List of largest 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.
Funeral Date and place Attendants Television audience
Funeral of Julius CaesarMarch 20, 44 BC, Rome, Roman Republic
Funeral of Ludwig van BeethovenMarch 29, 1827, Vienna, Austrian Empire~20,000[1]
Funeral and burial of Abraham LincolnApril 19–May 3, 1865, Eastern and Midwest United States~7,000,000[2]
State funeral of Victor-Marie HugoJune 1, 1885, Paris, France2,000,000–3,000,000[3]
State funeral of Ulysses S. GrantAugust 6–8, 1885, New York City, New York, United States
Funeral of August Spies, George Engel, Adolph Fischer, and Albert ParsonsNovember 13, 1887, Chicago, Illinois, United States~500,000[4]
Funeral of Wilhelm IMarch 12–16, 1888, Berlin, German Empire200,000[5]
Two state funerals of KalākauaJanuary 22, 1891, San Francisco and January 29–February 15, 1891, Honolulu, United States
State funeral of Pedro II of BrazilDecember 9, 1891, Paris, France
Funeral of Queen VictoriaFebruary 2, 1901, Windsor, England
Funeral of Edward VIIMay 20, 1910, London and Windsor, United Kingdom
Funeral and cremation of Joe HillNovember 1915, Salt Lake City and Chicago, United States; ashes distributed worldwide30,000+[6]
Funeral of Sholem AleichemMay 13, 1916, New York City250,000+[7]
Funerals of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl LiebknechtJune 13, 1919, near Berlin, Weimar Republic200,000[8]
Funeral of Michael Collins27 August 1922, Dublin, Ireland
Funeral of Lenin21 January 1924, Moscow, Soviet Union
Funeral of Rudolph ValentinoAugust 30, 1926, New York City, New York, United States100,000+[9]
Funeral of Engelbert DollfussJuly 30, 1934, Vienna, First Austrian Republic1,000,000+[10]
Funeral of Paul von HindenburgAugust 6–7, 1934, Tannenberg Memorial, German Reich200,000[11]Millions (via radio, not television)[12]
Funeral of Huey Long12 September 1935, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States~200,000[13]
State funeral of Guglielmo MarconiJuly 21, 1937, Rome, Kingdom of Italy
Funeral of Roman DmowskiJanuary 7, 1939, Warsaw, Poland200,000[14]
Funeral of Leon TrotskyAugust 23–28, 1940, Mexico City, Mexico
State funeral of John Curtin9 July 1945, Perth, Western Australia, Australia30,000+[15]
Funeral of Mohandas Karamchand GandhiFebruary 6, 1948, New Delhi, Dominion of India
State funeral of Muhammad Ali JinnahSeptember 12, 1948, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
State funeral of Eva "Evita" PerónAugust 9, 1952, Buenos Aires, Argentina
State funeral of Joseph StalinMarch 6–9, 1953, Moscow, Soviet Union
Funeral of Carmen MirandaAugust 12–13, 1955, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Funeral of B. R. AmbedkarDecember 6, 1956, Mumbai, India500,000+[16]
Funeral of Senator Joseph McCarthyMay 7, 1957, Appleton, Wisconsin, United States30,000+[17]
State funeral of John F. KennedyNovember 25, 1963, Washington, D.C., United States550,000[18]
State funeral of General Douglas MacArthur7 April 1964, Washington, D.C., United States
State funeral of Jawaharlal NehruMay 28, 1964, New Delhi, Delhi, India1.500,000[19]
State funeral of Sir Winston Churchill30 January 1965, London, United Kingdom
Funeral of Malcolm XFebruary 23–27, 1965, Harlem, New York City, New York, United States
State funeral of Dr. Hendrik VerwoerdSeptember 10, 1966, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa250,000[20]
Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr.April 9, 1968, Atlanta, Georgia, United States300,000[21]
Funeral of C. N. Annadurai3 February 1969, Madras, Tamil Nadu, India,Millions[22]
State funeral of Ho Chi MinhSeptember 9, 1969, Hanoi, Democratic Republic of Vietnam250,000[23]
