List of funerals

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

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Funeral Date and place Attendants Television audience
Funeral of Ludwig van Beethoven March 29, 1827, Vienna, Austrian Empire ~20,000[1] N/A
Funeral and burial of Abraham Lincoln April 19–May 3, 1865, Eastern and Midwest United States ~7,000,000[2] N/A
State funeral of Victor-Marie Hugo June 1, 1885, Paris, France 2,000,000–3,000,000[3] N/A
State funeral of Ulysses S. Grant August 6–8, 1885, New York City, New York, United States 1,750,000 N/A
Funeral of August Spies, George Engel, Adolph Fischer, and Albert Parsons November 13, 1887, Chicago, Illinois, United States ~500,000[4] N/A
State funeral of Pedro II of Brazil December 9, 1891, Paris, France 200,000–300,000 N/A
Funeral of Edward VII May 20, 1910, London and Windsor, United Kingdom Thousands N/A
Funeral and cremation of Joe Hill November 1915, Salt Lake City and Chicago, United States; ashes distributed worldwide 30,000+[5] N/A
Funerals of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht June 13, 1919, near Berlin, Weimar Republic 200,000[6] N/A
Funeral of Michael Collins 27 August 1922, Dublin, Ireland 500,000 N/A
Funeral of Rudolph Valentino August 30, 1926, New York City, New York, United States 100,000+[7] N/A
Funeral of Huey Long 12 September 1935, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States ~200,000[8] N/A
State funeral of Guglielmo Marconi July 21, 1937, Rome, Kingdom of Italy 500,000 N/A
Funeral of Leon Trotsky August 23–28, 1940, Mexico City, Mexico 250,000+ N/A
State funeral of John Curtin 9 July 1945, Perth, Western Australia, Australia 30,000+[9] N/A
Funeral of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi February 6, 1948, New Delhi, Dominion of India 2,000,000+ N/A
State funeral of Muhammad Ali Jinnah September 12, 1948, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan 1,000,000 N/A
State funeral of Eva "Evita" Perón August 9, 1952, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2,500,000–3,000,000 ?
State funeral of Joseph Stalin March 6–9, 1953, Moscow, Soviet Union ~2,000,000 ?
Funeral of Carmen Miranda August 12–13, 1955, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 500,000+ ?
Funeral of Senator Joseph McCarthy May 7, 1957, Appleton, Wisconsin, United States 30,000+[10] ?
State funeral of John F. Kennedy November 25, 1963, Washington, D.C., United States 550,000[11] ~180,000,000
State funeral of General Douglas MacArthur 7 April 1964, Washington, D.C., United States ~150,000 ?
State funeral of Jawaharlal Nehru May 28, 1964, New Delhi, Delhi, India ~3,000,000 ?
State funeral of Sir Winston Churchill 30 January 1965, London, United Kingdom 1,000,000+[12] 350,000,000+
Funeral of Malcolm X February 23–27, 1965, Harlem, New York City, New York, United States 14,000–31,000 ?
State funeral of Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd September 10, 1966, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa 250,000[13] ?
Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr. April 9, 1968, Atlanta, Georgia, United States 300,000[14] ?
Funeral of C. N. Annadurai 3 February 1969, Madras, Tamil Nadu, India, 15,000,000[15] ?
State funeral of Ho Chi Minh September 9, 1969, Hanoi, Democratic Republic of Vietnam 250,000[16] ?
State funeral of Gamal Abdel Nasser October 1, 1970, Cairo, Egypt 5,000,000–7,000,000[17] ?
State funeral of Juan Domingo Perón July 2–4, 1974, Buenos Aries, Argentina 1,135,000+[18] ?
Funeral of Umm Kulthum February 6, 1975, Cairo, Egypt 4,000,000+ ?
State funeral of Chiang Kai-shek April 16, 1975, Taipei, Republic of China Hundreds of thousands ?
State funeral of Francisco Franco November 22–23, 1975, Madrid, Spain 300,000–500,000[19][20] ?
State funeral of Zhou Enlai January 11, 1976, Beijing, People's Republic of China ~2,000,000 ?
Funeral of Juscelino Kubitschek August 23, 1976, Brasília, Brazil 350,000 ?
State funeral of Mao Zedong September 18, 1976, Beijing, People's Republic of China Millions ?
Funeral of Elvis Presley August 16–18, 1977, Memphis, Tennessee, United States 75,000–80,000 Millions
State funeral of Sir Robert Menzies November 19, 1978, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ~100,000[21] ?
State funeral of Park Chung-hee November 1, 1979, Seoul, Republic of Korea ~2,000,000[22] ?
Funeral of Archbishop Óscar Romero March 30, 1980, San Salvador, El Salvador 250,000+ ?
Death and state funeral of Josip Broz Tito 8 May 1980, Belgrade, Yugoslavia 900,000+ 1,500,000+
Funeral of Bobby Sands May 7, 1981, Belfast, Northern Ireland 100,000+[23] ?
State funeral of Ziaur Rahman June 2, 1981, National Parliament, Dhaka, Bangladesh ~2,000,000[24][25] ?
