National day of mourning
A national day of mourning is a day or days marked by mourning and memorial activities observed among the majority of a country's populace. They are designated by the national government. Such days include those marking the death or funeral of a renowned individual or individuals from that country or elsewhere or the anniversary of such a death or deaths, the anniversaries of a significant natural or man-made disaster occurring either in the country or another country, wartime commemorations, or in memory of the victims of a terrorist attack. Flying a national or military flag of that country at half-staff is a common symbol.
International and national days of mourning
International and national days of mourning include:
- European Day of Mourning, a day marked by mourning and memorial activities in member states of the European Union
- Circassian Day of Mourning, held May 21st, commemorating Circassian defeat in the Russian-Circassian War
- Day of Mourning (Australia), annual protest of Australian Aborigines held on Australia Day, 26 January
- National Day of Mourning (United States protest), an American Indian protest held on the fourth Thursday of November
- National Day of Mourning (Canadian observance), held 28 April, a commemoration of workers killed or injured on the job
- Nakba Day, Annual commemoration of the 1948 Palestinian exodus on 15 May by Palestinians worldwide.
Selected list of figures recognized
State officials
- Mohamed Brahmi, Tunisian opposition figure and member of the Tunisian Constituent Assembly was assassinated in front of his house.
- The Father of the State of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was killed by a group of Bangladesh Army personnel. The officers killed his whole family except his daughters Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana.
- Victims of the 2005 assassination of Former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri (Lebanon)
- A National Day of Mourning is typically declared for Presidents of the United States, usually on the day of their funerals. Beginning with John F. Kennedy, these days are also considered federal holidays. There was no official day of mourning for Herbert Hoover.[1]
- In the Soviet Union, an official mourning period of several days was declared for the deaths of leaders or former leaders, with Alexei Rykov, Nikita Khrushchev and Georgy Malenkov being notable exceptions after Rykov was executed during the Great Purge and the other two were relegated to obscurity. Khrushchev's death was announced only hours before he was buried without full state honors,[2] while Malenkov's death was announced more than 2 weeks after his death.[3] This custom changed in 1968 when a national day of mourning was declared for Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human to journey into outer space.[4] In the final years of the Soviet Union, official mourning was declared for 2 disasters: the 1988 Armenian earthquake and the Ufa train disaster.[5][6]
- Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk – First President of Czechoslovakia. National mourning since his death on 14–21 September 1937.
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk – founder of the Republic of Turkey. 10 November is the national mourning day in Turkey, commemorating Atatürk's death on 10 November 1938. Every year at 09:05 on November 10, sirens are heard across Turkey followed by a minute of tribute as well as cessation of most all activity for that duration.
- Charles de Gaulle – Former President of France died on 9 November 1970. Declared national mourning the state funeral on 12 November.
- After the assassination of the Swedish Social Democratic Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986–Sweden, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Vietnam.
- Iran's 1979 Revolution's leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Following his death on 3 June 1989, three days of mourning was declared by President Ali Khamenei.
- Leaders Zhou Enlai, Mao Zedong (who was given a national mourning period lasting a week), and Deng Xiaoping–People's Republic Of China
- Yitzhak Rabin, the Prime Minister of Israel who was assassinated on 4 November 1995; a national day of mourning is commemorated in Israel and in various Jewish communities worldwide.
- Emperor Hirohito of Japan, who died in January 1989; national mourning was declared for two days[7] and the day of his funeral.[8]
- Former President of France François Mitterrand died on 8 January 1996. National mourning declared of state funeral on 11 January.
- Indonesian former President Suharto. Following his death in January 2008, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono declared seven days of national mourning and instructed all government officials, embassies overseas, and all Indonesian citizens to fly the Indonesia flag at half-staff in Soeharto's honor from 27 January to 2 February 2008.
- Fascist leader of Spain from 1939 to 1975 Francisco Franco. Twenty days of national mourning were declared following his demise on 20 November 1975.[9]
- Alexander Dubček's death in 1992, at the time he was the chairman of the Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia
- Former Philippine President Corazon Aquino. Following her death on 1 August 2009, then-President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declared ten days of national mourning.
- Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua death (mainly African countries)
- Argentinean President Néstor Kirchner (mainly Latin American countries)
- Presidents of Mexico, usually on the day of their funerals (these days are usually considered municipal and religious holidays in Mexico City and federal holidays in the rest of the republic.) Miguel de la Madrid in 2012 was the most recent.
- Dom Mintoff – former prime minister of Republic of Malta died in his home in Tarxien on 20 August 2012. Days of Mourning: Friday 24 August 2012 and Saturday 25 August 2012.
- Meles Zenawi – the Prime Minister of Ethiopia died in a hospital in Brussels on 20 August 2012. 13 days of state mourning was declared.[10]
- Philippine Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo who with 2 others was killed in a plane crash on 18 August 2012. 21 to 26 August were declared days of national mourning in the Philippines.
- Võ Nguyên Giáp – Vietnamese General. Died in military hospital at age 102 on 4 October 2013. 12 and 13 October were declared national mourning days in Vietnam.
- Former President of South Africa and Anti-Apartheid campaigner Nelson Mandela, who died on 5 December 2013. Official days of national mourning in South Africa from 8 December to 15 December 2013, Algeria eight-day period of mourning[11], Kenya declared three days of national mourning[12], Tanzania declared three days of national mourning[13],
India declared five-day State Mourning[14], Venezuela declared three days of national mourning[15]Dominican Republic declared day of mourning in 10 December 2013.[16]
- Former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, in Singapore, died on 23 March 2015. Official days of national mourning in Singapore was from 23 to 29 March 2015.
- King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia died on 23 January 2015. Three days of mourning were held at Riyadh.
- Former President APJ Abdul Kalam, in India, died on 27 July 2015. Official days of national mourning in India was from 27 July to 2 August 2015.[17]
- President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov, died on 2 September 2016. Official days of national mourning in Uzbekistan from 3 to 6 September 2016.
- Former President of Italy Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, died on 16 September 2016. Official day of national mourning in Italy on 19 September 2016.
- Former Israeli President Shimon Peres, died on 27 September 2016. The mourning period was initially 30 days, as per Jewish custom called shloshim,[18] but was extended by Peres' family due to popular demand from mourners.[18]
- Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej died on 13 October 2016. His funeral took place within a one-year period of mourning.
- Former Cuban President Fidel Castro died on 25 November 2016. Official days of national mourning in Cuba were from 26 November to 4 December.[19][20] Algeria declared eight days of mourning;[21] Bolivia decreed seven days of national mourning;[22] Equatorial Guinea decreed three days of national mourning;[23] Nicaragua decreed nine days of national mourning;[24] North Korea declared a period of mourning for three days;[25] and Venezuela decreed three days of national mourning.,[26] Namibia declared a period of mourning for three days[27] Uruguay,[28] Vietnam,[29] Angola decreed one day of national mourning;[30] Trinidad and Tobago decreed that the national flag be flown at half-mast for one day;[31] while Haiti decreed three days of mourning;[32] and Dominica declared national mourning for Castro.[33]
- Former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Jayalalithaa died on 5 December 2016. National day of mourning on 6 December 2016 by the Government of India. A seven-day mourning period from 6–12 December 2016 was observed by Government of Tamil Nadu,[34] also three day state mourning period from 6–8 December 2016 was observed by Government of Kerala,[35] and Government of Puducherry.[36] One day of mourning on 6 December 2016 was observed by Government of Karnataka,[37] Government of Punjab,[38] Government of Uttarakhand, and Government of Bihar.[39]
- President of Burundi Pierre Nkurunziza, died unexpectedly on 8 June 2020, aged 55, at the Fiftieth Anniversary Hospital in Karuzi.[40] The Burundian government gave his cause of death as a heart attack,[40] but some in the media suspect he died of COVID-19.[41] A week earlier, The Standard reported his wife had flown without him to Nairobi, Kenya, for COVID-19 treatment.[41][42] Seven National day of mourning were announced following his death.[43]
Religious figures
- Iglesia ni Cristo Executive Minister Eraño Manalo, (Philippines),[44]
- Sister Lúcia, (Portugal)
- Mother Teresa of Calcutta, (mainly India, Albania, and some Roman Catholic countries)
- Serbian Patriarch Pavle[45]
- Pope John Paul II, (many countries including Egypt, Hungary, Cuba (three days), Italy, Ireland, Seychelles, Malawi, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Portugal (three days), Brazil, Poland (seven days), Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mexico, Spain, the Czech Republic and Slovenia)[46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56]
- Venerable Master Yin Shun (Taiwan)
Sporting figures
- Abebe Bikila (Ethiopia)
- Eusébio (Portugal)[57]
- Ferenc Puskás (Hungary)
- Ayrton Senna (Brazil)
Cultural figures
- Israel Kamakawiwoʻole (Hawaii)[58]
- Amália Rodrigues (Portugal)[59]
- Toše Proeski (North Macedonia)
- Chinghiz Aitmatov (Kyrgyzstan)
- Charles Aznavour (Armenia)
- Mihai Volontir (Moldova)[60]
- Karel Gott (Czech Republic)
Tragedies
- Victims of Hurricane Hazel (Haiti, 3 days)
- Victims of the Great Chilean earthquake of 1960.