State funeral of Gamal Abdel NasserOctober 1, 1970, Cairo, EgyptMillions[24]
State funeral of Juan Domingo PerónJuly 2–4, 1974, Buenos Aires, Argentina1,135,000+[25]
Funeral of Umm KulthumFebruary 6, 1975, Cairo, Egypt
State funeral of Chiang Kai-shekApril 16, 1975, Taipei, Republic of China
State funeral of Francisco FrancoNovember 22–23, 1975, Madrid, Spain300,000–500,000[26][27]
State funeral of Zhou EnlaiJanuary 11, 1976, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Funeral of Juscelino KubitschekAugust 23, 1976, Brasília, Brazil
State funeral of Mao ZedongSeptember 18, 1976, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Funeral of Elvis PresleyAugust 16–18, 1977, Memphis, Tennessee, United States
State funeral of Sir Robert MenziesNovember 19, 1978, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia~100,000[28]
State funeral of Park Chung-heeNovember 1, 1979, Seoul, Republic of Korea~2,000,000[29]
Funeral of Archbishop Óscar RomeroMarch 30, 1980, San Salvador, El Salvador
Death and state funeral of Josip Broz Tito8 May 1980, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Funeral of Bobby SandsMay 7, 1981, Belfast, Northern Ireland100,000+[30]
State funeral of Ziaur RahmanJune 2, 1981, National Parliament, Dhaka, Bangladesh~2,000,000[31][32]
Funeral of Benigno Aquino, Jr.August 31, 1983, Manila, Philippines
Funeral of Enrico BerlinguerJune 13, 1984, Rome, Italy1,000,000+[33]
Funeral of Jerzy PopiełuszkoNovember 3, 1984, Warsaw, Poland
State funeral of Chiang Ching-kuoJanuary 30, 1988, Taipei, Republic of China
State funeral of Muhammad Zia-ul-HaqAugust 19, 1988, Islamabad, Pakistan~1,000,000[34]
State funeral of Emperor ShōwaFebruary 24, 1989, Tokyo, Japan250,000+[35]
Funeral of Ayatollah Ruhollah KhomeiniJune 4–5, 1989, Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini, Tehran, IranMillions[36]
Funeral of Meir KahaneNovember 6, 1990, Jerusalem, Israel
Funeral of Richard NixonApril 26–27, 1994, Yorba Linda, California, United States54,000+[37]
Funeral of Ayrton SennaMay 4, 1994, São Paulo, Brazil3,000,000+[18]Hundreds of millions (in Brazil)[38][39]
Funeral of SelenaApril 3, 1995, Corpus Christi, Texas, United States
Funeral of the "Father of Tamil Nation" PerunchiththiranarJune 16, 1995, Medavakkam, Chennai, India
State funeral of Yitzhak RabinNovember 6, 1995, Jerusalem, Israel
Funeral of Yahya AyyashJanuary 6, 1996, Gaza, Palestine100,000+[40]
State funeral of Deng XiaopingFebruary 24, 1997, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Funeral of Diana, Princess of WalesSeptember 6, 1997, London and Althorp, United Kingdom1,000,000+[41]2,500,000,000[41]
State funeral of King Hussein of JordanFebruary 8, 1999, Amman, Jordan~800,000[42]
Funeral of Rachel ScottApril 24, 1999, Littleton, Colorado, United States
Funeral of Maurice "Rocket" RichardMay 31, 2000, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Funeral of Ahmad Shah MassoudSeptember 16, 2001, Bazarak, Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan
Funeral of Queen Elizabeth The Queen MotherApril 9, 2002, London, United Kingdom1,000,000+[43]
Funeral of Zoran Đinđić15 March 2003, Belgrade, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
State funeral of Ronald ReaganJune 7, 2004, Simi Valley and Washington D.C., United States104,684[44]35,700,000[45]
State funeral of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al NahyanNovember 2, 2004, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Funeral of Pope John Paul IIApril 8, 2005, Vatican City and Rome, Italy4,000,000[46][47]
Funeral of Wee Kim Wee2 May 2005
Funeral of Coretta Scott KingFebruary 7, 2006, Lithonia, Georgia, United States
