List of largest funerals

List of largest funerals

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

<table><thead><tr><th>Funeral</th><th>Date</th><th>Country</th><th>City</th><th>No. of attendees</th><th>Television audience</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>C. N. Annadurai</td><td>February 4, 1969</td><td>India</td><td>Madras</td><td>~15,000,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Qasem Soleimani</td><td>January 5, 2020</td><td>Iran</td><td>Ahvaz and Mashhad</td><td>~7,000,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>January 6, 2020</td><td>Tehran and Qom</td></tr><tr><td>January 7, 2020</td><td>Kerman</td></tr><tr><td>Dahiru Usman Bauchi</td><td>November 28, 2025</td><td>Nigeria</td><td>Bauchi</td><td>~4,000,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Pope John Paul II</td><td>April 8, 2005</td><td>Vatican City</td><td>Rome</td><td>~4,000,000</td><td>2,000,000,000</td></tr><tr><td>Umm Kulthum</td><td>February 5, 1975</td><td>Egypt</td><td>Cairo</td><td>~4,000,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Indira Gandhi</td><td>November 3, 1984</td><td>India</td><td>Delhi</td><td>~3,500,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>M.G. Ramachandran</td><td>December 25, 1987</td><td>India</td><td>Madras</td><td>~3,500,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Puneeth Rajkumar</td><td>October 29, 2021</td><td>India</td><td>Bengaluru</td><td>~3,500,000</td><td>50,000,000</td></tr><tr><td>Eva Perón</td><td>August 9, 1952</td><td>Argentina</td><td>Buenos Aires</td><td>~3,000,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Ayrton Senna</td><td>May 5, 1994</td><td>Brazil</td><td>São Paulo</td><td>~3,000,000</td><td>(in Brazil) at least 100,000,000</td></tr><tr><td>Gamal Abdel Nasser</td><td>October 1, 1970</td><td>United Arab Republic</td><td>Cairo</td><td>~3,000,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Chiang Kai-shek</td><td>April 10–16, 1975</td><td>Taiwan</td><td>Taipei</td><td>~2,500,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Ruhollah Khomeini</td><td>June 5–6, 1989</td><td>Iran</td><td>Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini, Tehran</td><td>~2,000,000−10,200,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Victor Hugo</td><td>June 1, 1885</td><td>France</td><td>Paris</td><td>~2,000,000−3,000,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Benigno Aquino Jr.</td><td>August 31, 1983</td><td>Philippines</td><td>Santo Domingo Church and Manila Memorial Park – Sucat, Metro Manila</td><td>~2,000,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Berkin Elvan</td><td>March 12, 2014</td><td>Turkey</td><td>Istanbul</td><td>~2,000,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Houari Boumédiène</td><td>December 29, 1978</td><td>Algeria</td><td>Algiers</td><td>~2,000,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>J. Jayalalithaa</td><td>December 6, 2016</td><td>India</td><td>Chennai</td><td>~2,000,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Kim Il-sung</td><td>July 19, 1994</td><td>North Korea</td><td>Pyongyang</td><td>~2,000,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Mahatma Gandhi</td><td>February 6, 1948</td><td>India</td><td>New Delhi</td><td>~2,000,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Park Chung-hee</td><td>November 3, 1979</td><td>South Korea</td><td>Seoul</td><td>~2,000,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Ziaur Rahman</td><td>June 2, 1981</td><td>Bangladesh</td><td>Dhaka</td><td>~2,000,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Khaleda Zia</td><td>December 30, 2025</td><td>Bangladesh</td><td>Dhaka</td><td>~1,600,000−3,200,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Bal Thackeray</td><td>November 18–19, 2012</td><td>India</td><td>Shivaji Park, Mumbai</td><td>~1,500,000−2,500,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington</td><td>November 18, 1852</td><td>United Kingdom</td><td>London</td><td>~1,500,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Jawaharlal Nehru</td><td>May 28, 1964</td><td>India</td><td>New Delhi</td><td>~1,500,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Hassan Nasrallah</td><td>February 23, 2025</td><td>Lebanon</td><td>Camille Chamoun, Beirut</td><td>~1,300,000−1,700,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Juan Perón</td><td>July 2–4, 1974</td><td>Argentina</td><td>Buenos