List of largest funerals
This list of notable funerals represents considerable 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 | Austrian Empire | Vienna | ~20,000[1] | |
Funeral of Henry George | October 29, 1897 | United States | New York City | 100,000[2] | |
Funeral of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | November 18, 1852 | United Kingdom | London | 1,500,000[3] | |
Funeral and burial of Abraham Lincoln | April 19 – May 3, 1865 | United States | East and Midwest | 150,000[4] | |
State funeral of Victor Hugo | June 1, 1885 | French Third Republic | Paris | 2,000,000–3,000,000[5] | |
Funeral of August Spies, George Engel, Adolph Fischer, and Albert Parsons | November 13, 1887 | United States | Chicago | ~500,000[6] | |
Funeral of Wilhelm I | March 12–16, 1888 | German Empire | Berlin | 200,000[7] | |
Funeral of Sholem Aleichem | May 13, 1916 | United States | New York City | 250,000+[8] | |
Funerals of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht | June 13, 1919 | Weimar Republic | Berlin | 200,000[9] | |
Funeral of Rudolph Valentino | August 30, 1926 | United States | New York City, | 100,000+[10] | |
Funeral of Engelbert Dollfuss | July 30, 1934 | Federal State of Austria | Vienna | 1,000,000+[11] | |
Funeral of Paul von Hindenburg | August 6–7, 1934 | Nazi Germany | Tannenberg Memorial, Hohenstein in Ostpreußen, | 200,000[12] | Millions (via radio, not television)[13] |
Funeral of Huey Long | September 12, 1935 | United States | Baton Rouge | ~200,000[14] | |
Funeral of Roman Dmowski | January 7, 1939 | Poland | Warsaw | 200,000[15] | |
State funeral of Pedro Aguirre Cerda | November 28, 1941 | Chile | Santiago | 700,000[16] | |
Funeral of Mahatma Gandhi | February 6, 1948 | India | New Delhi | 2,000,000+[17][18] | |
State funeral of Eva Perón | August 9, 1952 | Argentina | Buenos Aires | 3,000,000[19] | |
Funeral of B. R. Ambedkar | December 6, 1956 | India | Mumbai | 500,000+[20] | |
State funeral of John F. Kennedy | November 25, 1963 | United States | Washington, D.C. | 550,000[21] | 41.5 million[22] |
State funeral of Jawaharlal Nehru | May 28, 1964 | India | New Delhi | 1,500,000[23] | |
State funeral of Sir Winston Churchill | January 30, 1965 | United Kingdom | London | 6,000 (funeral service)[24] 500,000 (funeral procession)[25] |
350,000,000[24] |
State funeral of Hendrik Verwoerd | September 10, 1966 | South Africa | Pretoria | 250,000[26] | |
Funeral of Mir Osman Ali Khan | February 25, 1967 | India | Hyderabad | 800,000[27][28] | |
Funeral of Martin Luther King Jr. | April 9, 1968 | United States | Atlanta | 300,000[29] | 120,000,000[22] |
Funeral of C. N. Annadurai | February 3, 1969 | India | Madras | Millions, according to some reports in the press[30][3] | |
State funeral of Ho Chi Minh | September 9, 1969 | North Vietnam | Hanoi | 250,000[31] | |
State funeral of Gamal Abdel Nasser | October 1, 1970 | Egypt | Cairo | Millions[32][33] | |
State funeral of Juan Perón | July 2–4, 1974 | Argentina | Buenos Aires | 1,135,000+[34] | |
Funeral of Umm Kulthum | February 3, 1975 | Egypt | Cairo | Millions[35][36] | |
State funeral of Francisco Franco | November 22–23, 1975 | Spain | Madrid | 300,000–500,000[37][38] | |
State funeral of Mao Zedong | September 9–18, 1976 | China | Beijing | 1,000,000+[39] | |
Funeral of Elvis Presley | August 16–18, 1977 | United States | Memphis | 75,000[40] | |
