Famous astronomers
scientist who studies celestial bodies
818 people
Ronald Fisher
1890
– 1962
· Age 72
Deceased
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
1657
– 1757
· Age 99
Deceased
George Gamow
1904
– 1968
· Age 64
Deceased
Jim Peebles
1935
· Age 90
Alive
Bhāskara II
1114
– 1185
· Age 71
Deceased
Johann Gottfried Galle
1812
– 1910
· Age 98
Deceased
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
1943
· Age 82
Alive
August Ferdinand Möbius
1790
– 1868
· Age 77
Deceased
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
1868
– 1921
· Age 53
Deceased
Gerard Kuiper
1905
– 1973
· Age 68
Deceased
Shen Kuo
1031
– 1095
· Age 64
Deceased
Pierre Gassendi
1592
– 1655
· Age 63
Deceased
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
1486
– 1535
· Age 48
Deceased
Camille Flammarion
1842
– 1925
· Age 83
Deceased
Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin
1900
– 1979
· Age 79
Deceased
Pytheas
Jan Hendrik Oort
1900
– 1992
· Age 92
Deceased
Athanasius Kircher
1602
– 1680
· Age 78
Deceased
Johann Heinrich Lambert
1728
– 1777
· Age 49
Deceased
James Hopwood Jeans
1877
– 1946
· Age 69
Deceased
Marin Mersenne
1588
– 1648
· Age 59
Deceased
Abraham de Moivre
1667
– 1754
· Age 87
Deceased
Asaph Hall
1829
– 1907
· Age 78
Deceased
John Dee
1527
– 1608
· Age 81
Deceased
Walter Baade
1893
– 1960
· Age 67
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q11063