List of largest funerals

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. AnnaduraiFebruary 4, 1969 IndiaMadras~15,000,000
Ruhollah KhomeiniJune 5–6, 1989 IranMausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini, Tehran~7,200,000
Qasem Soleimani January 5, 2020  Iran Ahvaz and Mashhad ~7,000,000
January 6, 2020 Tehran and Qom
January 7, 2020 Kerman
Pope John Paul IIApril 8, 2005 Vatican CityRome~4,000,0002,000,000,000
Umm KulthumFebruary 5, 1975 EgyptCairo~4,000,000
Indira GandhiNovember 3, 1984 IndiaDelhi~3,500,000
M.G. RamachandranDecember 25, 1987 IndiaMadras~3,500,000
Ayrton SennaMay 5, 1994 BrazilSão Paulo~3,000,000(in Brazil) at least 100,000,000
Eva PerónAugust 9, 1952 ArgentinaBuenos Aires~3,000,000
Gamal Abdel NasserOctober 1, 1970 United Arab RepublicCairo~3,000,000
Puneeth Rajkumar October 29, 2021  India Bengaluru ~3,500,000 50,000,000
Chiang Kai-shekApril 10–16, 1975 TaiwanTaipei~2,500,000
Victor HugoJune 1, 1885 FranceParis~2,000,000−3,000,000
Bal ThackerayNovember 18–19, 2012 IndiaShivaji Park, Mumbai~1,500,000−2,500,000
Benigno Aquino Jr.August 31, 1983 PhilippinesMetro Manila~2,000,000
Berkin Elvan March 12, 2014  Turkey Istanbul, and all around Turkey (as a part of the Gezi park protests) ~2,000,000
Houari BoumédièneDecember 29, 1978 AlgeriaAlgiers~2,000,000
J. JayalalithaaDecember 6, 2016 IndiaChennai~2,000,000
Kim Il-sungJuly 19, 1994 North KoreaPyongyang~2,000,000
Mahatma GandhiFebruary 6, 1948 IndiaNew Delhi~2,000,000
Park Chung-heeNovember 3, 1979 South KoreaSeoul~2,000,000
Ziaur RahmanJune 2, 1981 BangladeshDhaka~2,000,000
Vijayakanth December 29, 2023  India Chennai ~1,600,000
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of WellingtonNovember 18, 1852 United KingdomLondon~1,500,000
Jawaharlal NehruMay 28, 1964 IndiaNew Delhi~1,500,000
Hassan NasrallahFebruary 23, 2025 LebanonCamille Chamoun, Beirut~1,300,000−1,700,000
Juan PerónJuly 2–4, 1974 ArgentinaBuenos Aires~1,135,000
Hugo ChávezMarch 6–8, 2013 VenezuelaCaracas~1,000.000−3,000,000
Akhtar Raza KhanJuly 20, 2018 IndiaBareilly~1,000,00012,500,000
Charles de GaulleNovember 12, 1970 FranceColombey~1,000,000
Enrico BerlinguerJune 13, 1984 ItalyRome~1,000,000
GP KoiralaMarch 20, 2010   NepalKathmandu~1,000,000
Ibrahim Rugova January 27, 2006  Kosovo Prishtina ~1,000,000
Johnny HallydayDecember 9, 2017 FranceParis~1,000,00015,000,000
M. KarunanidhiAugust 8, 2018 IndiaChennai~1,000,000
Mother TeresaSeptember 13, 1997 IndiaCalcutta~1,000,000at least 1,000,000
Muhammad Abdul WahhabNovember 18, 2018 PakistanRaiwind Markaz, Lahore~1,000,000
Muhammad Zia Ul HaqAugust 19, 1988 PakistanIslamabad~1,000,000
Pope Shenouda IIIMarch 20, 2012 EgyptCairo~1,000,000
Diana, Princess of WalesSeptember 6, 1997 United KingdomLondon and Althorp, Northamptonshire~1,000,000
(2,000 at funeral service)		2,500,000,000
Queen Elizabeth II September 19, 2022  United Kingdom London ~1,000,000
(2,000 at funeral service)

29,000,000 in the UK

Queen Elizabeth The Queen MotherApril 9, 2002 United KingdomLondon~1,000,000
Mao ZedongSeptember 9–18, 1976 ChinaBeijing~1,000,000
Nelson Mandela (memorial service)December 10–15, 2013 South AfricaJohannesburg, Pretoria, and Qunu~1,000,000
1,000 for Memorial Service
SrideviFebruary 26, 2018 IndiaMumbai~1,000,000
Võ Nguyên GiápOctober 12–13, 2013 VietnamHanoi~1,000,000
