List of largest funerals

This list of notable funerals represents considerable historical funerals, based on both the number of attendants and estimated television audience.

Funeral Date and place Attendants Television audience
Funeral of Julius CaesarMarch 20, 44 BC, Rome, Roman Republic
Funeral of Ludwig van BeethovenMarch 29, 1827, Vienna, Austrian Empire~20,000[1]
Funeral and burial of Abraham LincolnApril 19–May 3, 1865, Eastern and Midwest United States~7,000,000[2]
State funeral of Victor-Marie HugoJune 1, 1885, Paris, France2,000,000–3,000,000[3]
State funeral of Ulysses S. GrantAugust 6–8, 1885, New York City, New York, United States
Funeral of August Spies, George Engel, Adolph Fischer, and Albert ParsonsNovember 13, 1887, Chicago, Illinois, United States~500,000[4]
Funeral of Wilhelm IMarch 12–16, 1888, Berlin, German Empire200,000[5]
Two state funerals of KalākauaJanuary 22, 1891, San Francisco and January 29–February 15, 1891, Honolulu, United States
State funeral of Pedro II of BrazilDecember 9, 1891, Paris, France
Funeral of Queen VictoriaFebruary 2, 1901, Windsor, England
Funeral of Edward VIIMay 20, 1910, London and Windsor, United Kingdom
Funeral of Sholem AleichemMay 13, 1916, New York City250,000+[6]
Funerals of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl LiebknechtJune 13, 1919, near Berlin, Weimar Republic200,000[7]
Funeral of Michael Collins27 August 1922, Dublin, Ireland
Funeral of Lenin21 January 1924, Moscow, Soviet Union
Funeral of Rudolph ValentinoAugust 30, 1926, New York City, New York, United States100,000+[8]
Funeral of Engelbert DollfussJuly 30, 1934, Vienna, First Austrian Republic1,000,000+[9]
Funeral of Paul von HindenburgAugust 6–7, 1934, Tannenberg Memorial, German Reich200,000[10]Millions (via radio, not television)[11]
Funeral of Huey Long12 September 1935, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States~200,000[12]
State funeral of Guglielmo MarconiJuly 21, 1937, Rome, Kingdom of Italy
Funeral of Roman DmowskiJanuary 7, 1939, Warsaw, Poland200,000[13]
Funeral of Leon TrotskyAugust 23–28, 1940, Mexico City, Mexico
State funeral of Pedro Aguirre CerdaNovember 28, 1941, Santiago, Chile700,000[14]
Funeral of Mohandas Karamchand GandhiFebruary 6, 1948, New Delhi, Dominion of India2,000,000+[15][16]
State funeral of Eva "Evita" PerónAugust 9, 1952, Buenos Aires, Argentina
State funeral of Joseph StalinMarch 6–9, 1953, Moscow, Soviet Union
Funeral of Carmen MirandaAugust 12–13, 1955, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Funeral of B. R. AmbedkarDecember 6, 1956, Mumbai, India500,000+[17]
State funeral of John F. KennedyNovember 25, 1963, Washington, D.C., United States550,000[18]
State funeral of General Douglas MacArthur7 April 1964, Washington, D.C., United States
State funeral of Jawaharlal NehruMay 28, 1964, New Delhi, Delhi, India1,500,000[19]
State funeral of Sir Winston Churchill30 January 1965, London, United Kingdom
Funeral of Malcolm XFebruary 23–27, 1965, Harlem, New York City, New York, United States
State funeral of Dr. Hendrik VerwoerdSeptember 10, 1966, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa250,000[20]
Funeral of Mir Osman Ali KhanFebruary 25, 1967, Hyderabad, India800,000[21]
Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr.April 9, 1968, Atlanta, Georgia, United States300,000[22]
Funeral of C. N. Annadurai3 February 1969, Madras, Tamil Nadu, IndiaMillions[23]
State funeral of Ho Chi MinhSeptember 9, 1969, Hanoi, Democratic Republic of Vietnam250,000[24]
State funeral of Gamal Abdel NasserOctober 1, 1970, Cairo, EgyptMillions[25]
State funeral of Juan Domingo PerónJuly 2–4, 1974, Buenos Aires, Argentina1,135,000+[26]
State funeral of Chiang Kai-shekApril 16, 1975, Taipei, Republic of China
State funeral of Francisco FrancoNovember 22–23, 1975, Madrid, Spain300,000–500,000[27][28]
Funeral of Elvis PresleyAugust 16–18, 1977, Memphis, Tennessee, United States
State funeral of Sir Robert MenziesNovember 19, 1978, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia~100,000[29]
State funeral of Park Chung-heeNovember 1, 1979, Seoul, Republic of Korea~2,000,000[30]
