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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
Funeral of Ludwig van Beethoven March 29, 1827  Austrian Empire Vienna ~20,000[1]
Funeral of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington November 18, 1852  United Kingdom London 1,500,000[2]
Funeral and burial of Abraham Lincoln April 19 – May 3, 1865  United States East and Midwest 150,000[3]
State funeral of Victor Hugo June 1, 1885  French Third Republic Paris 2,000,000–3,000,000[4]
Funeral of August Spies, George Engel, Adolph Fischer, and Albert Parsons November 13, 1887  United States Chicago ~500,000[5]
Funeral of Wilhelm I March 12–16, 1888  German Empire Berlin 200,000[6]
State funeral of Pedro II of Brazil December 9, 1891  French Third Republic Paris 200,000–300,000[7][8]
Funeral of Henry George October 29, 1897  United States New York City 100,000[9]
Funeral of Giuseppe Verdi January 30, 1901  Italy Milan 10,000 (private ceremony)[10]
February 27, 1901 300,000 (State funeral)[10]
Funeral of Sholem Aleichem May 13, 1916  United States New York City at least 250,000[11]
Funerals of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht June 13, 1919  Weimar Republic Berlin 200,000[12]
Funeral of Michael Collins August 28, 1922  Ireland Dublin 500,000[13]
Funeral of Rudolph Valentino August 30, 1926  United States New York City at least 10,000[14]
State funeral of Jānis Čakste March 18, 1927  Latvia Rīga up to 200,000[15]
Funeral of Engelbert Dollfuss July 30, 1934  Federal State of Austria Vienna Approx.500,000 [16]
Funeral of Paul von Hindenburg August 6–7, 1934  Nazi Germany 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  Poland Kraków up to 250,000[19][20]
Funeral of Huey Long September 12, 1935  United States Baton Rouge ~200,000[21]
State funeral of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk September 21, 1937  Czechoslovakia Prague 500–750,000[22]
State funeral of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk November 11, 1938  Turkey Ankara 600–750,000[23][24]
Funeral of Roman Dmowski January 7, 1939  Poland Warsaw 200,000[25]
State funeral of Pedro Aguirre Cerda November 28, 1941  Chile Santiago 700,000[26]
Funeral of Mahatma Gandhi February 6, 1948  India New Delhi at least 2,000,000[27][28]
Funeral of John Garfield May 23, 1952  United States New York 10,000[29][30]
State funeral of Eva Perón August 9, 1952  Argentina Buenos Aires 3,000,000[31]
Funeral of Carmen Miranda August 12, 1955  Brazil Rio de Janeiro 500,000[32]
Funeral of B. R. Ambedkar December 6, 1956  India Mumbai at least 500,000[33]
State funeral of Gershon Agron November 2, 1959  Israel Jerusalem at least 40,000[34][35]
State funeral of John F. Kennedy November 25, 1963  United States Washington, D.C. 550,000[36] 41,500,000[37]
State funeral of Jawaharlal Nehru May 28, 1964  India New Delhi 1,500,000[38]
State funeral of Winston Churchill January 30, 1965  United Kingdom London (6,000 at funeral service) 500,000 [39][40] 350,000,000[39]
State funeral of Hendrik Verwoerd September 10, 1966  South Africa Pretoria 250,000[41]
Funeral of Mir Osman Ali Khan February 25, 1967  India Hyderabad 800,000[42][43]
Funeral of Lorenzo Bandini May 10, 1967  Italy Reggiolo 100,000[44]
Funeral of Martin Luther King Jr. April 9, 1968  United States Atlanta 300,000[45] 120,000,000[37]
State funeral of Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu C. N. Annadurai February 4, 1969  India Madras 15,000,000[46][47][48][49][50][51][52]