Ovadia YosefOctober 7, 2013 IsraelJerusalem~850,000
King Hussein of JordanFebruary 8, 1999 JordanAmman~800,000
Pierre GemayelNovember 23, 2006 LebanonBeirut~800,000
Mir Osman Ali KhanFebruary 25, 1967 IndiaHyderabad~800,000
Chaim Kanievsky March 20, 2022  Israel Bnei Brak ~750,000
Josip Broz TitoMay 8, 1980 YugoslaviaBelgrade~700,000
Pedro Aguirre CerdaNovember 28, 1941 ChileSantiago~700,000
Mustafa Kemal AtatürkNovember 11, 1938 TurkeyAnkara~600,000−750,000
Bhupen HazarikaNovember 9, 2011 IndiaGuwahati~600,000
John F. KennedyNovember 25, 1963 United StatesWashington, D.C.~550,00041,500,000
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk Death and state funeral of Tomáš MasarykSeptember 21, 1937 CzechoslovakiaPrague~500,000−750,000
Juan GabrielSeptember 4–5, 2016 MexicoCiudad Juárez, Chihuahua and Mexico City~500,000−1,000,000
August Spies, George Engel, Adolph Fischer, and Albert ParsonsNovember 13, 1887 United StatesChicago~500,000
Baruch Charney Vladeck November 2, 1938  United States New York City ~500,000-750,000
BP KoiralaJuly 21, 1982   NepalKathmandu~500,000
B. R. AmbedkarDecember 6, 1956 IndiaMumbai~500,000
Carmen MirandaAugust 12, 1955 BrazilRio de Janeiro~500,000
Engelbert DollfussJuly 30, 1934 AustriaVienna~500,000
Michael CollinsAugust 28, 1922 IrelandDublin ~500,000
Patriarchh PavleNovember 19, 2009 SerbiaRakovica Monastery, Belgrade~500,000
Sathya Sai BabaApril 24, 2011 IndiaPuttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh~500,000
Winston ChurchillJanuary 30, 1965 United KingdomLondon~500,000
(6,000 at funeral service)		6,000
Necmettin Erbakan March 1, 2011  Turkey Istanbul ~400,000−2,000,000
Pope Francis April 21-26, 2025  Vatican City Rome ~400,000
Akbar Hashemi RafsanjaniJanuary 9–11, 2017 IranTehran~330,000−2,500,000
Francisco FrancoNovember 22–23, 1975 SpainMadrid~300,000−500,000
Fernando Poe Jr. December 22, 2004  Philippines Metro Manila ~300,000
Giuseppe Verdi February 27, 1901  Italy Milan ~300,000
January 30, 1901 ~10,000
Martin Luther King Jr.April 9, 1968 United StatesAtlanta~300,000120,000,000
Abdulbaki Erol July 13, 2023  Turkey Adıyaman ~250,000
Hendrik VerwoerdSeptember 10, 1966 South AfricaPretoria~250,000
Heydar AliyevDecember 15, 2003 AzerbaijanBaku~250,000
Józef PiłsudskiMay 18, 1935 PolandKraków~250,000
Sholem AleichemMay 13, 1916 United StatesNew York City~250,000
Emperor HirohitoFebruary 24, 1989 JapanTokyo~250,000
Ho Chi MinhSeptember 9, 1969 North VietnamHanoi~250,000
Nguyễn Phú Trọng July 25-26, 2024  Vietnam Hanoi ~250,000
Pelé January 2–3, 2023  Brazil Santos ~230,000
Wali RahmaniApril 4, 2021 IndiaMunger~200,000−500,000
Pedro II of BrazilDecember 9, 1891 FranceParis~200,000−300,000
Mohammed BurhanuddinJanuary 17, 2014 IndiaRaudat Tahera, Mumbai~200,000
Burhan WaniJuly 8, 2016 IndiaPulwama~200,000
Hrant DinkJanuary 23, 2007 TurkeyIstanbul~200,000
Khadim Hussain RizviNovember 21, 2020 PakistanLahore~200,000
Kim Jong-ilDecember 28, 2011 North KoreaPyongyang~200,000
Paul von HindenburgAugust 6–7, 1934 Nazi GermanyTannenberg Memorial, Hohenstein in Ostpreußen~200,000(via radio, not television) at least 1,000,000
Wilhelm IMarch 12–16, 1888 German EmpireBerlin~200,000
Rosa Luxemburg and Karl LiebknechtJune 13, 1919 Weimar RepublicBerlin~200,000
Huey LongSeptember 12, 1935 United StatesBaton Rouge~200,000