Death and state funeral of Josip Broz Tito8 May 1980, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Funeral of Bobby SandsMay 7, 1981, Belfast, Northern Ireland100,000+[31]
State funeral of Ziaur RahmanJune 2, 1981, National Parliament, Dhaka, Bangladesh~2,000,000[32][33]
Funeral of Enrico BerlinguerJune 13, 1984, Rome, Italy1,000,000+[34]
State funeral of Muhammad Zia-ul-HaqAugust 19, 1988, Islamabad, Pakistan~1,000,000[35]
State funeral of Emperor ShōwaFebruary 24, 1989, Tokyo, Japan250,000+[36]
Funeral of Ayatollah Ruhollah KhomeiniJune 4–5, 1989, Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini, Tehran, IranMillions[37]
Re-burial of Imre NagyJune 16, 1989, Budapest, Hungary150–250,000[38]
Funeral of Richard NixonApril 26–27, 1994, Yorba Linda, California, United States54,000+[39]
Funeral of Ayrton SennaMay 4, 1994, São Paulo, Brazil3,000,000+[18]Hundreds of millions (in Brazil)[40][41]
Death and state funeral of Kim Il-sung17 July 1994, Pyongyang, North Korea2,000,000[42]
State funeral of Yitzhak RabinNovember 6, 1995, Jerusalem, Israel
Funeral of Yahya AyyashJanuary 6, 1996, Gaza, Palestine100,000+[43]
State funeral of Deng XiaopingFebruary 24, 1997, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Funeral of Diana, Princess of WalesSeptember 6, 1997, London and Althorp, United Kingdom1,000,000+[44]2,500,000,000[44]
State funeral of King Hussein of JordanFebruary 8, 1999, Amman, Jordan~800,000[45]
Funeral of Queen Elizabeth The Queen MotherApril 9, 2002, London, United Kingdom1,000,000+[46]
State funeral of Ronald ReaganJune 7, 2004, Simi Valley and Washington D.C., United States104,684[47]35,700,000[48]
Funeral of Pope John Paul IIApril 8, 2005, Vatican City and Rome, Italy4,000,000[49][50]2,000,000,000[51]
Funeral of Slobodan MiloševićMarch 18, 2006, Belgrade, Serbia50,000+[52]
Funeral of Augusto Pinochet12 December 2006, Santiago, Chile60,000[53]
State funeral of Gerald FordDecember 31, 2006 – January 2, 2007, Washington, D.C., United States
Funeral of Hrant DinkJanuary 23, 2007, Istanbul, Turkey200,000+[54]
Michael Jackson memorial serviceJuly 7, 2009, Los Angeles, California, United States17,500[55]3,000,000,000[56][57]
State funeral of Pavle, Serbian PatriarchNovember 19, 2009, Rakovica Monastery, Serbia500,000+[58]
State funeral of Lech and Maria Kaczyński18 April 2010, Kraków, Poland
Funeral of Otto von HabsburgJuly 16, 2011, Vienna, Austria~101,000[59]413,000–557,000[60]
Funeral of Bhupen Hazarika9 November 2011, Guwahati, Assam, India600,000+[61]
Death and state funeral of Kim Jong-il28 December 2011, Pyongyang, North Korea200,000[62]
Funeral of Pope Shenouda IIIMarch 20, 2012, Cairo, EgyptMillions[63]
State funeral of Bal ThackerayNovember 18–19, 2012, Shivaji Park, Mumbai, India1,000,000[64]–2,000,000[65]
Death and state funeral of Hugo ChávezMarch 6–8, 2013, Caracas, Venezuela1,000,000–3,000,000[66]
Funeral of Margaret ThatcherApril 17, 2013, London, United KingdomThousands[67]>4,000,000[68]
Funeral of Rabbi Ovadia YosefOctober 7, 2013, Jerusalem, Israel450,000[69]–850,000[70]
State funeral of Võ Nguyên GiápOctober 12–13, 2013, Hanoi, VietnamMillions[71]
Commemoration of Nelson MandelaDecember 10–15, 2013, Johannesburg, Pretoria and Qunu, South Africa
State funeral of Lee Kuan YewMarch 23–29, 2015, Singapore100,000 (funeral cortege)[72][73]
Muhammad Ali memorial serviceJune 11, 2016, Louisville, Kentucky, United States[74]
Funeral of Burhan WaniJuly 8, 2016, Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir, Indianearly 200,000[75]
Funeral of SrideviFebruary 26, 2018, Mumbai, Maharashtra, Indianear 1 million [76]
Funeral of Akhtar Raza KhanJuly 20, 2018, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, IndiaMillions[77][78][79]
Funeral of Kalaignar M KarunanidhiAugust 7, 2018 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IndiaMillions[80]
Funeral of the Skulener RebbeApril 2, 2019, Brooklyn, New York, United States100,000+ [81]
Funeral of Qasem SoleimaniJanuary 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 AnsariApril 18, 2020, Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh100,000+ [83]
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

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