- Victims of the 1990 20 January Black January Massacre by Soviet Union's Red army (Azerbaijan, Baku)
- Victims of the 1996 Kamianske tram accident (Ukraine, July 3, 1996)[61]
- Victims of the Columbine High School massacre
- Victims of the 1999 Jiji earthquake (Taiwan)
- Victims of the 2000 Kaprun disaster (Austria, 2 days)
- Victims of September 11, 2001 attacks (France, Republic of Korea, Albania)
- Victims of the 2003 Nasiriyah bombing (Italy, May 2, 2003)
- Victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami (All parts of the world)
- Victims of the 2004 terrorist train bombing in Madrid, Spain (Spain, and Portugal)
- Victims of 2006 Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crash (Slovakia, 19 January 2006)
- Victims of the crash of TAM Airlines Flight 3054 (Brazil, 3 days)
- Victims of the 2007 Greek forest fires (Greece, 1 day)
- Victims of the 2007 Slovenia floods (held 21 September 2007) (Slovenia)
- Toše Proeski's death in a car accident on 17 October 2007 (Macedonia)
- Victims of the 2008 Cameroonian anti-government protests, called for on 21 April 2008
- Victims of Cyclone Nargis in Burma (Myanmar, 3 days)
- Victims of the crash of Spanair Flight 5022 which crashed in Madrid on 20 August 2008
- Victims of the 2008 Kyrgyzstan earthquake
- Victims of the Winnenden school shooting (12 March 2009, Germany)
- Victims of the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake (2009, Italy)
- Victims of the bus accident in Egypt (2009, Serbia)
- Victims of the Užice explosion (2009, Serbia)
- Victims of the Air France Flight 447- which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on 1 June 2009.
- Victims of the Maguindanao massacre (2009, Philippines)
- Victims of the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 (January 2009, Lebanon)
- Victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake
- Victims of the 2010 Madeira floods and mudslides (February 2010, Madeira, Portugal)
- Victims of the 2010 sinking of the Cheonan on 26 March 2010, and national mourning day of 25-29 April in South Korea
- Victims of the Smolensk air disaster (April 2010, Brazil, Canada, Spain, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Serbia, Slovakia, Turkey, and Ukraine)
- Victims of the 2010 Yushu earthquake
- Victims of the 2010 Dhaka fire
- Victims of the 2010 Yanga train derailment
- Victims of the 2010 Gansu mudslide[62]
- Victims of the 2010 Manila hostage crisis (25 August in Philippines)
- Victims of the Marhanets train and bus collision (2010, Ukraine)
- Victims of the Pike River Mine disaster (2010, New Zealand)
- Victims and damage of the 2010 Israel forest fire[63]
- Victims of the January 2011 Rio de Janeiro floods and mudslides (2011, Brazil, 3 days)
- Victims of the Rio de Janeiro school shooting (2011, Brazil)
- Victims of the 2011 Norway attacks (Norway, Sweden)
- Victims of the 2012 Buenos Aires rail disaster (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2 days)
- Victims of the 2012 Qafa e Vishës bus accident (Albania, 1 day)
- Victims of the 2012 Northern Italy earthquakes (Italy, 1 day)
- Victims of the 2012 Egyptian–Israeli border attack (Egypt, 3 days)
- Victims of the 2012 East Azerbaijan earthquakes (Iran, 2 days)
- Victims of the 2012 Disaster at the Paraguana Refinery Complex (Venezuela, 3 days)
- Victims of the 2013 Houphouët-Boigny stampede (Ivory Coast, 3 days)
- Victims of the 2013 Santa Maria nightclub fire (Brazil, 3 days)[64]
- Victims of the 2013 Pemex Executive Tower explosion (Mexico, 3 days)[65]
1800-1899
Country | Year | Days of mourning | Reason | Notes |
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1865 | 1 | Assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln | A National Day of Mourning was held on June 1.[66][67] | |
1881 | 1 | Death of U.S. President James A. Garfield | [68] | |
1890 | 1 | Death of King William III | [69] |
1900s
Country | Year | Days of mourning | Reason | Notes |
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1901 | 11 | Death of Queen Victoria | ||
1 | [70] | |||
1901 | 1 | Assassination of U.S. President William McKinley | [71] |
1920s
Country | Year | Days of mourning | Reason | Notes |
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1923 | 1 | Death of U.S. President Warren G. Harding | [72] | |
1924 | 1 | Death of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin | [5][73] | |
1924 | At least 1 | Death of former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson | Wilson called for an independent Polish state in his 1918 Fourteen Points statement.[74] | |
1930s
Country | Year | Days of mourning | Reason | Notes |
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1934 | 1 | Death of former Queen consort Emma | [75] | |
1934 | 1 | Assassination of Interior Minister Bronisław Pieracki | Public shows, concerts, and games were suspended.[76] | |
1934 | 1 | Death of Duke Henry, prince consort | [77] | |
1935 | 3 | Death of Polish statesman Józef Piłsudski | Public shows, concerts, and games were suspended.[78] | |
1936 | 8 | Death of King George V | ||
1937 | 7 | Death of President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk | [79] | |
1938 | At least 1 | Death of Armenian Catholic Archbishop of Lviv Józef Teodorowicz | [74] | |
1939 | 9 | Death of Pope Pius XI | [80] | |
1 | [81] | |||
1940s
Country | Year | Days of mourning | Reason | Notes |
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1943 | 3 | Collapse of the Battle of Stalingrad | A period of three days’ national mourning was ordered, with places of entertainment closed and all wireless stations playing solemn music, yet the newspapers were forbidden black margins and no flags were to be flown at half mast.[82] | |
1943 | 26 | Death of Polish Prime Minister-in-Exile Władysław Sikorski | It was the longest period of mourning in Poland's history.[83][74] | |
1944 | 15 | Collapse of the Warsaw Uprising | [84][74] | |
1945 | 1 | Death of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt | [1] | |
1945 | 3 | Death of Chancellor Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler | [85] | |
1948 | 13 | Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi | [86] |
1950s
Country | Year | Days of mourning | Reason | Notes |
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1950 | 1 | Death of Secretary General of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China Ren Bishi | The then Funeral Committee recommended that entertainment activities be stopped on the day of the memorial service on October 30 and the flag be lowered to half mast.[87] | |
1952 | 9 | Death of King George VI | As the news of the King's death spread, all cinemas and theatres closed, and BBC programmes were cancelled except for news bulletins. Flags in every town were at half-mast, and sports fixtures were cancelled.[88] | |
1 | [89] | |||
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1952 | 30 | Death of First Ladies Argentina Eva Perón | [92] | |
1953 | 1 | Victims of the North Sea flood of 1953 (watersnoodramp) | [93] | |
1953 | 4 | Death of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin | The television broadcast a program commemorating the deceased leader, and the radio broadcast the music of mourning. Theaters, cinemas and entertainment venues were closed, concerts and sports games were cancelled.[94] | |
Theaters, cinemas and entertainment venues closed.[95] | ||||
3 | [96] | |||
1 | Entertainment venues were closed.[97][74] | |||
1953 | 5 | Death of President Klement Gottwald | Theater performances cancelled, entertainment venues closed, mourning music was played by radio stations.[79] | |
1956 | 4 | Death of former President Bolesław Bierut | Theaters, cinemas and entertainment venues closed, radio stations played classical music.[98][74] | |
1956 | 1 | Victims of the Marcinelle mining disaster | [99][100] | |
1957 | 30 | Death of President Philippines Ramon Magsaysay | [101] | |
1957 | 5 | Death of President Antonín Zápotocký | [79] | |
1958 | 10 | Death of Pope Pius XII | [102] | |
9 | [103] | |||
3 | Schools and places of entertainment were closed.[103] | |||
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1960s
Country | Year | Days of mourning | Reason | Notes |
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1960 | 3 | Death of President of East Germany Wilhelm Pieck | [104] | |
1962 | 1 | Death of former Queen Wilhelmina | It has been decided that the flags should be hung in half mast, that theater and cinema performances and sports competitions should be canceled, that in public places music should only be heard softly and that it should come from one of the Dutch radio or television channels.[105] | |
1963 | 9 | Death of Pope John XXIII | [106] | |
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3 | Schools and places of entertainment were closed.[108] | |||
1 | [109] | |||
1963 | 3 | Victims of Hurricane Flora | [110] | |
1963 | 3 | Assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy | Public offices and schools were closed.[111] | |
From all governmental buildings on all levels–national and local–flags flew at half-mast. The entertainment venues have closed.[112] | ||||
During this period, flags of all government buildings and installations throughout the Philippines shall be flown at half-mast.[113] | ||||
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1 | Federal agencies and departments were closed. Following the official announcement of President Kennedy's death, all three commercial networks suspended their regular programming and commercials for the first time in the short history of television and ran coverage on a non-stop basis for four days.[120] | |||
The flag was hung in half mast on government buildings. Municipalities and provinces were called to do the same and to give up "public entertainment" and music in the streets.[121] | ||||
Businesses, shops and schools were closed.[122] | ||||
