This list of notable funerals represents significant historical funerals, based on both the number of attendants and estimated television audience.
Funeral | Date | Country | City | No. of attendees | Television audience |
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Funeral of Ludwig van Beethoven | March 29, 1827 | ![]() | Vienna | ~20,000 [1] | |
Funeral of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | November 18, 1852 | ![]() | London | 1,500,000 [2] | |
Funeral and burial of Abraham Lincoln | April 19 – May 3, 1865 | ![]() | East and Midwest | 150,000 [3] | |
State funeral of Victor Hugo | June 1, 1885 | ![]() | Paris | 2,000,000–3,000,000 [4] | |
Funeral of August Spies, George Engel, Adolph Fischer, and Albert Parsons | November 13, 1887 | ![]() | Chicago | ~500,000 [5] | |
Funeral of Wilhelm I | March 12–16, 1888 | ![]() | Berlin | 200,000 [6] | |
State funeral of Pedro II of Brazil | December 9, 1891 | ![]() | Paris | 200,000–300,000 [7] [8] | |
Funeral of Henry George | October 29, 1897 | ![]() | New York City | 100,000 [9] | |
Funeral of Giuseppe Verdi | January 30, 1901 | ![]() | Milan | 10,000 (private ceremony) [10] | |
February 27, 1901 | 300,000 (State funeral) [10] | ||||
Funeral of Sholem Aleichem | May 13, 1916 | ![]() | New York City | at least 250,000 [11] | |
Funerals of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht | June 13, 1919 | ![]() | Berlin | 200,000 [12] | |
Funeral of Michael Collins | August 28, 1922 | ![]() | Dublin | 500,000 [13] | |
Funeral of Rudolph Valentino | August 30, 1926 | ![]() | New York City | at least 10,000 [14] | |
State funeral of Jānis Čakste | March 18, 1927 | ![]() | Rīga | up to 200,000 [15] | |
Funeral of Engelbert Dollfuss | July 30, 1934 | ![]() | Vienna | Approx.500,000 [16] | |
Funeral of Paul Von Hindenburg | August 6–7, 1934 | ![]() | Tannenberg Memorial, Hohenstein in Ostpreußen | 200,000 [17] | (via radio, not television) at least 1,000,000 [18] |
State funeral of Józef Piłsudski | May 18, 1935 | ![]() | Kraków | up to 250,000 [19] [20] | |
Funeral of Huey Long | September 12, 1935 | ![]() | Baton Rouge | ~200,000 [21] | |
State funeral of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk | September 21, 1937 | ![]() | Prague | 500–750,000 [22] | |
Funeral of Roman Dmowski | January 7, 1939 | ![]() | Warsaw | 200,000 [23] | |
State funeral of Pedro Aguirre Cerda | November 28, 1941 | ![]() | Santiago | 700,000 [24] | |
Funeral of Mahatma Gandhi | February 6, 1948 | ![]() | New Delhi | at least 2,000,000 [25] [26] | |
Funeral of John Garfield | May 23, 1952 | ![]() | New York | 10,000 [27] [28] | |
State funeral of Eva Perón | August 9, 1952 | ![]() | Buenos Aires | 3,000,000 [29] | |
Funeral of Carmen Miranda | August 12, 1955 | ![]() | Rio de Janeiro | 500,000 [30] | |
Funeral of B. R. Ambedkar | December 6, 1956 | ![]() | Mumbai | at least 500,000 [31] | |
State funeral of Gershon Agron | November 2, 1959 | ![]() | Jerusalem | at least 40,000 [32] [33] | |
State funeral of John F. Kennedy | November 25, 1963 | ![]() | Washington, D.C. | 550,000 [34] | 41,500,000 [35] |
State funeral of Jawaharlal Nehru | May 28, 1964 | ![]() | New Delhi | 1,500,000 [36] | |
State funeral of Winston Churchill | January 30, 1965 | ![]() | London | (6,000 at funeral service) 500,000 [37] [38] | 350,000,000 [37] |
State funeral of Hendrik Verwoerd | September 10, 1966 | ![]() | Pretoria | 250,000 [39] | |
Funeral of Mir Osman Ali Khan | February 25, 1967 | ![]() | Hyderabad | 800,000 [40] [41] | |