Aires</td><td>~1,135,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Hugo Chávez</td><td>March 6–8, 2013</td><td>Venezuela</td><td>Caracas</td><td>~1,000.000−3,000,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Akhtar Raza Khan</td><td>July 20, 2018</td><td>India</td><td>Bareilly</td><td>~1,000,000</td><td>12,500,000</td></tr><tr><td>Enrico Berlinguer</td><td>June 13, 1984</td><td>Italy</td><td>Rome</td><td>~1,000,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>GP Koirala</td><td>March 20, 2010</td><td>  Nepal</td><td>Kathmandu</td><td>~1,000,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Ibrahim Rugova</td><td>January 27, 2006</td><td>Kosovo</td><td>Prishtina</td><td>~1,000,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Johnny Hallyday</td><td>December 9, 2017</td><td>France</td><td>Paris</td><td>~1,000,000</td><td>15,000,000</td></tr><tr><td>M. Karunanidhi</td><td>August 8, 2018</td><td>India</td><td>Chennai</td><td>~1,000,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Mother Teresa</td><td>September 13, 1997</td><td>India</td><td>Calcutta</td><td>~1,000,000</td><td>at least 1,000,000</td></tr><tr><td>Muhammad Zia Ul Haq</td><td>August 19, 1988</td><td>Pakistan</td><td>Islamabad</td><td>~1,000,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Pope Shenouda III</td><td>March 20, 2012</td><td>Egypt</td><td>Cairo</td><td>~1,000,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Diana, Princess of Wales</td><td>September 6, 1997</td><td>United Kingdom</td><td>London and Althorp, Northamptonshire</td><td>~1,000,000 (2,000 at funeral service)</td><td>2,500,000,000</td></tr><tr><td>Queen Elizabeth II</td><td>September 19, 2022</td><td>United Kingdom</td><td>London</td><td>~1,000,000 (2,000 at funeral service)</td><td>29,000,000 in the UK</td></tr><tr><td>Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother</td><td>April 9, 2002</td><td>United Kingdom</td><td>London</td><td>~1,000,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Mao Zedong</td><td>September 9–18, 1976</td><td>China</td><td>Beijing</td><td>~1,000,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Nelson Mandela (memorial service)</td><td>December 10–15, 2013</td><td>South Africa</td><td>Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Qunu</td><td>~1,000,000 1,000 for Memorial Service</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Võ Nguyên Giáp</td><td>October 12–13, 2013</td><td>Vietnam</td><td>Hanoi</td><td>~1,000,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Ovadia Yosef</td><td>October 7, 2013</td><td>Israel</td><td>Jerusalem</td><td>~850,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>King Hussein of Jordan</td><td>February 8, 1999</td><td>Jordan</td><td>Amman</td><td>~800,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Pierre Gemayel</td><td>November 23, 2006</td><td>Lebanon</td><td>Beirut</td><td>~800,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Mir Osman Ali Khan</td><td>February 25, 1967</td><td>India</td><td>Hyderabad</td><td>~800,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Chaim Kanievsky</td><td>March 20, 2022</td><td>Israel</td><td>Bnei Brak</td><td>~750,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Zubeen Garg</td><td>September 21–22, 2025</td><td>India</td><td>Guwahati</td><td>~700,000–1,500,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Josip Broz Tito</td><td>May 8, 1980</td><td>Yugoslavia</td><td>Belgrade</td><td>~700,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Pedro Aguirre Cerda</td><td>November 28, 1941</td><td>Chile</td><td>Santiago</td><td>~700,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Mustafa Kemal Atatürk</td><td>November 11, 1938</td><td>Turkey</td><td>Ankara</td><td>~600,000−750,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Jerzy Popiełuszko</td><td>November 3, 1984</td><td>Polish People's Republic</td><td>Warsaw</td><td>~600,000−1,000,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Carter Harrison III</td><td>October 31–November 1, 1893</td><td>United States</td><td>Chicago</td><td>~500,000–1,060,000 (funeral procession) ~100,000 (public visitation of open casket)</td><td>—N/a</td></tr><tr><td>John F. Kennedy</td><td>November 25, 1963</td><td>United States</td><td>Washington, D.C.