State funeral of Sir Robert Menzies | November 19, 1978 | Australia | Melbourne | ~100,000[41] | |
State funeral of Park Chung-hee | November 1, 1979 | South Korea | Seoul | ~2,000,000[42] | |
State funeral of Josip Broz Tito | May 8, 1980 | Yugoslavia | Belgrade | ~700,000[43] | |
Funeral of Bobby Sands | May 7, 1981 | United Kingdom | Belfast | 100,000+[44] | |
State funeral of Bob Marley | May 21, 1981 | Jamaica | Kingston | ~100,000[45] | |
State funeral of Ziaur Rahman | June 2, 1981 | Bangladesh | Dhaka | ~2,000,000[46][47] | |
Funeral of Benigno Aquino Jr. | August 31, 1983 | Philippines | Metro Manila | 2,000,000+[48] | |
Funeral of Enrico Berlinguer | June 13, 1984 | Italy | Rome | 1,000,000+[49] | |
State funeral of Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq | August 19, 1988 | Pakistan | Islamabad | ~1,000,000[50] | |
State funeral of Hirohito | February 24, 1989 | Japan | Tokyo | 250,000+[51] | |
State funeral of Ruhollah Khomeini | June 4–5, 1989 | Iran | Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini, Tehran | Millions[52] | |
Re-burial of Imre Nagy | June 16, 1989 | Hungary | Budapest, Hungary | 150–250,000[53] | |
Funeral of Richard Nixon | April 26–27, 1994 | United States | Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, Yorba Linda, California, | 54,000+[54] | 28.3 million[55] |
Funeral of Ayrton Senna | May 4, 1994 | Brazil | São Paulo | 3,000,000+[21] | Hundreds of millions (in Brazil)[56][57] |
State funeral of Kim Il-sung | July 17, 1994 | North Korea | Pyongyang | 2,000,000[58] | |
Funeral of Yahya Ayyash | January 6, 1996 | Palestine | Gaza | 100,000+[59] | |
Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales | September 6, 1997 | United Kingdom | London and Althorp, Northamptonshire | 2,000 (funeral service)[60] 1,000,000+ (funeral procession)[61] |
2,500,000,000[61] |
State funeral of Mother Teresa | September 13, 1997 | India | Calcutta | 1,000,000[62] | Millions[22] |
State funeral of King Hussein of Jordan | February 8, 1999 | Jordan | Amman | ~800,000[63] | |
State funeral of Pierre Trudeau | October 3, 2000 | Canada | Montreal | Thousands[64] | |
Funeral of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother | April 9, 2002 | United Kingdom | London | 1,000,000+[65] | |
State funeral of Heydar Aliyev | December 15, 2003 | Azerbaijan | Baku | 250,000[66] | |
State funeral of Ronald Reagan | June 7, 2004 | United States | Simi Valley, California and Washington, D.C. | 104,684[67] | 35,700,000[68] |
Funeral of Pope John Paul II | April 8, 2005 | Vatican City | Rome, Italy | 4,000,000[69][70] | 2,000,000,000[22] |
State funeral of Gerald Ford | December 30, 2006 – January 3, 2007 | United States | Washington, D.C. and Grand Rapids, Michigan | 3,700[71] | 15,000,000[55] |
Funeral of Hrant Dink | January 23, 2007 | Turkey | Istanbul | 200,000+[72] | |
Michael Jackson memorial service | July 7, 2009 | United States | Staples Center, Los Angeles | 17,500[73] | 3,000,000,000[74][75] |
Funeral of Corazon Aquino | August 1–5, 2009 | Philippines | Metro Manila | ~122,000[76] | |
State funeral of Pavle, Serbian Patriarch | November 19, 2009 | Serbia | Rakovica Monastery, Belgrade | 500,000+[77] | |
State funeral of Sri Sathya Sai Baba | April 24, 2011 | India | Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh, | 500,000[78] | |
