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 | ||
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Funeral of Ludwig van Beethoven | March 29, 1827 | Vienna | [1] | ||||
November 18, 1852 | United Kingdom | [2] | |||||
Funeral and burial of Abraham Lincoln | April 19 – May 3, 1865 | United States | [3] | ||||
State funeral of Victor Hugo | June 1, 1885 | Paris | [4] | ||||
Funeral of August Spies, George Engel, Adolph Fischer, and Albert Parsons | November 13, 1887 | United States | [5] | ||||
Funeral of Wilhelm I | Berlin | [6] | |||||
State funeral of Pedro II of Brazil | December 9, 1891 | –[7] [8] | |||||
Funeral of Henry George | October 29, 1897 | United States | [9] | ||||
Funeral of Giuseppe Verdi | January 30, 1901 | Italy | (private ceremony)[10] | ||||
February 27, 1901 | (State funeral) | ||||||
Funeral of Sholem Aleichem | May 13, 1916 | United States | [11] | ||||
Funerals of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht | June 13, 1919 | Berlin | [12] | ||||
August 28, 1922 | Dublin | [13] | |||||
Funeral of Rudolph Valentino | August 30, 1926 | United States | [14] | ||||
March 18, 1927 | [15] | ||||||
Funeral of Engelbert Dollfuss | July 30, 1934 | Vienna | [16] | ||||
Funeral of Paul von Hindenburg | August 6–7, 1934 | [17] | [18] | ||||
May 18, 1935 | [19] [20] | ||||||
Funeral of Huey Long | September 12, 1935 | United States | [21] | ||||
State funeral of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk | September 21, 1937 | [22] | |||||
Funeral of Roman Dmowski | January 7, 1939 | Poland | Warsaw | [23] | |||
November 28, 1941 | Chile | [24] | |||||
Funeral of Mahatma Gandhi | February 6, 1948 | India | New Delhi | [25] [26] | |||
Funeral of John Garfield | May 23, 1952 | United States | New York | [27] [28] | |||
State funeral of Eva Perón | August 9, 1952 | Argentina | Buenos Aires | [29] | |||
August 12, 1955 | Brazil | [30] | |||||
December 6, 1956 | India | [31] | |||||
November 2, 1959 | [32] [33] | ||||||
State funeral of John F. Kennedy | November 25, 1963 | United States | [34] | ||||
State funeral of Jawaharlal Nehru | May 28, 1964 | India | [35] | ||||
State funeral of Winston Churchill | January 30, 1965 | United Kingdom | [36] [37] | ||||
State funeral of Hendrik Verwoerd | September 10, 1966 | South Africa | Pretoria | [38] | |||
Funeral of Mir Osman Ali Khan | February 25, 1967 | India | [39] [40] | ||||
Funeral of Lorenzo Bandini | May 10, 1967 | Italy | [41] | ||||
Funeral of Martin Luther King Jr. | April 9, 1968 | United States | [42] | ||||
State funeral of Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu C. N. Annadurai | February 3, 1969 | India | [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] [48] [49] | ||||
State funeral of Ho Chi Minh | September 9, 1969 | Hanoi | [50] | ||||
State funeral of Gamal Abdel Nasser | October 1, 1970 | Egypt | Cairo | [51] [52] [53] | |||
State funeral of Juan Perón | July 2–4, 1974 | Argentina | [54] | ||||
February 3, 1975 | Egypt | [55] [56] | |||||
State funeral of Chiang Kai-shek | April 10–16, 1975 | Taipei | [57] | ||||
State funeral of Francisco Franco | November 22–23, 1975 | Spain | Madrid | [58] [59] | |||
State funeral of Mao Zedong | September 9–18, 1976 | China | [60] | ||||
Funeral of Elvis Presley | August 16–18, 1977 | United States | Memphis | [61] | |||