State funeral of Ho Chi Minh September 9, 1969  North Vietnam Hanoi 250,000[53]
State funeral of Gamal Abdel Nasser October 1, 1970  Egypt Cairo at least 3,000,000 [54][55][56]
State funeral of Juan Perón July 2–4, 1974  Argentina Buenos Aires at least 1,135,000[57]
Funeral of Umm Kulthum February 3, 1975  Egypt Cairo at least 1,000,000[58][59]
State funeral of Chiang Kai-shek April 10–16, 1975  Taiwan Taipei at least 2,500,000[60]
State funeral of Francisco Franco November 22–23, 1975  Spain Madrid 300,000–500,000[61][62]
State funeral of Mao Zedong September 9–18, 1976  China Beijing at least 1,000,000[63]
Funeral of Elvis Presley August 16–18, 1977  United States Memphis 75,000[64]
State funeral of Sir Robert Menzies May 19, 1978  Australia Melbourne ~100,000[65]
State funeral of Houari Boumédiène December 29, 1978  Algeria Algiers
State funeral of Park Chung-hee November 3, 1979  South Korea Seoul ~2,000,000[66]
State funeral of Josip Broz Tito May 8, 1980  Yugoslavia Belgrade ~700,000[67]
Funeral of Bobby Sands May 7, 1981  United Kingdom Belfast at least 100,000[68]
State funeral of Bob Marley May 21, 1981  Jamaica Kingston ~100,000[69]
State funeral of Ziaur Rahman June 2, 1981  Bangladesh Dhaka ~2,000,000[70][71]
State funeral of BP Koirala July 21, 1982    Nepal Kathmandu ~500,000[72]
Funeral of Aleksandar Ranković August 22, 1983  Yugoslavia Belgrade ~100,000[73][74][75]
Funeral of Benigno Aquino Jr. August 31, 1983  Philippines Metro Manila at least 2,000,000[76]
Funeral of Enrico Berlinguer June 13, 1984  Italy Rome at least 1,000,000[77]
State funeral of Indira Gandhi November 3, 1984  India Delhi at least 3,500,000[78]
Funeral of M.G. Ramachandran December 25, 1987  India Madras at least 3,500,000[78]
State funeral of Muhammad Zia Ul Haq August 19, 1988  Pakistan Islamabad ~1,000,000[79]
State funeral of Hirohito February 24, 1989  Japan Tokyo at least 250,000[80]
State funeral of Ruhollah Khomeini June 5–6, 1989  Iran Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini, Tehran ~7,200,000[54]
Re-burial of Imre Nagy June 16, 1989  Hungary Budapest 150–250,000[81]
Funeral of Uğur Mumcu January 27, 1993  Turkey Istanbul 100–150,000[82]
State funeral of Turgut Özal April 21, 1993[83]  Turkey Ankara at least 100,000[84]
Funeral of Richard Nixon April 26–27, 1994  United States Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, Yorba Linda, California at least 54,000 28,300,000 [85]
Funeral of Ayrton Senna May 5, 1994  Brazil São Paulo at least 3,000,000[36] (in Brazil) at least 100,000,000 [86][87]
State funeral of Kim Il-sung July 19, 1994  North Korea Pyongyang 2,000,000[88]
Funeral of Selena Quintanilla-Pérez April 3, 1995  United States Corpus Christi, Texas at least 70,000
Funeral of Sibel Yalçın [tr] June 16, 1995  Turkey Istanbul at least 10,000
Funeral of Yahya Ayyash January 6, 1996  Palestine Gaza at least 100,000[89]
Funeral of Alparslan Türkeş April 8, 1997  Turkey Ankara at least 100,000[90]
Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales September 6, 1997  United Kingdom London and Althorp, Northamptonshire (2,000 at funeral service) at least 1,000,000 [91][92] 2.5×10^9 [92]
State funeral of Mother Teresa September 13, 1997  India Calcutta 1,000,000[93] at least 1,000,000[37]
State funeral of King Hussein of Jordan February 8, 1999  Jordan Amman ~800,000[94]
State funeral of Pierre Trudeau October 3, 2000  Canada Montreal at least 1,000[95]