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1964 | 3 | Death of head of state and chairman of the presidium of the national assembly of Bulgaria Dimitar Ganev | [125] | |
1964 | 12 | Death of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru | [126] | |
7 | [127] | |||
1 | [127] | |||
1964 | 4 | Death of Polish head of state Aleksander Zawadzki | [128][74] | |
1965 | 3 | Death of former Prime Minister Winston Churchill | As of 2020, this was the last time official mourning was declared in the UK.[129] | |
1965 | 5 | Death of General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party and President of the State Council Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej | [130] | |
1967 | 3 | Death of former Chancellor of Germany Konrad Adenauer | [131] | |
1967 | 1 | Victims of the L'Innovation Department Store fire | [99][100] | |
1967 | 3 | Death of Che Guevara | [132] | |
1968 | 1 | Death of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin | This was the 1st time in Soviet history that a day of mourning was declared for someone who was not a head of state.[4][5] | |
1968 | 1 | Assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. | [133] | |
1968 | 1 | Assassination of U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy | [134] | |
1969 | 2 | Death of Prime Minister Levi Eshkol | Flags across the country were brought to half mast and all places of entertainment were closed.[135] | |
1969 | 1 | Death of former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower | Federal agencies and departments were closed.[136][137] | |
1970s
Country | Year | Days of mourning | Reason | Notes |
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1970 | 40 | Death of President Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser | [138] | |
3 | [139][140] | |||
1970 | 1 | Death of former President of France Charles de Gaulle | [141] | |
1972 | 3 | Death of former President of Ghana Kwame Nkrumah | [142] | |
1972 | 1 | Death of former U.S. President Harry S. Truman | Federal agencies and departments were closed.[143][144] | |
1973 | 1 | Death of former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson | Federal agencies and departments were closed.[145][146] | |
1973 | 1 | Death of Chairman of the State Council Walter Ulbricht | [147] | |
1974 | 1 | Death of President of France Georges Pompidou | [148] | |
1974 | 3 | Death of President Argentina Juan Perón | ||
1975 | 30 | Death of President Taiwan Chiang Kai-shek | All entertainment venues and clubs have closed.[149] | |
1975 | 1 | Death of former Taoiseach and President Ireland Éamon de Valera | Normal programs were canceled in favor of somber funeral music and programs relating to Mr. de Valera's life. Irish television also carried special programs.[150][151] | |
1975 | 20 | Death Caudillo of Spain Francisco Franco | Flags went to half staff on public buildings, radio and television stations broadcast religious or classical music and all theaters closed until Monday.[152][153] | |
1976 | 7 | Death of Premier of the People's Republic of China Zhou Enlai | All entertainment and music activities are suspended and theaters are closed.[154] | |
1976 | 9 | Death of Chairman of the Communist Party of China Mao Zedong | All entertainment, music and dancing are forbidden. Theaters and other venues are closed.[155][156] | |
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7 | All entertainment and music activities are suspended and theaters are closed.[160] | |||
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3 | [162] | |||
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1977 | 3 | Victims of the crash of TAP Air Portugal Flight 425 | [164] | |
1978 | 9 | Death of Pope Paul VI | [165] | |
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7 | [167] | |||
4 | [168] | |||
3 | [169] | |||
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1 | 27 November day of mourning[171] | |||
1978 | 9 | Death of Pope John Paul I | [172] | |
3 | [173] | |||
1978 | 40 | Death of President Algeria Houari Boumédiène | Radio stations began to play mourning songs at the time of the president's death.[174][175] | |
1979 | 40 | Death of Prime Minister Ahmed Ould Bouceif in a plane crash | [176] | |
1979 | 45 | Death of first President Angola Agostinho Neto | The Angolan government has called for a 45 day period of mourning for its lost leader, during which all festivals, cultural events and sports are to be banned.[177][178] | |
1979 | 3 | Death of Former President Ludvík Svoboda | [79] | |
1980s
Country | Year | Days of mourning | Reason | Notes |
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1980 | 3 | Victims of 1980 Azores Islands earthquake | [164] | |
1980 | 7 | Death of President of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito | Sports competitions, concerts were canceled, places of entertainment and clubs were closed, television broadcast programs commemorating the deceased leader and the radio played funeral music[179][180] | |
1980 | 5 | Death of Prime Minister Francisco de Sá Carneiro and Minister Adelino Amaro da Costa | [164] | |
1981 | 4 | Death of Primate of Poland Stefan Wyszyński | The Government declared a period of national mourning through Saturday, with flags at half-staff, theaters and movie houses closed, and subdued programming on radio and television.[74][181] | |
1981 | 1 | Death of Soong Ching-ling | On the day of the funeral ceremony, which took place on June 3, the national flag was abandoned to mourning, and entertainment activities were suspended for one day.[182] | |
1981 | 40 | Assassination of President Anwar Sadat | [183] | |
3 | [164] | |||
1982 | 7 | Death of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev | [184] | |
4 | All sporting events have been canceled through Monday, when the mourning period ends. Schools will be closed on the day of the funeral and artillery salvoes are to be fired here and in other major cities. The television broadcast a program commemorating the deceased leader, and the radio broadcast the music of mourning.[185] | |||
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3 | [188] | |||
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1983 | 1 | Victims of the shootdown of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 over the Sea of Japan | [192] | |
1984 | 4 | Death of Soviet leader Yuri Andropov | [193][5] | |
1984 | 40 | Death of President Ahmed Sékou Touré | [194] | |
1984 | 13 | Assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi | [195] | |
3 | [196][197] | |||
1 | [198] | |||
1985 | 3 | Death of Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko | [199] | |
1 | [200] | |||
1985 | 7 | Death of Albanian leader Enver Hoxha | Cinemas, theaters and places of entertainment were closed, the radio was playing funeral music.[201] | |
1985 | 8 | Death of President-elect of Brazil Tancredo Neves | [202] | |
1985 | 3 | Victims of Moimenta-Alcafache train crash | [164] | |
1986 | 3 | Assassination of Prime Minister of Sweden Olof Palme | [203] | |
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1 | [205] | |||
1986 | 5 | Death of General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Lê Duẩn | [206][207][208] | |
1986 | 60 | Victims of the 1986 Mozambican Tupolev Tu-134 crash | Nine passengers and one crew member survived the crash, but President Samora Machel and 33 others died, including ministers and officials of the Mozambican government.[209] | |
3 | [164] | |||
1987 | 1 | Victims of the USS Stark incident | [210] | |
1988 | 30 | Death of President Taiwan Chiang Ching-kuo | All entertainment venues and clubs have closed.[211] | |
1988 | 10 | Death of President Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq | [212] | |
7 | [213] | |||
1988 | 1 | Victims of the 1988 Armenian earthquake | This was the 1st time in Soviet history that a day of mourning was declared for a disaster.[5] | |
1989 | 3 | Death of emperor of Japan Hirohito | On January 8, 9 and February 24, the day of the emperor's funeral was a day of national mourning. TV and radio stations interrupted programs to broadcast information on the death of the emperor. Places of entertainment, night clubs were closed and concerts were canceled, companies and schools were closed on the day of the funeral.[214][215] | |
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1989 | 40 | Death of Supreme Leader of Iran Ruhollah Khomeini | As a mark of respect, Iran's government ordered all schools closed Sunday and declared 40 days of mourning and said schools would be closed for five days.[216][217][218] | |
10 | [219] | |||
7 | [219] | |||
3 | [219] | |||
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1989 | 1 | Victims of the Ufa train disaster | This was the last instance of national mourning before the Soviet Union's dissolution in 1991.[220][5] | |
1990s
Country | Year | Days of mourning | Reason | Notes |
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1990 | 2 | Death of former President Sandro Pertini | [221] | |
1990 | 1 | Drowning of 10 service members in the river Varbitsa | [222] | |
1991 | 7 | Assassination of former Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi | Closed government offices and schools.[223][224] | |
1991 | 1 | Victims of Santa Cruz massacre in East Timor | [164] | |
1992 | 3 | Death of Roberto D'Aubuisson | [225] | |
1992 | 1 | Death of former Chancellor of Germany Willy Brandt | [226] | |
1993 | 7 | Death of Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona | [227][228] | |
1993 | 5 | Assassination of President Sri Lanka Ranasinghe Premadasa | A curfew was also introduced in connection with the murder of the president.[229] | |
1993 | 9 | Death of King Baudouin of Belgium | [99][100] | |
1 | [230] | |||
1993 | 1 | Victims of the 1993 Russian coup attempt | [231] | |
1993/4 | 30 | Death of President Félix Houphouët-Boigny | [232] | |
1993 | 1 | Death of Prime Minister of Hungary József Antall | [233] | |
1994 | 1 | Victims of the Markale massacres | [234] | |
1994 | 3 | Death of actress, singer, politician and former Minister for Culture Melina Mercouri | [235] | |
