Funeral Date Country City No. of attendees Television audience C. N. Annadurai February 4, 1969 India Madras ~15,000,000 [ 1] [ 2] [ 3] [ 4] [ 5] [ 6] [ 7] Ruhollah Khomeini June 5–6, 1989 Iran Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini , Tehran ~7,200,000 [ 8] Qasem Soleimani January 5, 2020 Iran Ahvaz and Mashhad ~7,000,000 [ 9] January 6, 2020 Tehran and Qom [ 10] January 7, 2020 Kerman [ 10] Pope John Paul II April 8, 2005 Vatican City Rome ~4,000,000 [ 11] [ 12] 2,000,000,000 [ 13] Umm Kulthum February 5, 1975 Egypt Cairo ~4,000,000 [ 14] [ 15] [ 16] Indira Gandhi November 3, 1984 India Delhi ~3,500,000 [ 17] M.G. Ramachandran December 25, 1987 India Madras ~3,500,000 [ 17] Puneeth Rajkumar October 29, 2021 India Bengaluru ~3,500,000 [ 18] [ 19] [ 20] [ 21] [ 22] 50,000,000 Ayrton Senna May 5, 1994 Brazil São Paulo ~3,000,000 [ 23] (in Brazil) at least 100,000,000 [ 24] [ 25] Gamal Abdel Nasser October 1, 1970 United Arab Republic Cairo ~3,000,000 [ 8] [ 26] [ 27] Eva Perón August 9, 1952 Argentina Buenos Aires ~3,000,000 [ 28] Chiang Kai-shek April 10–16, 1975 Taiwan Taipei ~2,500,000 [ 29] Victor Hugo June 1, 1885 France Paris ~2,000,000−3,000,000 [ 30] Bal Thackeray November 18–19, 2012 India Shivaji Park , Mumbai ~1,500,000−2,500,000 [ 31] [ 32] Benigno Aquino Jr. August 31, 1983 Philippines Santo Domingo Church and Manila Memorial Park – Sucat , Metro Manila ~2,000,000 [ 33] Berkin Elvan March 12, 2014 Turkey Istanbul ~2,000,000 [ 34] Houari Boumédiène December 29, 1978 Algeria Algiers ~2,000,000 [ 35] J. Jayalalithaa December 6, 2016 India Chennai ~2,000,000 [ 36] Kim Il-sung July 19, 1994 North Korea Pyongyang ~2,000,000 [ 37] Mahatma Gandhi February 6, 1948 India New Delhi ~2,000,000 [ 38] [ 39] Park Chung-hee November 3, 1979 South Korea Seoul ~2,000,000 [ 40] Ziaur Rahman June 2, 1981 Bangladesh Dhaka ~2,000,000 [ 41] [ 42] Vijayakanth December 29, 2023 India Chennai ~1,600,000 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington November 18, 1852 United Kingdom London ~1,500,000 [ 43] Jawaharlal Nehru May 28, 1964 India New Delhi ~1,500,000 [ 44] Hassan Nasrallah February 23, 2025 Lebanon Camille Chamoun , Beirut ~1,300,000−1,700,000 [ 45] [ 46] [ 47] [ 48] Juan Perón July 2–4, 1974 Argentina Buenos Aires ~1,135,000 [ 49] Hugo Chávez March 6–8, 2013 Venezuela Caracas ~1,000.000−3,000,000 [ 50] Akhtar Raza Khan July 20, 2018 India Bareilly ~1,000,000 [ 51] [ 52] [ 53] 12,500,000 Charles de Gaulle November 12, 1970 France Colombey ~1,000,000 [ 54] Enrico Berlinguer June 13, 1984 Italy Rome ~1,000,000 [ 55] GP Koirala March 20, 2010 Nepal Kathmandu ~1,000,000 [ 56] Ibrahim Rugova January 27, 2006 Kosovo Prishtina ~1,000,000 [ 57] Johnny Hallyday December 9, 2017 France Paris ~1,000,000 [ 58] 15,000,000 [ 59] M. Karunanidhi August 8, 2018 India Chennai ~1,000,000 [ 60] Mother Teresa September 13, 1997 India Calcutta ~1,000,000 [ 61] at least 1,000,000 [ 13] Muhammad Zia Ul Haq August 19, 1988 Pakistan Islamabad ~1,000,000 [ 62] Pope Shenouda III March 20, 2012 Egypt Cairo ~1,000,000 [ 63] Diana, Princess of Wales September 6, 1997 United Kingdom London and Althorp , Northamptonshire ~1,000,000 (2,000 at funeral service) [ 64] [ 65] 2,500,000,000 [ 65] Queen Elizabeth II September 19, 2022 United Kingdom London ~1,000,000 (2,000 at funeral service) [ 66] [ 67] 29,000,000 in the UK [ 68]
