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
Iosif Samuilovich ShklovskiiAssociate
Johann Joseph von LittrowAssociate
George Washington HoughAssociate
Paul GuthnickAssociate
Jean Marie François Joseph CoulombAssociate
Edouard Benjamin BaillaudAssociate
Hugo von SeeligerAssociate
Sears Cook WalkerAssociate
Karl Ludwig von LittrowAssociate
Marian Albertovich Kowalksi (Kovalsky)Associate
Charles Greeley AbbotAssociate
Svein RosselandAssociate
Lambert Adolphe Jacques QueteletAssociate
Theodor Ritter von OppolzerAssociate
Cmdr Matthew Fontaine MauryAssociate
Baron Marie Charles Théodore DamoiseauAssociate
Hubert Anson NewtonAssociate
Johann Heinrich von MädlerAssociate
Johan August Hugo GyldénAssociate
Bruno Benedetto RossiAssociate
Count Barnaba OrianiAssociate
Felix-Victor MauvaisAssociate
Adrien-Marie LegendreAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Julius BauschingerAssociate
Giovanni Sante Gaspero SantiniAssociate
Jean Louis PonsAssociate
Carl Nicolaus Adalbert KruegerAssociate
Rev. Johann Georg HagenAssociate
William Lewis ElkinAssociate
Willem de SitterAssociate
Antonio AbettiAssociate
Jean Charles Rodolphe RadauAssociate
Viktor Amazaspovich AmbartsumianAssociate
Palm Henry Lewis Pruss von BoguslawskiAssociate
Don Felipe BauzáAssociate
Count Philippe Gustave Doulcet PontécoulantAssociate
Boris Vasilievich KukarkinAssociate
Mathieu Prosper HenryAssociate
Henri Alexandre DeslandresAssociate
Giorgio AbettiAssociate
Theodor Alexandrovitch BredichinAssociate
(Carl Hermann) Gustav MüllerAssociate
Jean DufayAssociate
Giovanni Battista AmiciAssociate
Friedrich KüstnerAssociate
Paul Pierre HenryAssociate
George Ellery HaleAssociate
Pietro TacchiniAssociate
Jean Abraham Chrétien OudemansAssociate
George Willis RitcheyAssociate
Asaph HallAssociate
Francis (Francesco) de VicoAssociate
Augustus Ludovick BuschAssociate
Hendrik Gerard van de Sande BakhuyzenAssociate
Carl BremikerAssociate
Henry Augustus RowlandAssociate
Johannes Franz HartmannAssociate
Hervé Étienne Auguste Albans FayeAssociate
Heinrich Louis D’ArrestAssociate
Marcel Gilles Jozef MinnaertAssociate
León Herrero y GarcíaAssociate
Albrecht Otto Johannes UnsöldAssociate
Johann Georg von SoldnerAssociate
Guiseppe PiazziAssociate
Johann Gottfried GalleAssociate
Marie Henri AndoyerAssociate
Carl Christian BruhnsAssociate
Brian JacobAssociate
Julius ScheinerAssociate
Ormsby MacKnight MitchelAssociate
Maurice LoewyAssociate
Edmund WeissAssociate
Harold Clayton UreyAssociate
Daniel Alberto ValencioAssociate
Andrei Borisovich SevernyAssociate
Hans Georg KienleAssociate
Giovanni Virginio SchiaparelliAssociate
Thaddeus BanachiewiczAssociate
Maximilian Ritter von WeisseAssociate
Baron Fabian Jacob WredeAssociate
Cyrille Joseph SouillartAssociate
Edward Charles PickeringAssociate
Jean Felix Adolphe GambartAssociate
William Otto BrunnerAssociate
Hans Carl Frederik Christian SchjellerupAssociate
Samuel Alfred MitchellAssociate
William Henry PickeringAssociate
Hisashi KimuraAssociate
Gen. Gustave-Auguste FerriéAssociate
Nils Christofer DunérAssociate
Jean François AragoAssociate
George Phillips BondAssociate
Gerhard MüllerAssociate
Frank SchlesingerAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm BesselAssociate
Pierre DaussyAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm August ArgelanderAssociate
William Cranch BondAssociate
Friedrich TietjenAssociate