1994 | 1 | The killing of 10 Belgian soldiers during the Rwandan Civil War | [99][100] | |
1994 | 1 | Death of former U.S. President Richard Nixon | Federal agencies and departments were closed.[236][237] | |
1994 | 3 | Death of Formula One driver Ayrton Senna | [238] | |
1994 | 10 | Death of North Korean President Kim Il-sung | Official mourning period. All entertainment and music activities suspended, theaters closed for the period of mourning.[239] | |
1994-97 | 1,097 | Total mourning period.[240] | ||
1995 | 1 | Victims of the Oklahoma City bombing | [241] | |
1995 | 1 | Victims of the 1995 Neftegorsk earthquake | [242] | |
1995 | 1 | Victims of the Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis | [243] | |
1995 | 1 | 14 soldiers killed in a vehicle crash in Sofia | [222] | |
1995 | 2 | Assassination of Prime Minister Israel Yitzhak Rabin | November 5 and 6 are days of official national mourning. Theaters, cinemas and places of entertainment were closed for two days official mourning. 30 days of Jewish mourning from the day of the funeral.[244][245][246] | |
1996 | 1 | Death of former President of France François Mitterrand | [247] | |
1996 | 1 | Victims of the "terrorist attack against government agencies and residents" during the Battle of Grozny | [248] | |
1996 | 2 | Death of former President António de Spínola | [164] | |
1996 | 1 | Victims of the 1996 Rostov Oblast bus-train crash (ru) | [249] | |
1996 | 1 | Victims of the Kaspiysk apartment building bombing (ru) | [250] | |
1997 | 1 | Victims of the Israeli helicopter disaster | February 6 was declared an official day of mourning. Theaters and cinemas were closed, radio stations played classical music.[251][252] | |
1997 | 7 | Death of Deng Xiaoping | All entertainment and music activities are suspended and theaters are closed.[253] | |
1997 | 1 | Victims of the 1997 Central European flood | Also known as the Millennium Flood in Poland.[74] | |
1997 | 1 | Death of Diana, Princess of Wales | While not an official day of mourning, the Saturday of Diana's funeral brought the UK close to a standstill. Shops and banks were closed, sports events were postponed, and theatre and cinema showings were canceled.[129] | |
1997 | 1 | Victims of a mine accident in Bobov Dol | [222] | |
1997 | 3 | Death of Mother Teresa | [254] | |
1 | [255][256] | |||
1997 | 1 | Victims of a mine accident in Kemerovo Oblast | [257] | |
1998 | 3 | Death of former Prime Minister India Gulzarilal Nanda | [258] | |
1998 | 1 | Death of António Ribeiro | [164] | |
1998 | 3 | Death of former President Greece and Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis | [259] | |
1998 | 1 | Victims of the Eschede derailment | ||
1999 | 1 | Victims of the 1999 Deutschlandsberg bus crash | [260][261] | |
1999 | 40 | Death of King Hussein of Jordan | Government offices closed for three days[262][263] | |
3 | Shops were quickly shuttered, and school classes canceled. The government announced there would be three days of official mourning, during which all business would be halted, and then three months of customary Muslim mourning.[264] | |||
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1999 | 90 | Death of Bahrain Emir Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa | Three months of national mourning.[275] | |
1 | [276] | |||
1999 | 1 | Victims of the Samara police department fire (ru) | [277] | |
1999 | 1 | Victims of the 1999 Vladikavkaz bombing and a fire at a psychiatric hospital | [278] | |
1999 | 40 | Death of Morocco King Hassan II | [279] | |
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1999 | 1 | Victims of the Russian apartment bombings | [282] | |
1999 | 3 | Death of Amália Rodrigues | [164] | |
1999 | 30 | Death of former President of Tanzania Julius Nyerere | [283] | |
2 | [284] | |||
1999 | 3 | Victims of Armenian parliament shooting | Armenian Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan and Speaker of Parliament Karen Demirchyan were killed in the assassination.[285] | |
1999 | 3 | Death of President of Croatia Franjo Tuđman | Theaters, cafes, cinemas and entertainment venues are closed for three days of official mourning. Television and radio broadcast quiet and festive music.[286][287][288] |
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2000 | 3 | Death of former Prime Minister Saeb Salam | [289] | |
2000 | 7 | Death of former first President Tunisia Habib Bourguiba | [290][291][292] | |
3 | [293] | |||
2000 | 40 | Death of President of Syria Hafez al-Assad | All TV stations interrupted the normal program and the radio stations were playing mournful music, entertainment places were closed, concerts were canceled.[294] | |
7 | [295] | |||
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2000 | 3 | Death of Alexandre José Barbosa Lima Sobrinho | [301] | |
2000 | 1 | Victims of the Air France Flight 4590 | 96 German citizens were among those killed.[302] | |
2000 | 1 | Victims of the Kursk submarine disaster | [303] | |
2000 | 3 | Death of former Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau | [304] | |
2000 | 2 | Victims of the Kaprun disaster | [305][306][307] | |
2001 | 2 | Victims of the Hintze Ribeiro disaster | [308][164] | |
2001 | 1 | Victims of the crash of Vladivostok Air Flight 352 | [309] | |
2001 | 3 | Death of former President Francisco da Costa Gomes | [164] | |
2001 | 3 | Victims of the September 11 attacks | [164] | |
Several Polish citizens were among those killed.[74] | ||||
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1 | President George W. Bush proclaimed September 14, 2001, a "National Day of Prayer and Remembrance."[311] | |||
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EU leaders declared 14 September a European Day of Mourning across all member states. Citizens were asked to observe 3 minutes of silence at midday CET.[313] | ||||
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Schools and businesses were closed across the country and all sports, public functions and entertainment were canceled.[315] | ||||
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2001 | 3 | Death of former President Juan Bosch | [327][328] | |
2001 | 1 | 7 children killed in a stampede in front of a disco bar in Sofia | [329][222] | |
2002 | 10 | Death of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother | [330] | |
1 | [331] | |||
2002 | 3 | Death of former President Joaquín Balaguer | [332][333] | |
2002 | 1 | Victims of the 2002 Khankala Mi-26 crash | [334] | |
2002 | 1 | Victims of the Moscow theater hostage crisis | [335] | |
2003 | 3 | Assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić | [336][337][338] | |
2003 | 2 | Victims of the UM Airlines Flight 4230 | [339][340] | |
2003 | 2 | Death of former Vice President Emmanuel Pelaez | [341] | |
2003 | 7 | Death of former President Heydar Aliyev | All public entertainment was cancelled, and foreign television channels and radio stations were taken off the air.[342] | |
2003 | 1 | Bulgarian soldiers killed in the 2003 Karbala bombings | [343][222] | |
2004 | 3 | Victims of the 2004 Madrid train bombings | 130 Spanish citizens were among those killed[344] | |
2 | 4 Polish citizens were among those killed.[74] | |||
1 | [345][164] | |||
16 Romanian citizens were among those killed[316] | ||||
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2004 | 1 | Victims of a bus accident in the Lim river | [222][347] | |
2004 | 1 | Death of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan | Federal agencies and departments were closed.[348] | |
2004 | 1 | Death of Minister António de Sousa Franco | [164] | |
2004 | 4 | Death of President of Austria Thomas Klestil | [349] | |
2004 | 1 | Death of Carlos Paredes | [164] | |
2004 | 1 | Victims of an explosion at an industrial park in Ath | [350] | |
2004 | 3 | Victims of the Ycuá Bolaños supermarket fire | [351] | |
2004 | 1 | Victims of the 2004 Russian aircraft bombings | [352] | |
2004 | 2 | Victims of the Beslan school siege | [353] | |
2004 | 1 | Death of President of Portuguese Constitutional court Luís Nunes de Almeida | [164] | |
2004 | 40 | Death of PNA President Yasser Arafat | [354] | |
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2004/5 | 3 | Victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami | [373] | |
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2005 | 6 | Death of Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium | [387] | |
2005 | 1 | Death of President of Portuguese Supreme Court of Justice Jorge Alberto Aragão Seia | [164] | |
2005 | 60 | Death of President Togo Gnassingbé Eyadéma | [388] | |
2005 | 1 | Death of Sister Lucia | [164] | |
2005 | 3 | Assassination of former Prime Minister of Lebanon Rafic Hariri | [389] | |
2005 | 9 | Death of Pope John Paul II | [390] | |
7 | [391][392][393] | |||
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6 | At the time of the Pope's death, all television stations suspended their normal schedules, devoted most of the airtime to current events in the Vatican and memories of the deceased pope, and throughout the entire mourning week, Polish music television presented calm, subdued music. Exhibitions, theatrical performances, concerts, places of entertainment and sport's games were cancelled. Schools and shopping centers were closed on the day of the funeral.[74] | |||
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4 | Schools and places of entertainment were closed[399][400] | |||
The 4th Day of national mourning was declared on the day of the funeral[401][402] | ||||
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3 | Some entertainment places have been closed.[404][164] | |||
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Government and public institutions as well as places of entertainment were closed for a period of 3 days of mourning.[407] | ||||