Funeral of Lorenzo Bandini | May 10, 1967 | ![]() | Reggiolo | 100,000 [42] | |
Funeral of Martin Luther King Jr. | April 9, 1968 | ![]() | Atlanta | 300,000 [43] | 120,000,000 [35] |
State Funeral of Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu C. N. Annadurai | February 3, 1969 | ![]() | Madras | 15,000,000 [44] [45] [46] [47] [48] [49] [50] | |
State funeral of Ho Chi Minh | September 9, 1969 | ![]() | Hanoi | 250,000 [51] | |
State funeral of Gamal Abdel Nasser | October 1, 1970 | ![]() | Cairo | at least 3,000,000 [52] [53] [54] | |
State funeral of Juan Perón | July 2–4, 1974 | ![]() | Buenos Aires | at least 1,135,000 [55] | |
Funeral of Umm Kulthum | February 3, 1975 | ![]() | Cairo | at least 1,000,000 [56] [57] | |
State funeral of Chiang Kai-shek | April 10–16, 1975 | ![]() | Taipei | at least 2,500,000 [58] | |
State funeral of Francisco Franco | November 22–23, 1975 | ![]() | Madrid | 300,000–500,000 [59] [60] | |
State funeral of Mao Zedong | September 9–18, 1976 | ![]() | Beijing | at least 1,000,000 [61] | |
Funeral of Elvis Presley | August 16–18, 1977 | ![]() | Memphis | 75,000 [62] | |
State funeral of Sir Robert Menzies | May 19, 1978 | ![]() | Melbourne | ~100,000 [63] | |
State funeral of Houari Boumédiène | December 29, 1978 | ![]() | Algiers | ||
State funeral of Park Chung-hee | November 3, 1979 | ![]() | Seoul | ~2,000,000 [64] | |
State funeral of Josip Broz Tito | May 8, 1980 | ![]() | Belgrade | ~700,000 [65] | |
Funeral of Bobby Sands | May 7, 1981 | ![]() | Belfast | at least 100,000 [66] | |
State funeral of Bob Marley | May 21, 1981 | ![]() | Kingston | ~100,000 [67] | |
State funeral of Ziaur Rahman | June 2, 1981 | ![]() | Dhaka | ~2,000,000 [68] [69] | |
State funeral of BP Koirala | July 21, 1982 | ![]() | Kathmandu | ~500,000 [70] | |
Funeral of Aleksandar Ranković | August 22, 1983 | ![]() | Belgrade | ~100,000 [71] [72] [73] | |
Funeral of Benigno Aquino Jr. | August 31, 1983 | ![]() | Metro Manila | at least 2,000,000 [74] | |
Funeral of Enrico Berlinguer | June 13, 1984 | ![]() | Rome | at least 1,000,000 [75] | |
State Funeral of Indira Gandhi | November 3, 1984 | ![]() | Delhi | at least 3,500,000 [76] | |
Funeral of M.G. Ramachandran | December 24, 1987 | ![]() | Madras | at least 3,500,000 [76] | |
State Funeral of Muhammad Zia Ul Haq | August 19, 1988 | ![]() | Islamabad | ~1,000,000 [77] | |
State funeral of Hirohito | February 24, 1989 | ![]() | Tokyo | at least 250,000 [78] | |
State funeral of Ruhollah Khomeini | June 5–6, 1989 | ![]() | Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini, Tehran | ~7,200,000 [52] | |
Re-burial of Imre Nagy | June 16, 1989 | ![]() | Budapest | 150–250,000 [79] | |
Funeral of Uğur Mumcu | January 27, 1993 | ![]() | Istanbul | 100–150,000 [80] | |
State Funeral of Turgut Özal | April 21, 1993 [81] | ![]() | Ankara | at least 100,000 [82] | |
Funeral of Richard Nixon | April 26–27, 1994 | ![]() | Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, Yorba Linda, California | at least 54,000 [83] | 28,300,000 [84] |
Funeral of Ayrton Senna | May 5, 1994 | ![]() | São Paulo | at least 3,000,000 [34] | (in Brazil) at least 100,000,000 [85] [86] |
State funeral of Kim Il-sung | July 19, 1994 | ![]() | Pyongyang | 2,000,000 [87] | |
Funeral of Selena Quintanilla-Pérez | April 3, 1995 | ![]() | Corpus Christi, Texas | at least 70,000 | |
Funeral of Sibel Yalçın | June 16, 1995 | ![]() | Istanbul | at least 10,000 | |
