Death and state funeral of Josip Broz Tito

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Funeral of Josip Broz Tito

Part of the breakup of Yugoslavia
Tito's funeral procession
Date	8 May 1980; 43 years ago (1980-05-08)
Location	Dedinje, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
Participants	Yugoslav officials and dignitaries from 128 foreign countries

This article is part of a series about Josip Broz Tito
International trips Awards and decorations Death and state funeral Offices President of SKJ (1939–1980) Federal Secretary of Defence (1945–1953) Secretary-General of NAM (1961–1964) Premiership Tito–Šubašić Agreements Provisional Government Tito–Stalin split Informbiro period Titoism Elections 1945 1950 President of Yugoslavia 1953 amendments Balkan Pact Non-Aligned Movement Reforms 1968 student demonstrations Croatian Spring 1974 Constitution Elections 1953 1958 1963 1969 1974 1978 Family Herta Haas Jovanka Budisavljević Aleksandar Broz Joška Broz Svetlana Broz Legacy Relay of Youth House of Flowers List of places named after Josip Broz Tito
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The funeral of Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia and President of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, was held on 8 May 1980, four days after his death on 4 May. His funeral drew many statesmen from around the globe, from Western, Eastern and Non-Aligned countries.^[1][2] The attendees included four kings, six princes, 22 prime ministers, 31 presidents, and 47 ministers of foreign affairs. In total, 128 countries out of the 154 UN members at the time were represented.^[3] Also present were delegates from seven multilateral organizations, six movements and 40 political parties.

Tito had become increasingly ill throughout 1979. On 7 January and again on 11 January 1980, Tito was admitted to the University Medical Centre in Ljubljana, the capital city of SR Slovenia, with circulation problems in his legs. His left leg was amputated soon afterwards due to arterial blockages, and he died of gangrene at the Medical Centre Ljubljana on 4 May 1980 at 3:05 pm, three days short of his 88th birthday. The Plavi voz, Tito's personal train, brought his body to Belgrade where it lay in state at the Federal Parliament building until the funeral.

As Tito had been viewed as the central unifying figure of culturally, religiously diverse and throughout times ethnically antagonistic nations of Yugoslavia, his death is considered to be one of key catalysts for the dissolution and destruction of the Yugoslav state a mere decade later.