Talk:List of national days of mourning (before 2000)

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State officials

 * The Father of the State of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was killed by a group of Bangladesh Army personnel. The officers killed his whole family except his daughters Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana.
 * Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk – First President of Czechoslovakia. National mourning since his death on 14–21 September 1937.
 * Mustafa Kemal Atatürk – founder of the Republic of Turkey. 10 November is the national mourning day in Turkey, commemorating Atatürk's death on 10 November 1938. Every year at 09:05 on November 10, sirens are heard across Turkey followed by a minute of tribute as well as cessation of most all activity for that duration.
 * Charles de Gaulle – Former President of France died on 9 November 1970. Declared national mourning the state funeral on 12 November.
 * After the assassination of the Swedish Social Democratic Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986–Sweden, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Vietnam.
 * Iran's 1979 Revolution's leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Following his death on 3 June 1989, three days of mourning was declared by President Ali Khamenei.
 * Leaders Zhou Enlai, Mao Zedong (who was given a national mourning period lasting a week), and Deng Xiaoping–People's Republic of China
 * Yitzhak Rabin, the Prime Minister of Israel who was assassinated on 4 November 1995; a national day of mourning is commemorated in Israel and in various Jewish communities worldwide.
 * Emperor Hirohito of Japan, who died in January 1989; national mourning was declared for two days and the day of his funeral.
 * Former President of France François Mitterrand died on 8 January 1996. National mourning declared of state funeral on 11 January.
 * Fascist leader of Spain from 1939 to 1975 Francisco Franco. Twenty days of national mourning were declared following his demise on 20 November 1975.
 * Alexander Dubček's death in 1992, at the time he was the chairman of the Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia

Religious figures

 * Mother Teresa of Calcutta, (mainly India, Albania, and some Roman Catholic countries)
 * Serbian Patriarch Pavle

Sporting figures

 * Abebe Bikila (Ethiopia)
 * Ayrton Senna (Brazil)

Cultural figures

 * Israel Kamakawiwoʻole (Hawaii)
 * Amália Rodrigues (Portugal)

Tragedies

 * Victims of Hurricane Hazel (Haiti, 3 days)
 * Victims of the Great Chilean earthquake of 1960.
 * Victims of the 1990 20 January Black January Massacre by Soviet Union's Red army (Azerbaijan, Baku)
 * Victims of the 1996 Kamianske tram accident (Ukraine, July 3, 1996)
 * Victims of the Columbine High School massacre
 * Victims of the 1999 Jiji earthquake (Taiwan)