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 and place | Attendants | Television audience |
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Funeral of Julius Caesar | March 20, 44 BC, Rome, Roman Republic | ||
Funeral of Ludwig van Beethoven | March 29, 1827, Vienna, Austrian Empire | ~20,000[1] | |
Funeral and burial of Abraham Lincoln | April 19–May 3, 1865, Eastern and Midwest United States | ~7,000,000[2] | |
State funeral of Victor-Marie Hugo | June 1, 1885, Paris, France | 2,000,000–3,000,000[3] | |
State funeral of Ulysses S. Grant | August 6–8, 1885, New York City, New York, United States | ||
Funeral of August Spies, George Engel, Adolph Fischer, and Albert Parsons | November 13, 1887, Chicago, Illinois, United States | ~500,000[4] | |
Funeral of Wilhelm I | March 12–16, 1888, Berlin, German Empire | 200,000[5] | |
Two state funerals of Kalākaua | January 22, 1891, San Francisco and January 29–February 15, 1891, Honolulu, United States | ||
State funeral of Pedro II of Brazil | December 9, 1891, Paris, France | ||
Funeral of Queen Victoria | February 2, 1901, Windsor, England | ||
Funeral of Edward VII | May 20, 1910, London and Windsor, United Kingdom | ||
Funeral and cremation of Joe Hill | November 1915, Salt Lake City and Chicago, United States; ashes distributed worldwide | 30,000+[6] | |
Funeral of Sholem Aleichem | May 13, 1916, New York City | 250,000+[7] | |
Funerals of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht | June 13, 1919, near Berlin, Weimar Republic | 200,000[8] | |
Funeral of Michael Collins | 27 August 1922, Dublin, Ireland | ||
Funeral of Lenin | 21 January 1924, Moscow, Soviet Union | ||
Funeral of Rudolph Valentino | August 30, 1926, New York City, New York, United States | 100,000+[9] | |
Funeral of Engelbert Dollfuss | July 30, 1934, Vienna, First Austrian Republic | 1,000,000+[10] | |
Funeral of Paul von Hindenburg | August 6–7, 1934, Tannenberg Memorial, German Reich | 200,000[11] | Millions (via radio, not television)[12] |
Funeral of Huey Long | 12 September 1935, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States | ~200,000[13] | |
State funeral of Guglielmo Marconi | July 21, 1937, Rome, Kingdom of Italy | ||
Funeral of Roman Dmowski | January 7, 1939, Warsaw, Poland | 200,000[14] | |
Funeral of Leon Trotsky | August 23–28, 1940, Mexico City, Mexico | ||
State funeral of John Curtin | 9 July 1945, Perth, Western Australia, Australia | 30,000+[15] | |
Funeral of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | February 6, 1948, New Delhi, Dominion of India | ||
State funeral of Muhammad Ali Jinnah | September 12, 1948, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan | ||
State funeral of Eva "Evita" Perón | August 9, 1952, Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||
State funeral of Joseph Stalin | March 6–9, 1953, Moscow, Soviet Union | ||
Funeral of Carmen Miranda | August 12–13, 1955, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | ||
Funeral of B. R. Ambedkar | December 6, 1956, Mumbai, India | 500,000+[16] | |
Funeral of Senator Joseph McCarthy | May 7, 1957, Appleton, Wisconsin, United States | 30,000+[17] | |
State funeral of John F. Kennedy | November 25, 1963, Washington, D.C., United States | 550,000[18] | |
State funeral of General Douglas MacArthur | 7 April 1964, Washington, D.C., United States | ||
State funeral of Jawaharlal Nehru | May 28, 1964, New Delhi, Delhi, India | 1.500,000[19] | |
State funeral of Sir Winston Churchill | 30 January 1965, London, United Kingdom | ||
Funeral of Malcolm X | February 23–27, 1965, Harlem, New York City, New York, United States | ||
State funeral of Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd | September 10, 1966, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa | 250,000[20] | |
Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr. | April 9, 1968, Atlanta, Georgia, United States | 300,000[21] | |
