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List of largest funerals

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

Funeral Date Country City No. of attendees Television audience
C. N. Annadurai February 4, 1969  India Madras ~15,000,000[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
Ruhollah Khomeini June 5–6, 1989  Iran Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini, Tehran ~7,200,000[8]
Qasem Soleimani January 5, 2020  Iran Ahvaz and Mashhad ~7,000,000[9]
January 6, 2020 Tehran and Qom[10]
January 7, 2020 Kerman[10]
Pope John Paul II April 8, 2005  Vatican City Rome ~4,000,000[11][12] 2×10^9 [13]
Umm Kulthum February 5, 1975  Egypt Cairo ~4,000,000[14][15][16]
Indira Gandhi November 3, 1984  India Delhi ~3,500,000[17]
M.G. Ramachandran December 25, 1987  India Madras ~3,500,000[17]
Ayrton Senna May 5, 1994  Brazil São Paulo ~3,000,000[18] (in Brazil) at least 100,000,000 [19][20]
Eva Perón August 9, 1952  Argentina Buenos Aires ~3,000,000[21]
Gamal Abdel Nasser October 1, 1970  Egypt Cairo ~3,000,000 [8][22][23]
Puneeth Rajkumar October 29, 2021  India Bengaluru ~3,000,000[24][25][26][27][28] 50,000,000
Chiang Kai-shek April 10–16, 1975  Taiwan Taipei ~2,500,000[29]
Victor Hugo June 1, 1885  French Third Republic Paris ~2,000,000−3,000,000[30]
Benigno Aquino Jr. August 31, 1983  Philippines Metro Manila ~2,000,000[31]
Berkin Elvan March 12, 2014  Turkey Istanbul, and all around Turkey (as a part of the Gezi park protests) ~2,000,000[32]
Houari Boumédiène December 29, 1978  Algeria Algiers ~2,000,000[33]
J. Jayalalithaa December 6, 2016  India Chennai ~2,000,000[34]
Kim Il-sung July 19, 1994  North Korea Pyongyang ~2,000,000[35]
Mahatma Gandhi February 6, 1948  India New Delhi ~2,000,000[36][37]
Park Chung-hee November 3, 1979  South Korea Seoul ~2,000,000[38]
Ziaur Rahman June 2, 1981  Bangladesh Dhaka ~2,000,000[39][40]
Vijayakanth December 29, 2023  India Chennai ~1,600,000
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
(Death and state funeral of the Duke of Wellington)		 November 18, 1852  United Kingdom London ~1,500,000[41]
Jawaharlal Nehru
Death and state funeral of Jawaharlal Nehru		 May 28, 1964  India New Delhi ~1,500,000[42]
Rafic Hariri Funeral
Rafic Hariri Memorial 		February 16, 2005  Lebanon Beirut ~200,000[43]
March 14, 2005 ~1,200,000−1,500,000[44][45][46][47][48][49]
Juan Perón July 2–4, 1974  Argentina Buenos Aires ~1,135,000[50]
Hugo Chávez March 6–8, 2013  Venezuela Caracas ~1,000.000−3,000,000[51]
Bal Thackeray November 18–19, 2012  India Shivaji Park, Mumbai ~1,000,000−2,000,000 [52][53]
Akhtar Raza Khan July 20, 2018  India Bareilly ~1,000,000[54][55][56] 12,500,000
Charles de Gaulle November 12, 1970  France Colombey ~1,000,000[57]
Enrico Berlinguer June 13, 1984  Italy Rome ~1,000,000[58]
GP Koirala March 20, 2010    Nepal Kathmandu ~1,000,000[59]
Ibrahim Rugova January 27, 2006  Kosovo Pristhina ~1,000,000[60]
Johnny Hallyday December 9, 2017  France Paris ~1,000,000[61] 15,000,000[62]
M. Karunanidhi August 8, 2018  India Chennai ~1,000,000[63]
Mother Teresa September 13, 1997  India Calcutta ~1,000,000[64] at least 1,000,000[13]
Muhammad Abdul Wahhab November 18, 2018  Pakistan Raiwind Markaz, Lahore ~1,000,000[65][66]
Muhammad Zia Ul Haq August 19, 1988  Pakistan Islamabad ~1,000,000[67]
Pope Shenouda III March 20, 2012  Egypt Cairo ~1,000,000[68]
Princess Diana September 6, 1997  United Kingdom London and Althorp, Northamptonshire ~1,000,000
(2,000 at funeral service) [69][70]		 2.5×10^9 [70]
Queen Elizabeth II September 19, 2022  United Kingdom London ~1,000,000
(2,000 at funeral service)[71][72] 		At least 4,100,000,000 worldwide

29,000,000 in the UK[73]

Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother April 9, 2002  United Kingdom London ~1,000,000[74]
Death and state funeral of Mao Zedong September 9–18, 1976  China Beijing ~1,000,000[75]
Nelson Mandela (Memorial Service) December 10–15, 2013  South Africa Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Qunu ~1,000,000
1,000 for Memorial Service[76][77][77]
Sridevi February 26, 2018  India Mumbai ~1,000,000[78]
Võ Nguyên Giáp October 12–13, 2013  Vietnam Hanoi ~1,000,000[79]
Ovadia Yosef October 7, 2013  Israel Jerusalem ~850,000[80][81]
King Hussein of Jordan February 8, 1999  Jordan Amman ~800,000[82]
Pierre Gemayel November 23 , 2006  Lebanon Beirut ~800,000[83]
Mir Osman Ali Khan February 25, 1967  India Hyderabad ~800,000[84][85]
Chaim Kanievsky March 20, 2022  Israel Bnei Brak ~750,000[86][87]
Josip Broz TitoFuneral May 8, 1980  Yugoslavia Belgrade ~700,000[88]
Pedro Aguirre Cerda November 28, 1941  Chile Santiago ~700,000[89]
Mustafa Kemal AtatürkFuneral November 11, 1938  Turkey Ankara ~600,000−750,000[90][91]
Bhupen Hazarika November 9, 2011  India Guwahati ~600,000[92]
John F. Kennedy Funeral November 25, 1963  United States Washington, D.C. ~550,000[18] 41,500,000[13]
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk Funeral September 21, 1937  Czechoslovakia Prague ~500,000−750,000[93]
Juan Gabriel September 4–5, 2016  Mexico Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua and Mexico City ~500,000−1,000,000[94]
August Spies, George Engel, Adolph Fischer, and Albert Parsons November 13, 1887  United States Chicago ~500,000[95]
Baruch Charney Vladeck November 2, 1938  United States New York City ~500,000[96]-750,000[97]
BP Koirala Funeral July 21, 1982    Nepal Kathmandu ~500,000[98]
B. R. Ambedkar Funeral December 6, 1956  India Mumbai ~500,000[99]
Carmen Miranda Funeral August 12, 1955  Brazil Rio de Janeiro ~500,000[100]
Engelbert Dollfuss Funeral July 30, 1934  Federal State of Austria Vienna ~500,000 [101]
Michael Collins Funeral August 28, 1922  Ireland Dublin ~500,000[102]
Patriarchh Pavle Funeral November 19, 2009  Serbia Rakovica Monastery, Belgrade ~500,000[103]
Sathya Sai Baba Funeral April 24, 2011  India Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh ~500,000[104]
Winston Churchill Funeral of January 30, 1965  United Kingdom London ~500,000
(6,000 at funeral service) [105][106]		 6,000[105]
Necmettin Erbakan Funeral March 1, 2011  Turkey Istanbul ~400,000−2,000,000[107][108]
Hassan Nasrallah State Funeral and burial February 23, 2025  Lebanon Camille Chamoun, Beirut ~1,300,000−1,700,000[109][110][111][112]
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Funeral January 9–11, 2017  Iran Tehran ~330,000−2,500,000[113]
Francisco Franco Funeral November 22–23, 1975  Spain Madrid ~300,000−500,000[114][115]
Fernando Poe Jr. Funeral December 22, 2004  Philippines Metro Manila ~300,000[116]
Giuseppe Verdi Funeral
Giuseppe Verdi Private Funeral 		February 27, 1901  Italy Milan ~300,000[117]
January 30, 1901 ~10,000[117]
Martin Luther King Jr. Funeral April 9, 1968  United States Atlanta ~300,000[118] 120,000,000[13]
Abdulbaki Erol Funeral July 13, 2023  Turkey Adıyaman ~250,000[119]
Hendrik Verwoerd Funeral September 10, 1966  South Africa Pretoria ~250,000[120]
Heydar Aliyev Funeral December 15, 2003  Azerbaijan Baku ~250,000[121]
Józef Piłsudski Funeral May 18, 1935  Poland Kraków ~250,000[122][123]
Sholem Aleichem Funeral May 13, 1916  United States New York City ~250,000[124]
Emperor Hirohito Funeral February 24, 1989  Japan Tokyo ~250,000[125]
Ho Chi Minh Funeral September 9, 1969  North Vietnam Hanoi ~250,000[126]
Nguyễn Phú Trọng Funeral July 25-26, 2024  Vietnam Hanoi ~250,000
Pelé Funeral January 2–3, 2023  Brazil Santos ~230,000[127][128]
Wali Rahmani Funeral April 4, 2021  India Munger ~200,000−500,000[129][130][131]
Pedro II of Brazil Funeral December 9, 1891  French Third Republic Paris ~200,000−300,000[132][133]
Burhan Wani Funeral July 8, 2016  India Pulwama ~200,000[134]
Hrant Dink Funeral January 23, 2007  Turkey Istanbul ~200,000[135]
Khadim Hussain Rizvi Funeral November 21, 2020  Pakistan Lahore ~200,000[136]
Kim Jong-il Funeral December 28, 2011  North Korea Pyongyang ~200,000[137]
Paul von Hindenburg Funeral August 6–7, 1934  Nazi Germany Tannenberg Memorial, Hohenstein in Ostpreußen ~200,000[138] (via radio, not television) at least 1,000,000 [139]
