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 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 of Sholem Aleichem May 13, 1916, New York City 250,000+[6]
Funerals of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht June 13, 1919, near Berlin, Weimar Republic 200,000[7]
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+[8]
Funeral of Engelbert Dollfuss July 30, 1934, Vienna, First Austrian Republic 1,000,000+[9]
Funeral of Paul von Hindenburg August 6–7, 1934, Tannenberg Memorial, German Reich 200,000[10] Millions (via radio, not television)[11]
Funeral of Huey Long 12 September 1935, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States ~200,000[12]
State funeral of Guglielmo Marconi July 21, 1937, Rome, Kingdom of Italy
Funeral of Roman Dmowski January 7, 1939, Warsaw, Poland 200,000[13]
Funeral of Leon Trotsky August 23–28, 1940, Mexico City, Mexico
State funeral of Pedro Aguirre Cerda November 28, 1941, Santiago, Chile 700,000[14]
Funeral of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi February 6, 1948, New Delhi, Dominion of India 2,000,000+[15][16]
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+[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 Mir Osman Ali Khan February 25, 1967, Hyderabad, India 800,000[21]
Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr. April 9, 1968, Atlanta, Georgia, United States 300,000[22]
Funeral of C. N. Annadurai 3 February 1969, Madras, Tamil Nadu, India Millions[23]
State funeral of Ho Chi Minh September 9, 1969, Hanoi, Democratic Republic of Vietnam 250,000[24]
State funeral of Gamal Abdel Nasser October 1, 1970, Cairo, Egypt Millions[25]
State funeral of Juan Domingo Perón July 2–4, 1974, Buenos Aires, Argentina 1,135,000+[26]
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[27][28]
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[29]
State funeral of Park Chung-hee November 1, 1979, Seoul, Republic of Korea ~2,000,000[30]
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+[31]
State funeral of Ziaur Rahman June 2, 1981, National Parliament, Dhaka, Bangladesh ~2,000,000[32][33]
Funeral of Enrico Berlinguer June 13, 1984, Rome, Italy 1,000,000+[34]
State funeral of Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq August 19, 1988, Islamabad, Pakistan ~1,000,000[35]
State funeral of Emperor Shōwa February 24, 1989, Tokyo, Japan 250,000+[36]
Funeral of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini June 4–5, 1989, Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini, Tehran, Iran Millions[37]
Re-burial of Imre Nagy June 16, 1989, Budapest, Hungary 150–250,000[38]
Funeral of Richard Nixon April 26–27, 1994, Yorba Linda, California, United States 54,000+[39]
Funeral of Ayrton Senna May 4, 1994, São Paulo, Brazil 3,000,000+[18] Hundreds of millions (in Brazil)[40][41]
Death and state funeral of Kim Il-sung 17 July 1994, Pyongyang, North Korea 2,000,000[42]
State funeral of Yitzhak Rabin November 6, 1995, Jerusalem, Israel
Funeral of Yahya Ayyash January 6, 1996, Gaza, Palestine 100,000+[43]
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+[44] 2,500,000,000[44]
State funeral of King Hussein of Jordan February 8, 1999, Amman, Jordan ~800,000[45]
Funeral of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother April 9, 2002, London, United Kingdom 1,000,000+[46]
State funeral of Ronald Reagan June 7, 2004, Simi Valley and Washington D.C., United States 104,684[47] 35,700,000[48]
Funeral of Pope John Paul II April 8, 2005, Vatican City and Rome, Italy 4,000,000[49][50] 2,000,000,000[51]
Funeral of Slobodan Milošević March 18, 2006, Belgrade, Serbia 50,000+[52]
Funeral of Augusto Pinochet 12 December 2006, Santiago, Chile 60,000[53]
State funeral of Gerald Ford December 31, 2006 – January 2, 2007, Washington, D.C., United States
Funeral of Hrant Dink January 23, 2007, Istanbul, Turkey 200,000+[54]
Michael Jackson memorial service July 7, 2009, Los Angeles, California, United States 17,500[55] 3,000,000,000[56][57]
State funeral of Pavle, Serbian Patriarch November 19, 2009, Rakovica Monastery, Serbia 500,000+[58]
State funeral of Lech and Maria Kaczyński 18 April 2010, Kraków, Poland
Funeral of Otto von Habsburg July 16, 2011, Vienna, Austria ~101,000[59] 413,000–557,000[60]
Funeral of Bhupen Hazarika 9 November 2011, Guwahati, Assam, India 600,000+[61]
Death and state funeral of Kim Jong-il 28 December 2011, Pyongyang, North Korea 200,000[62]
Funeral of Pope Shenouda III March 20, 2012, Cairo, Egypt Millions[63]
State funeral of Bal Thackeray November 18–19, 2012, Shivaji Park, Mumbai, India 1,000,000[64]–2,000,000[65]
Death and state funeral of Hugo Chávez March 6–8, 2013, Caracas, Venezuela 1,000,000–3,000,000[66]
Funeral of Margaret Thatcher April 17, 2013, London, United Kingdom Thousands[67] >4,000,000[68]
Funeral of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef October 7, 2013, Jerusalem, Israel 450,000[69]–850,000[70]
State funeral of Võ Nguyên Giáp October 12–13, 2013, Hanoi, Vietnam Millions[71]
Commemoration of Nelson Mandela December 10–15, 2013, Johannesburg, Pretoria and Qunu, South Africa
State funeral of Lee Kuan Yew March 23–29, 2015, Singapore 100,000 (funeral cortege)[72][73]
Muhammad Ali memorial service June 11, 2016, Louisville, Kentucky, United States[74]
Funeral of Burhan Wani July 8, 2016, Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir, India nearly 200,000[75]
Funeral of Sridevi February 26, 2018, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India near 1 million [76]
Funeral of Akhtar Raza Khan July 20, 2018, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India Millions[77][78][79]
Funeral of Kalaignar M Karunanidhi August 7, 2018 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Millions[80]
Funeral of the Skulener Rebbe April 2, 2019, Brooklyn, New York, United States 100,000+ [81]
Funeral of Qasem Soleimani January 4, 2020, Baghdad and Kadhimiya, Iraq
January 5, 2020, Ahvaz and Mashhad, Iran
January 6, 2020 Tehran and Qom, Iran
January 7, 2020, Kerman, Iran		 Millions[82]
Funeral of Maulana Zubayer Ahmad Ansari April 18, 2020, Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh 100,000+ [83]

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