Funeral of Yahya Ayyash | January 6, 1996 | ![]() | Gaza | at least 100,000 [88] | |
Funeral of Alparslan Türkeş | April 8, 1997 | ![]() | Ankara | at least 100,000 [89] | |
Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales | September 6, 1997 | ![]() | London and Althorp, Northamptonshire | (2,000 at funeral service) at least 1,000,000 [90] [91] | 2.5×10 9 [91] |
State funeral of Mother Teresa | September 13, 1997 | ![]() | Calcutta | 1,000,000 [92] | at least 1,000,000 [35] |
State funeral of King Hussein of Jordan | February 8, 1999 | ![]() | Amman | ~800,000 [93] | |
State funeral of Pierre Trudeau | October 3, 2000 | ![]() | Montreal | at least 1,000 [94] | |
Funeral of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother | April 9, 2002 | ![]() | London | at least 1,000,000 [95] | |
State funeral of Zoran Đinđić | March 15, 2003 | ![]() | Belgrade | 200,000 [96] [97] | |
State funeral of Heydar Aliyev | December 15, 2003 | ![]() | Baku | 250,000 [98] | |
State funeral of Ronald Reagan | June 7, 2004 | ![]() | Simi Valley, California and Washington, D.C. | 104,684 [99] | 35,700,000 [100] |
Funeral of Fernando Poe Jr. | December 22, 2004 | ![]() | Metro Manila | ~300,000 [101] | |
Funeral of Pope John Paul II | April 8, 2005 | ![]() | Rome | 4,000,000 [102] [103] | 2×10 9 [35] |
State Funeral of Ibrahim Rugova | January 27, 2006 | ![]() | Pristhina | 1,000,000 [104] | |
State funeral of Gerald Ford | December 30, 2006 – January 3, 2007 | ![]() | Washington, D.C., and Grand Rapids, Michigan | 3,700 [105] | 15,000,000 [84] |
Funeral of Hrant Dink | January 23, 2007 | ![]() | Istanbul | at least 200,000 [106] | |
Funeral of Dursun Karataş | August 11, 2008 | ![]() | Istanbul | 15,000–20,000 [107] | |
Michael Jackson memorial service | July 7, 2009 | ![]() | Staples Center, Los Angeles | 17,500 [108] | 3×10 9 [109] [110] |
Funeral of Corazon Aquino | August 1–5, 2009 | ![]() | Metro Manila | ~122,000 [111] | |
State funeral of Pavle, Serbian Patriarch | November 19, 2009 | ![]() | Rakovica Monastery, Belgrade | at least 500,000 [112] | |
State funeral of GP Koirala | March 20, 2010 | ![]() | Kathmandu | ~1,000,000 [113] | |
Funeral of Necmettin Erbakan | March 1, 2011 | ![]() | Istanbul | 400,000–2,000,000 [114] [115] | |
State funeral of Sri Sathya Sai Baba | April 24, 2011 | ![]() | Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh | 500,000 [116] | |
Funeral of Otto von Habsburg | July 16, 2011 | ![]() | Vienna | ~101,000 [117] | 413,000–557,000 [118] |
Funeral of Bhupen Hazarika | November 9, 2011 | ![]() | Guwahati | at least 600,000 [119] | |
State funeral of Kim Jong-il | December 28, 2011 | ![]() | Pyongyang | 200,000 [120] | |
Funeral of Pope Shenouda III | March 20, 2012 | ![]() | Cairo | at least 1,000,000 [121] | |
State funeral of Bal Thackeray | November 18–19, 2012 | ![]() | Shivaji Park, Mumbai | 1,000,000–2,000,000 [122] [123] | |
State funeral of Hugo Chávez | March 6–8, 2013 | ![]() | Caracas | 1,000,000–3,000,000 [124] | |
Funeral of Margaret Thatcher | April 17, 2013 | ![]() | London | at least 1,000 [125] | at least 4,000,000 [126] |
Funeral of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef | October 7, 2013 | ![]() | Jerusalem | 850,000 [127] [128] | |
State funeral of Võ Nguyên Giáp | October 12–13, 2013 | ![]() | Hanoi | at least 1,000,000 [129] | |
Commemoration of Nelson Mandela | December 10–15, 2013 | ![]() | Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Qunu | at least 1,000 [130] [131] | (state funeral) at least 1,000,000 [131] |
