- male
- James L. Quinn was an American science fiction editor. Quinn was the publisher of the science fiction magazine "If" and, after Paul W. Fairman left...
- male, deceased (1998)
- Peter Nilson was a Swedish astronomer and novelist. Active at Uppsala University, he compiled a catalogue of galaxies. He was appreciated for a...
- male, deceased (1918)
- George Mary Searle was an American astronomer and clergyman. He discovered the asteroid 55 Pandora in 1858. He also discovered six galaxies. In...
- female
- Reiki Kushida is a Japanese astronomer. She co-discovered the asteroid 4875 Ingalls. She has also discovered at least 14 supernovas in other...
- male, 85 years old
- Edwin Ernest Salpeter (born December 3 1924) is an Austrian-Australian-American astronomer. He emigrated from Austria to Australia while in his...
- male, 75 years old
- Hans-Emil Schuster is a German astronomer (retired since October 1991). He worked at Hamburg Observatory at Bergedorf and European Southern...
- male, 72 years old
- Massimo Lo Jacono was an Italian science fiction and fantasy writer born in 1937. In 1963 he was one of the editors of the science fiction magazine...
- male, deceased (1890)
- Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters was a German-American astronomer, and one of the first to discover asteroids. He was born in...
- male, deceased (1993)
- John Gatenby Bolton (June 5 1922 - July 6 1993) was a British-Australian astronomer from Sheffield, England. He attended King Edward VII School...
- male, deceased (1994)
- Boris Aleksandrovich Vorontsov-Velyaminov (February 14 1904 - January 27 1994) was a Soviet/Russian astrophysicist. His name is sometimes given as...
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