Funeral | Date | Country | City | No. of attendees | Television audience |
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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] | |
Ayrton Senna | May 5, 1994 | Brazil | São Paulo | ~3,000,000 [18] | (in Brazil) at least 100,000,000 [19] [20] |
Eva Perón | August 9, 1952 | Argentina | Buenos Aires | ~3,000,000 [21] | |
Gamal Abdel Nasser | October 1, 1970 | United Arab Republic | Cairo | ~3,000,000 [8] [22] [23] | |
Puneeth Rajkumar | October 29, 2021 | India | Bengaluru | ~3,500,000 [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] | 50,000,000 |
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 | Metro Manila | ~2,000,000 [33] | |
Berkin Elvan | March 12, 2014 | Turkey | Istanbul, and all around Turkey (as a part of the Gezi park protests) | ~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 Abdul Wahhab | November 18, 2018 | Pakistan | Raiwind Markaz, Lahore | ~1,000,000 [62] [63] | |
Muhammad Zia Ul Haq | August 19, 1988 | Pakistan | Islamabad | ~1,000,000 [64] | |
Pope Shenouda III | March 20, 2012 | Egypt | Cairo | ~1,000,000 [65] | |
Diana, Princess of Wales | September 6, 1997 | United Kingdom | London and Althorp, Northamptonshire | ~1,000,000 (2,000 at funeral service) [66] [67] | 2,500,000,000 [67] |
Queen Elizabeth II | September 19, 2022 | United Kingdom | London | ~1,000,000 (2,000 at funeral service) [68] [69] | 29,000,000 in the UK [70] |
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother | April 9, 2002 | United Kingdom | London | ~1,000,000 [71] | |
Mao Zedong | September 9–18, 1976 | China | Beijing | ~1,000,000 [72] | |
Nelson Mandela (memorial service) | December 10–15, 2013 | South Africa | Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Qunu | ~1,000,000 1,000 for Memorial Service [73] [74] | |
Sridevi | February 26, 2018 | India | Mumbai | ~1,000,000 [75] | |
Võ Nguyên Giáp | October 12–13, 2013 | Vietnam | Hanoi | ~1,000,000 [76] | |
Ovadia Yosef | October 7, 2013 | Israel | Jerusalem | ~850,000 [77] [78] | |
King Hussein of Jordan | February 8, 1999 | Jordan | Amman | ~800,000 [79] | |
Pierre Gemayel | November 23, 2006 | Lebanon | Beirut | ~800,000 [80] | |
Mir Osman Ali Khan | February 25, 1967 | India | Hyderabad | ~800,000 [81] [82] | |
Chaim Kanievsky | March 20, 2022 | Israel | Bnei Brak | ~750,000 [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] | |
Bhupen Hazarika | November 9, 2011 | India | Guwahati | ~600,000 [89] | |
Carter Harrison III | October 31–November 1, 1893 | United States | Chicago | ~500,000 [90] –1,060,000 [91] (funeral procession) ~100,000 (public visitation of open casket) [90] | — |
John F. Kennedy | November 25, 1963 | United States | Washington, D.C. | ~550,000 [18] | 41,500,000 [13] |
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk Death and state funeral of Tomáš 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 | Metro Manila | ~300,000 [112] | |
Giuseppe Verdi | February 27, 1901 | Italy | Milan | ~300,000 [113] | data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="table-na" | — |
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] | |
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] | |
Abraham Lincoln | April 19 – May 3, 1865 | United States | East and Midwest | ~150,000 [150] | — |
Corazon Aquino | August 1–5, 2009 | Philippines | Metro Manila | ~122,000 [151] | |
Ronald Reagan | June 7, 2004 | United States | Simi Valley, California and Washington, D.C. | ~104,684 [152] | 35,700,000 [153] |