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National mourning on April 3, 4 and 5. The government suspended all entertainment and public celebrations, including the final matches of the baseball championship, Cuba's most popular sport.[411][412][413] | ||||
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2005 | 1 | Victims of the 7 July 2005 London bombings | [449] | |
3 Polish citizens were among those killed.[74] | ||||
2005 | 7 | Death of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia | [450] | |
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2005 | 3 | Death of former Vice President of Sudan John Garang | [466] | |
1 | [467] | |||
2006 | 40 | Death of Emir Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid al-Maktoum | [468] | |
2006 | 40 | Death of Emir Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah | [469] | |
2006 | 3 | Victims of the 2006 Montenegro train crash | [470] | |
2006 | 5 | Death of President Kosovo Ibrahim Rugova | [471][472] | |
2006 | 4 | Victims of the Katowice Trade Hall roof collapse | [74] | |
2006 | 1 | Death of former President of Germany Johannes Rau | [473] | |
2006 | 1 | Death of former first President Lennart Meri | [474] | |
2006 | 1 | Victims of the crash of Armavia Flight 967 | [475] | |
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2006 | 1 | Victims of the crash of S7 Airlines Flight 778 | [477] | |
2006 | 1 | Victims of a helicopter crash in Lelep | State Minister Gopal Rai and 23 others were killed[478] | |
2006 | 1 | Victims of the crash of Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 | [479] | |
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2006 | 3 | Victims of the 2006 Halemba Coal Mine disaster | [74] | |
2006 | 3 | Assassination of Minister Pierre Gemayal | [480] | |
2006 | 1 | Victims of a bus accident near Byala | [222] | |
2006 | 7 | Death of President Saparmurat Niyazov | Entertainment venues, theaters and cinemas are closed, and concerts and sports are canceled for the time of mourning.[481] | |
2006-7 | 3 | Execution of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein | Public celebrations around the Eid holiday were canceled.[482] | |
2007 | 1 | Death of former U.S. President Gerald Ford | Federal agencies and departments were closed.[483] | |
2007 | 7 | Death of Prime Minister Pascal Yoadimnadji | [484] | |
2007 | 1 | Victims of the Ulyanovskaya Mine disaster, the crash of UTair Flight 471 and a fire at a retirement home | [485] | |
2007 | 1 | Death of former President Boris Yeltsin | [486] | |
2007 | 30 | Death of First Lady Ethel wa Mutharika | [487] | |
2007 | 3 | Victims of a bus accident in France | 26 Polish pilgrims were killed.[74] | |
2007 | 7 | Death of Senator Fountain Inok | [488] | |
2007 | 1 | Death of Patriarch Teoctist | [316] | |
2007 | 14 | Death of Prime Minister John Compton | [489] | |
2007 | 1 | Firefighters killed in the 2007 Croatian coast fires | [490] | |
2007 | 1 | Assassination of Antoine Ghanem | [491] | |
2007 | 3 | Death of President Milan Jelic | [492] | |
2007 | 1 | Death of Toše Proeski | ||
2007 | 1 | Death of Padre Luis Quinn | [493] | |
2007 | 1 | Victims of the Jokela school shooting | [494] | |
2007 | 3 | Assassination of former Prime Minister Pakistan Benazir Bhutto | All schools, colleges, universities, banks and government offices will remain closed.[495][496] | |
2007 | 3 | Death of Abdullah Ibn Hussein Al-Ahmar | [497] | |
2008 | 7 | Death of former President Suharto | [498][499] | |
2008 | 3 | Victims of the 2008 Polish Air Force C-295 Mirosławiec crash | [74] | |
2008 | 1 | Victims of the Sofia – Kardam train fire | [500] | |
2008 | 3 | Victims of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake | [501][502] | |
1 | [503] | |||
2008 | 3 | Victims of Cyclone Nargis | [504] | |
2008 | 3 | Death of Darwish | [505] | |
2008 | 1 | Victims of the "humanitarian disaster" in South Ossetia and Russian casualties during the Russo-Georgian War | [506] | |
2008 | 3 | Victims of the Spanair Flight 5022 | [507] | |
2008 | 5 | Death of former President Nouhak Phoumsavanh | ||
2008 | 1 | Victims of the Kauhajoki school shooting | [508] | |
2008 | 1 | Victims of the 2008 Kyrgyzstan earthquake | [509] | |
2008/9 | 40 | Death of President Guinea Lansana Conté | [510] | |
2009 | 1 | Victims of the Black Saturday bushfires | [511] | |
2009 | 7 | Death of President Guinea-Bissau João Bernardo Vieira | [512] | |
2009 | 1 | Victims of the Winnenden school shooting | [513][514][515] | |
2009 | 3 | Death of former President Raul Alfonsin | [516] | |
2009 | 1 | Victims of the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake | [517] | |
2009 | 3 | Victims of the Kamień Pomorski homeless hostel fire | [74] | |
2009 | 30 | Death of President Omar Bongo | [518] | |
3 | [519] | |||
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2009 | 7 | Death of former President of South Korea Roh Moo-hyun | [521] | |
2009 | 1 | Victims of the 2009 Yambol bus crash | [522] | |
2009 | 1 | Victims of a train crash near Split, Croatia | [523] | |
2009 | 10 | Death of former President Corazon Aquino | [524][525] | |
2009 | 7 | Death of former President of South Korea Kim Dae-jung | [526][527] | |
2009 | 1 | Victims of 2009 Lake Ohrid boat accident | [528] | |
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2009 | 1 | Death of Vice President Cuban Juan Almeida Bosque | [530] | |
2009 | 1 | Victims of 2009 Samoa tsunami | [531] | |
2009 | 2 | Victims of the 2009 Wujek-Śląsk mine blast | [74] | |
2009 | 1 | Victims of the Lame Horse nightclub fire | [532] | |
2010s
Country | Year | Days of mourning | Reason | Notes |
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2010 | 3 | Victims of the 2010 Cabida attacks | [533] | |
2010 | 1 | Remembrance of the Black Saturday bushfires | This was the second day of national mourning for this event.[534] | |
2010 | 3 | Victims of the 2010 Madeira floods and mudslides | [535][164] | |
2010 | 3 | Victims of 2010 Chile earthquake | [536][537] | |
2010 | 3 | Death of Sheikh Ahmed bin Zayed Al Nahyan | [538] | |
2010 | 9 | Victims of the Smolensk air disaster in Russia | Polish President Lech Kaczyński and other senior officials were killed. Almost all stations stopped the regular broadcast of their program to cover the events related to the Smolensk catastrophe and radio stations for a week of mourning played calm and subdued music. Theaters, cinemas, entertainment venues and clubs have closed, concerts and matches and other sports competitions were cancelled. Shopping centers were closed on the day of the funeral of the presidential couple.[539] | |
4 | The 4th Day of National Mourning is declared on day of funeral of President of Poland Lech Kaczyński[540] | |||
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2010 | 5 | Victims of ROKS Cheonan sinking | ||
2010 | 7 | Death of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua | [563] | |
2010 | 2 | Victims of the Air India plane crash near Mangalore | [564] | |
2010 | 1 | Victims of 2010 Dhaka fire | [565] | |
2010 | 2 | Death of José Saramago | [164] | |
2010 | 3 | Victims of the 2010 Yanga train derailment | [566] | |
2010 | 3 | Death of former President and Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas | [567] | |
2010 | 1 | Death of Shiite cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah | [568] | |
2010 | 7 | Victims of 2010 Kampala bombing | [569] | |
2010 | 1 | Victims of Airblue Flight 202 | [570] | |
2010 | 1 | Victims of the 2010 Gansu mudslide | Flags were flown at half staff, all public forms of entertainment were suspended, and the country's main websites removed all color from their front pages.[571] | |
2010 | 3 | Victims of Manila hostage crisis | [572][573] | |
1 | [574] | |||
2010 | 1 | Victims of Marhanets train accident | [575] | |
2010 | 3 | Death of former President of Argentina Néstor Kirchner | [576][577][578] | |
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2010 | 1 | Victims of the Phnom Penh stampede | [589] | |
2010 | 1 | Victims of Pike River Mine disaster | ||
2010 | 1 | Victims of Mount Carmel forest fire | [590] | |
2010 | 3 | Death of former President Salvador Jorge Blanco | [591] | |
2011 | 3 | Those killed in the Tunisian Revolution | [592] | |
2011 | 1 | Victims of the 2011 Haapsalu fire | [593] | |
2011 | 3 | Victims of 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami | [594] | |
1 | [595] | |||
2011 | 3 | Victims of Rio de Janeiro school shooting | [596] | |
2011 | 1 | Victims of 2011 Minsk Metro bombing | [597] | |
2011 | 1 | Victims of a bus accident on the Trakia motorway | [598] | |
2011 | 1 | Victims of the sinking of the Bulgaria cruise ship | [599] | |
2011 | 3 | Victims of an explosion at a military base in the southern city of Zygi | [600] | |
2011 | 3 | Victims of the 2011 Royal Moroccan Air Force C-130 crash | [601] | |
2011 | 1 | Victims of the 2011 Norway attacks | August 21 was a day of national mourning.[602] | |
2011 | 13 | Death of Supreme Leader Kim Jong-il | Official mourning period. All entertainment and music activities suspended, theaters closed for the period of mourning.[603][604] | |
2011-14 | 1,097 | Total mourning period | ||
2011 | 3 | [605] | ||
2011 | 3 | Death of Václav Havel, former president of the Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia | Concerts, exhibitions and theatrical performances were mostly canceled while casinos and gambling bars were closed. Businesses and citizens were asked to reconsider celebratory events.[606] | |
1 | [607] | |||
2012 | 7 | Death of President Malam Bacai Sanhá | [608] | |
2012 | 3 | Victims of the Port Said Stadium riot | [609] | |
2012 | 1 | Victims of flooding in Biser | [610] | |
2012 | 2 | Victims of 2012 Buenos Aires rail disaster | [611] | |
2012 | 2 | Victims of the Szczekociny rail crash | [74] | |
2012 | 1 | Victims of the Sierre coach crash in Switzerland | Most of the victims were from Belgium.[612] | |
2012 | 10 | Death of President Bingu wa Mutharika | [613] | |
2012 | 1 | Victims of Qafa e Vishës bus accident | [614][615] | |
2012 | 3 | Victims of the crash of Dana Air Flight 992 | [616] | |
