List of largest funerals

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This list of largest funerals by attendance represents considerable historical funerals, based on both the number of in-person attendants and estimated broadcast audience. This list includes funerals noted for their size; the total attendance of some may be lower than that of other funerals not included.

Key

By primary occupation

  Deceased was a head of state or government (including former)
  Deceased was royalty, a politician, or a military leader (including former)
  Deceased was a religious leader (including former)
  Deceased was in the arts or sports
  Deceased was a protester, dissenter, revolutionary or other opposition to power[a]

TV Broadcast audience figure is for television.
R Broadcast audience figure is for radio.
SF Broadcast audience figure is for the state funeral only.
Nat Broadcast audience figure is for the nation the funeral took place in only.

Attendance of 1 billion+

Note: Short scale billion

Funeral Total estimated attendance[b] Date Country Location(s) Number of in-person attendees Broadcast audience Ref(s)
Michael Jackson memorial service 3,000,017,500 July 7, 2009  United States Staples Center, Los Angeles 17,500 3×10^9 TV [1][2][3]
Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales 2,501,000,000 September 6, 1997  United Kingdom London and Althorp, Northamptonshire (2,000 at funeral service) at least 1,000,000 2.5×10^9 TV [4][5]
Funeral of Pope John Paul II 2,004,000,000 April 8, 2005  Vatican City Rome 4,000,000 2×10^9 TV [6][7][8]
Muhammad Ali memorial service 1,000,100,000 June 10, 2016  United States Louisville, Kentucky[9] ~100,000 (funeral procession)
15,000 (memorial service) 		1,000,000,000TV [10][11]

Attendance of 10 million+

Funeral Total estimated attendance[b] Date Country Location(s) Number of in-person attendees Broadcast audience Ref(s)
State funeral of Winston Churchill 350,500,000 January 30, 1965  United Kingdom London (6,000 at funeral service) 500,000 350,000,000TV [12][13]
Funeral of Martin Luther King Jr. 120,300,000 April 9, 1968  United States Atlanta 300,000 120,000,000TV [14][8]
Funeral of Ayrton Senna 103,000,000 May 5, 1994  Brazil São Paulo at least 3,000,000 at least 100,000,000TV Nat [15][16][17]
Funeral of Puneeth Rajkumar 53,000,000 October 29, 2021  India Bengaluru 3,000,000 50,000,000TV [18][19][20][21][22]
Funeral of Vijayakanth 42,500,000 December 28, 2023  India Chennai 2,500,000 At least 40,000,000TV [citation needed]
State funeral of John F. Kennedy 42,050,000 November 25, 1963  United States Washington, D.C. 550,000 41,500,000TV [15][8]
State funeral of Ronald Reagan 35,804,684 June 7, 2004  United States Simi Valley, California and Washington, D.C. 104,684 35,700,000TV [23][24]
State funeral of Elizabeth II 30,000,000 September 19, 2022  United Kingdom London (2,000 at funeral service) at least 1,000,000 29,000,000TV SF Nat [25][26][27]
Funeral of Richard Nixon 28,354,000 April 26–27, 1994  United States Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, Yorba Linda, California at least 54,000 28,300,000TV [28][29]
State funeral of George H. W. Bush 17,501,000 December 3–6, 2018  United States Washington, D.C. and Houston, Spring, & College Station, Texas 1,000 17,500,000 TV [30][29]
Funeral of Johnny Hallyday 16,000,000 December 9, 2017  France Paris 1,000,000 15,000,000 TV [31][32]
State funeral of Gerald Ford 15,003,700 December 30, 2006 – January 3, 2007  United States Washington, D.C., and Grand Rapids, Michigan 3,700 15,000,000 TV [33][29]
State Funeral of Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu C. N. Annadurai 15,000,000 February 3, 1969  India Madras 15,000,000 [34][35][36][37][38][39][40]
Funeral of Akhtar Raza Khan 12,500,000 July 20, 2018  India Bareilly at least 12,500,000 [41][42][43]
State funeral of Ruhollah Khomeini 10,200,000 June 5–6, 1989  Iran Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini, Tehran ~10,200,000 [44]