State funeral of Sir Robert Menzies | May 19, 1978 | Australia | Melbourne | [62] | |||
State funeral of Houari Boumédiène | December 29, 1978 | Algeria | Algiers | ||||
State funeral of Park Chung-hee | November 3, 1979 | Seoul | [63] | ||||
May 8, 1980 | [64] | ||||||
Funeral of Bobby Sands | May 7, 1981 | United Kingdom | Belfast | [65] | |||
May 21, 1981 | Jamaica | [66] | |||||
State funeral of Ziaur Rahman | June 2, 1981 | Bangladesh | Dhaka | [67] [68] | |||
State funeral of BP Koirala | July 21, 1982 | Nepal | Kathmandu | [69] | |||
August 22, 1983 | [70] [71] | ||||||
August 31, 1983 | Philippines | [72] | |||||
Funeral of Enrico Berlinguer | June 13, 1984 | Italy | [73] | ||||
State funeral of Indira Gandhi | November 3, 1984 | India | [74] | ||||
Funeral of M.G. Ramachandran | December 24, 1987 | India | |||||
State funeral of Muhammad Zia Ul Haq | August 19, 1988 | Pakistan | Islamabad | ~1,000,000[75] | |||
State funeral of Hirohito | February 24, 1989 | Japan | [76] | ||||
State funeral of Ruhollah Khomeini | June 5–6, 1989 | Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini, Tehran | |||||
June 16, 1989 | Hungary | [77] | |||||
Funeral of Uğur Mumcu | January 27, 1993 | Turkey | Istanbul | [78] | |||
State funeral of Turgut Özal | April 21, 1993[79] | Turkey | Ankara | [80] | |||
Funeral of Richard Nixon | April 26–27, 1994 | United States | [81] | [82] | |||
Funeral of Ayrton Senna | May 5, 1994 | Brazil | [83] | [84] [85] | |||
State funeral of Kim Il-sung | July 19, 1994 | [86] | |||||
Funeral of Selena Quintanilla-Pérez | April 3, 1995 | United States | Corpus Christi, Texas | ||||
Funeral of | June 16, 1995 | Turkey | Istanbul | ||||
Funeral of Yahya Ayyash | January 6, 1996 | Gaza | [87] | ||||
Funeral of Alparslan Türkeş | April 8, 1997 | Turkey | Ankara | [88] | |||
Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales | September 6, 1997 | United Kingdom | [89] | [90] | |||
State funeral of Mother Teresa | September 13, 1997 | India | [91] | ||||
State funeral of King Hussein of Jordan | February 8, 1999 | Jordan | Amman | [92] | |||
October 3, 2000 | Canada | [93] | |||||
[Funeral of Rico Yan]] | April 4, 2002 | Philippines | [94] | ||||
Funeral of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother | April 9, 2002 | United Kingdom | [95] | ||||
March 15, 2003 | [96] [97] | ||||||
December 15, 2003 | Azerbaijan | [98] | |||||
State funeral of Ronald Reagan | June 7, 2004 | United States | [99] | [100] | |||
Funeral of Fernando Poe Jr. | December 22, 2004 | Philippines | Metro Manila | [101] | |||
Funeral of Pope John Paul II | April 8, 2005 | [102] [103] | |||||
State funeral of Ibrahim Rugova | January 27, 2006 | Pristhina | 1,000,000[104] | ||||
State funeral of Gerald Ford | December 30, 2006 – January 3, 2007 | United States | [105] | ||||
Funeral of Hrant Dink | January 23, 2007 | Turkey | Istanbul | [106] | |||
Funeral of Dursun Karataş | August 11, 2008 | Turkey | Istanbul | [107] | |||
Michael Jackson memorial service | July 7, 2009 | United States | [108] | [109] [110] | |||
August 1–5, 2009 | Philippines | [111] | |||||
State funeral of Pavle, Serbian Patriarch | November 19, 2009 | Serbia | [112] | ||||
State funeral of GP Koirala | March 20, 2010 | Nepal | Kathmandu | [113] | |||
Funeral of Necmettin Erbakan | March 1, 2011 | Turkey | Istanbul | [114] [115] | |||