</td><td>~550,000</td><td>41,500,000</td></tr><tr><td>Georgi Asparuhov</td><td>June 30–July 2, 1971</td><td>Bulgaria</td><td>Sofia</td><td>~550,000</td></tr><tr><td>Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk</td><td>September 21, 1937</td><td>Czechoslovakia</td><td>Prague</td><td>~500,000−750,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Juan Gabriel</td><td>September 4–5, 2016</td><td>Mexico</td><td>Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua and Mexico City</td><td>~500,000−1,000,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>August Spies, George Engel, Adolph Fischer, and Albert Parsons (executed Haymarket Affair defendants)</td><td>November 13, 1887</td><td>United States</td><td>Chicago</td><td>~500,000</td><td>—N/a</td></tr><tr><td>Baruch Charney Vladeck</td><td>November 2, 1938</td><td>United States</td><td>New York City</td><td>~500,000-750,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>BP Koirala</td><td>July 21, 1982</td><td>  Nepal</td><td>Kathmandu</td><td>~500,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>B. R. Ambedkar</td><td>December 6, 1956</td><td>India</td><td>Mumbai</td><td>~500,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Carmen Miranda</td><td>August 12, 1955</td><td>Brazil</td><td>Rio de Janeiro</td><td>~500,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Buenaventura Durruti</td><td>November 23, 1936</td><td>Spain</td><td>Barcelona</td><td>~500,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Engelbert Dollfuss</td><td>July 30, 1934</td><td>Austria</td><td>Vienna</td><td>~500,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Michael Collins</td><td>August 28, 1922</td><td>Ireland</td><td>Dublin</td><td>~500,000</td><td>—N/a</td></tr><tr><td>Patriarchh Pavle</td><td>November 19, 2009</td><td>Serbia</td><td>Rakovica Monastery, Belgrade</td><td>~500,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Sathya Sai Baba</td><td>April 24, 2011</td><td>India</td><td>Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh</td><td>~500,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Winston Churchill</td><td>January 30, 1965</td><td>United Kingdom</td><td>London</td><td>~500,000 (6,000 at funeral service)</td><td>6,000</td></tr><tr><td>Osman Hadi</td><td>December 20, 2025</td><td>Bangladesh</td><td>Dhaka</td><td>~500,000−1,000,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Necmettin Erbakan</td><td>March 1, 2011</td><td>Turkey</td><td>Istanbul</td><td>~400,000−2,000,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Pope Francis</td><td>April 21–26, 2025</td><td>Vatican City</td><td>Rome</td><td>~400,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani</td><td>January 9–11, 2017</td><td>Iran</td><td>Tehran</td><td>~330,000−2,500,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Francisco Franco</td><td>November 22–23, 1975</td><td>Spain</td><td>Madrid</td><td>~300,000−500,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Fernando Poe Jr.</td><td>December 22, 2004</td><td>Philippines</td><td>Santo Domingo Church and Manila North Cemetery, Metro Manila</td><td>~300,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Giuseppe Verdi</td><td>February 27, 1901</td><td>Italy</td><td>Milan</td><td>~300,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>January 30, 1901</td><td>~10,000</td></tr><tr><td>Martin Luther King Jr.</td><td>April 9, 1968</td><td>United States</td><td>Atlanta</td><td>~300,000</td><td>120,000,000</td></tr><tr><td>John Monash</td><td>October 11, 1931</td><td>Australia</td><td>Melbourne</td><td>~300,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Abdulbaki Erol</td><td>July 13, 2023</td><td>Turkey</td><td>Adıyaman</td><td>~250,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Hendrik Verwoerd</td><td>September 10, 1966</td><td>South Africa</td><td>Pretoria</td><td>~250,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Heydar Aliyev</td><td>December 15, 2003</td><td>Azerbaijan</td><td>Baku</td><td>~250,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Charles de Gaulle</td><td>November 12, 1970</td><td>France</td><td>Colombey</td><td>~250,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Józef Piłsudski</td><td>May 18, 1935</td><td>Poland</td><td>Kraków</td><td>~250,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Sholem Aleichem</td><td>May 13, 1916</td><td>United States</td><td>New York City</td><td>~250,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Emperor Hirohito</td><td>February 