Wilhelm I Funeral March 12–16, 1888  German Empire Berlin ~200,000[140]
Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht Funeral June 13, 1919  Weimar Republic Berlin ~200,000[141]
Huey Long Funeral September 12, 1935  United States Baton Rouge ~200,000[142]
Jānis Čakste Funeral March 18, 1927  Latvia Rīga ~200,000[143]
Pope Benedict XVI Funeral January 5, 2023  Vatican City Rome ~200,000[144]
Roman Dmowski Funeral January 7, 1939  Poland Warsaw ~200,000[145]
Zoran Đinđić Funeral March 15, 2003  FR Yugoslavia Belgrade ~200,000[146][147]
Imre Nagy Reburial June 16, 1989  Hungary Budapest ~150,000−250,000[148]
Abraham Lincoln Funeral April 19 – May 3, 1865  United States East and Midwest ~150,000[149]
Corazon Aquino Funeral August 1–5, 2009  Philippines Metro Manila ~122,000[150]
Ronald Reagan Funeral June 7, 2004  United States Simi Valley, California and Washington, D.C. ~104,684[151] 35,700,000[152]
Funeral of Otto von Habsburg July 16, 2011  Austria Vienna ~101,000[153] 413,000–557,000[154]
Uğur Mumcu Funeral January 27, 1993  Turkey Istanbul ~100,000−150,000[155]
Aleksandar Ranković Funeral August 22, 1983  Yugoslavia Belgrade ~100,000[156][157][158]
Alparslan Türkeş Funeral April 8, 1997  Turkey Ankara ~100,000[159]
Édith Piaf Funeral October 11, 1963  France Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris ~100,000[160][161]
Bob Marley May 21, 1981  Jamaica Kingston ~100,000[162]
Bobby Sands Funeral May 7, 1981  United Kingdom Belfast ~100,000[163]
Henry George Funeral October 29, 1897  United States New York City ~100,000[164]
Lee Kuan Yew Funeral March 23–29, 2015  Singapore Mandai ~100,000 (funeral cortege)[165][166]
Lorenzo Bandini Funeral May 10, 1967  Italy Reggiolo ~100,000[167]
Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu Funeral June 24, 2022  Turkey Istanbul ~100,000[168]
Muhammad Ali Memorial Service June 10, 2016  United States Louisville, Kentucky[169] ~100,000 (funeral procession)
15,000 (memorial service)[170]		 1,000,000,000[171]
Robert Menzies Funeral May 19, 1978  Australia Melbourne ~100,000[172]
Turgut Özal Funeral April 21, 1993[173]  Turkey Ankara ~100,000[174]
Yahya Ayyash Funeral January 6, 1996  Palestine Gaza ~100,000[175]
Yisroel Avrohom Portugal Funeral April 2, 2019  United States Brooklyn, New York City ~100,000[176]
Zubayer Ahmad Ansari Funeral April 18, 2020  Bangladesh Brahmanbaria ~100,000[177]
Elvis Presley Funeral August 16–18, 1977  United States Memphis ~75,000[178]
Selena Quintanilla-Pérez Funeral April 3, 1995  United States Corpus Christi, Texas ~70,000
Richard Nixon Funeral April 26–27, 1994  United States Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, Yorba Linda, California ~54,000 28,300,000 [179]
Gershon Agron Funeral November 2, 1959  Israel Jerusalem ~40,000[180][181]
Ludwig van BeethovenFuneral March 29, 1827  Austrian Empire Vienna ~20,000[182]
Rico Yan Funeral April 4, 2002  Philippines Paranaque ~20,000[183]
Michael Jackson Memorial Service July 7, 2009  United States Staples Center, Los Angeles ~17,500[184] 3×10^9 [185][186]
Dursun Karataş Funeral August 11, 2008  Turkey Istanbul ~15,000−20,000[187]
John Garfield Funeral May 23, 1952  United States New York ~10,000[188][189]
Kahlil Gibran Funeral August 21, 1931  Lebanon Beirut & Bsharri ~10,000[190][191]
Sibel Yalçın Funeral June 16, 1995  Turkey Istanbul ~10,000
Rudolph Valentino Funeral August 30, 1926  United States New York City ~10,000[192]
Ömer Halisdemir Funeral July 17, 2016  Turkey Çukurkuyu, Niğde ~5,000[193][194]
State funeral of Gerald Ford December 30, 2006 – January 3, 2007  United States Washington, D.C., and Grand Rapids, Michigan ~3,700[195] 15,000,000 [179]
Bhumibol Adulyadej Funeral October 26, 2017  Thailand Bangkok ~1,000[196] (state funeral) at least 1,000,000[196]
George H. W. Bush Funeral December 3–6, 2018  United States Washington, D.C. and Houston, Spring, & College Station, Texas ~1,000[197] 17,500,000 [179]
Lata Mangeshkar Funeral February 6, 2022  India Mumbai ~1,000[198]
Funeral of Margaret Thatcher April 17, 2013  United Kingdom London ~1,000[199] at least 4,000,000 [200]
Pierre Trudeau Funeral October 3, 2000  Canada Montreal ~1,000[201]

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