Jānis ČaksteMarch 18, 1927 LatviaRīga~200,000
Rafic Hariri February 16, 2005  Lebanon Beirut ~200,000
Pope Benedict XVI January 5, 2023  Vatican City Rome ~200,000
Roman DmowskiJanuary 7, 1939 PolandWarsaw~200,000
Zoran ĐinđićMarch 15, 2003 FR YugoslaviaBelgrade~200,000
Imre Nagy (reburial)June 16, 1989 HungaryBudapest~150,000−250,000
Abraham LincolnApril 19 – May 3, 1865 United StatesEast and Midwest~150,000
Corazon AquinoAugust 1–5, 2009 PhilippinesMetro Manila~122,000
Ronald ReaganJune 7, 2004 United StatesSimi Valley, California and Washington, D.C.~104,68435,700,000
Otto von HabsburgJuly 16, 2011 AustriaVienna~101,000413,000–557,000
Uğur Mumcu January 27, 1993  Turkey Istanbul ~100,000−150,000
Aleksandar RankovićAugust 22, 1983 YugoslaviaBelgrade~100,000
Alparslan Türkeş April 8, 1997  Turkey Ankara ~100,000
Kostis Palamas February 12, 1943  Greece Athens ~100,000
Édith PiafOctober 11, 1963 FrancePère Lachaise Cemetery, Paris~100,000
Bob MarleyMay 21, 1981 JamaicaKingston~100,000
Bobby SandsMay 7, 1981 IrelandBelfast~100,000
Henry GeorgeOctober 29, 1897 United StatesNew York City~100,000
Lee Kuan YewMarch 23–29, 2015 SingaporeMandai~100,000 (funeral cortege)
Lorenzo BandiniMay 10, 1967 ItalyReggiolo~100,000
Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu June 24, 2022  Turkey Istanbul ~100,000
Muhammad Ali (memorial service)June 10, 2016 United StatesLouisville, Kentucky~100,000 (funeral procession)
15,000 (memorial service)		1,000,000,000
Robert MenziesMay 19, 1978 AustraliaMelbourne~100,000
Turgut Özal April 21, 1993  Turkey Ankara ~100,000
Yahya AyyashJanuary 6, 1996 PalestineGaza~100,000
Yisroel Avrohom PortugalApril 2, 2019 United StatesBrooklyn, New York City~100,000
Zubayer Ahmad AnsariApril 18, 2020 BangladeshBrahmanbaria~100,000
Elvis PresleyAugust 16–18, 1977 United StatesMemphis~75,000
Selena Quintanilla-Pérez April 3, 1995  United States Corpus Christi, Texas ~70,000
Richard NixonApril 26–27, 1994 United StatesRichard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, Yorba Linda, California~54,00028,300,000
Gershon AgronNovember 2, 1959 IsraelJerusalem~40,000
Ludwig van BeethovenMarch 29, 1827 Austrian EmpireVienna~20,000
Rico Yan April 4, 2002  Philippines Paranaque ~20,000
Michael Jackson (memorial service)July 7, 2009 United StatesStaples Center, Los Angeles~17,5003,000,000,000
Dursun Karataş August 11, 2008  Turkey Istanbul ~15,000−20,000
John GarfieldMay 23, 1952 United StatesNew York~10,000
Kahlil Gibran August 21, 1931  Lebanon Beirut & Bsharri ~10,000
Sibel Yalçın June 16, 1995  Turkey Istanbul ~10,000
Rudolph ValentinoAugust 30, 1926 United StatesNew York City~10,000
Ömer Halisdemir July 17, 2016  Turkey Çukurkuyu, Niğde ~5,000
Gerald FordDecember 30, 2006 – January 3, 2007 United StatesWashington, D.C., and Grand Rapids, Michigan~3,70015,000,000
Bhumibol AdulyadejOctober 26, 2017 ThailandBangkok~1,000(state funeral) at least 1,000,000
George H. W. BushDecember 3–6, 2018 United StatesWashington, D.C. and Houston, Spring, & College Station, Texas~1,00017,500,000
Lata MangeshkarFebruary 6, 2022 IndiaMumbai~1,000
Margaret ThatcherApril 17, 2013 United KingdomLondon~1,000at least 4,000,000
Pierre TrudeauOctober 3, 2000 CanadaMontreal~1,000
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