Funeral of Berkin Elvan | March 12, 2014 | ![]() | Istanbul, and all around Turkey (as a part of the Gezi park protests) | 2,000,000 [132] | |
State funeral of Lee Kuan Yew | March 23–29, 2015 | ![]() | Mandai | 100,000 (funeral cortege) [133] [134] | |
Muhammad Ali memorial service | June 10, 2016 | ![]() | Louisville, Kentucky [135] | ~100,000 (funeral procession) 15,000 (memorial service) [136] | 1,000,000,000 [137] |
Funeral of Burhan Wani | July 8, 2016 | ![]() | Pulwama | nearly 200,000 [138] | |
Funeral of Ömer Halisdemir | July 17, 2016 | ![]() | Çukurkuyu, Niğde | 5,000 [139] [140] | |
Funeral of Juan Gabriel | September 4–5, 2016 | ![]() | Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua and Mexico City | 500,000–1,000,000 [141] | |
State funeral of J. Jayalalithaa | December 5, 2016 | ![]() | Chennai | at least 2,000,000 [142] | |
State funeral of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani | January 9–11, 2017 | ![]() | Tehran | 330,000–2,500,000 [143] | |
Funeral of Bhumibol Adulyadej | October 26, 2017 | ![]() | Bangkok | at least 1,000 [144] | (state funeral) at least 1,000,000 [144] |
Funeral of Johnny Hallyday | December 9, 2017 | ![]() | Paris | 1,000,000 [145] | 15,000,000 [146] |
Funeral of Sridevi | February 26, 2018 | ![]() | Mumbai | ~1,000,000 [147] | |
Funeral of Akhtar Raza Khan | July 20, 2018 | ![]() | Bareilly | at least 12,500,000 [148] [149] [150] | |
Funeral of M. Karunanidhi | August 7, 2018 | ![]() | Chennai | at least 1,000,000 [151] | |
Funeral of Muhammad Abdul Wahhab | November 18, 2018 | ![]() | Raiwind Markaz, Lahore | at least 1,000,000 [152] [153] | |
State funeral of George H. W. Bush | December 3–6, 2018 | ![]() | Washington, D.C. and Houston, Spring, & College Station, Texas | 1,000 [154] | 17,500,000 [84] |
Funeral of the Skulener Rebbe | April 2, 2019 | ![]() | Brooklyn, New York City | at least 100,000 [155] | |
Funeral of Qasem Soleimani | January 4, 2020 | ![]() | Baghdad and Kadhimiya | at least 1,000 [156] | |
January 5, 2020 | ![]() | Ahvaz and Mashhad | at least 700,000 [157] | ||
January 6, 2020 | Tehran and Qom [158] | ||||
January 7, 2020 | Kerman [158] | ||||
Funeral of Zubayer Ahmad Ansari | April 18, 2020 | ![]() | Brahmanbaria | at least 100,000 [159] | |
Funeral of Khadim Hussain Rizvi | November 21, 2020 | ![]() | Lahore | 200,000 [160] | |
Funeral of Wali Rahmani | April 4, 2021 | ![]() | Munger | 200,000-500,000 [161] [162] [163] | |
Funeral of Puneeth Rajkumar | October 29, 2021 | ![]() | Bengaluru | 3,000,000 [164] [165] [166] [167] [168] | 50,000,000 |
State Funeral of Lata Mangeshkar | February 6, 2022 | ![]() | Mumbai | at least 1,000 [169] | |
Funeral of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky | March 20, 2022 | ![]() | Bnei Brak | 750,000 [170] [171] | |
Funeral of Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu | June 24, 2022 | ![]() | Istanbul | at least 100,000 [172] | |
State funeral of Elizabeth II | September 19, 2022 | ![]() | London | (2,000 at funeral service) at least 1,000,000 [173] [174] | 29,000,000 in the UK [175] |
State funeral of Pelé | January 2–3, 2023 | ![]() | Santos | over 230,000 [176] [177] | |
Funeral of Pope Benedict XVI | January 5, 2023 | ![]() | Rome | 200,000 [178] | |
Funeral of Abdulbaki Erol | July 13, 2023 | ![]() | Adıyaman | 250,000 [179] | |
Funeral of | December 28, 2023 | ![]() | Chennai | 1,600,000 |
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