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother April 9, 2002 United Kingdom London ~1,000,000 [ 69] Mao Zedong September 9–18, 1976 China Beijing ~1,000,000 [ 70] Nelson Mandela (memorial service) December 10–15, 2013 South Africa Johannesburg , Pretoria , and Qunu ~1,000,000 1,000 for Memorial Service [ 71] [ 72] Sridevi February 26, 2018 India Mumbai ~1,000,000 [ 73] Võ Nguyên Giáp October 12–13, 2013 Vietnam Hanoi ~1,000,000 [ 74] Ovadia Yosef October 7, 2013 Israel Jerusalem ~850,000 [ 75] [ 76] King Hussein of Jordan February 8, 1999 Jordan Amman ~800,000 [ 77] Pierre Gemayel November 23, 2006 Lebanon Beirut ~800,000 [ 78] Mir Osman Ali Khan February 25, 1967 India Hyderabad ~800,000 [ 79] [ 80] Chaim Kanievsky March 20, 2022 Israel Bnei Brak ~750,000 [ 81] [ 82] Zubeen Garg September 21–22, 2025 India Guwahati ~700,000–1,500,000 [ 83] [ 84] Josip Broz Tito May 8, 1980 Yugoslavia Belgrade ~700,000 [ 85] Pedro Aguirre Cerda November 28, 1941 Chile Santiago ~700,000 [ 86] Mustafa Kemal Atatürk November 11, 1938 Turkey Ankara ~600,000−750,000 [ 87] [ 88] Carter Harrison III October 31–November 1, 1893 United States Chicago ~500,000 [ 89] –1,060,000 [ 90] (funeral procession)~100,000 (public visitation of open casket ) [ 89] — John F. Kennedy November 25, 1963 United States Washington, D.C. ~550,000 [ 23] 41,500,000 [ 13] Georgi Asparuhov June 30–July 2, 1971 Bulgaria Sofia ~550,000 [ 91] Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk September 21, 1937 Czechoslovakia Prague ~500,000−750,000 [ 92] Juan Gabriel September 4–5, 2016 Mexico Ciudad Juárez , Chihuahua and Mexico City ~500,000−1,000,000 [ 93] August Spies , George Engel , Adolph Fischer , and Albert Parsons (executed Haymarket Affair defendants) November 13, 1887 United States Chicago ~500,000 [ 94] — Baruch Charney Vladeck November 2, 1938 United States New York City ~500,000 [ 95] -750,000 [ 96] BP Koirala July 21, 1982 Nepal Kathmandu ~500,000 [ 97] B. R. Ambedkar December 6, 1956 India Mumbai ~500,000 [ 98] Carmen Miranda August 12, 1955 Brazil Rio de Janeiro ~500,000 [ 99] Engelbert Dollfuss July 30, 1934 Austria Vienna ~500,000 [ 100] Michael Collins August 28, 1922 Ireland Dublin ~500,000 [ 101] — Patriarchh Pavle November 19, 2009 Serbia Rakovica Monastery , Belgrade ~2,000,000 [ 102] Sathya Sai Baba April 24, 2011 India Puttaparthi , Andhra Pradesh ~500,000 [ 103] Winston Churchill January 30, 1965 United Kingdom London ~500,000 (6,000 at funeral service) [ 104] [ 105] 6,000 [ 104] Necmettin Erbakan March 1, 2011 Turkey Istanbul ~400,000−2,000,000 [ 106] [ 107] Pope Francis April 21–26, 2025 Vatican City Rome ~400,000 [ 108] Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani January 9–11, 2017 Iran Tehran ~330,000−2,500,000 [ 109] Francisco Franco November 22–23, 1975 Spain Madrid ~300,000−500,000 [ 110] [ 111] Fernando Poe Jr. December 22, 2004 Philippines Santo Domingo Church and Manila North Cemetery , Metro Manila ~300,000 [ 112] Giuseppe Verdi February 27, 1901 Italy Milan ~300,000 [ 113] January 30, 1901 ~10,000 [ 113] Martin Luther King Jr. April 9, 1968 United States Atlanta ~300,000 [ 114] 120,000,000 [ 13] Abdulbaki Erol July 13, 2023 Turkey Adıyaman ~250,000 [ 115] Hendrik Verwoerd September 10, 1966 South Africa Pretoria ~250,000 [ 116] Heydar Aliyev December 15, 2003 