Otto von Habsburg | July 16, 2011 | Austria | Vienna | ~101,000 [154] | 413,000–557,000 [155] |
Uğur Mumcu | January 27, 1993 | Turkey | Istanbul | ~100,000−150,000 [156] | |
Aleksandar Ranković | August 22, 1983 | Yugoslavia | Belgrade | ~100,000 [157] [158] [159] | |
Alparslan Türkeş | April 8, 1997 | Turkey | Ankara | ~100,000 [160] | |
Kostis Palamas | February 12, 1943 | Greece | Athens | ~100,000 [161] | |
Édith Piaf | October 11, 1963 | France | Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris | ~100,000 [162] [163] | |
Bob Marley | May 21, 1981 | Jamaica | Kingston | ~100,000 [164] | |
Bobby Sands | May 7, 1981 | Ireland | Belfast | ~100,000 [165] | |
Henry George | October 29, 1897 | United States | New York City | ~100,000 [166] | |
Lee Kuan Yew | March 23–29, 2015 | Singapore | Mandai | ~100,000 (funeral cortege) [167] [168] | |
Lorenzo Bandini | May 10, 1967 | Italy | Reggiolo | ~100,000 [169] | |
Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu | June 24, 2022 | Turkey | Istanbul | ~100,000 [170] | |
Muhammad Ali (memorial service) | June 10, 2016 | United States | Louisville, Kentucky [171] | ~100,000 (funeral procession) 15,000 (memorial service) [172] | 1,000,000,000 [173] |
Robert Menzies | May 19, 1978 | Australia | Melbourne | ~100,000 [174] | |
Turgut Özal | April 21, 1993 [175] | Turkey | Ankara | ~100,000 [176] | |
Yahya Ayyash | January 6, 1996 | Palestine | Gaza | ~100,000 [177] | |
Yisroel Avrohom Portugal | April 2, 2019 | United States | Brooklyn, New York City | ~100,000 [178] | |
Zubayer Ahmad Ansari | April 18, 2020 | Bangladesh | Brahmanbaria | ~100,000 [179] | |
Elvis Presley | August 16–18, 1977 | United States | Memphis | ~75,000 [180] | |
Selena Quintanilla-Pérez | April 3, 1995 | United States | Corpus Christi, Texas | ~70,000 | |
Richard Nixon | April 26–27, 1994 | United States | Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, Yorba Linda, California | ~54,000 | 28,300,000 [181] |
Gershon Agron | November 2, 1959 | Israel | Jerusalem | ~40,000 [182] [183] | |
Ludwig van Beethoven | March 29, 1827 | Austrian Empire | Vienna | ~20,000 [184] | |
Rico Yan | April 4, 2002 | Philippines | Paranaque | ~20,000 [185] | |
Michael Jackson (memorial service) | July 7, 2009 | United States | Staples Center, Los Angeles | ~17,500 [186] | 3,000,000,000 [187] [188] |
Dursun Karataş | August 11, 2008 | Turkey | Istanbul | ~15,000−20,000 [189] | | |
John Garfield | May 23, 1952 | United States | New York | ~10,000 [190] [191] | |
Kahlil Gibran | August 21, 1931 | Lebanon | Beirut & Bsharri | ~10,000 [192] [193] | |
Sibel Yalçın | June 16, 1995 | Turkey | Istanbul | ~10,000 | |
Rudolph Valentino | August 30, 1926 | United States | New York City | ~10,000 [194] | |
Ömer Halisdemir | July 17, 2016 | Turkey | Çukurkuyu, Niğde | ~5,000 [195] [196] | |
Gerald Ford | December 30, 2006 – January 3, 2007 | United States | Washington, D.C., and Grand Rapids, Michigan | ~3,700 [197] | 15,000,000 [181] |
Bhumibol Adulyadej | October 26, 2017 | Thailand | Bangkok | ~1,000 [198] | (state funeral) at least 1,000,000 [198] |
George H. W. Bush | December 3–6, 2018 | United States | Washington, D.C. and Houston, Spring, & College Station, Texas | ~1,000 [199] | 17,500,000 [181] |
Lata Mangeshkar | February 6, 2022 | India | Mumbai | ~1,000 [200] | |
Margaret Thatcher | April 17, 2013 | United Kingdom | London | ~1,000 [201] | at least 4,000,000 [202] |
Pierre Trudeau | October 3, 2000 | Canada | Montreal | ~1,000 [203] | |
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