List of state dinners in the United States

A state dinner in the United States is a formal dinner held in honor of a foreign head of state, such as a king, queen, president, or any head of government. It is hosted by the President of the United States and is usually held in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, D.C.^[1] Other formal dinners for important people of other nations, such as a prince or princess, are called official dinners, the difference being that the federal government does not pay for them. Nowadays these dinners are more often black tie rather than white tie (see formal wear).

The first state dinner was held on December 22, 1874, by President Ulysses S. Grant to welcome King Kalākaua of the Kingdom of Hawai'i.^[2]^[3]^[4]

United States state dinners include a variety of dining events across the world, including conferences and summits. They influence many nations and their dining events. State dinners today have a lot more political significance than formerly, and are notably attended by prime ministers and presidents accompanied by politicians, entertainment and security services.

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Date	Visiting Country	Guest(s) of Honor	Social Secretary
April 29, 1931^[5]	Thailand	Prajadhipok of Thailand	Mary Randolph
October 22, 1931^[6]	France	Pierre Laval

Date	Visiting Country	Guest(s) of Honor	Social Secretary
October 10, 1933^[7]	Panama	Harmodio Arias Madrid	Edith Benham Helm
June 8, 1939^[8]	United Kingdom	George VI of the United Kingdom
February 12, 1941^[9]	Luxembourg	Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
July 7, 1942^[10]	Colombia	Alfonso López Pumarejo
December 8, 1942^[11]	Cuba	Fulgencio Batista
June 9, 1943^[12]	Paraguay	Higinio Moríñigo
October 14, 1943^[13]	Haiti	Élie Lescot
January 19, 1944^[14]	Venezuela	Isaías Medina Angarita
June 7, 1944^[15]	Poland	Stanisław Mikołajczyk
August 24, 1944^[16]	Iceland	Sveinn Björnsson
March 23, 1945^[17]	Canada	Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone

Date	Visiting Country	Guest(s) of Honor	Social Secretary
August 22, 1945^[6]	France	Charles de Gaulle	Edith Benham Helm
November 10, 1945	Canada United Kingdom	William Lyon Mackenzie King Clement Attlee
April 29, 1947^[18]	Mexico	Miguel Alemán Valdés
April 4, 1949^[19]^[20]	Belgium Canada Denmark France Iceland Italy Luxembourg Netherlands Portugal United Kingdom	Paul-Henri Spaak, Robert Silvercruys [de] Lester B. Pearson, Humphrey Hume Wrong Gustav Rasmussen, Henrik Kauffmann Robert Schuman, Henri Bonnet Bjarni Benediktsson, Thor Thors Carlo Sforza, Alberto Tarchiani Joseph Bech, Hugues Le Gallais Dirk Stikker, Eelco van Kleffens Jose Caeiro da Mata, Pedro Teotónio Pereira Ernest Bevin, (Baron) Oliver Franks
May 18, 1949^[21]	Brazil	Eurico Gaspar Dutra
August 8, 1949^[22]	Philippines	Elpidio Quirino
November 16, 1949^[23]	Iran	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
March 28, 1951^[6]^[24]	France	Vincent Auriol
June 20, 1951^[25]	Ecuador	Galo Plaza
April 2, 1952^[26]	Netherlands	Juliana of the Netherlands

