAssociate
Richard SchorrAssociate
Marq. Pierre Simon de LaplaceAssociate
Jean Alfred GautierAssociate
Jens Frederik Wilhelm SchroeterAssociate
Benjamin PeirceAssociate
Ejnar HertzsprungAssociate
Giovan Battista DonatiAssociate
Solomon Borisovich Pikel’nerAssociate
Urbain Jean Joseph Le VerrierAssociate
Svante Elis StrömgrenAssociate
Herman SchultzAssociate
Carl Wolfgang Benjamin GoldschmidtAssociate
Ernest Benjamin EsclangonAssociate
Gaetano CacciatoreAssociate
Ludwig Franz Benedikt BiermannAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav SpörerAssociate
Pierre Jules Cé+C774sar JanssenAssociate
Edward Singleton HoldenAssociate
Giovanni CeloriaAssociate
Friedrich August Theodor WinneckeAssociate
François Félix TisserandAssociate
Heinrich Christian SchumacherAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Hans LudendorffAssociate
Alfred Harrison JoyAssociate
Hermann GoldschmidtAssociate
Niccolò CacciatoreAssociate
Lewis Morris RutherfurdAssociate
Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm KlinkerfuesAssociate
Lewis BossAssociate
Virpi NiemelaAssociate
Paul Henri StroobantAssociate
Adolf Christian Wilhelm SchurAssociate
Magnus NyrénAssociate
Antonio MarussiAssociate
Paul Auguste Ernest LaugierAssociate
Peter Andreas HansenAssociate
Robert Grant AitkenAssociate
Antoine François Joseph Yvon VillarceauAssociate
Harlow ShapleyAssociate
Milton Lasell HumasonAssociate
Anders Severin DonnerAssociate
Carl Theodor AlbrechtAssociate
Camille Guillaume BigourdanAssociate
Marie Alfred CornuAssociate
Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur AuwersAssociate
Karl SchwarzschildAssociate
Friedrich Magnus SchwerdAssociate
Carl Theodor Robert LutherAssociate
Frederik KaiserAssociate
Julius Heinrich G. FranzAssociate
Fritz CohnAssociate
Julius BartelsAssociate
Charles Augustus YoungAssociate
Lorenzo RespighiAssociate
Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo PlanaAssociate
Daniel ChalongeAssociate
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter BaadeAssociate
Charles Joseph C1728‰tienne WolfAssociate
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Karl Hermann StruveAssociate
William Wilson MorganAssociate
Eduard LutherAssociate
Michael KamienskiAssociate
Karl Ludwig HardingAssociate
Joseph von FraunhoferAssociate
Dirk BrouwerAssociate
Gen. Ferdinando ViscontiAssociate
Emile PlantamourAssociate
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
Bertil LindbladAssociate
Yngve ÖhmanAssociate
Heber Doust CurtisAssociate
Jean-Baptiste BiotAssociate
Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht TempelAssociate
Hermann Carl VogelAssociate
Otto Hermann Leopold HeckmannAssociate
Charles Eugène DelaunayAssociate
(Johann) Rudolf WolfAssociate
Otto Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Charles Dillon PerrineAssociate
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
Hannes Olof Gösta AlfvénAssociate
Baron Bernhard August von LindenauAssociate
Eugène Joseph DelporteAssociate
Seth Carlo ChandlerAssociate
Alexander Dallas BacheAssociate
Alfred WolferAssociate
Claude Louis MathieuAssociate
George William HillAssociate
William Joseph HusseyAssociate
William Wallace CampbellAssociate