24, 1989</td><td>Japan</td><td>Tokyo</td><td>~250,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Ho Chi Minh</td><td>September 9, 1969</td><td>North Vietnam</td><td>Hanoi</td><td>~250,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Pelé</td><td>January 2–3, 2023</td><td>Brazil</td><td>Santos</td><td>~230,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Wali Rahmani</td><td>April 4, 2021</td><td>India</td><td>Munger</td><td>~200,000−500,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Pedro II of Brazil</td><td>December 9, 1891</td><td>France</td><td>Paris</td><td>~200,000−300,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Mohammed Burhanuddin</td><td>January 17, 2014</td><td>India</td><td>Raudat Tahera, Mumbai</td><td>~200,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Anton Cermak</td><td>March 8–10, 1933</td><td>United States</td><td>Chicago</td><td>hundreds of thousands: ~50,000 mourners for return of mayor's remains to city (March 8); ~25,000 spectators at funeral service in Chicago Stadium (March 10); ~50,000 marchers and "hundreds of thousands" of additional mourners at funeral procession (March 10)</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Burhan Wani</td><td>July 8, 2016</td><td>India</td><td>Pulwama</td><td>~200,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Hrant Dink</td><td>January 23, 2007</td><td>Turkey</td><td>Istanbul</td><td>~200,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Khadim Hussain Rizvi</td><td>November 21, 2020</td><td>Pakistan</td><td>Lahore</td><td>~200,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Kim Jong-il</td><td>December 28, 2011</td><td>North Korea</td><td>Pyongyang</td><td>~200,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Paul von Hindenburg</td><td>August 6–7, 1934</td><td>Nazi Germany</td><td>Tannenberg Memorial, Hohenstein in Ostpreußen</td><td>~200,000</td><td>(via radio, not television) at least 1,000,000</td></tr><tr><td>Wilhelm I</td><td>March 12–16, 1888</td><td>German Empire</td><td>Berlin</td><td>~200,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht</td><td>June 13, 1919</td><td>Weimar Republic</td><td>Berlin</td><td>~200,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Huey Long</td><td>September 12, 1935</td><td>United States</td><td>Baton Rouge</td><td>~200,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Jānis Čakste</td><td>March 18, 1927</td><td>Latvia</td><td>Rīga</td><td>~200,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Rafic Hariri</td><td>February 16, 2005</td><td>Lebanon</td><td>Beirut</td><td>~200,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Pope Benedict XVI</td><td>January 5, 2023</td><td>Vatican City</td><td>Rome</td><td>~200,000</td></tr><tr><td>Roman Dmowski</td><td>January 7, 1939</td><td>Poland</td><td>Warsaw</td><td>~200,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Zoran Đinđić</td><td>March 15, 2003</td><td>FR Yugoslavia</td><td>Belgrade</td><td>~200,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Imre Nagy (reburial)</td><td>June 16, 1989</td><td>Hungary</td><td>Budapest</td><td>~150,000−250,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky</td><td>August 12, 1985</td><td>Israel</td><td>Bnei Brak</td><td>~150,000−250,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Halid Bešlić</td><td>October 13, 2025</td><td>Bosnia and Herzegovina</td><td>Sarajevo</td><td>~150,000</td><td>over 1,000,000</td></tr><tr><td>Lech and Maria Kaczyński</td><td>April 18, 2010</td><td>Poland</td><td>Kraków</td><td>~150,000</td><td>~13,000,000</td></tr><tr><td>Abraham Lincoln</td><td>April 19 – May 3, 1865</td><td>United States</td><td>East and Midwest</td><td>~150,000</td><td>—N/a</td></tr><tr><td>Corazon Aquino</td><td>August 1–5, 2009</td><td>Philippines</td><td>Manila Cathedral and Manila Memorial Park – Sucat, Metro Manila</td><td>~122,000 (August 3 figures only)</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Stefan Wyszyński</td><td>May 31, 1981</td><td>Polish People's Republic</td><td>Warsaw</td><td>~120,000−500,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Moshe Feinstein</td><td>March 24, 1986</td><td>United States</td><td>New York City and Israel</td><td>~120,000−400,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Ronald Reagan</td><td>June 7, 2004</td><td>United States</td><td>Simi Valley, California and Washington, D.C.