Funeral of C. N. Annadurai | 3 February 1969, Madras, Tamil Nadu, India, | Millions[22] | |
State funeral of Ho Chi Minh | September 9, 1969, Hanoi, Democratic Republic of Vietnam | 250,000[23] | |
State funeral of Gamal Abdel Nasser | October 1, 1970, Cairo, Egypt | Millions[24] | |
State funeral of Juan Domingo Perón | July 2–4, 1974, Buenos Aires, Argentina | 1,135,000+[25] | |
Funeral of Umm Kulthum | February 6, 1975, Cairo, Egypt | ||
State funeral of Chiang Kai-shek | April 16, 1975, Taipei, Republic of China | ||
State funeral of Francisco Franco | November 22–23, 1975, Madrid, Spain | 300,000–500,000[26][27] | |
State funeral of Zhou Enlai | January 11, 1976, Beijing, People's Republic of China | ||
Funeral of Juscelino Kubitschek | August 23, 1976, Brasília, Brazil | ||
State funeral of Mao Zedong | September 18, 1976, Beijing, People's Republic of China | ||
Funeral of Elvis Presley | August 16–18, 1977, Memphis, Tennessee, United States | ||
State funeral of Sir Robert Menzies | November 19, 1978, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | ~100,000[28] | |
State funeral of Park Chung-hee | November 1, 1979, Seoul, Republic of Korea | ~2,000,000[29] | |
Funeral of Archbishop Óscar Romero | March 30, 1980, San Salvador, El Salvador | ||
Death and state funeral of Josip Broz Tito | 8 May 1980, Belgrade, Yugoslavia | ||
Funeral of Bobby Sands | May 7, 1981, Belfast, Northern Ireland | 100,000+[30] | |
State funeral of Ziaur Rahman | June 2, 1981, National Parliament, Dhaka, Bangladesh | ~2,000,000[31][32] | |
Funeral of Benigno Aquino, Jr. | August 31, 1983, Manila, Philippines | ||
Funeral of Enrico Berlinguer | June 13, 1984, Rome, Italy | 1,000,000+[33] | |
Funeral of Jerzy Popiełuszko | November 3, 1984, Warsaw, Poland | ||
State funeral of Chiang Ching-kuo | January 30, 1988, Taipei, Republic of China | ||
State funeral of Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq | August 19, 1988, Islamabad, Pakistan | ~1,000,000[34] | |
State funeral of Emperor Shōwa | February 24, 1989, Tokyo, Japan | 250,000+[35] | |
Funeral of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini | June 4–5, 1989, Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini, Tehran, Iran | Millions[36] | |
Funeral of Meir Kahane | November 6, 1990, Jerusalem, Israel | ||
Funeral of Richard Nixon | April 26–27, 1994, Yorba Linda, California, United States | 54,000+[37] | |
Funeral of Ayrton Senna | May 4, 1994, São Paulo, Brazil | 3,000,000+[18] | Hundreds of millions (in Brazil)[38][39] |
Funeral of Selena | April 3, 1995, Corpus Christi, Texas, United States | ||
Funeral of the "Father of Tamil Nation" Perunchiththiranar | June 16, 1995, Medavakkam, Chennai, India | ||
State funeral of Yitzhak Rabin | November 6, 1995, Jerusalem, Israel | ||
Funeral of Yahya Ayyash | January 6, 1996, Gaza, Palestine | 100,000+[40] | |
State funeral of Deng Xiaoping | February 24, 1997, Beijing, People's Republic of China | ||
Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales | September 6, 1997, London and Althorp, United Kingdom | 1,000,000+[41] | 2,500,000,000[41] |
State funeral of King Hussein of Jordan | February 8, 1999, Amman, Jordan | ~800,000[42] | |
Funeral of Rachel Scott | April 24, 1999, Littleton, Colorado, United States | ||
Funeral of Maurice "Rocket" Richard | May 31, 2000, Montreal, Quebec, Canada | ||
Funeral of Ahmad Shah Massoud | September 16, 2001, Bazarak, Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan | ||
Funeral of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother | April 9, 2002, London, United Kingdom | 1,000,000+[43] | |
Funeral of Zoran Đinđić | 15 March 2003, Belgrade, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | ||
State funeral of Ronald Reagan | June 7, 2004, Simi Valley and Washington D.C., United States | 104,684[44] | 35,700,000[45] |
State funeral of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan | November 2, 2004, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | ||
