Famous astronomers
scientist who studies celestial bodies
1,612 people
Caroline Herschel
1750
– 1848
· Age 97
Deceased
Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers
1758
– 1840
· Age 81
Deceased
Ernst Abbe
1840
– 1905
· Age 64
Deceased
Nicolas Louis de Lacaille
1713
– 1762
· Age 49
Deceased
Victor Ambartsumian
1908
– 1996
· Age 87
Deceased
Percival Lowell
1855
– 1916
· Age 61
Deceased
Zhang Heng
0078
– 0139
· Age 61
Deceased
Michael Servetus
1511
– 1553
· Age 42
Deceased
Anders Jonas Ångström
1814
– 1874
· Age 59
Deceased
Siméon Denis Poisson
1781
– 1840
· Age 58
Deceased
Annie Jump Cannonn
1863
– 1941
· Age 77
Deceased
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
1657
– 1757
· Age 99
Deceased
George Gamow
1904
– 1968
· Age 64
Deceased
Johannes Hevelius
1611
– 1687
· Age 76
Deceased
Bhāskara II
1114
– 1185
· Age 71
Deceased
Ronald Fisher
1890
– 1962
· Age 72
Deceased
Johann Gottfried Galle
1812
– 1910
· Age 98
Deceased
August Ferdinand Möbius
1790
– 1868
· Age 77
Deceased
Gerard Kuiper
1905
– 1973
· Age 68
Deceased
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
1868
– 1921
· Age 53
Deceased
Shen Kuo
1031
– 1095
· Age 64
Deceased
Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin
1900
– 1979
· Age 79
Deceased
Pierre Gassendi
1592
– 1655
· Age 63
Deceased
Camille Flammarion
1842
– 1925
· Age 83
Deceased
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
1486
– 1535
· Age 48
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q11063