</td><td>~104,684</td><td>35,700,000</td></tr><tr><td>Otto von Habsburg</td><td>July 16, 2011</td><td>Austria</td><td>Vienna</td><td>~101,000</td><td>413,000–557,000</td></tr><tr><td>Uğur Mumcu</td><td>January 27, 1993</td><td>Turkey</td><td>Istanbul</td><td>~100,000−150,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Aleksandar Ranković</td><td>August 22, 1983</td><td>Yugoslavia</td><td>Belgrade</td><td>~100,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Alparslan Türkeş</td><td>April 8, 1997</td><td>Turkey</td><td>Ankara</td><td>~100,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Kostis Palamas</td><td>February 12, 1943</td><td>Greece</td><td>Athens</td><td>~100,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Édith Piaf</td><td>October 11, 1963</td><td>France</td><td>Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris</td><td>~100,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Bob Marley</td><td>May 21, 1981</td><td>Jamaica</td><td>Kingston</td><td>~100,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Bobby Sands</td><td>May 7, 1981</td><td>UK</td><td>Belfast</td><td>~100,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Henry George</td><td>October 29, 1897</td><td>United States</td><td>New York City</td><td>~100,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Lee Kuan Yew</td><td>March 23–29, 2015</td><td>Singapore</td><td>Mandai</td><td>~100,000 (funeral cortege)</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Lorenzo Bandini</td><td>May 10, 1967</td><td>Italy</td><td>Reggiolo</td><td>~100,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu</td><td>June 24, 2022</td><td>Turkey</td><td>Istanbul</td><td>~100,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Muhammad Ali (memorial service)</td><td>June 10, 2016</td><td>United States</td><td>Louisville, Kentucky</td><td>~100,000 (funeral procession) 15,000 (memorial service)</td><td>1,000,000,000</td></tr><tr><td>Robert Menzies</td><td>May 19, 1978</td><td>Australia</td><td>Melbourne</td><td>~100,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Turgut Özal</td><td>April 21, 1993</td><td>Turkey</td><td>Ankara</td><td>~100,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Gianni Agnelli</td><td>January 26, 2003</td><td>Italy</td><td>Turin</td><td>~10,000 ~100,000 paid their respects while he laid in state</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Yahya Ayyash</td><td>January 6, 1996</td><td>Palestine</td><td>Gaza</td><td>~100,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Yisroel Avrohom Portugal</td><td>April 2, 2019</td><td>United States</td><td>Brooklyn, New York City</td><td>~100,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Zubayer Ahmad Ansari</td><td>April 18, 2020</td><td>Bangladesh</td><td>Brahmanbaria</td><td>~100,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Bhupen Hazarika</td><td>November 9-5, 2011</td><td>India</td><td>Guwahati</td><td>~100,000</td></tr><tr><td>Joel Teitelbaum</td><td>August 20, 1979</td><td>United States</td><td>Kiryas Joel</td><td>~100,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Simcha Bunim Alter</td><td>June 8, 1992</td><td>Israel</td><td>Mount of Olives</td><td>~100,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Elvis Presley</td><td>August 16–18, 1977</td><td>United States</td><td>Memphis</td><td>~75,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Charlie Kirk</td><td>September 21, 2025</td><td>United States</td><td>Glendale</td><td>~90,000−200,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Selena Quintanilla-Pérez</td><td>April 3, 1995</td><td>United States</td><td>Corpus Christi, Texas</td><td>~60,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Juliana of the Netherlands</td><td>March 30, 2004</td><td>Netherlands</td><td>Delft</td><td>~60,000 Also, 50,000 people paid their respects at the coffin while Juliana laid in state prior to the funeral.