Attendance of 1 million+

Funeral Total estimated attendance[b] Date Country Location(s) Number of in-person attendees Broadcast audience Ref(s)
Iran Funeral of Qasem Soleimani 7,000,000 January 5–7, 2020  Iran Ahvaz and Mashhad, Tehran and Qom,[45] and Kerman[45] at least 7,000,000 [46]
State funeral of Gamal Abdel Nasser 5,000,000 October 1, 1970  Egypt Cairo at least 5,000,000 [44][47][48]
Funeral of Margaret Thatcher 4,001,000 April 17, 2013  United Kingdom London at least 1,000 at least 4,000,000TV [49][50]
Funeral of M. Karunanidhi 3,000,000 August 7, 2018  India Chennai at least 3,000,000 [51]
State funeral of Eva Perón 3,000,000 August 9, 1952  Argentina Buenos Aires 3,000,000 [52]
State funeral of Chiang Kai-shek 2,500,000 April 10–16, 1975  Taiwan Taipei at least 2,500,000 [53]
State funeral of Victor Hugo 2,000,000 June 1, 1885  French Third Republic Paris 2,000,000–3,000,000 [54]
Funeral of Mahatma Gandhi 2,000,000 February 6, 1948  India New Delhi at least 2,000,000 [55][56]
Funeral of Benigno Aquino Jr. 2,000,000 August 31, 1983  Philippines Metro Manila at least 2,000,000 [57]
State funeral of Park Chung-hee 2,000,000 November 3, 1979  South Korea Seoul ~2,000,000 [58]
State funeral of Ziaur Rahman 2,000,000 June 2, 1981  Bangladesh Dhaka ~2,000,000 [59][60]
State funeral of Kim Il-sung 2,000,000 July 19, 1994  North Korea Pyongyang 2,000,000 [61]
State funeral of Mother Teresa 2,000,000 September 13, 1997  India Calcutta 1,000,000 1,000,000TV [62][8]
Funeral of Berkin Elvan 2,000,000 March 12, 2014  Turkey Istanbul, and all around Turkey (as a part of the Gezi park protests) 2,000,000 [63]
Funeral of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1,500,000 November 18, 1852  United Kingdom London 1,500,000 [64]
State funeral of Jawaharlal Nehru 1,500,000 May 28, 1964  India New Delhi 1,500,000 [65]
State funeral of Juan Perón 1,135,000 July 2–4, 1974  Argentina Buenos Aires at least 1,135,000 [66]
Funeral of Paul von Hindenburg 1,200,000 August 6–7, 1934  Germany Tannenberg Memorial, Hohenstein in Ostpreußen 200,000 at least 1,000,000 R [67][68]
Commemoration of Nelson Mandela 1,001,000 December 10–15, 2013  South Africa Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Qunu at least 1,000 at least 1,000,000TV SF [69][70]
Funeral of Bhumibol Adulyadej 1,001,000 October 26, 2017  Thailand Bangkok at least 1,000 at least 1,000,000TV SF [71]
State funeral of Hugo Chávez 1,000,000 March 6–8, 2013  Venezuela Caracas 1,000,000–3,000,000 [72]
State funeral of Bal Thackeray 1,000,000 November 18–19, 2012  India Shivaji Park, Mumbai 1,000,000–2,000,000 [73][74]
Funeral of Umm Kulthum 1,000,000 February 3, 1975  Egypt Cairo at least 1,000,000 [75][76]
State funeral of Mao Zedong 1,000,000 September 9–18, 1976  China Beijing at least 1,000,000 [77]
Funeral of Enrico Berlinguer 1,000,000 June 13, 1984  Italy Rome at least 1,000,010 [78]
State Funeral of Indira Gandhi 1,000,000 November 3, 1984  India Delhi at least 1,000,000 [79]
Funeral of M.G. Ramachandran 1,000,000 December 24, 1987  India Madras at least 1,000,000 [79]
Funeral of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother 1,000,000 April 9, 2002  United Kingdom London at least 1,000,000 [80]
Funeral of Pope Shenouda III 1,000,000 March 20, 2012  Egypt Cairo at least 1,000,000 [81]
State funeral of Võ Nguyên Giáp 1,000,000 October 12–13, 2013  Vietnam Hanoi at least 1,000,000 [82]
State funeral of J. Jayalalithaa 1,000,000 December 5, 2016  India Chennai at least 1,000,000 [83]
Funeral of Muhammad Abdul Wahhab 1,000,000 November 18, 2018  Pakistan Raiwind Markaz, Lahore at least 1,000,000 [84][85]
State Funeral of Muhammad Zia Ul Haq 1,000,000 August 19, 1988  Pakistan Islamabad ~1,000,000 [86]
State Funeral of Ibrahim Rugova 1,000,000 January 27, 2006  Kosovo Pristhina 1,000,000 [87]
Funeral of Sridevi 1,000,000 February 26, 2018  India Mumbai ~1,000,000 [88]

