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]	2,000,000,000[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	United Arab Republic	Cairo	~3,000,000[8][22][23]
Puneeth Rajkumar	October 29, 2021	India	Bengaluru	~3,500,000[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	France	Paris	~2,000,000−3,000,000[30]
Bal Thackeray	November 18–19, 2012	India	Shivaji Park, Mumbai	~1,500,000−2,500,000[31][32]
Benigno Aquino Jr.	August 31, 1983	Philippines	Metro Manila	~2,000,000[33]
Berkin Elvan	March 12, 2014	Turkey	Istanbul, and all around Turkey (as a part of the Gezi park protests)	~2,000,000[34]
Houari Boumédiène	December 29, 1978	Algeria	Algiers	~2,000,000[35]
J. Jayalalithaa	December 6, 2016	India	Chennai	~2,000,000[36]
Kim Il-sung	July 19, 1994	North Korea	Pyongyang	~2,000,000[37]
Mahatma Gandhi	February 6, 1948	India	New Delhi	~2,000,000[38][39]
Park Chung-hee	November 3, 1979	South Korea	Seoul	~2,000,000[40]
Ziaur Rahman	June 2, 1981	Bangladesh	Dhaka	~2,000,000[41][42]
Vijayakanth	December 29, 2023	India	Chennai	~1,600,000
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington	November 18, 1852	United Kingdom	London	~1,500,000[43]
Jawaharlal Nehru	May 28, 1964	India	New Delhi	~1,500,000[44]
Hassan Nasrallah	February 23, 2025	Lebanon	Camille Chamoun, Beirut	~1,300,000−1,700,000[45][46][47][48]
Juan Perón	July 2–4, 1974	Argentina	Buenos Aires	~1,135,000[49]
Hugo Chávez	March 6–8, 2013	Venezuela	Caracas	~1,000.000−3,000,000[50]
Akhtar Raza Khan	July 20, 2018	India	Bareilly	~1,000,000[51][52][53]	12,500,000
Charles de Gaulle	November 12, 1970	France	Colombey	~1,000,000[54]
Enrico Berlinguer	June 13, 1984	Italy	Rome	~1,000,000[55]
GP Koirala	March 20, 2010	Nepal	Kathmandu	~1,000,000[56]
Ibrahim Rugova	January 27, 2006	Kosovo	Prishtina	~1,000,000[57]
Johnny Hallyday	December 9, 2017	France	Paris	~1,000,000[58]	15,000,000[59]
M. Karunanidhi	August 8, 2018	India	Chennai	~1,000,000[60]
Mother Teresa	September 13, 1997	India	Calcutta	~1,000,000[61]	at least 1,000,000[13]
Muhammad Abdul Wahhab	November 18, 2018	Pakistan	Raiwind Markaz, Lahore	~1,000,000[62][63]
Muhammad Zia Ul Haq	August 19, 1988	Pakistan	Islamabad	~1,000,000[64]
Pope Shenouda III	March 20, 2012	Egypt	Cairo	~1,000,000[65]
Diana, Princess of Wales	September 6, 1997	United Kingdom	London and Althorp, Northamptonshire	~1,000,000 (2,000 at funeral service)[66][67]	2,500,000,000[67]
Queen Elizabeth II	September 19, 2022	United Kingdom	London	~1,000,000 (2,000 at funeral service)[68][69]	29,000,000 in the UK[70]
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother	April 9, 2002	United Kingdom	London	~1,000,000[71]
Mao Zedong	September 9–18, 1976	China	Beijing	~1,000,000[72]
Nelson Mandela (memorial service)	December 10–15, 2013	South Africa	Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Qunu	~1,000,000 1,000 for Memorial Service[73][74]
Sridevi	February 26, 2018	India	Mumbai	~1,000,000[75]
Võ Nguyên Giáp	October 12–13, 2013	Vietnam	Hanoi	~1,000,000[76]
Ovadia Yosef	October 7, 2013	Israel	Jerusalem	~850,000[77][78]
King Hussein of Jordan	February 8, 1999	Jordan	Amman	~800,000[79]
Pierre Gemayel	November 23, 2006	Lebanon	Beirut	~800,000[80]
Mir Osman Ali Khan	February 25, 1967	India	Hyderabad	~800,000[81][82]
Chaim Kanievsky	March 20, 2022	Israel	Bnei Brak	~750,000[83][84]
Josip Broz Tito	May 8, 1980	Yugoslavia	Belgrade	~700,000[85]
Pedro Aguirre Cerda	November 28, 1941	Chile	Santiago	~700,000[86]
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk	November 11, 1938	Turkey	Ankara	~600,000−750,000[87][88]
Bhupen Hazarika	November 9, 2011	India	Guwahati	~600,000[89]