Date	Visiting Country	Guest(s) of Honor	Social Secretary
October 28, 1953^[27]	Greece	Paul of Greece	Mary Jane McCaffrey
January 27, 1954^[28]	Turkey	Celâl Bayar
May 26, 1954^[29]	Ethiopia	Haile Selassie of Ethiopia
July 26, 1954^[30]	South Korea	Syngman Rhee
October 18, 1954^[31]	Liberia	William Tubman
January 26, 1955^[32]	Haiti	Paul Magloire
May 8, 1957^[33]	South Vietnam	Ngo Dinh Diem
October 17, 1957^[34]	Canada	Elizabeth II of Canada
June 4, 1958^[35]	West Germany	Theodor Heuss
June 17, 1958^[36]	Philippines	Carlos P. Garcia
January 20, 1959^[37]	Argentina	Arturo Frondizi
March 10, 1959^[38]	El Salvador	José María Lemus
March 17, 1959^[39]	Ireland	Seán T. O'Kelly
May 11, 1959^[40]	Belgium	Baudouin of Belgium
September 15, 1959^[41]	Soviet Union	Nikita Khrushchev
October 9, 1959^[42]	Mexico	Adolfo López Mateos
October 26, 1959^[43]	Guinea	Ahmed Sékou Touré
April 5, 1960^[44]	Colombia	Alberto Lleras Camargo
April 22, 1960^[6]^[45]	France	Charles de Gaulle
April 27, 1960^[46]	Nepal	Mahendra of Nepal
June 3, 1960^[47]	Canada	John Diefenbaker
June 28, 1960	Thailand	Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand
September 27, 1960^[48]	Japan	Prince Akihito
October 11, 1960^[49]	Denmark	Frederik IX of Denmark

Date	Visiting Country	Guest(s) of Honor	Social Secretary	Entertainment
May 3, 1961^[50]	Tunisia	Habib Bourguiba	Letitia Baldrige
July 11, 1961^[51]	Pakistan	Ayub Khan		National Symphony Orchestra
September 19, 1961^[52]	Peru	Manuel Prado Ugarteche		Roberta Peters, Jerome Hines
October 4, 1961^[53]	Sudan	Ibrahim Abboud		American Shakespeare Theatre
November 7, 1961^[54]	India	Jawaharlal Nehru
February 13, 1962^[55]	Saudi Arabia	Saud of Saudi Arabia
April 11, 1962^[56]	Iran	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi		Ballets: U.S.A., Jerome Robbins
May 22, 1962^[57]	Ivory Coast	Félix Houphouët-Boigny		American Ballet Theatre
February 19, 1963^[58]	Venezuela	Rómulo Betancourt
March 27, 1963^[59]	Morocco	Hassan II of Morocco		New York City Center Light Opera Company
April 30, 1963^[60]	Luxembourg	Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg		Basil Rathbone, Consort Players
June 3, 1963^[61]	India	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan		Washington National Opera
September 5, 1963^[62]	Afghanistan	Mohammed Zahir Shah		Military bands
October 1, 1963^[63]	Ethiopia	Haile Selassie of Ethiopia		Joffrey Ballet
October 15, 1963^[64]	Ireland	Seán Lemass

List of state dinners in the United States

Ulysses S. Grant

Herbert Hoover

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Harry S. Truman

Dwight D. Eisenhower

John F. Kennedy

Lyndon B. Johnson

Richard Nixon

Gerald Ford

Jimmy Carter

Ronald Reagan

George H. W. Bush

Bill Clinton

George W. Bush

Barack Obama

Donald Trump (first presidency)

Joe Biden

Donald Trump (second presidency)

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Date	Visiting Country	Guest(s) of Honor	Location of Dinner	Social Secretary	Entertainment
December 29, 1963^[4]^[65]	West Germany	Ludwig Erhard	LBJ Ranch		Pianist Van Cliburn
January 14, 1964^[66]^[67]	Italy	Antonio Segni	White House	Bess Abell	Robert Merrill and The New Christy Minstrels
June 1, 1964^[68]	Israel	Levi Eshkol
October 5, 1964^[69]	Philippines	Diosdado Macapagal			Harkness Ballet
March 29, 1965^[70]	Upper Volta	Maurice Yaméogo			Dancers from the American Institute of Indian Art
May 17, 1965^[71]	South Korea	Park Chung-hee			Walter Trampler
December 14, 1965^[72]	Pakistan	Ayub Khan
June 21, 1966^[73]	Saudi Arabia	Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud			Fireworks
September 8, 1966^[74]	Burma	Ne Win
September 14, 1966^[75]	Philippines	Ferdinand Marcos			New York City Center Light Opera Company
September 28, 1966 (luncheon rather than dinner)^[76]	Senegal	Leopold Sedar Senghor
February 14, 1967^[77]	Ethiopia	Haile Selassie			Singers Richard Tucker and Nedda Casei
April 3, 1967^[78]	Turkey	Cevdet Sunay			Opera Company of Boston
June 27, 1967	Thailand	Bhumibol Adulydej of Thailand
October 26, 1967^[79]	Mexico	Gustavo Diaz-Ordaz			Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
November 1, 1967^[80]	Nepal	King Mahendra			Charlie Byrd
March 20, 1968^[81]	Paraguay	General Alfredo Stroessner
April 25, 1968^[82]	Norway	Olav V			Jeoffrey Ballet
May 15, 1968^[83]	Tunisia	Habib Bourguiba			Geoffrey Holder and Carmen de Lavallade
December 11, 1968^[84]	Kuwait	Sabah al-Salim al-Sabah			Robert Merrill and The New Christy Minstrels

