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A national day of mourning is a day
Day

A day is a units of measurement of time equivalent to approximately 24 hours. It is not an International System of Units unit but it is accepted for use with SI....
 marked by mourning
Mourning

Mourning is, in the simplest sense, synonymous with grief over the death of someone. The word is also used to describe a cultural complex of behaviours in which the bereaved participate or are expected to participate....
 and memorial
Memorial

A memorial is an object which serves as a memory of something, usually a person or an event.Popular forms of memorials include landmark objects or art objects such as sculptures,statues or fountains ....
 activities across the majority of a country
Country

Country may refer to the territory of a state, or to a smaller, or former, political division of a geographical region. In another meaning of the word, the country is also a term used to refer to rural areas....
's populace; such days include those marking the death
Death

Death is the permanent termination of the biological functions that define a life organism. It refers to both a particular event and to the condition that results thereby....
 or funeral
Funeral

A funeral is a ceremony marking a person's death. Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember the dead, from the funeral itself, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour....
 of a renowned individual or individuals from that country or elsewhere, or the anniversary of such a death or deaths. They are designated by that country's government
Government

Government is the body within any organization that has the authority to make and the power to enforce laws, regulations, or rules. Typically, the government refers to a civil government -- local, provincial, or national -- but commercial, academic, religious, or other formal organizations are also administered by governing bodies....
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A national day of mourning is a day
Day

A day is a units of measurement of time equivalent to approximately 24 hours. It is not an International System of Units unit but it is accepted for use with SI....
 marked by mourning
Mourning

Mourning is, in the simplest sense, synonymous with grief over the death of someone. The word is also used to describe a cultural complex of behaviours in which the bereaved participate or are expected to participate....
 and memorial
Memorial

A memorial is an object which serves as a memory of something, usually a person or an event.Popular forms of memorials include landmark objects or art objects such as sculptures,statues or fountains ....
 activities across the majority of a country
Country

Country may refer to the territory of a state, or to a smaller, or former, political division of a geographical region. In another meaning of the word, the country is also a term used to refer to rural areas....
's populace; such days include those marking the death
Death

Death is the permanent termination of the biological functions that define a life organism. It refers to both a particular event and to the condition that results thereby....
 or funeral
Funeral

A funeral is a ceremony marking a person's death. Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember the dead, from the funeral itself, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour....
 of a renowned individual or individuals from that country or elsewhere, or the anniversary of such a death or deaths. They are designated by that country's government
Government

Government is the body within any organization that has the authority to make and the power to enforce laws, regulations, or rules. Typically, the government refers to a civil government -- local, provincial, or national -- but commercial, academic, religious, or other formal organizations are also administered by governing bodies....
.

Selected list of figures recognized by national days of mourning


State officials

  • Victims of the 2005 Assassination of Former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri
    Rafik Hariri

    Rafik Bahaa El Deen Al-Hariri — , was a self-made billionaire and business tycoon, was List of Prime Ministers of Lebanon of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2000 until his resignation, 20 October 2004....
     (Lebanon
    Lebanon

    Lebanon , officially the Republic of Lebanon or Lebanese Republic , is a country in Western Asia, on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea....
    )
  • All Presidents of the United States, usually on the day of their funerals beginning with John F. Kennedy
    John F. Kennedy

    John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States, serving from 1961 until John F....
     (these days are also considered Federal holidays). The most recent are:
    • Ronald Reagan
      Ronald Reagan

      Ronald Wilson Reagan was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States and the 33rd Governor of California . Born in Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s, where he was an actor, president of the Screen Actors Guild , and a spokesman for General Electric ....
       (2004)
    • Gerald Ford
      Gerald Ford

      Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974....
       (2006)
  • When the Swedish
    Sweden

    Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
     Social Democratic Prime Minister Olof Palme
    Olof Palme

    Sven Olof Joachim Palme was a Sweden politician.Palme was the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 until Olof Palme assassination in 1986....
     was killed in 1986-Sweden
    Sweden

    Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
    , Cuba
    Cuba

    The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
    , Nicaragua
    Nicaragua

    Nicaragua officially the Republic of Nicaragua , is a representative democracy republic. It is the largest state in Central America with an area of 130,000 km2, about the size of the state of New York....
     and Vietnam
    Vietnam

    Vietnam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam , is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by People's Republic of China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the east....
    .
  • Leaders Zhou Enlai
    Zhou Enlai

