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Death and funeral of Alexei Navalny
Death and funeral of Alexei Navalny: the Russian opposition leader died 16 February 2024 at the Polar Wolf penal colony above the Arctic Circle; his funeral in Moscow on 1 March 2024 drew thousands; 2026 findings identified epibatidine poisoning.
Death and funeral of Babe Ruth
Death and funeral of Babe Ruth: the baseball slugger (1895-1948) died of nasopharyngeal cancer at Memorial Hospital, New York, on August 16, 1948; he lay in state two days at Yankee Stadium before a Cardinal Spellman requiem at St. Patrick's Cathedral.
Death and funeral of Francisco Franco
Death and state funeral of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, who died 20 November 1975 at La Paz Hospital, Madrid, was buried 23 November in the Valley of the Fallen, and was exhumed in 2019 to Mingorrubio cemetery.
Death and Funeral of Lenin
Vladimir Lenin, head of the Soviet government, died on 21 January 1924 at Gorki near Moscow; his embalmed body has lain in the Red Square mausoleum since 1924.
Death and funeral of Margaret Thatcher
Death and funeral of Margaret Thatcher: she died 8 April 2013 at the Ritz, London, after a stroke; ceremonial funeral with military honours, Queen's consent, St Paul's Cathedral 17 April 2013, over 2,300 guests, £261,976 public cost.
Death and funeral of Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI, who resigned in 2013, died at the Vatican on 31 December 2022, aged 95; Pope Francis led his funeral on 5 January 2023.
Death and funeral of Pope Francis
Death and funeral of Pope Francis, who died April 21, 2025, at Casa Santa Marta of stroke and cardiocirculatory collapse, lay in state before 250,000 mourners, and was buried April 26 at Santa Maria Maggiore per his 2022 testament.
Death and funeral of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Death and funeral of Prince Philip (10 June 1921 – 9 April 2021), consort of Queen Elizabeth II: died at Windsor Castle; ceremonial royal funeral at St George's Chapel on 17 April 2021 under Operation Forth Bridge, scaled down for Covid restrictions and watched by 13 million UK viewers.
Death and funeral of Sirikit
Death and funeral of Sirikit, Queen Mother of Thailand (died 24 October 2025, age 93, Chulalongkorn Hospital, blood infection). Lying in state at Dusit Maha Prasat Throne Hall from November 2025; royal cremation 15–19 December 2026 at Sanam Luang with highest honors.
Death and Other Details
Death and Other Details (formerly Career Opportunities in Murder and Mayhem) is a 2024 Hulu whodunit series by Mike Weiss and Heidi Cole McAdams, starring Violett Beane and Mandy Patinkin aboard a Mediterranean ocean liner; canceled after one 10-episode season.
Death and state funeral of A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, India's 11th president, died on 27 July 2015 after collapsing during a lecture in Shillong, and was given a state funeral at Rameswaram.
Death and state funeral of Elizabeth II
Death and state funeral of Elizabeth II: the Queen died at Balmoral on 8 September 2022 aged 96, triggering Operation London Bridge, a ten-day schedule of proclamations, lying-in-state for over 250,000 mourners, a Westminster Abbey state funeral on 19 September, and an £161.7m cost.
Death and state funeral of George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States, died at his Houston home on November 30, 2018, at age 94 and received a state funeral.
Death and state funeral of George VI
The death and state funeral of King George VI: died in his sleep at Sandringham on 6 February 1952 aged 56; lay in state in Westminster Hall; funeral at St George's Chapel, Windsor, 15 February 1952; first televised royal funeral, reburied 1969 in his memorial chapel.
Death and state funeral of Harald V
Death and state funeral of Harald V, King of Norway: died 28 August 2026 at Rikshospitalet, Oslo, aged 89, after 35 years; succeeded automatically by Haakon VIII; state funeral 9 September 2026 at Oslo Cathedral, burial in the Royal Mausoleum at Akershus.
Death and state funeral of Hirohito
Death and state funeral of Hirohito (Emperor Showa, 昭和天皇): died 7 January 1989 of duodenal cancer; state funeral Taiso-no-Rei at Shinjuku Gyoen on 24 February 1989, attended by mourners from 163-164 countries, the largest state funeral to that date.
Death and state funeral of Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter Jr.), 39th U.S. president, died December 29, 2024, at 100 in Plains, Georgia. His six-day state funeral ran January 4-9, 2025, with lying in state at the Capitol and a National Funeral Service at Washington National Cathedral.
Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin
Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin: the Soviet leader died 5 March 1953 of a hemorrhagic stroke at his dacha near Moscow, lay beside Lenin in the Mausoleum, and was reburied in 1961.
Death and state funeral of Lal Bahadur Shastri
Death and state funeral of Lal Bahadur Shastri: India's second Prime Minister died in Tashkent on 11 January 1966, hours after the Tashkent Declaration; official cause a heart attack, no autopsy, records still classified.
Death and state funeral of Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Death and state funeral of Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Quaid-e-Azam), founder and first Governor-General of Pakistan, who died in Karachi 11 September 1948 and was buried 12 September after a state funeral; commemorated annually at Mazar-e-Quaid.
Death and state funeral of Ronald Reagan
Death and state funeral of Ronald Reagan: the 40th U.S. president died June 5, 2004, at 93; lying in repose at Simi Valley, lying in state June 9–11 at the Capitol, cathedral service, and private burial at the Reagan Library.
Death and state funeral of Ulysses S. Grant
Death and state funeral of Ulysses S. Grant: the 18th U.S. president died of throat cancer July 23, 1885, at Mount McGregor, New York; his August 8, 1885, New York City funeral drew up to 1.5 million mourners, leading to Grant's Tomb.
Death and state funeral of Winston Churchill
Death and state funeral of Winston Churchill: the British statesman died 24 January 1965 aged 90 and received Operation Hope Not, a state funeral at St Paul's Cathedral on 30 January 1965, then burial at Bladon.
Death and the Dervish
Death and the Dervish (Derviš i smrt) is a 1966 novel by the Bosnian writer Meša Selimović, a first-person confession of a dervish in Ottoman-era Sarajevo.
Death and the King's Horseman
Death and the King's Horseman is Wole Soyinka's 1975 tragedy in five scenes, based on a real 1946 Oyo ritual-suicide episode; premiered in Ife, Nigeria, 1976, and cited by the Nobel Committee in 1986 as a 'drama of existence'.
Death and the Maiden
Death and the Maiden is Ariel Dorfman's 1991 play about Paulina, a torture survivor who tries her suspected tormentor at home; also the 1994 Roman Polanski film with Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley, and Stuart Wilson, titled after Schubert's quartet.
Death Angel
Death Angel is an American thrash metal band formed in 1982 in the San Francisco Bay Area, whose debut The Ultra-Violence appeared in 1987 before a 2001 reunion.
Death Angels (A Quiet Place)
Death Angels are the blind, sound-hunting alien predators of the A Quiet Place films, known informally from a newspaper clipping and by ILM's crew nickname "Happy." Quadruped, armored, and echolocating, they are vulnerable to high-frequency sound and to their own opening head plates.
Death anniversary
A death anniversary, known as ngày giỗ in Vietnam, is the annual recurrence of a person's death date, kept as a memorial rite by family or community.
Death at a Funeral (2007 film)
Death at a Funeral (2007) is a British black comedy farce directed by Frank Oz, written by Dean Craig, starring Matthew Macfadyen, Alan Tudyk, and Peter Dinklage; remade in the US in 2010 and Spain in 2025.