Attendance of 100,000+

Funeral Total estimated attendance[b] Date Country Location(s) Number of in-person attendees Broadcast audience Ref(s)
Funeral of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef 850,000 October 7, 2013  Israel Jerusalem 850,000 [89][90]
Funeral of Mir Osman Ali Khan 800,000 February 25, 1967  India Hyderabad 800,000 [91][92]
State funeral of King Hussein of Jordan 800,000 February 8, 1999  Jordan Amman ~800,000 [93]
Funeral of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky 750,000 March 20, 2022  Israel Bnei Brak 750,000 [94][95]
State funeral of Pedro Aguirre Cerda 700,000 November 28, 1941  Chile Santiago 700,000 [96]
State funeral of Josip Broz Tito 700,000 May 8, 1980  Yugoslavia Belgrade ~700,000 [97]
Funeral of Otto von Habsburg 658,000 July 16, 2011  Austria Vienna ~101,000 557,000 TV [98][99]
Funeral of Bhupen Hazarika 600,000 November 9, 2011  India Guwahati at least 600,000 [100]
Funeral of Juan Gabriel 500,000 September 4–5, 2016  Mexico Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua and Mexico City 500,000–1,000,000 [101]
State funeral of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk 500,000 September 21, 1937  Czechoslovakia Prague 500–750,000 [102]
Funeral of B. R. Ambedkar 500,000 December 6, 1956  India Mumbai at least 500,000 [103]
State funeral of Pavle, Serbian Patriarch 500,000 November 19, 2009  Serbia Rakovica Monastery, Belgrade at least 500,000 [104]
Funeral of August Spies, George Engel, Adolph Fischer, and Albert Parsons 500,000 November 13, 1887  United States Chicago ~500,000 [105]
Funeral of Michael Collins 500,000 August 28, 1922  Ireland Dublin 500,000 [106]
Funeral of Engelbert Dollfuss 500,000 July 30, 1934  Federal State of Austria Vienna Approx.500,000 [107]
Funeral of Carmen Miranda 500,000 August 12, 1955  Brazil Rio de Janeiro 500,000 [108]
State funeral of Sri Sathya Sai Baba 500,000 April 24, 2011  India Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh 500,000 [109]
Funeral of Necmettin Erbakan 400,000 March 1, 2011  Turkey Istanbul 400,000–2,000,000 [110][111]
State funeral of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani 330,000 January 9–11, 2017  Iran Tehran 330,000–2,500,000 [112]
State funeral of Francisco Franco 300,000 November 22–23, 1975  Spain Madrid 300,000–500,000 [113][114]
State funeral of Giuseppe Verdi 300,000 February 27, 1901  Italy Milan 300,000 [115]
Funeral of Fernando Poe Jr. 300,000 December 22, 2004  Philippines Metro Manila ~300,000 [116]
Funeral of Sholem Aleichem 250,000 May 13, 1916  United States New York City at least 250,000 [117]
State funeral of Hirohito 250,000 February 24, 1989  Japan Tokyo at least 250,000 [118]
State funeral of Hendrik Verwoerd 250,000 September 10, 1966  South Africa Pretoria 250,000 [119]
State funeral of Ho Chi Minh 250,000 September 9, 1969  North Vietnam Hanoi 250,000 [120]
State funeral of Heydar Aliyev 250,000 December 15, 2003  Azerbaijan Baku 250,000 [121]
Funeral of Abdulbaki Erol 250,000 July 13, 2023  Turkey Adıyaman 250,000 [122]
State funeral of Józef Piłsudski 250,000 May 18, 1935  Poland Kraków up to 250,000 [123][124]
State funeral of Pelé 230,000 January 2–3, 2023  Brazil Santos over 230,000 [125][126]
Funeral of Wali Rahmani 200,000 April 4, 2021  India Munger 200,000-500,000 [127][128][129]
State funeral of Pedro II of Brazil 200,000 December 9, 1891  French Third Republic Paris 200,000–300,000 [130][131]
Funeral of Yitzhak Kaduri 200,000 January 28, 2006  Israel Jerusalem 200,000–250,000 [132][133]
Funeral of Hrant Dink 200,000 January 23, 2007  Turkey Istanbul at least 200,000 [134]
Funeral of Wilhelm I 200,000 March 12–16, 1888  German Empire Berlin 200,000 [135]
Funerals of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht 200,000 June 13, 1919  Weimar Republic Berlin 200,000 [136]
Funeral of Huey Long 200,000 September 12, 1935  United States Baton Rouge ~200,000 [137]
Funeral of Roman Dmowski 200,000 January 7, 1939  Poland Warsaw 200,000 [138]
State funeral of Zoran Đinđić 200,000 March 15, 2003  FR Yugoslavia Belgrade 200,000 [139][140]
State funeral of Kim Jong-il 200,000 December 28, 2011  North Korea Pyongyang 200,000 [141]
Funeral of Khadim Hussain Rizvi 200,000 November 21, 2020  Pakistan Lahore 200,000 [142]
Funeral of Pope Benedict XVI 200,000 January 5, 2023  Vatican City Rome 200,000 [143]
Funeral of Rabbi Gershon Edelstein 200,000 May 30, 2023  Israel Bnei Brak 200,000 [144][145]
State funeral of Jānis Čakste 200,000 March 18, 1927  Latvia Rīga up to 200,000 [146]
Funeral of Burhan Wani 200,000 July 8, 2016  India Pulwama nearly 200,000 [147]
Babe Ruth's funeral 180,000 August 17 – August 19, 1948  United States New York City 180,000 [148]
Re-burial of Imre Nagy 150,000 June 16, 1989  Hungary Budapest 150–250,000 [149]
Funeral and burial of Abraham Lincoln 150,000 April 19 – May 3, 1865  United States East and Midwest 150,000 [150]
Funeral of Corazon Aquino 122,000 August 1–5, 2009  Philippines Metro Manila ~122,000 [151]
Funeral of Uğur Mumcu 100,000 January 27, 1993  Turkey Istanbul 100–150,000 [152]
Funeral of Rudolph Valentino 100,000 August 30, 1926  United States New York City at least 100,000 [153]
Funeral of Bobby Sands 100,000 May 7, 1981  United Kingdom Belfast at least 100,000 [154]
State Funeral of Turgut Özal 100,000 April 21, 1993[155]  Turkey Ankara at least 100,000 [156]
Funeral of Yahya Ayyash 100,000 January 6, 1996  Palestine Gaza at least 100,000 [157]
Funeral of Alparslan Türkeş 100,000 April 8, 1997  Turkey Ankara at least 100,000 [158]
Funeral of the Skulener Rebbe 100,000 April 2, 2019  United States Brooklyn, New York City at least 100,000 [159]
Funeral of Zubayer Ahmad Ansari 100,000 April 18, 2020  Bangladesh Brahmanbaria at least 100,000 [160]
Funeral of Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu 100,000 June 24, 2022  Turkey Istanbul at least 100,000 [161]
Funeral of Henry George 100,000 October 29, 1897  United States New York City 100,000 [162]
Funeral of Lorenzo Bandini 100,000 May 10, 1967  Italy Reggiolo 100,000 [163]
State funeral of Sir Robert Menzies 100,000 May 19, 1978  Australia Melbourne ~100,000 [164]
State funeral of Bob Marley 100,000 May 21, 1981  Jamaica Kingston ~100,000 [165]
Funeral of Aleksandar Ranković 100,000 August 22, 1983  Yugoslavia Belgrade ~100,000 [166][167][168]
State funeral of Lee Kuan Yew 100,000 March 23–29, 2015  Singapore Mandai 100,000 (funeral cortege) [169][170]
Funeral of Emmett Till at least 100,000 September 4-6, 1955  United States Chicago at least 100,000 [171][172][173]