Funeral of Pope John Paul II | April 8, 2005, Vatican City and Rome, Italy | 4,000,000[46][47] | |
Funeral of Wee Kim Wee | 2 May 2005 | ||
Funeral of Coretta Scott King | February 7, 2006, Lithonia, Georgia, United States | ||
Funeral of Slobodan Milošević | March 18, 2006, Belgrade, Serbia | 50,000+[48] | |
Funeral of Augusto Pinochet | 12 December 2006, Santiago, Chile | 60,000[49] | |
State funeral of Gerald Ford | December 31, 2006 – January 2, 2007, Washington, D.C., United States | ||
Funeral of Hrant Drink | January 23, 2007, Istanbul, Turkey | 200,000+[50] | |
Michael Jackson memorial service | July 7, 2009, Los Angeles, California, United States | 17,500[51] | 3,000,000,000[52][53] |
Funeral of Corazon Aquino | August 5, 2009, Manila, Philippines | ||
Funeral of Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri | December 21, 2009, Qom, Iran | ||
State funeral of Lech and Maria Kaczyński | 18 April 2010, Kraków, Poland | ||
Funeral of Otto von Habsburg | July 16, 2011, Vienna, Austria | ~101,000[54] | 413,000–557,000[55] |
Funeral of "The Bard of Brahmaputra" Bhupen Hazarika[56] | 9 November 2011, Guwahati, Assam, India | 500,000+[57] | |
Funeral of Pope Shenouda III | March 20, 2012, Cairo, Egypt | ||
Funeral of Dolphy | July 15, 2012, Taguig, Manila, Philippines | ||
State funeral of Jesse M. Robredo | August 24–28, 2012, Malacañan Palace, Manila, Philippines | ||
State funeral of Bal Thackeray | November 18–19, 2012, Shivaji Park, Mumbai, India | 1,000,000[58]–2,000,000[59] | |
State funeral of Adrian Donohoe | January 30, 2013, Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland | 5,000[60] | |
Death and state funeral of Hugo Chávez | March 6–8, 2013, Caracas, Venezuela | 1,000,000–3,000,000[61] | |
Funeral of Margaret Thatcher | April 8, 2013, London, United Kingdom | Thousands[62] | >4,000,000[63] |
Funeral of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef | October 7, 2013, Jerusalem, Israel | 450,000[64]–850,000[65] | |
State funeral of Võ Nguyên Giáp | October 12–13, 2013, Hanoi, Vietnam | Millions[66] | |
Commemoration of Nelson Mandela | December 10–15, 2013, Johannesburg, Pretoria and Qunu, South Africa | ||
State funeral of Michael Sata | November 11, 2014, Lusaka, Zambia | 50,000+[67] | |
Funeral of Roberto Gomez Bolaños | November 29, 2014, Mexico City, Mexico | 45,000+[68] | |
Funeral of Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat | February 12, 2015, Kota Bharu, Malaysia | +10,000[69] | |
State funeral of Lee Kuan Yew | March 23–29, 2015, Singapore | 100,000 (funeral cortege)[70][71] | |
Funeral of Mumtaz Qadri | March 1, 2016, Rawalpindi, Pakistan | 30,000+[72][73][74] | |
Muhammad Ali memorial service | June 11, 2016, Louisville, Kentucky, United States[75] | ||
Funeral of Akhtar Raza Khan | July 20 2018, Bareilly, Uttar pradesh, India | Millions[76][77] | |
Notes
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Further reading
- "Bhupen Hazarika funeral postponed as Million fans turn up". Times of Assam. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
- "Six lakh pay last respects to Bhupen Hazarika". dna. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
- Sushanta Talukdar. "Hazarika's cremation rescheduled for Wednesday". The Hindu. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
- "Lakhs turn out to pay last respects to Bhupen Hazarika". Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on 25 January 2013. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
- "Mass upsurge for man of the masses". The Times of India. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
- "Hundreds of thousands pay tribute to Indian singer". Reuters. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
- "CNN - Thousands pay last respects to Deng Xiaoping - Feb. 24, 1997". cnn.com. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
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