Funeral of Benigno Aquino, Jr. August 31, 1983, Manila, Philippines 2,000,000+ 500,000–1,000,000
Funeral of Enrico Berlinguer June 13, 1984, Rome, Italy 1,000,000+[26] ?
Funeral of Jerzy Popiełuszko November 3, 1984, Warsaw, Poland 250,000+ ?
State funeral of Chiang Ching-kuo January 30, 1988, Taipei, Republic of China ~1,000,000 ?
State funeral of Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq August 19, 1988, Islamabad, Pakistan ~1,000,000[27] ?
State funeral of Emperor Shōwa February 24, 1989, Tokyo, Japan 250,000+[28] ?
Funeral of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini June 4–5, 1989, Tehran, Iran ~10,000,000 ?
Funeral of Meir Kahane November 6, 1990, Jerusalem, Israel ~150,000 ?
Death and funeral of Richard Nixon April 26–27, 1994, Yorba Linda, California, United States 54,000+[29] ?
Funeral of Ayrton Senna May 5, 1994, São Paulo, Brazil 3,000,000+[11] ?
Funeral of Selena April 3, 1995, Houston, Texas, United States 60,000+ ?
Funeral of the "Father of Tamil Nation" Perunchiththiranar June 16, 1995, Medavakkam, Chennai, India 150,000 ?
State funeral of Yitzhak Rabin November 6, 1995, Jerusalem, Israel 40,000 ?
Funeral of Yahya Ayyash January 6, 1996, Gaza, Palestine 100,000+[30] ?
State funeral of Deng Xiaoping February 24, 1997, Beijing, People's Republic of China 110,000+ ?
Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales September 6, 1997, London and Althorp, United Kingdom ~3,000,000[31] 2,500,000,000
Death and state funeral of King Hussein of Jordan February 8, 1999, Amman, Jordan ~800,000[32] ?
Funeral of Maurice "Rocket" Richard May 31, 2000, Montreal, Quebec, Canada ~115,000 ?
Funeral of Ahmad Shah Massoud September 16, 2001, Panjshir, Afghanistan ~130,000 ?
Funeral of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother April 9, 2002, London, United Kingdom 1,200,000+ ?
Funeral of Zoran Đinđić 15 March 2003, Belgrade, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ~500,000 1,500,000
Death and state funeral of Ronald Reagan June 7, 2004, Simi Valley and Washington D.C., United States 104,684[33] 35,700,000[34]
State funeral of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan November 2, 2004, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 50,000+ 50,000,000
Funeral of Pope John Paul II April 8, 2005, Vatican City and Rome, Italy 4,000,000[35][36] 1,000,000,000+
Death and funeral of Coretta Scott King February 7, 2006, Lithonia, Georgia, United States 16,000+ ?
Funeral of Slobodan Milošević March 18, 2006, Belgrade, Serbia 50,000+[37] ?
Funeral of Augusto Pinochet 12 December 2006, Santiago, Chile 60,000[38] ?
Death and state funeral of Gerald Ford December 31, 2006 – January 2, 2007, Washington, D.C., United States ~117,000 ?
Funeral of Hrant Drink January 23, 2007, Istanbul, Turkey 200,000+[39] ?
Michael Jackson memorial service July 7, 2009, Los Angeles, California, United States 17,500[40] 3,000,000,000[41][42]
Death and funeral of Corazon "Cory" Aquino November 5, 2009, Manila, Philippines 300,000–400,000 ?
Funeral of Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri December 21, 2009, Qom, Iran 800,000+ ?
Death and state funeral of Lech and Maria Kaczyński 18 April 2010, Kraków, Poland 150,000+ 13,000,000
Death and funeral of Otto von Habsburg July 16, 2011, Vienna, Austria ~101,000[43] 413,000–557,000[44]
Funeral of "The Bard of Brahmaputra" Bhupen Hazarika[45] 9 November 2011, Guwahati, Assam, India 500,000+[46] 30,000,000
Funeral of Pope Shenouda III March 20, 2012, Cairo, Egypt 20,000,000 ?
Funeral of the "King" of Philippine Comedy, Dolphy July 15, 2012, Taguig, Manila, Philippines 100+ 1,000,000–3,000,000
State funeral of Jesse M. Robredo August 24–28, 2012, Malacañan Palace, Manila, Philippines 200,000–500,000 ?
State funeral of Bal Thackeray November 18–19, 2012, Shivaji Park, Mumbai, India 1,000,000[47]–2,000,000[48] 15,000,000
State funeral of Adrian Donohoe January 30, 2013, Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland 5,000[49] ?
Death and state funeral of Hugo Chávez March 6–8, 2013, Caracas, Venezuela 1,000,000–3,000,000[50] ?
Funeral of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef October 7, 2013, Jerusalem, Israel 450,000[51]–850,000[52] ?
Death and state funeral of Võ Nguyên Giáp October 12–13, 2013, Hanoi, Vietnam Millions[53] Millions
Funeral of Eduardo Campos August 17, 2014, Recife, Brazil 100,000+[54] ?
Death and state funeral of Michael Sata November 11, 2014, Lusaka, Zambia 50,000+[55] ?
Death and state funeral of Lee Kuan Yew March 23–29, 2015, Singapore 1,500,000+[56][57] ?

See also

Notes

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  56. ↑ http://news.yahoo.com/singapore-bids-farewell-lee-kuan-yew-elaborate-funeral-023859308.html
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