Carter Harrison III	October 31–November 1, 1893	United States	Chicago	~500,000[90]–1,060,000[91] (funeral procession) ~100,000 (public visitation of open casket)[90]	—
John F. Kennedy	November 25, 1963	United States	Washington, D.C.	~550,000[18]	41,500,000[13]
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk Death and state funeral of Tomáš Masaryk	September 21, 1937	Czechoslovakia	Prague	~500,000−750,000[92]
Juan Gabriel	September 4–5, 2016	Mexico	Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua and Mexico City	~500,000−1,000,000[93]
August Spies, George Engel, Adolph Fischer, and Albert Parsons (executed Haymarket Affair defendants)	November 13, 1887	United States	Chicago	~500,000[94]	—
Baruch Charney Vladeck	November 2, 1938	United States	New York City	~500,000[95]-750,000[96]
BP Koirala	July 21, 1982	Nepal	Kathmandu	~500,000[97]
B. R. Ambedkar	December 6, 1956	India	Mumbai	~500,000[98]
Carmen Miranda	August 12, 1955	Brazil	Rio de Janeiro	~500,000[99]
Engelbert Dollfuss	July 30, 1934	Austria	Vienna	~500,000[100]
Michael Collins	August 28, 1922	Ireland	Dublin	~500,000[101]	—
Patriarchh Pavle	November 19, 2009	Serbia	Rakovica Monastery, Belgrade	~2,000,000[102]
Sathya Sai Baba	April 24, 2011	India	Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh	~500,000[103]
Winston Churchill	January 30, 1965	United Kingdom	London	~500,000 (6,000 at funeral service)[104][105]	6,000[104]
Necmettin Erbakan	March 1, 2011	Turkey	Istanbul	~400,000−2,000,000[106][107]
Pope Francis	April 21–26, 2025	Vatican City	Rome	~400,000[108]
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani	January 9–11, 2017	Iran	Tehran	~330,000−2,500,000[109]
Francisco Franco	November 22–23, 1975	Spain	Madrid	~300,000−500,000[110][111]
Fernando Poe Jr.	December 22, 2004	Philippines	Metro Manila	~300,000[112]
Giuseppe Verdi	February 27, 1901	Italy	Milan	~300,000[113]	data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="table-na" | —
	January 30, 1901			~10,000[113]
Martin Luther King Jr.	April 9, 1968	United States	Atlanta	~300,000[114]	120,000,000[13]
Abdulbaki Erol	July 13, 2023	Turkey	Adıyaman	~250,000[115]
Hendrik Verwoerd	September 10, 1966	South Africa	Pretoria	~250,000[116]
Heydar Aliyev	December 15, 2003	Azerbaijan	Baku	~250,000[117]
Józef Piłsudski	May 18, 1935	Poland	Kraków	~250,000[118][119]
Sholem Aleichem	May 13, 1916	United States	New York City	~250,000[120]
Emperor Hirohito	February 24, 1989	Japan	Tokyo	~250,000[121]
Ho Chi Minh	September 9, 1969	North Vietnam	Hanoi	~250,000[122]
Nguyễn Phú Trọng	July 25–26, 2024	Vietnam	Hanoi	~250,000
Pelé	January 2–3, 2023	Brazil	Santos	~230,000[123][124]
Wali Rahmani	April 4, 2021	India	Munger	~200,000−500,000[125][126][127]
Pedro II of Brazil	December 9, 1891	France	Paris	~200,000−300,000[128][129]
Mohammed Burhanuddin	January 17, 2014	India	Raudat Tahera, Mumbai	~200,000[130]
Anton Cermak	March 8–10, 1933	United States	Chicago	hundreds of thousands: ~50,000 mourners for return of mayor's remains to city (March 8);[131] ~25,000 spectators at funeral service in Chicago Stadium (March 10);[132] ~50,000 marchers and "hundreds of thousands" of additional mourners at funeral procession (March 10)[133]
Burhan Wani	July 8, 2016	India	Pulwama	~200,000[134]
Hrant Dink	January 23, 2007	Turkey	Istanbul	~200,000[135]
Khadim Hussain Rizvi	November 21, 2020	Pakistan	Lahore	~200,000[136]
Kim Jong-il	December 28, 2011	North Korea	Pyongyang	~200,000[137]
Paul von Hindenburg	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	March 12–16, 1888	German Empire	Berlin	~200,000[140]
Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht	June 13, 1919	Weimar Republic	Berlin	~200,000[141]
Huey Long	September 12, 1935	United States	Baton Rouge	~200,000[142]