</td><td>3,246,000</td></tr><tr><td>Richard Nixon</td><td>April 26–27, 1994</td><td>United States</td><td>Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, Yorba Linda, California</td><td>~54,000</td><td>28,300,000</td></tr><tr><td>Jaime Garzón</td><td>August 14, 1999</td><td>Colombia</td><td>Bogotá</td><td>~50,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Yisrael Alter</td><td>February 21, 1977</td><td>Israel</td><td>Mount of Olives</td><td>~50,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Meir Shapiro</td><td>October 29, 1933</td><td>Poland</td><td>Lublin</td><td>~50,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>André Hazes</td><td>September 27, 2004</td><td>Netherlands</td><td>Amsterdam</td><td>~48,000</td><td>6,000,000 (5 million in the Netherlands and 1 million in Belgium)</td></tr><tr><td>Gershon Agron</td><td>November 2, 1959</td><td>Israel</td><td>Jerusalem</td><td>~40,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Ozjasz Thon</td><td>November 12, 1936</td><td>Poland</td><td>Kraków</td><td>~30,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Ludwig van Beethoven</td><td>March 29, 1827</td><td>Austrian Empire</td><td>Vienna</td><td>~20,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Rico Yan</td><td>April 4, 2002</td><td>Philippines</td><td>Manila Memorial Park – Sucat, Parañaque</td><td>~20,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Moshe Teitelbaum</td><td>August 25, 2006</td><td>United States</td><td>Willamsburg and Kiryas Joel</td><td>~20,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Aharon Rokeach</td><td>August 18, 1957</td><td>Israel</td><td>Har HaMenuchot</td><td>~20,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Michael Jackson (memorial service)</td><td>July 7, 2009</td><td>United States</td><td>Staples Center, Los Angeles</td><td>~17,500</td><td>3,000,000,000</td></tr><tr><td>Hank Williams</td><td>January 4, 1960</td><td>United States</td><td>Montgomery</td><td>~15,000−25,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>John Garfield</td><td>May 23, 1952</td><td>United States</td><td>New York</td><td>~10,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Kahlil Gibran</td><td>August 21, 1931</td><td>Lebanon</td><td>Beirut & Bsharri</td><td>~10,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Rudolph Valentino</td><td>August 30, 1926</td><td>United States</td><td>New York City</td><td>~10,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Wisława Szymborska</td><td>February 9, 2012</td><td>Poland</td><td>Kraków</td><td>~8,000−10,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Czesław Miłosz</td><td>August 27, 2004</td><td>Poland</td><td>Kraków</td><td>~7,000−10,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Ömer Halisdemir</td><td>July 17, 2016</td><td>Turkey</td><td>Çukurkuyu, Niğde</td><td>~5,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Dursun Karataş</td><td>August 11, 2008</td><td>Turkey</td><td>Istanbul</td><td>~5,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Gerald Ford</td><td>December 30, 2006 – January 3, 2007</td><td>United States</td><td>Washington, D.C., and Grand Rapids, Michigan</td><td>~3,700</td><td>15,000,000</td></tr><tr><td>Cecilia Gentili</td><td>January 31, 1972 – February 6, 2024</td><td>United States</td><td>New York City</td><td>~1,400</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Wojciech Jaruzelski</td><td>May 30, 2014</td><td>Poland</td><td>Warsaw</td><td>~1,000−2,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Bhumibol Adulyadej</td><td>October 26, 2017</td><td>Thailand</td><td>Bangkok</td><td>~1,000</td><td>(state funeral) at least 1,000,000</td></tr><tr><td>George H. W. Bush</td><td>December 3–6, 2018</td><td>United States</td><td>Washington, D.C. and Houston, Spring, & College Station, Texas</td><td>~1,000</td><td>17,500,000</td></tr><tr><td>Lata Mangeshkar</td><td>February 6, 2022</td><td>India</td><td>Mumbai</td><td>~1,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Margaret Thatcher</td><td>April 17, 2013</td><td>United Kingdom</td><td>London</td><td>~1,000</td><td>at least 4,000,000</td></tr><tr><td>Pierre Trudeau</td><td>October 3, 2000</td><td>Canada</td><td>Montreal</td><td>~1,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Krzysztof Krawczyk</td><td>April 10, 2021</td><td>Poland</td><td>Grotniki</td><td>~1,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Pim Fortuyn</td><td>May 10, 2002</td><td>Netherlands</td><td>Driehuis</td><td>~800 (at service) Tens of thousands of people paid their respects at the coffin while Fortuyn laid in state. Thousands stood along the route during the procession to the cemetery.</td><td>2,000,000</td></tr><tr><td>Ilia II</td><td>March 18-22, 2026</td><td>Georgia</td><td>Tbilisi</td><td>Tens of thousands paid their respects while he laid in state</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>