2012 | 1 | Victims of the 2012 Krasnodar Krai floods and a Russian bus accident in Ukraine | [617] | |
2012 | 1 | Death of Parliament Speaker Boris Šprem | [618] | |
2012 | 2 | Victims of 2012 East Azerbaijan earthquakes | It was also decreed in East Azerbaijan | |
2012 | 7 | Victims of Marikana massacre | [619] | |
2012 | 7 | Death of President John Atta Mills | [620][621][622] | |
2012 | 6 | Death of Jesse Robredo in a plane crash | [623] | |
2012 | 13 | Death of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi | [624] | |
2012 | 2 | Death of former Prime Minister Dom Mintoff | ||
2012 | 3 | Victims of the 2012 Disaster at the Paraguana Refinery Complex | [625] | |
2012 | 8 | Death of former Algerian President Chadli Benjedid | [626] | |
2012 | 7 | Death of former King Norodom Sihanouk | [627] | |
2012 | 1 | Death of Patriarch Maxim | [628] | |
2012 | 7 | Death of Oscar Niemeyer | [629] | |
2013 | 3 | Victims of the 2013 Houphouët-Boigny stampede | [630] | |
2013 | 3 | Victims of Santa Maria nightclub fire | [631] | |
2013 | 7 | Cremation of former King Norodom Sihanouk | [627] | |
2013 | 7 | Death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez | Entertainment venues, nightclubs were closed and concerts and sports were canceled. TV programs suspended the normal program to broadcast coverage of the death of the president and radio stations played calm music.[632] | |
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2013 | 1 | Death of protest leader Plamen Goranov | [649] | |
2013 | 1 | Victims of the 2013 Mauritius floods | [650] | |
2013 | 3 | Victims of 2013 Central African Republic mine collapse | [651] | |
2013 | 1 | Victims of the 2013 Podgorica bus crash in Montenegro | All of the victims were Romanian citizens.[316][652] | |
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2013 | 1 | Murder of Anibal Barrow | [654][655] | |
2013 | 3 | Victims of the Santiago de Compostela derailment | [656] | |
2013 | 1 | Victims of the Oranovo mine collapse | [657] | |
2013 | 1 | Victims of the 2013 twin attacks in Tripoli | [658][659] | |
2013 | 3 | Victims of 2013 Guatemala bus crash | [660] | |
2013 | 3 | Victims of the 2013 Nairobi attack | [661] | |
2013 | 1 | Victims of the 2013 Lampedusa naufragion | [662] | |
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2013 | 2 | Death of Vietnamese General Võ Nguyên Giáp | ||
2013 | 3 | 6 police officers killed in a firefight with suspected jihadists | No official ceremony, government representatives barred from funerals.[664] | |
2013 | 1 | Death of former Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki | [665] | |
2013 | 3 | Victims of Zolitūde shopping centre roof collapse | [666][667][668] | |
1 | [669] | |||
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2013 | 1 | Victims of the 2013 Sardinia floods | [671] | |
2013 | 10 | Death of former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela | [672][673] | |
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2013 | 3 | Victims of 2013 Barsis suicide bombings | [702] | |
2013 | 3 | Victims of December 2013 Cairo bombing | [703][704] | |
2014 | 3 | Death of Eusebio | [705][164] | |
2014 | 3 | Victims of the 2014 Algerian Air Force C-130 crash | [706] | |
2014 | 3 | Death of Vice President Marshal Fahim | [707] | |
2014 | 1 | Death of José Policarpo | [164] | |
2014 | 3 | Death of former Prime Minister of Spain Adolfo Suárez | [708] | |
2014 | 3 | Death of Gabriel Garcia Marquez | [709] | |
2014 | 1 | Victims of the 2014 Badakhshan mudslides | [710] | |
2014 | 3 | Victims of 2014 Soma mine disaster | [711] | |
2 | [712] | |||
1 | [713] | |||
2014 | 3 | Victims of 2014 Southeast Europe floods | [714][715] | |
1 | [716] | |||
2014 | 1 | Victims of the 2014 Ukrainian Air Force Il-76 shootdown | [717] | |
2014 | 1 | Victims of the 2014 Bulgarian floods | [718] | |
2014 | 1 | Victims of the shootdown of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in Ukraine | 193 Dutch citizens were among those killed. First national day of mourning in the Netherlands since the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963.[719] | |
43 Malaysian citizens were among those killed.[720] | ||||
38 Australian citizens were among those killed.[721] | ||||
2014 | 3 | Palestinian victims of the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict | [722] | |
[723] | ||||
[724] | ||||
1 | [725] | |||
2014 | 7 | Victims of a stampede at a concert | [726] | |
2014 | 3 | Victims of the crash of Air Algérie Flight 5017 in Mali | [727] | |
2 | [728] | |||
2014 | 3 | Death of Eduardo Campos | [729][730] | |
2014 | 1 | Victims of the 2014 Gorni Lom explosions | [731] | |
2014 | 7 | Death of former Queen Fabiola | [732][733] | |
2014 | 3 | Victims of the 2014 Peshawar school massacre | [734] | |
2015 | 1 | Victims of the Charlie Hebdo shooting | [735] | |
2015 | 1 | Victims of the Volnovakha bus attack | [736] | |
2015 | 40 | Death of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia | [737][738] | |
[739] | ||||
7 | [740] | |||
3 | ||||
[741] | ||||
[742][743] | ||||
[744] | ||||
[745] | ||||
[746] | ||||
[747] | ||||
[748] | ||||
1 | [749] | |||
[750][751][752] | ||||
[753] | ||||
[754] | ||||
2015 | 1 | Police officers killed in the Mamasapano clash | [755] | |
2015 | 1 | Death of former President Zhelyu Zhelev | [756] | |
2015 | 7 | Victims of the February 2015 Christian Egyptians beheaded in Libya | [757] | |
2015 | 3 | Victims of the 2015 Haiti carnival accident | [758] | |
2015 | 3 | Victims of 2015 Niger-Nigeria border village air strike | [759] | |
2015 | 7 | Victims of the February 2015 Libyan bombings | [760] | |
2015 | 1 | Victims of the deadly baby rescue helicopter crash | [761] | |
2015 | 3 | Victims of the crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 | [762][763][764] | |
1 | [765] | |||
2015 | 7 | Death of founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew | [766] | |
1 | [767] | |||
[768] | ||||
2015 | 2 | Death of Manoel de Oliveira | [164] | |
2015 | 3 | Victims of Islamic State killings | [769] | |
2015 | 3 | Victims of April 2015 Nepal earthquake | [770] | |
2015 | 2 | 6 police officers killed in gun battle | [771] | |
2015 | 1 | Victims of the 2015 Pakistan Army Mil Mi-17 crash | [772] | |
2015 | 1 | Victims of the 2015 Karachi bus shooting | [773] | |
2015 | 1 | Victims of 2015 Malaysia earthquake | [774] | |
[775] | ||||
2015 | 3 | Victims of Accra explosion at a petrol station | [776] | |
2015 | 1 | Victims of June 2015 Georgia floods | [777][778] | |
2015 | 3 | Death of former President and Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel | [779][780] | |
[781] | ||||
2015 | 7 | Death of Former President APJ Abdul Kalam | [782] | |
2015 | 1 | Death of Mihai Volontir | [783] | |
2015 | 3 | Victims of mudslide tore through homes in Santa Catarina Pinula | [784] | |
2015 | 3 | Victims of the 2015 Mina stampede in Saudi Arabia | At least 464 Iranians were among those killed.[785] | |
[786] | ||||
2015 | 3 | Victims of 2015 Ankara bombings | [787][788][789] | |
2015 | 7 | Death of former President Mathieu Kérékou | [790] | |
2015 | 1 | Victims of a suicide bomber targets Shias in Pakistan | [791] | |
2015 | 3 | Victims of the Colectiv nightclub fire | [792] | |
2015 | 1 | Victims of the bombing of Metrojet Flight 9268 | [793][794][795] | |
2015 | 1 | Victims of Beirut blasts | [796] | |
2015 | 3 | Victims of the November 2015 Paris attacks | [797] | |
1 | [798] | |||
[799] | ||||
[800] | ||||
[801] | ||||
[802] | ||||
European Day of Mourning and a minute of silence.[803] | ||||
[804] | ||||
2015 | 5 | Death of former President of South Korea Kim Young-sam | [805][806][807] | |
2015 | 1 | Victims of a fire at an oil rig in Caspian Sea | [808] | |
2016 | 1 | Victims of January 2016 Pakistan attack | [809] | |
2016 | 3 | Victims of an Islamist militants attack | [810] | |
2016 | 1 | Victims of 2016 bus crush in Jordan | [811] | |
2016 | 3 | Victims of 2016 Ivory Coast attack | [812] | |
2016 | 3 | Death of Joseph Mercieca | The Maltese flags were half mast at government buildings[813] | |
2016 | 3 | Victims of the 2016 Brussels bombings | [814] | |
1 | [316][815] | |||
[816] | ||||
[817] | ||||
[818] | ||||
[819] | ||||
[820] | ||||
2016 | 2 | Victims of April 2016 Ethiopian raid | [821] | |
2016 | 3 | Death of former President Patricio Aylwin | [822] | |
2016 | 8 | Victims of 2016 Ecuador earthquake | [823] | |
2016 | 2 | Victims of an attack at a military barracks | [824] | |
2016 | 40 | Death of President Mohamed Abdelaziz | [825] | |
8 | [826] | |||
2 | [827] | |||
2016 | 3 | Death of former President Antonio Imbert Barrera | [828] | |
2016 | 1 | Victims of 2016 Haragîș helicopter crash | [829] | |
2016 | 1 | Victims of the 2016 Atatürk Airport attack | [830] | |
2016 | 2 | Victims of Dhaka cafe attack | [831] | |
2016 | 3 | Victims of Baghdad suicide bombing | [832] | |
2016 | 3 | Victims of the 2016 Nice truck attack | [833] | |
1 | [834] | |||
2016 | 3 | Victims of 2016 Kidal violence | [835][836] | |
2016 | 1 | Death of former Queen-consort Anne of Romania | [837][838] | |
[839] | ||||
2016 | 3 | Victims of the Beni massacre | [840] | |
2016 | 2 | Victims of the August 2016 Central Italy earthquake | 30 August was the second day of national mourning[841] | |
1 | 11 Romanians were among those killed.[842] | |||
2016 | 3 | Death of President Islam Karimov | TV programs suspended the normal program to broadcast coverage of the death of the president and radio stations played calm music. Entertainment venues closed and concerts canceled.[843][844] | |
1 | September 5 was a day of national mourning[845] | |||
2016 | 1 | Death of former President Italy Carlo Azeglio Ciampi | [846][847] | |
2016 | 3 | Victims of Hurricane Matthew | [848] | |
2016 | 3 | Victims of the violences at 2016 Irreecha festival in Bishoftu | [849] | |
2016 | 1 | Death of former first President Michal Kováč | [850] | |
