List of funerals
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This list of notable funerals represents considerable historical funerals, based on both the number of attendants and estimated television audience.
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Funeral | Date and place | Attendants | Television audience | |
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Funeral of Julius Caesar | March 20, 44 BC, Rome, Roman Republic | Thousands | N/A | |
Funeral of Ludwig van Beethoven | March 29, 1827, Vienna, Austrian Empire | ~20,000[1] | N/A | |
Funeral and burial of Abraham Lincoln | April 19–May 3, 1865, Eastern and Midwest United States | ~7,000,000[2] | N/A | |
State funeral of Victor-Marie Hugo | June 1, 1885, Paris, France | 2,000,000–3,000,000[3] | N/A | |
State funeral of Ulysses S. Grant | August 6–8, 1885, New York City, New York, United States | 1,750,000 | N/A | |
Funeral of August Spies, George Engel, Adolph Fischer, and Albert Parsons | November 13, 1887, Chicago, Illinois, United States | ~500,000[4] | N/A | |
State funeral of Pedro II of Brazil | December 9, 1891, Paris, France | 200,000–300,000 | N/A | |
Funeral of Edward VII | May 20, 1910, London and Windsor, United Kingdom | Thousands | N/A | |
Funeral and cremation of Joe Hill | November 1915, Salt Lake City and Chicago, United States; ashes distributed worldwide | 30,000+[5] | N/A | |
Funerals of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht | June 13, 1919, near Berlin, Weimar Republic | 200,000[6] | N/A | |
Funeral of Michael Collins | 27 August 1922, Dublin, Ireland | 500,000 | N/A | |
Funeral of Lenin | 21 January 1924, Moscow, Soviet Union | 1,000,000 | N/A | |
Funeral of Rudolph Valentino | August 30, 1926, New York City, New York, United States | 100,000+[7] | N/A | |
Funeral of Engelbert Dollfuss | July 30, 1934, Vienna, First Austrian Republic | 1,000,000+[8] | N/A | |
Funeral of Huey Long | 12 September 1935, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States | ~200,000[9] | N/A | |
State funeral of Guglielmo Marconi | July 21, 1937, Rome, Kingdom of Italy | 500,000 | N/A | |
Funeral of Leon Trotsky | August 23–28, 1940, Mexico City, Mexico | 250,000+ | N/A | |
State funeral of John Curtin | 9 July 1945, Perth, Western Australia, Australia | 30,000+[10] | N/A | |
Funeral of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | February 6, 1948, New Delhi, Dominion of India | 2,000,000+ | N/A | |
State funeral of Muhammad Ali Jinnah | September 12, 1948, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan | 1,000,000 | N/A | |
State funeral of Eva "Evita" Perón | August 9, 1952, Buenos Aires, Argentina | 2,500,000–3,000,000 | ? | |
State funeral of Joseph Stalin | March 6–9, 1953, Moscow, Soviet Union | ~2,000,000 | ? | |
Funeral of Carmen Miranda | August 12–13, 1955, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 500,000+ | ? | |
Funeral of Senator Joseph McCarthy | May 7, 1957, Appleton, Wisconsin, United States | 30,000+[11] | ? | |
State funeral of John F. Kennedy | November 25, 1963, Washington, D.C., United States | 550,000[12] | ~180,000,000 | |
State funeral of General Douglas MacArthur | 7 April 1964, Washington, D.C., United States | ~150,000 | ? | |
State funeral of Jawaharlal Nehru | May 28, 1964, New Delhi, Delhi, India | ~3,000,000 | ? | |
State funeral of Sir Winston Churchill | 30 January 1965, London, United Kingdom | 1,000,000+ | 350,000,000+ | |
Funeral of Malcolm X | February 23–27, 1965, Harlem, New York City, New York, United States | 14,000–31,000 | ? | |
State funeral of Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd | September 10, 1966, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa | 250,000[13] | ? | |
Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr. | April 9, 1968, Atlanta, Georgia, United States | 300,000[14] | ? | |
Funeral of C. N. Annadurai | 3 February 1969, Madras, Tamil Nadu, India, | 15,000,000[15] | ? | |
State funeral of Ho Chi Minh | September 9, 1969, Hanoi, Democratic Republic of Vietnam | 250,000[16] | ? | |
State funeral of Gamal Abdel Nasser | October 1, 1970, Cairo, Egypt | 5,000,000–7,000,000[17] | ? | |
State funeral of Juan Domingo Perón | July 2–4, 1974, Buenos Aries, Argentina | 1,135,000+[18] | ? | |
Funeral of Umm Kulthum | February 6, 1975, Cairo, Egypt | 4,000,000+ | ? | |
State funeral of Chiang Kai-shek | April 16, 1975, Taipei, Republic of China | Hundreds of thousands | ? | |
State funeral of Francisco Franco | November 22–23, 1975, Madrid, Spain | 300,000–500,000[19][20] | ? | |
State funeral of Zhou Enlai | January 11, 1976, Beijing, People's Republic of China | ~2,000,000 | ? | |
Funeral of Juscelino Kubitschek | August 23, 1976, Brasília, Brazil | 350,000 | ? | |
State funeral of Mao Zedong | September 18, 1976, Beijing, People's Republic of China | Millions | ? | |
Funeral of Elvis Presley | August 16–18, 1977, Memphis, Tennessee, United States | 75,000–80,000 | Millions | |
State funeral of Sir Robert Menzies | November 19, 1978, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | ~100,000[21] | ? | |
State funeral of Park Chung-hee | November 1, 1979, Seoul, Republic of Korea | ~2,000,000[22] | ? | |
Funeral of Archbishop Óscar Romero | March 30, 1980, San Salvador, El Salvador | 250,000+ | ? | |
Death and state funeral of Josip Broz Tito | 8 May 1980, Belgrade, Yugoslavia | 900,000+ | 1,500,000+ | |
Funeral of Bobby Sands | May 7, 1981, Belfast, Northern Ireland | 100,000+[23] | ? | |
State funeral of Ziaur Rahman | June 2, 1981, National Parliament, Dhaka, Bangladesh | ~2,000,000[24][25] | ? | |
Funeral of Benigno Aquino, Jr. | August 31, 1983, Manila, Philippines | 2,000,000+ | 500,000–1,000,000 | |
Funeral of Enrico Berlinguer | June 13, 1984, Rome, Italy | 1,000,000+[26] | ? | |
Funeral of Jerzy Popiełuszko | November 3, 1984, Warsaw, Poland | 250,000+ | ? | |
State funeral of Chiang Ching-kuo | January 30, 1988, Taipei, Republic of China | ~1,000,000 | ? | |
State funeral of Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq | August 19, 1988, Islamabad, Pakistan | ~1,000,000[27] | ? | |
State funeral of Emperor Shōwa | February 24, 1989, Tokyo, Japan | 250,000+[28] | ? | |
Funeral of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini | June 4–5, 1989, Tehran, Iran | ~10,000,000 | ? | |
Funeral of Meir Kahane | November 6, 1990, Jerusalem, Israel | ~150,000 | ? | |
Funeral of Richard Nixon | April 26–27, 1994, Yorba Linda, California, United States | 54,000+[29] | ? | |
Funeral of Ayrton Senna | May 4, 1994, São Paulo, Brazil | 3,000,000+[12] | ? | |
Funeral of Selena | April 3, 1995, Houston, Texas, United States | 60,000+ | ? | |
Funeral of the "Father of Tamil Nation" Perunchiththiranar | June 16, 1995, Medavakkam, Chennai, India | 150,000 | ? | |
State funeral of Yitzhak Rabin | November 6, 1995, Jerusalem, Israel | 40,000 | ? | |
Funeral of Yahya Ayyash | January 6, 1996, Gaza, Palestine | 100,000+[30] | ? | |
State funeral of Deng Xiaoping | February 24, 1997, Beijing, People's Republic of China | 110,000+ | ? | |
Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales | September 6, 1997, London and Althorp, United Kingdom | ~3,000,000[31] | 2,500,000,000[citation needed] | |
State funeral of King Hussein of Jordan | February 8, 1999, Amman, Jordan | ~800,000[32] | ? | |
Funeral of Rachel Scott | April 24, 1999, Littleton, Colorado, United States | ~3,000+ | 16,000,000+ | |
