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
Niccolò CacciatoreAssociate
Otto Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Charles Dillon PerrineAssociate
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
Hannes Olof Gösta AlfvénAssociate
Lewis BossAssociate
Baron Bernhard August von LindenauAssociate
Alexander Dallas BacheAssociate
Alfred WolferAssociate
Claude Louis MathieuAssociate
George William HillAssociate
William Joseph HusseyAssociate
Baron Franz Xaver von ZachAssociate
Annibale RiccòAssociate
Karl Friedrich KnorreAssociate
Camille Guillaume BigourdanAssociate
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
James Edward KeelerAssociate
Georges LecointeAssociate
Marie Alfred CornuAssociate
Anders Severin DonnerAssociate
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
Johan Oskar BacklundAssociate
Fritz CohnAssociate
Charles TrépiedAssociate
Daniel ChalongeAssociate
Julius Heinrich G. FranzAssociate
Bohumil SternberkAssociate
Eduard HeisAssociate
Dirk BrouwerAssociate
Frederick Hanley SearesAssociate
Christian August Friedrich PetersAssociate
Benjamin Apthorp GouldAssociate
Joseph von FraunhoferAssociate
Hermann Albert KoboldAssociate
Jean-Baptiste BiotAssociate
Charles Eugène DelaunayAssociate
Pietro Angelo SecchiAssociate
Christian Heinrich Friedrich PetersAssociate
Pierre Henri PuiseuxAssociate
Ottaviano Fabrizio MossottiAssociate
Heber Doust CurtisAssociate
Johann Karl Friedrich ZöllnerAssociate
Jules Henri PoincaréAssociate
Alexander Alexandrovich MikhailovAssociate
Simon NewcombAssociate
Friedrich Robert HelmertAssociate
Eugène Joseph DelporteAssociate
Adolphus Cornelius PetersenAssociate
Adm. Ernest Amédée Barthélémy MouchezAssociate
Seth Carlo ChandlerAssociate
John Macon ThomeAssociate
Siméon Denis PoissonAssociate
Solon Irving BaileyAssociate
William Wallace CampbellAssociate
Hugo von SeeligerAssociate
Iosif Samuilovich ShklovskiiAssociate
Johann Joseph von LittrowAssociate
George Washington HoughAssociate
Edouard Benjamin BaillaudAssociate
Paul GuthnickAssociate
Svein RosselandAssociate
Lambert Adolphe Jacques QueteletAssociate
Theodor Ritter von OppolzerAssociate
Cmdr Matthew Fontaine MauryAssociate
Walter Ernst FrickeAssociate
Nathaniel BowditchAssociate
Sears Cook WalkerAssociate
Karl Ludwig von LittrowAssociate
Marian Albertovich Kowalksi (Kovalsky)Associate
Charles Greeley AbbotAssociate
Johan August Hugo GyldénAssociate
Baron Ercole DembowskiAssociate
Bruno Benedetto RossiAssociate
Count Barnaba OrianiAssociate
Felix-Victor MauvaisAssociate
Hubert Anson NewtonAssociate
Johann Heinrich von MädlerAssociate
Carl Nicolaus Adalbert KruegerAssociate
Antonio AbettiAssociate
Rev. Johann Georg HagenAssociate
Ernesto CapocciAssociate
Jean Charles Rodolphe RadauAssociate
Adrien-Marie LegendreAssociate
Julius BauschingerAssociate
Carl Vilhelm Ludvig CharlierAssociate
Aristarch Apollonievic BelopolskyAssociate
Edwin Brant FrostAssociate
Francisco Miranda da Costa LôboAssociate
Giovanni Sante Gaspero SantiniAssociate
Jean Louis PonsAssociate
Boris Vasilievich KukarkinAssociate
Mathieu Prosper HenryAssociate
Giorgio AbettiAssociate