Azerbaijan Baku ~250,000 [ 117] [ self-published source ] Józef Piłsudski May 18, 1935 Poland Kraków ~250,000 [ 118] [ 119] Sholem Aleichem May 13, 1916 United States New York City ~250,000 [ 120] Emperor Hirohito February 24, 1989 Japan Tokyo ~250,000 [ 121] Ho Chi Minh September 9, 1969 North Vietnam Hanoi ~250,000 [ 122] Nguyễn Phú Trọng July 25–26, 2024 Vietnam Hanoi ~250,000 Pelé January 2–3, 2023 Brazil Santos ~230,000 [ 123] [ 124] Wali Rahmani April 4, 2021 India Munger ~200,000−500,000 [ 125] [ 126] [ 127] Pedro II of Brazil December 9, 1891 France Paris ~200,000−300,000 [ 128] [ 129] Mohammed Burhanuddin January 17, 2014 India Raudat Tahera , Mumbai ~200,000 [ 130] Anton Cermak March 8–10, 1933 United States Chicago hundreds of thousands : ~50,000 mourners for return of mayor's remains to city (March 8); [ 131] ~25,000 spectators at funeral service in Chicago Stadium (March 10); [ 132] ~50,000 marchers and "hundreds of thousands" of additional mourners at funeral procession (March 10) [ 133] Burhan Wani July 8, 2016 India Pulwama ~200,000 [ 134] Hrant Dink January 23, 2007 Turkey Istanbul ~200,000 [ 135] Khadim Hussain Rizvi November 21, 2020 Pakistan Lahore ~200,000 [ 136] Kim Jong-il December 28, 2011 North Korea Pyongyang ~200,000 [ 137] Paul von Hindenburg August 6–7, 1934 Nazi Germany Tannenberg Memorial , Hohenstein in Ostpreußen ~200,000 [ 138] (via radio, not television) at least 1,000,000 [ 139] Wilhelm I March 12–16, 1888 German Empire Berlin ~200,000 [ 140] Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht June 13, 1919 Weimar Republic Berlin ~200,000 [ 141] Huey Long September 12, 1935 United States Baton Rouge ~200,000 [ 142] Jānis Čakste March 18, 1927 Latvia Rīga ~200,000 [ 143] Rafic Hariri February 16, 2005 Lebanon Beirut ~200,000 [ 144] Pope Benedict XVI January 5, 2023 Vatican City Rome ~200,000 [ 145] Roman Dmowski January 7, 1939 Poland Warsaw ~200,000 [ 146] Zoran Đinđić March 15, 2003 FR Yugoslavia Belgrade ~200,000 [ 147] [ 148] Imre Nagy (reburial) June 16, 1989 Hungary Budapest ~150,000−250,000 [ 149] Halid Bešlić October 13, 2025 Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo ~150,000 [ 150] over 1,000,000 Abraham Lincoln April 19 – May 3, 1865 United States East and Midwest ~150,000 [ 151] — Corazon Aquino August 1–5, 2009 Philippines Manila Cathedral and Manila Memorial Park – Sucat , Metro Manila ~122,000 (August 3 figures only) [ 152] Ronald Reagan June 7, 2004 United States Simi Valley, California and Washington, D.C. ~104,684 [ 153] 35,700,000 [ 154] Otto von Habsburg July 16, 2011 Austria Vienna ~101,000 [ 155] 413,000–557,000 [ 156] Uğur Mumcu January 27, 1993 Turkey Istanbul ~100,000−150,000 [ 157] Aleksandar Ranković August 22, 1983 Yugoslavia Belgrade ~100,000 [ 158] [ 159] [ 160] Alparslan Türkeş April 8, 1997 Turkey Ankara ~100,000 [ 161] Kostis Palamas February 12, 1943 Greece Athens ~100,000 [ 162] Édith Piaf October 11, 1963 France Père Lachaise Cemetery , Paris ~100,000 [ 163] [ 164] Bob Marley May 21, 1981 Jamaica Kingston ~100,000 [ 165] Bobby Sands May 7, 1981 UK Belfast ~100,000 [ 166] Henry George October 29, 1897 United States New York City ~100,000 [ 167] Lee Kuan Yew March 23–29, 2015 Singapore Mandai ~100,000 (funeral cortege) [ 168] [ 169] Lorenzo Bandini May 10, 1967 Italy Reggiolo ~100,000 [ 170] Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu June 24, 2022 Turkey Istanbul ~100,000 [ 171] Muhammad Ali (memorial service) June 10, 2016 United States Louisville , Kentucky [ 172] ~100,000 (funeral procession) 15,000 (memorial service) [ 173] 1,000,000,000 [ 174] Robert Menzies May 19, 1978 Australia Melbourne ~100,000 [ 175] Turgut Özal April 21, 1993 [ 176] Turkey Ankara ~100,000 [ 177] Gianni Agnelli January 26, 2003 Italy Turin ~10,000 [ 178] ~100,000 paid their respects while he laid in state [ 179] Yahya Ayyash January 6, 1996 Palestine Gaza ~100,000 [ 180] Yisroel Avrohom Portugal April 2, 2019 United States Brooklyn , New York City ~100,000 [ 181] Zubayer Ahmad Ansari April 18, 2020 Bangladesh Brahmanbaria ~100,000 [ 182] Bhupen Hazarika November 9-5, 2011 India Guwahati ~100,000 [ 183] Elvis Presley August 16–18, 1977 United States Memphis ~75,000 [ 184] Charlie Kirk September 21, 2025 United States Glendale ~90,000−200,000 [ 185] [ 186] [ 187] Selena Quintanilla-Pérez April 3, 1995 United States Corpus Christi, Texas ~70,000 Juliana of the Netherlands March 30, 2004 Netherlands Delft ~60,000 [ 188] Also, 50,000 people paid their respects at the coffin while Juliana laid in state prior to the funeral. 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3,246,000 [ 190] Richard Nixon April 26–27, 1994 United States Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum , Yorba Linda, California ~54,000 28,300,000 [ 191] André Hazes September 27, 2004 Netherlands Amsterdam ~48,000 [ 192] 6,000,000 (5 million in the Netherlands and 1 million in Belgium) [ 193] [ 194] Gershon Agron November 2, 1959 Israel Jerusalem ~40,000 [ 195] [ 196] Hank Williams January 4, 1960 United States Montgomery ~15,000−25,000 [ 197] Ludwig van Beethoven March 29, 1827 Austrian Empire Vienna ~20,000 [ 198] Rico Yan April 4, 2002 Philippines Manila Memorial Park – Sucat , Parañaque ~20,000 [ 199] Michael Jackson (memorial service) July 7, 2009 United States Staples Center , Los Angeles ~17,500 [ 200] 3,000,000,000 [ 201] [ 202] Dursun Karataş August 11, 2008 Turkey Istanbul ~15,000−20,000 [ 203] John Garfield May 23, 1952 United States New York ~10,000 [ 204] [ 205] Kahlil Gibran August 21, 1931 Lebanon Beirut & Bsharri ~10,000 [ 206] [ 207] Rudolph Valentino August 30, 1926 United States New York City ~10,000 [ 208] Ömer Halisdemir July 17, 2016 Turkey Çukurkuyu , Niğde ~5,000 [ 209] [ 210] Gerald Ford December 30, 2006 – January 3, 2007 United States Washington, D.C. , and Grand Rapids, Michigan ~3,700 [ 211] 15,000,000 [ 191] Cecilia Gentili January 31, 1972 – February 6, 2024 United States New York City ~1,400 [ 212] Bhumibol Adulyadej October 26, 2017 Thailand Bangkok ~1,000 [ 213] (state funeral) at least 1,000,000 [ 213] George H. W. Bush December 3–6, 2018 United States Washington, D.C. and Houston , Spring , & College Station , Texas ~1,000 [ 214] 17,500,000 [ 191] Lata Mangeshkar February 6, 2022 India Mumbai ~1,000 [ 215] Margaret Thatcher April 17, 2013 United Kingdom London ~1,000 [ 216] at least 4,000,000 [ 217] Pierre Trudeau October 3, 2000 Canada Montreal ~1,000 [ 218] Pim Fortuyn May 10, 2002 Netherlands Driehuis ~800 (at service) Tens of thousands of people paid their respects at the coffin while Fortuyn laid in state. Thousands stood along the route during the procession to the cemetery. [ 219]
2,000,000 [ 220]