Funeral of Maurice "Rocket" Richard | May 31, 2000, Montreal, Quebec, Canada | ~115,000 | ? | |
Funeral of Ahmad Shah Massoud | September 16, 2001, Panjshir[disambiguation needed], Afghanistan | ~130,000 | ? | |
Funeral of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother | April 9, 2002, London, United Kingdom | 1,200,000+ | ? | |
Funeral of Zoran Đinđić | 15 March 2003, Belgrade, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | ~500,000 | 1,500,000 | |
State funeral of Ronald Reagan | June 7, 2004, Simi Valley and Washington D.C., United States | 104,684[33] | 35,700,000[34] | |
State funeral of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan | November 2, 2004, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | 50,000+ | 50,000,000 | |
Funeral of Pope John Paul II | April 8, 2005, Vatican City and Rome, Italy | 4,000,000[35][36] | 1,000,000,000+ | |
Funeral of Wee Kim Wee | 2 May 2005 | |||
Funeral of Coretta Scott King | February 7, 2006, Lithonia, Georgia, United States | 16,000+ | ? | |
Funeral of Slobodan Milošević | March 18, 2006, Belgrade, Serbia | 50,000+[37] | ? | |
Funeral of Augusto Pinochet | 12 December 2006, Santiago, Chile | 60,000[38] | ? | |
State funeral of Gerald Ford | December 31, 2006 – January 2, 2007, Washington, D.C., United States | ~117,000 | ? | |
Funeral of Hrant Drink | January 23, 2007, Istanbul, Turkey | 200,000+[39] | ? | |
Michael Jackson memorial service | July 7, 2009, Los Angeles, California, United States | 17,500[40] | 3,000,000,000[41][42] | |
Funeral of Corazon Aquino | August 5, 2009, Manila, Philippines | 300,000–400,000 | ? | |
Funeral of Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri | December 21, 2009, Qom, Iran | 800,000+ | ? | |
State funeral of Lech and Maria Kaczyński | 18 April 2010, Kraków, Poland | 150,000+ | 13,000,000 | |
Funeral of Otto von Habsburg | July 16, 2011, Vienna, Austria | ~101,000[43] | 413,000–557,000[44] | |
Funeral of "The Bard of Brahmaputra" Bhupen Hazarika[45] | 9 November 2011, Guwahati, Assam, India | 500,000+[46] | 30,000,000[citation needed] | |
Funeral of Pope Shenouda III | March 20, 2012, Cairo, Egypt | 20,000,000 | ? | |
Funeral of Dolphy | July 15, 2012, Taguig, Manila, Philippines | 100+ | 1,000,000–3,000,000 | |
State funeral of Jesse M. Robredo | August 24–28, 2012, Malacañan Palace, Manila, Philippines | 200,000–500,000 | ? | |
State funeral of Bal Thackeray | November 18–19, 2012, Shivaji Park, Mumbai, India | 1,000,000[47]–2,000,000[48] | 15,000,000 | |
State funeral of Adrian Donohoe | January 30, 2013, Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland | 5,000[49] | ? | |
Death and state funeral of Hugo Chávez | March 6–8, 2013, Caracas, Venezuela | 1,000,000–3,000,000[50] | ? | |
Funeral of Margaret Thatcher | April 8, 2013, London, United Kingdom | Thousands [51] | >4,000,000 [52] | |
Funeral of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef | October 7, 2013, Jerusalem, Israel | 450,000[53]–850,000[54] | ? | |
State funeral of Võ Nguyên Giáp | October 12–13, 2013, Hanoi, Vietnam | Millions[55] | Millions | |
Commemoration of Nelson Mandela | December 10–15, 2013, Johannesburg, Pretoria and Qunu, South Africa | 100,000+ | Millions | |
Funeral of Eduardo Campos | August 17, 2014, Recife, Brazil | 100,000+[56] | ? | |
State funeral of Michael Sata | November 11, 2014, Lusaka, Zambia | 50,000+[57] | ? | |
Funeral of Roberto Gomez Bolaños | November 29, 2014, Mexico City, Mexico | 45,000+[58] | Millions | |
State funeral of Lee Kuan Yew | March 23–29, 2015, Singapore | 1,500,000+[59][60] | ||
Funeral of Mumtaz Qadri | March 1, 2016, Rawalpindi, Pakistan[61] | 2,00,000 to 2,50,,000[62][63] | - |
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