Attendance of <100,000

Funeral Total estimated attendance[b] Date Country Location(s) Number of in-person attendees Broadcast audience Ref(s)
Funeral of Elvis Presley 75,000 August 16–18, 1977  United States Memphis 75,000 [174]
Funeral of Selena Quintanilla-Pérez 70,000 April 3, 1995  United States Corpus Christi, Texas at least 70,000 [citation needed]
State funeral of Gershon Agron 40,000 1959  Israel Jerusalem at least 40,000 [175][144]
Funeral of Ludwig van Beethoven 20,000 March 29, 1827  Austrian Empire Vienna ~20,000 [176]
Funeral of Dursun Karataş 15,000 August 11, 2008  Turkey Istanbul 15,000–20,000 [177]
Funeral of Sibel Yalçın [tr] 10,000 June 16, 1995  Turkey Istanbul at least 10,000 [citation needed]
Private funeral of Giuseppe Verdi 10,000 January 30, 1901  Italy Milan 10,000 [115]
Funeral of John Garfield 10,000 May 23, 1952  United States New York 10,000 [178][179]
Funeral of Ömer Halisdemir 5,000 July 17, 2016  Turkey Çukurkuyu, Niğde 5,000 [180][181]
State funeral of Pierre Trudeau 1,000 October 3, 2000  Canada Montreal at least 1,000 [182]
Iraq Funeral of Qasem Soleimani 1,000 January 4, 2020  Iraq Baghdad and Kadhimiya at least 1,000 [183]
State Funeral of Lata Mangeshkar 1,000 February 6, 2022  India Mumbai at least 1,000 [184]
State funeral of Houari Boumédiène "thousands" December 29, 1978  Algeria Algiers "thousands" (funeral)[c] [185]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Which may or may not have led to their death. Revolutionaries who seized power to become politicians should be recognised as such instead.
  2. ^ a b c d e Combined in-person and broadcast audience. Where sources provide range estimates or "at least" values, the lower end of the range is used. Where the only numerical value in sources is "up to", this number is still used.
  3. ^ Approximately 2 million people waited to see his lying-in-state, which is not included.

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