Funeral of Otto von Habsburg | July 16, 2011 | Austria | Vienna | ~101,000[79] | 413,000–557,000[80] |
Funeral of Bhupen Hazarika | November 9, 2011 | India | Guwahati | 600,000+[81] | |
State funeral of Kim Jong-il | December 28, 2011 | North Korea | Pyongyang | 200,000[82] | |
Funeral of Pope Shenouda III | March 20, 2012 | Egypt | Cairo | Millions[83] | |
State funeral of Bal Thackeray | November 18–19, 2012 | India | Shivaji Park, Mumbai | 1,000,000[84]–2,000,000[85] | |
State funeral of Hugo Chávez | March 6–8, 2013 | Venezuela | Caracas | 1,000,000–3,000,000[86] | |
Funeral of Margaret Thatcher | April 17, 2013 | United Kingdom | London | Thousands[87] | >4,000,000[88] |
Funeral of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef | October 7, 2013 | Israel | Jerusalem | 450,000[89]–850,000[90] | |
State funeral of Võ Nguyên Giáp | October 12–13, 2013 | Vietnam | Hanoi | Millions[91] | |
Commemoration of Nelson Mandela | December 10–15, 2013 | South Africa | Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Qunu | Thousands[92][93] | Millions (state funeral)[93] |
State funeral of Lee Kuan Yew | March 23–29, 2015 | Singapore | Mandai | 100,000 (funeral cortege)[94][95] | |
Muhammad Ali memorial service | June 10, 2016 | United States | Louisville, Kentucky[96] | ~100,000 (funeral procession) 15,000 (memorial service)[97] |
1,000,000,000[98] |
Funeral of Burhan Wani | July 8, 2016 | India | Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir | nearly 200,000[99] | |
Funeral of Juan Gabriel | September 4–5, 2016 | Mexico | Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua and Mexico City | 500,000–1,000,000[100] | |
Funeral of J. Jayalalithaa | December 5, 2016 | India | Chennai | Millions[101] | |
State funeral of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani | January 9–11, 2017 | Iran | Tehran | 330,000–2,500,000[102] | |
Funeral of Bhumibol Adulyadej | October 26, 2017 | Thailand | Bangkok | Thousands[103] | Millions[103] |
Funeral of Johnny Hallyday | December 9, 2017 | France | Paris | 1,000,000[104] | 15,000,000[105] |
Funeral of Sridevi | February 26, 2018 | India | Mumbai | near 1 million[106] | |
Funeral of Akhtar Raza Khan | July 20, 2018 | India | Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh | Millions[107][108][109] | |
Funeral of M. Karunanidhi | August 7, 2018 | India | Chennai | Millions[110] | |
Funeral of Muhammad Abdul Wahhab | November 18, 2018 | Pakistan | Raiwind Markaz, Lahore | Thousands[111][112] | |
State funeral of George H. W. Bush | December 3–6, 2018 | United States | Washington, D.C. and Houston, Spring, & College Station, Texas | 1,000[113] | 17.5 million[55] |
Funeral of the Skulener Rebbe | April 2, 2019 | United States | Brooklyn, New York City | 100,000+[114] | |
Funeral of Qasem Soleimani | January 4, 2020 | Iraq | Baghdad and Kadhimiya | Thousands[115] | |
Funeral of Qasem Soleimani | January 5, 2020 | Iran | Ahvaz and Mashhad | Millions[116] | |
January 6, 2020 | Iran | Tehran and Qom[116] | |||
January 7, 2020 | Iran | Kerman[116] | |||
Funeral of Zubayer Ahmad Ansari | April 18, 2020 | Bangladesh | Brahmanbaria | 100,000+[117] | |
Funeral of Khadim Hussain Rizvi | November 21, 2020 | Pakistan | Lahore | 200,000[118] | |
Funeral of Wali Rahmani | April 4, 2021 | India | Munger | 200,000-500,000[119][120][121] |
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