State funeral of Sri Sathya Sai Baba | April 24, 2011 | India | [116] | ||||
Funeral of Otto von Habsburg | July 16, 2011 | Austria | [117] | [118] | |||
Funeral of Bhupen Hazarika | November 9, 2011 | India | [119] | ||||
State funeral of Kim Jong-il | December 28, 2011 | [120] | |||||
March 20, 2012 | Egypt | [121] | |||||
State funeral of Bal Thackeray | November 18–19, 2012 | India | [122] [123] | ||||
State funeral of Hugo Chávez | March 6–8, 2013 | Caracas | [124] | ||||
Funeral of Margaret Thatcher | April 17, 2013 | United Kingdom | London | [125] | [126] | ||
Funeral of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef | October 7, 2013 | Israel | 850,000[127] [128] | ||||
State funeral of Võ Nguyên Giáp | October 12–13, 2013 | Hanoi | [129] | ||||
Commemoration of Nelson Mandela | December 10–15, 2013 | South Africa | Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Qunu | [130] [131] | |||
Funeral of Berkin Elvan | March 12, 2014 | Turkey | Istanbul, and all around Turkey (as a part of the Gezi park protests) | [132] | |||
State funeral of Lee Kuan Yew | March 23–29, 2015 | (funeral cortege)[133] [134] | |||||
June 10, 2016 | United States | Louisville, Kentucky[135] | (funeral procession) 15,000 (memorial service)[136] | 1,000,000,000[137] | |||
July 8, 2016 | India | Pulwama | [138] | ||||
Funeral of Ömer Halisdemir | July 17, 2016 | Turkey | Çukurkuyu, Niğde | [139] [140] | |||
Funeral of Juan Gabriel | September 4–5, 2016 | Mexico | [141] | ||||
State funeral of J. Jayalalithaa | December 5, 2016 | India | [142] | ||||
January 9–11, 2017 | [143] | ||||||
October 26, 2017 | Thailand | [144] | |||||
December 9, 2017 | France | [145] | [146] | ||||
February 26, 2018 | India | Mumbai | [147] | ||||
July 20, 2018 | India | [148] [149] [150] | |||||
Funeral of M. Karunanidhi | August 7, 2018 | India | [151] | ||||
November 18, 2018 | [152] [153] | ||||||
December 3–6, 2018 | United States | [154] | |||||
April 2, 2019 | United States | [155] | |||||
January 4, 2020 | Iraq | [156] | |||||
January 5, 2020 | Ahvaz and Mashhad | [157] | |||||
January 6, 2020 | Tehran and Qom[158] | ||||||
January 7, 2020 | Kerman | ||||||
Funeral of Zubayer Ahmad Ansari | April 18, 2020 | Bangladesh | [159] | ||||
November 21, 2020 | [160] | ||||||
April 4, 2021 | India | [161] [162] [163] | |||||
Funeral of Puneeth Rajkumar | October 29, 2021 | India | Bengaluru | [164] [165] [166] [167] [168] | |||
State funeral of Lata Mangeshkar | February 6, 2022 | India | [169] | ||||
Funeral of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky | March 20, 2022 | Israel | Bnei Brak | 750,000[170] [171] | |||
Funeral of Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu | June 24, 2022 | Turkey | Istanbul | at least 100,000[172] | |||
State funeral of Elizabeth II | September 19, 2022 | United Kingdom | London | [173] [174] | At least 4,100,000,000 worldwide29,000,000 in the UK[175] | ||
State funeral of Pelé | January 2–3, 2023 | Brazil | Santos | [176] [177] | |||
Funeral of Pope Benedict XVI | January 5, 2023 | Rome | [178] | ||||
Funeral of Abdulbaki Erol | July 13, 2023 | Turkey | Adıyaman | 250,000[179] | |||
Funeral of Vijayakanth | December 28, 2023 | India | Chennai | 1,600,000 | |||
State funeral of Nguyễn Phú Trọng | July 25-26, 2024 | Hanoi | 250,000 |