2016/17 | 365 | Death of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej | After announcing his death for 30 days, all TV channels suspended regular programs and simultaneously broadcast special programs that consisted of monochrome films and photos of Bhumibol, as well as reports of royal events. International channels have also been blocked and replaced with this program. The government declared a year-long mourning period for Bhumibol. Citizens were asked to refrain from participating in "joyful events" and entertainment for 30 days following his death; as a result, a number of events, including sports (such as the Thai League football season, which ended entirely), were cancelled or postponed. Entertainment outlets such as cinemas, nightclubs and theatres closed for 30 days.[851] | |
2016 | 1 | [852] | ||
2016 | 3 | Death of former Emir Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani | [853] | |
2016 | 3 | Victims of Hurricane Otto | [854] | |
2016 | 3 | Death of former President Sixto Durán Ballén | [855] | |
2016 | 9 | Death of former Cuban President Fidel Castro | Place of entertainment and night clubs closed, public show and concerts were cancelled. Television broadcast patriotic and historical programs, and radio stations broadcast classical and mourning music.[856][857][858] | |
[859] | ||||
[860] | ||||
8 | [861] | |||
7 | [862] | |||
3 | [863] | |||
Flags were flown at half-staff.[864] | ||||
[865] | ||||
[866] | ||||
[867] | ||||
1 | [868] | |||
December 4 was a day of national mourning. On that day, all entertainment and cultural events were canceled.[869] | ||||
[870] | ||||
[871] | ||||
2016 | 3 | Victims of the crash of LaMia Flight 2933 | [872] | |
2016 | 3 | Victims of Botroseya Church bombing | [873] | |
2016 | 1 | Victims of the Hitrino train derailment | [874] | |
2016 | 1 | Victims of the December 2016 Istanbul bombings | [875] | |
2016 | 1 | Victims of the 2016 Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 crash | [876] | |
[877] | ||||
[878] | ||||
2016 | 1 | Death of former Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake | [879] | |
2017 | 3 | Death of former President and Prime Minister Mário Soares | [880][164] | |
2017 | 3 | Death of former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani | [881] | |
2017 | 3 | 5 diplomats killed in January 2017 Kampala bombings | [882] | |
2017 | 1 | Victims of the crash of Turkish Airlines Flight 6491 | [883] | |
2017 | 1 | Firefighters killed in the collapse of the Plasco Building | [884] | |
2017 | 1 | Victims of the 2017 Verona bus crash | [885] | |
2017 | 3 | Death of former First Lady Marisa Letícia Lula da Silva | [886] | |
2017 | 3 | Victims of San Jose Pinula child centre fire | [887] | |
2017 | 3 | Victims of 2017 rubbish landslide | [888] | |
2017 | 3 | Death of former President Ketumile Masire | [889] | |
2017 | 1 | Victims of the 2017 Camp Shaheen attack | [890] | |
2017 | 1 | Victims of 2017 Kyrgyzstan mudslides | [891] | |
2017 | 1 | Death of former President and Prime Minister Mauno Koivisto | [892] | |
2017 | 10 | Death of President Baldwin Lonsdale | [893] | |
2017 | 3 | Victims of the June 2017 Portugal wildfires | [894][164] | |
2017 | 7 | Victims of the 2017 Sierra Leone mudslides | [895] | |
2017 | 3 | Victims of the 2017 Barcelona attacks | [896] | |
[897] | ||||
2017 | 1 | Victims of a fallen tree which killed 13 people in Madeira | [898][899][164] | |
2017 | 3 | Victims of the 2017 Chiapas earthquake | [900] | |
2017 | 3 | Victims of the 2017 Puebla earthquake | [901] | |
2017 | 3 | Death of former President Jalal Talabani | [902] | |
7 | The Kurdistan Regional Government declared 7 days of mourning[903] | |||
2017 | 3 | Victims of Hurricane Nate | [904][905] | |
2017 | 3 | Victims of the 14 October 2017 Mogadishu bombings | [906] | |
2017 | 3 | Victims of the October 2017 Iberian wildfires | [907][164] | |
2017 | 1 | Murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia | [908] | |
2017 | 1 | Victims of the 2017 Iran–Iraq earthquake | [909] | |
2017 | 1 | Victims of 2017 West Attica floods | [910] | |
2017 | 3 | Victims of 2017 Sinai mosque attack | [911] | |
1 | [912][913] | |||
2017 | 1 | Victims of fire at Leogrand Hotel in Batumi | [914] | |
2017 | 3 | Death of former King Michael I | [915][316] | |
2018 | 3 | Death of Sheikha Hessa bint Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Nahyan | [916] | |
2018 | 1 | Victims of 2018 Kabul bombings | [917] | |
2018 | 1 | Victims of the 2018 Kemerovo fire | [918] | |
[919] | ||||
2018 | 1 | Victims of 2018 Israel-Gaza conflict | [920] | |
2018 | 10 | Death of former First Lady of South Africa Winnie Madikizela-Mandela | [921] | |
2018 | 1 | Victims of an accident on Tkibuli Mindeli mine | [922] | |
2018 | 3 | Victims of the 2018 Algerian Air Force Ilyushin Il-76 crash | [923] | |
7 | [924] | |||
2018 | 1 | Victims of a bus accident on the Trakia motorway | [925] | |
2018 | 1 | Victims of 2018 Israel-Gaza conflict | [926] | |
2018 | 1 | Victims of Tkibuli mine explosion | [927] | |
2018 | 2 | Victims of Cubana de Aviación Flight 972 | Official period of mourning from 6 am on May 19 to 12 midnight on May 20.[928] | |
2018 | 1 | Death of António Arnaut | ||
2018 | 1 | Victims of an accident on Mindeli Coal Mine Mining | [929] | |
2018 | 3 | Victims of the 2018 Greece wildfires | [930] | |
2018 | 3 | Victims of July 2018 Paraguay plane crash | [931] | |
2018 | 1 | Death of Oliver Dragojevic | [932] | |
2018 | 1 | Death of M. Karunanidhi, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu | [933] | |
2018 | 7 | Death of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee | [934] | |
2018 | 7 | Death of Kofi Annan | [935] | |
2018 | 1 | Victims of Genoa bridge disaster | [936][937] | |
2018 | 1 | Victims of a bus accident near Svoge | [938][939] | |
2018 | 4 | Victims of the Sinking of MV Nyerere | [940] | |
2018 | 2 | Death of President Tran Dai Quang | Entertainment and cultural events canceled.[941] | |
Entertainment and cultural events canceled.[942] | ||||
1 | The decree also states that public shows and festive activities will be suspended during the mourning period.[943] | |||
2018 | 3 | Victims of the Mbuba road tanker explosion | [944] | |
2018 | 1 | Death of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush | Federal agencies and departments were closed.[945] | |
[946] | ||||
2018 | 1 | Death of former President Girma Wolde-Giorgis | [947] | |
2018 | 1 | Victims of a mine accident in the Czech Republic | 12 Polish citizens were among those killed.[948] | |
2019 | 2 | Assassination of Gdańsk Mayor Paweł Adamowicz | [949] | |
2019 | 1 | Victims of an explosion in a residential building in Tbilisi’s Didi Digomi district | [950] | |
2019 | 3 | Victims of 2019 Bogotá car bombing | [951] | |
2019 | 3 | Death of former Vice President Lupando Mwape | [952] | |
2019 | 2 | Death of former Prime Minister Jan Olszewski | [953] | |
2019 | 2 | Victims of a bus crash near Gostivar | [954] | |
2019 | 1 | Victims of domestic violence | By March, 13 people had died of domestic violence in Portugal.[955] | |
2019 | 1 | Victims of the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 | [956] | |
2019 | 1 | Victims of Christchurch mosque shootings | [957] | |
[958] | ||||
2019 | 2 | Victims of Cyclone Idai | [959] | |
3 | [960] | |||
2019 | 3 | Victims of 2019 Tigris River ferry sinking | [961] | |
2019 | 3 | Death of former President Alan Garcia | [962] | |
2019 | 3 | Victims of the 2019 Madeira bus crash | [963] | |
2019 | 1 | Victims of 2019 Lake Kivu boat accident | [964] | |
2019 | 1 | Victims of the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings | [965] | |
2019 | 12 | Death of former Grand Duke Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg | [966][967] | |
2019 | 1 | Death of former President Negasso Gidada | [968] | |
2019 | 7 | Death of Minister of Presidential Security Antonio Mba Nguema Mikué | Mourning set just in military bases[969] | |
2019 | 2 | Death of former first Deputy Prime Minister Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba | [970] | |
2019 | 2 | Death of Nasrallah Sfeir | [971] | |
2019 | 3 | Victims of a massacre in Paoua | [972] | |
2019 | 1 | Death of writer Agustina Bessa-Luís | [973] | |
2019 | 3 | Victims of Sobane Da village massacre | [974] | |
2019 | 4 | Death of former Prime Minister Edward Seaga | [975] | |
2019 | 3 | Death of former President Demetris Christofias | [976] | |
2019 | 3 | Death of Khalid bin Sultan Al Qasimi | [977] | |
2019 | 3 | Death of former President Fernando de la Rúa | [978] | |
2019 | 7 | Death of President Beji Caid Essebsi | The government has also decided to cancel all artistic performances and other cultural events across Tunisia, according to a statement from the government presidency[979][980] | |
3 | [981] | |||
[982] | ||||
[983] | ||||
[984] | ||||
[985] | ||||
[986] | ||||
[987] | ||||
[988] | ||||
1 | [989] | |||
2019 | 3 | Death of Abdirahman Omar Osman | [990] | |
2019 | 3 | Victims of the Morogoro tanker explosion | [991] | |
2019 | 3 | Death of former President Dawda Jawara | [992] | |
2019 | 8 | Death of former President Robert Mugabe | [993][994] | |
3 | [995] | |||
2019 | 3 | Death of former President B. J. Habibie | [996] | |
2019 | 1 | Victims of a fire at a religious boarding school outside the Liberian capital Monrovia | [997] | |
2019 | 1 | Death of Prime Minister Akilisi Pohiva | [998] | |
2019 | 3 | Death of former French President Jacques Chirac | [999] | |
1 | [1000] | |||
[1001] | ||||
2019 | 1 | Death of former interim Prime Minister Diogo Freitas do Amaral | [1002] | |
2019 | 3 | Victims of 2019 Mali attacks | [1003] | |
2019 | 3 | Victims of 2019 attack on a convoy transporting local employees of Canadian mining company Semafo in eastern Burkina Faso | [1004] | |
2019 | 1 | Victims of the 2019 Cameroon mudslides | [1005] | |
2019 | 3 | Death of Sheikh Sultan bin Zayed Al Nahyan | [1006] | |
2019 | 1 | Death of Cambodia Princess Norodom Bopha Devi | [1007] | |
2019 | 1 | Death of Charles Brumskine | [1008] | |