Jānis Čakste	March 18, 1927	Latvia	Rīga	~200,000[143]
Rafic Hariri	February 16, 2005	Lebanon	Beirut	~200,000[144]
Pope Benedict XVI	January 5, 2023	Vatican City	Rome	~200,000[145]
Roman Dmowski	January 7, 1939	Poland	Warsaw	~200,000[146]
Zoran Đinđić	March 15, 2003	FR Yugoslavia	Belgrade	~200,000[147][148]
Imre Nagy (reburial)	June 16, 1989	Hungary	Budapest	~150,000−250,000[149]
Abraham Lincoln	April 19 – May 3, 1865	United States	East and Midwest	~150,000[150]	—
Corazon Aquino	August 1–5, 2009	Philippines	Metro Manila	~122,000[151]
Ronald Reagan	June 7, 2004	United States	Simi Valley, California and Washington, D.C.	~104,684[152]	35,700,000[153]
Otto von Habsburg	July 16, 2011	Austria	Vienna	~101,000[154]	413,000–557,000[155]
Uğur Mumcu	January 27, 1993	Turkey	Istanbul	~100,000−150,000[156]
Aleksandar Ranković	August 22, 1983	Yugoslavia	Belgrade	~100,000[157][158][159]
Alparslan Türkeş	April 8, 1997	Turkey	Ankara	~100,000[160]
Kostis Palamas	February 12, 1943	Greece	Athens	~100,000[161]
Édith Piaf	October 11, 1963	France	Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris	~100,000[162][163]
Bob Marley	May 21, 1981	Jamaica	Kingston	~100,000[164]
Bobby Sands	May 7, 1981	Ireland	Belfast	~100,000[165]
Henry George	October 29, 1897	United States	New York City	~100,000[166]
Lee Kuan Yew	March 23–29, 2015	Singapore	Mandai	~100,000 (funeral cortege)[167][168]
Lorenzo Bandini	May 10, 1967	Italy	Reggiolo	~100,000[169]
Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu	June 24, 2022	Turkey	Istanbul	~100,000[170]
Muhammad Ali (memorial service)	June 10, 2016	United States	Louisville, Kentucky[171]	~100,000 (funeral procession) 15,000 (memorial service)[172]	1,000,000,000[173]
Robert Menzies	May 19, 1978	Australia	Melbourne	~100,000[174]
Turgut Özal	April 21, 1993[175]	Turkey	Ankara	~100,000[176]
Yahya Ayyash	January 6, 1996	Palestine	Gaza	~100,000[177]
Yisroel Avrohom Portugal	April 2, 2019	United States	Brooklyn, New York City	~100,000[178]
Zubayer Ahmad Ansari	April 18, 2020	Bangladesh	Brahmanbaria	~100,000[179]
Elvis Presley	August 16–18, 1977	United States	Memphis	~75,000[180]
Selena Quintanilla-Pérez	April 3, 1995	United States	Corpus Christi, Texas	~70,000
Richard Nixon	April 26–27, 1994	United States	Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, Yorba Linda, California	~54,000	28,300,000[181]
Gershon Agron	November 2, 1959	Israel	Jerusalem	~40,000[182][183]
Ludwig van Beethoven	March 29, 1827	Austrian Empire	Vienna	~20,000[184]
Rico Yan	April 4, 2002	Philippines	Paranaque	~20,000[185]
Michael Jackson (memorial service)	July 7, 2009	United States	Staples Center, Los Angeles	~17,500[186]	3,000,000,000[187][188]
Dursun Karataş	August 11, 2008	Turkey	Istanbul	~15,000−20,000[189]
John Garfield	May 23, 1952	United States	New York	~10,000[190][191]
Kahlil Gibran	August 21, 1931	Lebanon	Beirut & Bsharri	~10,000[192][193]
Sibel Yalçın	June 16, 1995	Turkey	Istanbul	~10,000
Rudolph Valentino	August 30, 1926	United States	New York City	~10,000[194]
Ömer Halisdemir	July 17, 2016	Turkey	Çukurkuyu, Niğde	~5,000[195][196]
Gerald Ford	December 30, 2006 – January 3, 2007	United States	Washington, D.C., and Grand Rapids, Michigan	~3,700[197]	15,000,000[181]
Bhumibol Adulyadej	October 26, 2017	Thailand	Bangkok	~1,000[198]	(state funeral) at least 1,000,000[198]
George H. W. Bush	December 3–6, 2018	United States	Washington, D.C. and Houston, Spring, & College Station, Texas	~1,000[199]	17,500,000[181]
Lata Mangeshkar	February 6, 2022	India	Mumbai	~1,000[200]
Margaret Thatcher	April 17, 2013	United Kingdom	London	~1,000[201]	at least 4,000,000[202]
Pierre Trudeau	October 3, 2000	Canada	Montreal	~1,000[203]