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=== State officials ===
* A National Day of Mourning is typically declared for [[Presidents of the United States]], usually on the day of their funerals. Beginning with [[John F. Kennedy]], these days are also considered federal holidays. There was no official day of mourning for [[Herbert Hoover]].<ref name="USStateFunerals">{{cite web|title=Past State Funerals|url=https://www.usstatefuneral.mdw.army.mil/past-state-funerals|website=usstatefuneral.mdw.army.mil}}</ref>
* In the [[Soviet Union]], an official mourning period of several days was declared for the deaths of leaders or former leaders, with [[Alexei Rykov]], [[Nikita Khrushchev]] and [[Georgy Malenkov]] being notable exceptions after Rykov was executed during the [[Great Purge]] and the other two were relegated to obscurity. Khrushchev's death was announced only hours before he was buried without full state honors,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gwertzman |first1=Bernard |title=Soviet Announces Khrushchev Death in Cool Language |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/09/13/archives/soviet-announces-khrushchev-death-in-cool-language-moscow-denies.html |website=The New York Times |date=September 13, 1971}}</ref> while Malenkov's death was announced more than 2 weeks after his death.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Pearson |first1=Richard |title=George Malenkov Dies |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1988/02/02/georgi-malenkov-dies/8d8ea079-f433-426e-8569-c74801e1f152/ |website=The Washington Post |date=February 2, 1988}}</ref> This custom changed in 1968 when a national day of mourning was declared for Soviet cosmonaut [[Yuri Gagarin]], the first human to journey into outer space.<ref name="Gagarin">{{cite web|url=https://www.pravdareport.com/society/124178-gagarin_death/|title=Gagarin's death: Obvious mystery|first=Dmitry|last=Sudakov|date=March 28, 2013|website=PravdaReport}}</ref
* [[Presidents of Mexico]], usually on the day of their funerals (these days are usually considered municipal and religious holidays in [[Mexico City]] and federal holidays in the rest of [[Mexico|the republic]].) [[Miguel de la Madrid]] in 2012 was the most recent.
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