2019 | 1 | Victims of the 2019 Albania earthquake | [1009] | |
Kosovo has an ethnic Albanian majority population.[1009] | ||||
2019 | 3 | Victims of 2019 Niger attack | [1010] | |
2019 | 2 | Victims of the 2019 Chilean Air Force C-130 crash | [1011] | |
2019 | 3 | Death of Algerian army chief Ahmed Gaid Salah | Also, 7 days of mourning was announced in military institutions[1012] | |
2019 | 2 | Victims of the Arbinda attack | [1013] | |
2019 | 1 | Victims of Bek Air Flight 2100 | [1014] | |
2019/20 | 3 | Those killed in the U.S. airstrikes against Kata'ib Hezbollah | Mourning period began on New Year's Eve.[1015] | |
2020s
Country | Year | Days of mourning | Reason | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2020 | 3 | Death of Qasem Soleimani, commander of Iran's Quds Force, in a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad, Iraq | [1016] | ||
[1017] | |||||
2020 | 3 | Victims of an airstrike in eastern Libyan | [1018] | ||
2020 | 1 | Death of Prospero Grech | [1019] | ||
2020 | 1 | Victims of the stampede at Qasem Soleimani's funeral and the crash of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 | [1020] | ||
2020 | 1 | Victims of the crash of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 | [1021] | ||
2020 | 3 | Death of Oman's Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said | [1022] | ||
[1023] | |||||
However,flags weren`t at half-mast[1024] | |||||
[1025] | |||||
[1026] | |||||
[1027] | |||||
[1028] | |||||
[1029] | |||||
1 | [1030] | ||||
[1031][1032][1033] | |||||
2020 | 3 | Soldiers killed in the Battle of Chinagodrar | [1034] | ||
2020 | 2 | Victims of 2020 Burkina Faso attacks | [1035] | ||
2020 | 1 | Death of Chairman of the Senate of the Czech Republic Jaroslav Kubera | [1036] | ||
2020 | 9 | Death of the former President of Kenya Daniel arap Moi | [1037] | ||
2020 | 7 | Death of Marcelino dos Santos | [1038] | ||
2020 | 3 | Death of former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak | [1039] | ||
1 | [1040] | ||||
2020 | 3 | Death of Ernesto Cardenal | [1041] | ||
2020 | 3 | Death of Liberian Ambassador to Senegal Mary- Ann Fossung | [1042] | ||
2020 | 3 | Victims of 2020 Boko Haram attack | [1043] | ||
2020 | 15 | Victims of the COVID-19 pandemic | [1044] | ||
10 | National mourning from May 27 to June 5. This is the longest national mourning in the history of this country's democracy.[1045] | ||||
3 | [1046][1047][1048] | ||||
[1049] | |||||
1 | March 31 was national day of mourning.[1050] | ||||
April 4 was national day of mourning.[1051] | |||||
April 4 was national day of mourning[1052] | |||||
[1053] | |||||
March 31 was national day of mourning, Vatican mourns for Coronavirus deaths from Italy and for the World[1054] | |||||
July 13 was national day of mourning.[1055] | |||||
July 30 was national day of mourning.[1056][1057] | |||||
2020 | 7 | Death of Mhammad Jadad | [1058] | ||
2020 | 3 | Death of former Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein | Former Somali Prime Minister dies of Coronavirus[1059] | ||
2020 | 3 | Death of Mansour Khalid | [1060] | ||
2020 | 3 | Death of Denis Goldberg | [1061] | ||
2020 | 5 | Death of former Prime Minister Sisavath Keobounphanh | [1062] | ||
2020 | 3 | Killing of 3 Uruguyan young marines | [1063] | ||
2020 | 7 | Death of President Pierre Nkurunziza | [1064] | ||
1 | [1065] | ||||
2020 | 3 | Victims of a terrorist attacks in Diabaly | [1066] | ||
2020 | 3 | Death of Sheikh Ahmed bin Sultan Al Qasimi | [1067] | ||
2020 | 8 | Death of Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly | [1068] | ||
2020 | 7 | Death of former President Benjamin Mkapa | [1069] | ||
3 | [1070] | ||||
[1071] | |||||
[1072] | |||||
[1073] | |||||
2020 | 3 | Death of former president Lee Teng-hui | [1074] | ||
2020 | 3 | Victims of 2020 Port of Beirut explosions | [1075] | ||
See also
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- Romania marks national day of mourning in Queen Anne's memory
- Moldovan president declares 13 August 2016 as national mourning day
- Congo to observe 3 days of national mourning
- Italy observes day of mourning for earthquake dead
- Romania holds national mourning day for the victims of the Italy earthquake
- Hurricane Matthew: Haiti in national mourning as aid gears up, BBC News
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- Costa Rica declares national mourning as storm Otto kills nine
- DPRK Sets Period of Mourning for Fidel Castro Ruz
- Brazilian footballers among 75 killed in plane crash
- Държавен вестник, брой 100 от 16.XII
- Putin declares national day of mourning over Russia military plane crash
- Belarus Declares Monday Day of Mourning for Tu-154 Crash Victims
- Latest Updates on Russian Defense Ministry's Tu-154 Aircraft Crash in Black Sea
- Portugal father of democracy Mario Soares dies aged 92, BBC News
- Iran Declares Three Days of National Mourning after Demise of Ex-President
- Kyrgyzstan plane crash: Dozens die as Turkish cargo jet hits homes, BBC News
- Sat. national day of mourning, no hope for any survivors
- Hungary declares national day of mourning for Italy bus crash victims
- Brazil’s ex-first lady, central to Lula’s career, dies at 66, Associated Press
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- Portugal forest fires kill 62 near Coimbra, BBC News
- Sierra Leone President declares 7-day national mourning for mudslide victims
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- Portugal announces day of mourning for Madeira fallen tree vitims
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- Iraq declares 3-day mourning for ex-president Talabani's death
- Barzani Announces One Week Public Mourning for Talabani's Loss
- Costa Rican Government Declares 3 Days of National Mourning Due to After Effects of Tropical Storm Nate
- Presidente de Costa Rica decreta duelo nacional de tres días por víctimas de tormenta Nate
- Somali President Declares 3 Days of Mourning After Deadly Blast
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- National day of mourning on Friday to mark Caruana Galizia funeral
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- King Michael dies at 96, to be buried in Romania according to the royal tradition. Three days of national mourning
- March 28 declared national day of mourning
- Algeria declares three days of mourning over deadly plane crash, Aljazera, April 2018
- Mueren 257 personas al estrellarse un avión militar en Argelia
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- Greece wildfires: Dozens dead in Attica region, BBC News
- Centre announces one-day State mourning following death of former CM of Tamil Nadu Dr. M. Karunanidhi; accords State funeral
- Seven day State Mourning to be observed in memory of former Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- Държавен вестник, брой 72 от 31.VIII
- Investigations continue into Bulgaria’s worst bus crash in nine years
- Lake Victoria Tanzania ferry disaster: Survivor found in air pocket, BBC News
- At least 50 dead, 100 burned in Congo tanker truck fire, Associated Press
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- Roundup: Ethiopia declares day of mourning for late president
- National day of mourning declared for 12 Poles killed in mining blast
- National mourning after the tragic death of Mayor of Gdańsk Paweł Adamowicz
- Zambia declares 3-day national mourning for ex-VP
- Żałoba narodowa po śmierci Jana Olszewskiego
- North Macedonia mourns 14 people killed in bus crash, National Post
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- Ethiopian Airlines: 'No survivors' on crashed Boeing 737, BBC News
- Aid workers rush to rescue African cyclone victims amid mounting death toll, Reuters
- Mozambique: 3 days of national mourning after deadly Cyclone Idai, Aljazeera
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- Sri Lanka falls silent on day of mourning for attack victims, France 24, April 23, 2019
- Ethiopian parliament declares day of mourning for late president Gidada, May 5, 2019
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- 4 days of mourning, Jamaica Observer
- Cyprus declares 3 days of mourning for deceased ex-president, Associated Press
- Tunisia declares mourning period after death of President Essebsi, Aljazeera
- Tanzania declares 3 days of national mourning over victims of oil tanker explosion, August 11, 2019
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- Mixed feelings as Zimbabwe begins national mourning for Mugabe
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- Lebanon declares Monday a national day of mourning for Chirac
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- Burkina Faso tense, in mourning, amid jihadist attacks
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- Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared January 9 the day of mourning in Ukraine due to the UIA plane crash in Iran
- وإذ يعلنُ ديوان البلاط السلطاني الحداد وتعطيل العمل الرسمي للقطاعين العام والخاص لمدة ثلاثة أيام وتنكيس الأعلام في الأيام الأربعين القادمة, Oman News Agency
- Kuwaiti emir orders 3 days of mourning over death of Sultan Qaboos
- Qatar declares three days of mourning for HM Sultan Qaboos, The Times of Oman
- UAE leaders mourn death of Sultan Qaboos, 3 days of mourning declared
- HM King mourns Sultan Qaboos bin Said
- Egypt announces 3-day mourning for death of Sultan Qaboos
- Niger declares three days of mourning after 89 soldiers killed in attack on military base, CNN, January 13, 2020
- Příští pondělí bude v Česku státní smutek k uctění památky senátora Kubery
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- Egyptian Presidency announces three days of national mourning following Mubarak’s death
- El Gobierno aprobará el martes el luto nacional durante diez días por las víctimas del coronavirus
- Ravello. Giornata di lutto nazionale martedì 31 marzo 2020, ore 12
- China to mourn COVID-19 martyrs, victims nationwide on April 4
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