History of Astronomy: Persons (D)
- Daguerre, Louis-Jacques-Mandé (1787-1851)
- d'Alembert: see Alembert, Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d' (1717-1783)
- Dalencé, Joachim (1640-1707)
- Dalgarno, Alexander (b. 1928)
- Dallmeyer, John Henry (1830-1883)
- Dalrymple, Alexander (1737-1808)
- Dalton, John (1766-1844)
- Danjon, André-Louis (1890-1967)
- Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
- Danti, Egnatio [Egnazio; Ignazio] Pellegrino Rainaldi (1536-1586)
- Darquier de Pellepoix, Antoine (1718-1802)
- d'Arrest: see Arrest, Heinrich Louis d' (1822-1875)
- Darwin, Charles Robert (1809-1882)
- Solar system features named after him. No other relation to astronomy
known to us.
- Darwin, George Howard (1845-1912)
- Dasypodius [Rauchfuss], Cunradus (1530-1600)
- Daublebsky von Sterneck, Robert von (1839-1910)
- Davidson, George (1825-1911)
- da Vinci: see Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
- Davis, Charles Henry (1807-1877)
- Davis, Elizabeth Brown (1863-1917)
- Davis, John (fl. 20th c.)
- Davison, William (1593-1669)
- Davy, Humphry (1778-1829)
- Dawes, William (1762-1836)
- Dawes, William Rutter (1799-1868)
- Debeaune [de Beaune], Florimond (1601-1652)
- Dechales, Claude Francois Milliet (1621-1678)
- Dechend, Hertha von (1915-2001)
- de Chéseaux: see Loys de Chéseaux, Philippe (1718-1751)
- Dee, John (1527-1608)
- De Filiis, Anastasio (1577-Naples 1608)
- de la Cruz, Sor Juana Inez (1651-1717)
- Del Rio, Martin Antoininem (1551-1608)
- Delambre, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph [Jean Baptiste Joseph] (1749-1822)
- Delaunay, Charles-Eugène [Charles Eugène] (1816-1872)
- Delbrück, Max (1906-1981)
- Delisle, Guillaume (1675-1726)
- Delisle, Joseph-Nicolas (1688-1768)
- della Valle, Pietro (? - 16--)
- de Mairan: see Mairan, Jean Jacques d'Ortous [Dortous] de (1678-1771)
- Democritus of Abdera (c. 460 BC - c. 370 BC)
- De Morgan, Augustus (1806-1871)
- Denis, Jean-Baptiste (c. 1640-1704)
- Denner, Jacob (1659-1746)
- Denning, William Frederick (1848-1931)
- Dent, Edward John (1790-1853)
- Denza, Francesco (1834-1894)
- Deparcieux, Antoine (1703-1768)
- Derham, William (1657-1735)
- Desargues, Gérard (1591-1661)
- Descartes, René [Lat. Cartesius, Renatus [Renatius]] (1596-1650)
- Desing, Anselm (1699-1772)
- de Sitter, Willem: see Sitter, Willem de (1872-1934)
- Deslandres, Henri-Alexandre [Henri Alexandre] (1853-1948)
- de Vaucouleurs: see Vaucouleurs, Gérard de (1918-1995)
- Dicke, Robert Henry (1916-1997)
- Dickinson, Terence (20th c.)
- Dicuil (fl. 8th c.)
- Diesterweg, Adolph (1790-1866)
- Digges, Leonard (c.1520-c.1559)
- Digges, Thomas (1545/46-1595)
- Dionis du Séjour, Achille Pierre (1734-1794)
- Dionysodorus (c. 250 BC - c. 190 BC)
- Diophantus of Alexandria [Diophantos von Alexandrien] (c. 200 - c. 284)
- Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice (1902-1984)
- Dirichlet, Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune (1805-1859)
- Divini, Eustachio (1610-1685)
- Dixon, Jeremiah (1733-1779)
- Dodwell, George Frederick (1879-1963)
- Doerffel, Georg Samuel (1643-1688)
- Doi, Takao (b. 1954)
- Dolezal, Erich (1902-1990)
- Dollond, John (1706-1761)
- Dollond, John (1730-1821)
- Donati, Giambattista [Giovanni Battista] (1826-1873)
- Dooley, James Creswell (b. 1919)
- Doppelmayr, Johan Gabriel (1671-1750)
- Doppler, Johann Christian (1803-1853)
- Douglas, Charles S. (1923-1998)
- Douglass, Andrew Ellicott (1867-1962)
- Dove, Heinrich Wilhelm (1803-1879)
- Drake, Francis (c.1540-1596)
- Drake, Frank Donald (b. 1930)
- Draper, Charles Stark (1901-1987)
- Draper, Henry (1837-1882)
- Draper, John William (1811-1882)
- Drebbel, Cornelius (1572-1633)
- Dreyer, John Louis Emil [Johan Ludwig Emil] (1852-1926)
- Drygalski, Erich Dagobert von (1865-1949)
- Dudith [Duditus], Andreas (1533-1589)
- Dudley, Robert (1573-1649)
-
Duerbeck, Hilmar W. (1948-2012)
- Duffield, Walter Geoffrey (1879-1929)
- Duhamel [Du Hamel], Jean-Baptiste (1623/24-1706)
- Duhem, Pierre Maurice Marie (1861-1916)
- Dulong, Pierre Louis (1785-1838)
- Dumée, Jeanne (fl. 18th c.)
- Dunash ben Tamim (c.900-c.960)
- Dunbar, William (1749-1810)
- Dunér, Nils Christofer (1839-1914)
- Dunlop, James (1793-1848)
- Dunstable, John (?-1453)
- Dürer [Duerer], Albrecht (1471-1528)
- Durrance, Samuel T. (b. 1943)
- du Val, Patrick (1903-1987)
- Dyson, Frank Watson (1868-1939)
- Dyson, Freeman J. (b. 1923)
Wolfgang R. Dick.
Created: 16 Jan 1995.
Latest update: 30 Jan 2012