- male, deceased (1817)
- Charles Messier was a French astronomer who in 1774 published a catalogue of 45 deep sky objects such as nebulae and star clusters. The purpose of...
- female
- In Greek mythology, several unrelated women went by the name Merope ("bee-mask" later reinterpreted as "honey-like" or eloquent), which may,...
- male
- Donald Figer is an American astronomer. He works at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he is a Professor, and Director of the Rochester...
- male, deceased (1912)
- Lewis Boss (1846-1912) was an American astronomer. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island. In 1870 he graduated from Dartmouth College, then went...
- male, deceased (1801)
- Johann Gottfried Koehler (December 15, 1745 - September 19, 1801) was a German astronomer who discovered a number of nebulae, star clusters, and...
- male
- Valentin D. Ivanov is a renowed astronomer, working in the European Southern Observatory, mainly at the La Silla site. Among his primary research...
- male, deceased (1865)
- William Henry Smyth (January 21, 1788 - September 9, 1865) was a British astronomer. He was the father of Charles Piazzi Smyth, Sir Warington...
- male, 95 years old
- Adriaan Blaauw (born April 12 1914, Amsterdam) is a Dutch astronomer. Blaauw studied in Leiden and Groningen. In the 1950s he worked a few years at...
- deceased (1961)
- Philibert Jacques Melotte was a British astronomer whose parents immigrated from Belgium. In 1908 he discovered a moon of Jupiter, today known as...
- male, deceased (1984)
- Alois Purgathofer, was a well known and respected Austrian astronomer at the Vienna Observatory from 1954 to 1984. He mainly worked on the...
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