    Zhou Enlai was the first Premier of the People's Republic of China, serving from October 1949 until his death in January 1976. Zhou was instrumental in the Communist Party of China rise to power, and subsequently in the construction of the Economy of the People's Republic of China and restructuring of Chinese society....
    , Mao Zedong
    Mao Zedong

    Mao Zedong was a China military and politics dictator. Mao led the Communist Party of China to victory against the Kuomintang in the Chinese Civil War, and was the leader of the People?s Republic of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976....
     (who actually had a national mourning period lasting a week), and Deng Xiaoping
    Deng Xiaoping

    Deng Xiaoping was a prominent Chinese revolutionary, politician, pragmatist and reformer, as well as the late leader of the Communist Party of China ....
     - China
    People's Republic of China

    The People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the List of countries by population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world's population....
  • Yitzhak Rabin
    Yitzhak Rabin

    was an Israeli politician and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–1977 and 1992 until his assassination in 1995....
    , the Prime Minister of Israel
    Israel

    Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
     who was assassinated
    Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin

    The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin took place on November 4, 1995, at 21:30, at the end of a Demonstration in support of the Oslo Accords at the Rabin Square in Tel Aviv....
     on November 4, 1995; a national day of mourning is commemorated in Israel and in various Jewish communities worldwide.


Religious figures

  • Pope John Paul II
    Pope John Paul II

    Pope John Paul II John Paul II is widely acclaimed as one of the most influential leaders of the twentieth century. He has been Pope_John_Paul_II#Role_in_the_fall_of_Communism in bringing down communism in Eastern Europe, as well as significantly improving the Roman Catholic Church's relations with Judaism, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and A...
     (Mainly Roman Catholic countries)
  • Venerable Master Yin Shun
    Yin Shun

    Yin Shun was a well known Buddhist monk and scholar in the tradition of Chinese Mahayana Buddhism, particularly the San-Lun school. Yin Shun's research helped bring forth the ideal of Humanistic Buddhism, a leading mainstream Buddhist philosophy studied and upheld by many practitioners....
     (Taiwan
    Taiwan

    Taiwan is an island in East Asia. "Taiwan" is also commonly used to refer to the country governed by the Republic of China and to the ROC itself, which governs the island of Taiwan, Orchid Island and Green Island, Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean off the Taiwan coast, the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait, and Kinmen and the Matsu Islands...
    )


Sporting figures

  • Ayrton Senna
    Ayrton Senna

    Ayrton Senna da Silva, was a Brazilian race car driver and three-time Formula One List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions. He was killed while leading the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix and is the most recent Grand Prix driver to die at the wheel of a Formula One car....
     (Brazil)


Tragedies

  • Victims of the Circassian Genocide are remembered in the Circassian Day of Mourning
    Circassian Day of Mourning

    The North Caucasus is the homeland of the Circassians. The region stretches along the high peaks of the Caucasian mountain range at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, bounded by Russia from the north and the Islamic World from the south....
  • Victims of the United States invasion of Panama
    United States invasion of Panama

    The United States invasion of Panama, codenamed Operation Just Cause, was the invasion of Panama by the United States in December 1989, during the administration of U.S....
     (1989) are remembered in December
  • Victims of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing
    Oklahoma City bombing

    The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic List of terrorist incidents on April 19, 1995 aimed at the Federal government of the United States in which the Alfred P....
     (United States
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
    )
  • Victims of September 11, 2001 attacks (United States
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
    , Poland
    Poland

    Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
     and Ireland
    Ireland

    Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
    )
  • Victims of the 2004 Tsunami in Southeast Asia
    2004 Indian Ocean earthquake

    The was an undersea earthquake that occurred at 00:58:53 Coordinated Universal Time on December 26, 2004, with an epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia....
     (All parts of the world)
  • Victims of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
    Tiananmen Square protests of 1989

    The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 culminating in the Tiananmen Square Massacre were a series of demonstrations in and near Tiananmen Square in Beijing in the People's Republic of China beginning on April 14....
     (Hong Kong
    Hong Kong

    Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....
    )
  • Victims of the 1999 Taiwan Earthquake
    Chi-Chi earthquake

    Jiji earthquake , also known as the 921 earthquake occurred at 1:47:15.9 CST on September 21, 1999 in Chichi, Nantou, Taiwan and measured 7.3 on the Richter magnitude scale....
     (Taiwan)
  • Victims of the Nanking Massacre
    Nanking Massacre

