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
Jack Meadows
Leon Knopoff
Arnold Wolfendale
David Le Conte
Armin Otto LeuschnerAssociate
Daniel Alberto ValencioAssociate
Andrei Borisovich SevernyAssociate
Marq. Pierre Simon de LaplaceAssociate
Giovan Battista DonatiAssociate
Dirk BrouwerAssociate
Giovanni Virginio SchiaparelliAssociate
Giovanni CeloriaAssociate
Johann Karl Friedrich ZöllnerAssociate
Cyrille Joseph SouillartAssociate
Edward Charles PickeringAssociate
Marie Henri AndoyerAssociate
Ernest Benjamin EsclangonAssociate
Gaetano CacciatoreAssociate
Jean-Baptiste BiotAssociate
Hans Carl Frederik Christian SchjellerupAssociate
Samuel Alfred MitchellAssociate
Thaddeus BanachiewiczAssociate
Urbain Jean Joseph Le VerrierAssociate
William Henry PickeringAssociate
Ejnar HertzsprungAssociate
Niccolò CacciatoreAssociate
Frank SchlesingerAssociate
Pierre Jules Cé+C774sar JanssenAssociate
Edward Singleton HoldenAssociate
Carl Wolfgang Benjamin GoldschmidtAssociate
Friedrich TietjenAssociate
Johann Friedrich Julius SchmidtAssociate
Gerard MollAssociate
Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm KlinkerfuesAssociate
Marie Alfred CornuAssociate
Nathaniel BowditchAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Takesi NagataAssociate
Jean François AragoAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Hans LudendorffAssociate
Alfred Harrison JoyAssociate
Hermann GoldschmidtAssociate
Anders Severin DonnerAssociate
Eduard SchönfeldAssociate
Didrik Magnus Axel MöllerAssociate
Daniel ChalongeAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm August ArgelanderAssociate
Antonio MarussiAssociate
Paul Auguste Ernest LaugierAssociate
Julius Heinrich G. FranzAssociate
Peter Andreas HansenAssociate
Fritz CohnAssociate
Aristarch Apollonievic BelopolskyAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Milton Lasell HumasonAssociate
Joseph von FraunhoferAssociate
Richard SchorrAssociate
Charles Eugène DelaunayAssociate
Carl Theodor Robert LutherAssociate
Frederik KaiserAssociate
Heber Doust CurtisAssociate
Jens Frederik Wilhelm SchroeterAssociate
Benjamin PeirceAssociate
Bertil LindbladAssociate
Eugène Joseph DelporteAssociate
Seth Carlo ChandlerAssociate
Solomon Borisovich Pikel’nerAssociate
Eduard LutherAssociate
Michael KamienskiAssociate
Karl Ludwig HardingAssociate
Svante Elis StrömgrenAssociate
Herman SchultzAssociate
Otto Hermann Leopold HeckmannAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav SpörerAssociate
William Wallace CampbellAssociate
François Félix TisserandAssociate
Heinrich Christian SchumacherAssociate
Adolf Christian Wilhelm SchurAssociate
Magnus NyrénAssociate
Baron Bernhard August von LindenauAssociate
Lewis Morris RutherfurdAssociate
Walter Ernst FrickeAssociate
Paul Henri StroobantAssociate
Karl Friedrich KnorreAssociate
Baron Ercole DembowskiAssociate
Brian JacobAssociate
Antoine François Joseph Yvon VillarceauAssociate
Harlow ShapleyAssociate
Claude Louis MathieuAssociate
George William HillAssociate
William Joseph HusseyAssociate
Edmund WeissAssociate
Karl SchwarzschildAssociate
Carl Vilhelm Ludvig CharlierAssociate
James Edward KeelerAssociate
Georges LecointeAssociate
Edwin Brant FrostAssociate
Francisco Miranda da Costa LôboAssociate
Ernesto CapocciAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate