The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Necrology \Ne*crol"o*gy\, n.; pl. Necrologies. [Gr. nekro`s a
   dead person + -logy: cf. F. n['e]crologie. See Necromancy.]
   An account of deaths, or of the dead; a register of deaths; a
   collection of obituary notices.
   [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

necrology
    n 1: a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short
         biography [syn: obituary, obit, necrology]
    2: a list of people who died recently