Funeral of Slobodan MiloševićMarch 18, 2006, Belgrade, Serbia50,000+[48]
Funeral of Augusto Pinochet12 December 2006, Santiago, Chile60,000[49]
State funeral of Gerald FordDecember 31, 2006 – January 2, 2007, Washington, D.C., United States
Funeral of Hrant DrinkJanuary 23, 2007, Istanbul, Turkey200,000+[50]
Michael Jackson memorial serviceJuly 7, 2009, Los Angeles, California, United States17,500[51]3,000,000,000[52][53]
Funeral of Corazon AquinoAugust 5, 2009, Manila, Philippines
Funeral of Ayatollah Hussein-Ali MontazeriDecember 21, 2009, Qom, Iran
State funeral of Lech and Maria Kaczyński18 April 2010, Kraków, Poland
Funeral of Otto von HabsburgJuly 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, India500,000+[57]
Funeral of Pope Shenouda IIIMarch 20, 2012, Cairo, Egypt
Funeral of DolphyJuly 15, 2012, Taguig, Manila, Philippines
State funeral of Jesse M. RobredoAugust 24–28, 2012, Malacañan Palace, Manila, Philippines
State funeral of Bal ThackerayNovember 18–19, 2012, Shivaji Park, Mumbai, India1,000,000[58]–2,000,000[59]
State funeral of Adrian DonohoeJanuary 30, 2013, Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland5,000[60]
Death and state funeral of Hugo ChávezMarch 6–8, 2013, Caracas, Venezuela1,000,000–3,000,000[61]
Funeral of Margaret ThatcherApril 8, 2013, London, United KingdomThousands[62]>4,000,000[63]
Funeral of Rabbi Ovadia YosefOctober 7, 2013, Jerusalem, Israel450,000[64]–850,000[65]
State funeral of Võ Nguyên GiápOctober 12–13, 2013, Hanoi, VietnamMillions[66]
Commemoration of Nelson MandelaDecember 10–15, 2013, Johannesburg, Pretoria and Qunu, South Africa
State funeral of Michael SataNovember 11, 2014, Lusaka, Zambia50,000+[67]
Funeral of Roberto Gomez BolañosNovember 29, 2014, Mexico City, Mexico45,000+[68]
Funeral of Nik Abdul Aziz Nik MatFebruary 12, 2015, Kota Bharu, Malaysia+10,000[69]
State funeral of Lee Kuan YewMarch 23–29, 2015, Singapore100,000 (funeral cortege)[70][71]
Funeral of Mumtaz QadriMarch 1, 2016, Rawalpindi, Pakistan30,000+[72][73][74]
Muhammad Ali memorial serviceJune 11, 2016, Louisville, Kentucky, United States[75]
Funeral of Akhtar Raza KhanJuly 20 2018, Bareilly, Uttar pradesh, IndiaMillions[76][77]

Notes

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  18. 1 2 How service for Michael Jackson compares Las Vegas Sun
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  58. ↑ "Maha end to Tiger journey". Deccan Chronicle. 19 November 2012. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
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  66. ↑ "Historical images at General Vo Nguyen Giap's funeral". 16 October 2014.
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  68. ↑ "Thousands in Mexico pay homage to 'Chespirito'". UT San Diego Associated Press. November 30, 2014. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
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  70. ↑ "Lee Kuan Yew eulogized at funeral as architect of Singapore".
  71. ↑ "Singapore holds Lee Kuan Yew funeral". 29 March 2015 – via www.bbc.com.
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  73. ↑ "Pakistan Salman Taseer murder: Thousands mourn at Mumtaz Qadri funeral". BBC. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
  74. ↑ Yasin, Aamir (2 March 2016). "Religious figures attend Qadri's funeral". Dawn (newspaper). Retrieved 2 March 2016.
  75. ↑ "Muhammad Ali funeral: Rousing farewell at Louisville memorial". BBC. 10 June 2016. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
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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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