    The Nanking Massacre, commonly known as the Rape of Nanking, was a Genocide war crime committed by the Military of Japan in Nanjing , the then capital of the Republic of China, after it fell to the Imperial Japanese Army on December 13, 1937....
     (Taiwan and mainland China)
  • Victims of the 2004 terrorist train bombing in Madrid, Spain (Spain
    Spain

    Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
    )
  • Victims of the 2005 terrorist bombings in London (United Kingdom
    United Kingdom

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
    )
  • Victims of Hurricane Katrina
    Hurricane Katrina

    Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the costliest Atlantic hurricane, as well as one of the five deadliest, in the history of the United States....
     (United States
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
    ) 29 August 2005
  • Victims of the 2006 roof collapse in Katowice (Poland
    Poland

    Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
    ), 29 January 2006 - 1 February 2006
  • Victims of the mining disaster at the Halemba mine in Ruda Slaska
    Ruda Slaska

    Ruda Slaska is a city in south Poland with 149,000 inhabitants , member of the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union.It is situated in the Silesian Voivodship , having previously been in Katowice Voivodship ....
     (Poland), 23 November 2006 - 25 November 2006
  • Victims of the Ulyanovskaya Mine disaster
    Ulyanovskaya Mine disaster

    The Ulyanovskaya Mine disaster was caused by a methane explosion that occurred on March 19, 2007 in the Ulyanovskaya Longwall mining coal mine in the Kemerovo Oblast....
    , the crash of UT Air Flight 471 and a fire in a retirement home (Russia
    Russia

    Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
    ), 21 March 2007
  • Victims of the 2007 Virginia Tech Massacre
    Virginia Tech massacre

    The Virginia Tech massacre was a school shooting consisting of two separate attacks approximately two hours apart on April 16, 2007, that took place on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, Virginia, United States....
     (United States
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
    )
  • Victims of the 2007 Slovenia floods (held 21st September 2007) (Slovenia
    Slovenia

    Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in southern Central Europe bordering Italy to the west, the Adriatic Sea to the southwest, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north....
    )
  • Toše Proeski
    Toše Proeski

    Todor "To?e" Proeski was a famous Ethnic Macedonians pop singer. He was popular across the entire Balkans and further north, and locally he was considered a top act of the Music of the Republic of Macedonia....
    's death in a car accident on 17 October 2007 (Macedonia
    Republic of Macedonia

    The Republic of Macedonia , , often referred to simply as Macedonia, is a landlocked country on the Balkans in southeastern Europe. It is bordered by Serbia to the north, Bulgaria to the east, Greece to the south and Albania to the west....
    )
  • Victims of the Polish Army aircraft crash in Miroslawiec on 23 January 2008 (Poland
    Poland

    Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
    )


  • Victims of the 2008 Cameroonian anti-government protests
    2008 Cameroonian anti-government protests

    The 2008 Cameroon protests were a series of violent demonstrations in Cameroon's biggest cities that took place from 25 February to 29 February 2008....
     called for on the 21 April 2008
  • Victims of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake
    2008 Sichuan earthquake

    The List_of_deadliest_natural_disasters#Earthquakes, the 2008 Sichuan earthquake , or "Great Sichuan Earthquake", which measured at 8.0 Surface wave magnitude
  • Victims of Cyclone Nargis
    Cyclone Nargis

    Cyclone Nargis , was a strong tropical cyclone that caused the worst natural disaster in the recorded history of Burma . The cyclone made landfall in the country on May 2, 2008, causing catastrophic destruction and at least 146,000 fatalities with thousands more people still missing....
     in Burma
  • Israel
    Israel

    Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
    's Yom HaShoah
    Yom HaShoah

    Yom HaZikaron laShoah ve-laGvura , known colloquially in Israel and abroad as Yom HaShoah and in English language as Holocaust Remembrance Day, is observed as a day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust....
     in remembrance of the Holocaust
  • Victims of the crash of Spanair Flight 5022
    Spanair Flight 5022

    Spanair Flight JK 5022, from Barajas Airport in Madrid to Gran Canaria Airport in Gran Canaria, Spain, crashed just after take off from runway 36L of Barajas Airport at 14:25 Central European Summer Time on 20 August 2008....
     which crashed in Madrid
    Madrid

    Madrid is the Capital and largest city of Spain. It is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits in the European Union after Greater London and Berlin, and its Madrid metropolitan area is the Largest urban areas of the European Union in the European Union after Paris aire urbaine, Greater London Urban Area, a...
     on 20 August 2008
  • Victims of the 2009 Victorian bushfires in Australia