Funeral of Rico Yan

April 4, 2002  Philippines Paranaque ~20,000[96]
Funeral of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother April 9, 2002  United Kingdom London at least 1,000,000[97]
State funeral of Zoran Đinđić March 15, 2003  FR Yugoslavia Belgrade 200,000[98][99]
State funeral of Heydar Aliyev December 15, 2003  Azerbaijan Baku 250,000[100]
State funeral of Ronald Reagan June 7, 2004  United States Simi Valley, California and Washington, D.C. 104,684[101] 35,700,000[102]
Funeral of Fernando Poe Jr. December 22, 2004  Philippines Metro Manila ~300,000[103]
Funeral of Pope John Paul II April 8, 2005  Vatican City Rome 4,000,000[104][105] 2×10^9 [37]
State funeral of Ibrahim Rugova January 27, 2006  Kosovo Pristhina 1,000,000[106]
State funeral of Gerald Ford December 30, 2006 – January 3, 2007  United States Washington, D.C., and Grand Rapids, Michigan 3,700[107] 15,000,000 [85]
Funeral of Hrant Dink January 23, 2007  Turkey Istanbul at least 200,000[108]
Funeral of Dursun Karataş August 11, 2008  Turkey Istanbul 15,000–20,000[109]
Michael Jackson memorial service July 7, 2009  United States Staples Center, Los Angeles 17,500[110] 3×10^9 [111][112]
Funeral of Corazon Aquino August 1–5, 2009  Philippines Metro Manila ~122,000[113]
State funeral of Pavle, Serbian Patriarch November 19, 2009  Serbia Rakovica Monastery, Belgrade at least 500,000[114]
State funeral of GP Koirala March 20, 2010    Nepal Kathmandu ~1,000,000[115]
Funeral of Necmettin Erbakan March 1, 2011  Turkey Istanbul 400,000–2,000,000[116][117]
State funeral of Sri Sathya Sai Baba April 24, 2011  India Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh 500,000[118]
Funeral of Otto von Habsburg July 16, 2011  Austria Vienna ~101,000[119] 413,000–557,000[120]
Funeral of Bhupen Hazarika November 9, 2011  India Guwahati at least 600,000[121]
State funeral of Kim Jong-il December 28, 2011  North Korea Pyongyang 200,000[122]
Funeral of Pope Shenouda III March 20, 2012  Egypt Cairo at least 1,000,000[123]
State funeral of Bal Thackeray November 18–19, 2012  India Shivaji Park, Mumbai 1,000,000–2,000,000 [124][125]
State funeral of Hugo Chávez March 6–8, 2013  Venezuela Caracas 1,000,000–3,000,000[126]
Funeral of Margaret Thatcher April 17, 2013  United Kingdom London at least 1,000[127] at least 4,000,000 [128]
Funeral of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef October 7, 2013  Israel Jerusalem 850,000[129][130]
State funeral of Võ Nguyên Giáp October 12–13, 2013  Vietnam Hanoi at least 1,000,000[131]
Commemoration of Nelson Mandela December 10–15, 2013  South Africa Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Qunu at least 1,000[132][133] (state funeral) at least 1,000,000 [133]
Funeral of Berkin Elvan March 12, 2014  Turkey Istanbul, and all around Turkey (as a part of the Gezi park protests) 2,000,000[134]
State funeral of Lee Kuan Yew March 23–29, 2015  Singapore Mandai 100,000 (funeral cortege)[135][136]
Muhammad Ali memorial service June 10, 2016  United States Louisville, Kentucky[137] ~100,000 (funeral procession)
15,000 (memorial service)[138]		 1,000,000,000[139]
Funeral of Burhan Wani July 8, 2016  India Pulwama nearly 200,000[140]
Funeral of Ömer Halisdemir July 17, 2016  Turkey Çukurkuyu, Niğde 5,000[141][142]
Funeral of Juan Gabriel September 4–5, 2016  Mexico Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua and Mexico City 500,000–1,000,000[143]
State funeral of J. Jayalalithaa December 6, 2016  India Chennai at least 2,000,000[144]
State funeral of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani January 9–11, 2017  Iran Tehran 330,000–2,500,000[145]
Funeral of Bhumibol Adulyadej October 26, 2017  Thailand Bangkok at least 1,000[146] (state funeral) at least 1,000,000[146]
Funeral of Johnny Hallyday December 9, 2017  France Paris 1,000,000[147] 15,000,000[148]
Funeral of Sridevi February 26, 2018  India Mumbai ~1,000,000[149]
Funeral of Akhtar Raza Khan July 20, 2018  India Bareilly at least 1,000,000[150][151][152] 12,500,000
Funeral of M. Karunanidhi August 8, 2018  India Chennai at least 1,000,000[153]
Funeral of Muhammad Abdul Wahhab November 18, 2018  Pakistan Raiwind Markaz, Lahore at least 1,000,000[154][155]
State funeral of George H. W. Bush December 3–6, 2018  United States Washington, D.C. and Houston, Spring, & College Station, Texas 1,000[156] 17,500,000 [85]
Funeral of the Skulener Rebbe April 2, 2019  United States Brooklyn, New York City at least 100,000[157]
Funeral of Qasem Soleimani January 4, 2020  Iraq Baghdad and Kadhimiya at least 1,000[158]
January 5, 2020  Iran Ahvaz and Mashhad at least 7,000,000[159]
January 6, 2020 Tehran and Qom[160]
January 7, 2020 Kerman[160]
Funeral of Zubayer Ahmad Ansari April 18, 2020  Bangladesh Brahmanbaria at least 100,000[161]
Funeral of Khadim Hussain Rizvi November 21, 2020  Pakistan Lahore 200,000[162]
Funeral of Wali Rahmani April 4, 2021  India Munger 200,000-500,000[163][164][165]
Funeral of Puneeth Rajkumar October 29, 2021  India Bengaluru 3,000,000[166][167][168][169][170] 50,000,000
State funeral of Lata Mangeshkar February 6, 2022  India Mumbai at least 1,000[171]
Funeral of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky March 20, 2022  Israel Bnei Brak 750,000[172][173]
Funeral of Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu June 24, 2022  Turkey Istanbul at least 100,000[174]
State funeral of Elizabeth II September 19, 2022  United Kingdom London (2,000 at funeral service) at least 1,000,000 [175][176] At least 4,100,000,000 worldwide

29,000,000 in the UK[177]

State funeral of Pelé January 2–3, 2023  Brazil Santos over 230,000[178][179]
Funeral of Pope Benedict XVI January 5, 2023  Vatican City Rome 200,000[180]
Funeral of Abdulbaki Erol July 13, 2023  Turkey Adıyaman 250,000[181]
Funeral of Vijayakanth December 29, 2023  India Chennai 1,600,000
State funeral of Nguyễn Phú Trọng July 25-26, 2024  Vietnam Hanoi 250,000

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