Date	Visiting Country	Guest(s) of Honor	Social Secretary
March 24, 1969	Canada	Pierre Trudeau	Lucy A. Winchester
April 8, 1969	Jordan	King Hussein
May 6, 1969	Australia	John Gorton
May 19, 1969	Sierra Leone	Siaka Stevens
May 27, 1969	Netherlands	Petrus de Jong
June 12, 1969	Colombia	Carlos Lleras Restrepo
July 8, 1969	Ethiopia	Emperor Haile Selassie
August 8, 1969	West Germany	Kurt-Georg Kiesinger
September 16, 1969	New Zealand	Keith Holyoake
September 25, 1969	Israel	Golda Meir
October 7, 1969	Laos	Souvanna Phouma
October 21, 1969	Iran	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
November 20, 1969	Japan	Eisaku Satō
January 27, 1970	United Kingdom	Harold Wilson
February 24, 1970^[6]	France	Georges Pompidou
April 10, 1970	West Germany	Willy Brandt
April 14, 1970	Denmark	Hilmar Baunsgaard
May 27, 1970	Indonesia	Soeharto
June 2, 1970	Venezuela	Rafael Caldera Rodriguez
July 23, 1970	Finland	Urho Kekkonen
August 4, 1970	DR Congo	Joseph-Désiré Mobutu
December 17, 1970	United Kingdom	Edward Heath
February 18, 1971	Italy	Emilio Colombo
May 27, 1971	Saudi Arabia	Faisal of Saudi Arabia
October 28, 1971	Yugoslavia	Josip Broz Tito
November 4, 1971	India	Indira Gandhi
December 7, 1971	Brazil	Emílio Médici
March 21, 1972	Turkey	Nihat Erim
June 15, 1972	Mexico	Luis Echeverria
February 1, 1973	United Kingdom	Edward Heath
April 10, 1973	Singapore	Lee Kuan Yew
April 18, 1973	Italy	Giulio Andreotti
May 2, 1973	West Germany	Willy Brandt
May 15, 1973	Ethiopia	Haile Selassie
June 18, 1973	Soviet Union	Leonid Brezhnev
July 26, 1973	Iran	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
August 1, 1973	Japan	Kakuei Tanaka
September 20, 1973	Pakistan	Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
September 29, 1973	New Zealand	Norman Kirk
October 11, 1973	Ivory Coast	Felix Houphouet-Boigny
December 4, 1973	Romania	Nicolae Ceausescu
March 12, 1974 (hosted by Vice President Gerald Ford in Nixon's place)^[65]^[85]	Jordan	Hussein of Jordan

Date	Visiting Country	Guest(s) of Honor	Social Secretary
August 16, 1974	Jordan	Hussein of Jordan	Maria Downs
September 12, 1974	Israel	Yitzhak Rabin
September 25, 1974	Italy	Giovanni Leone
October 8, 1974	Poland	Edward Gierek
November 12, 1974	Austria	Bruno Kreisky
December 4, 1974	Canada	Pierre Trudeau
December 5, 1974	West Germany	Helmut Schmidt
February 5, 1975	Pakistan	Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
January 30, 1975	United Kingdom	Harold Wilson
April 19, 1975	Zambia	Kenneth Kaunda
April 29, 1975	Jordan	King Hussein of Jordan
May 1, 1975	Tunisia	Hedi Nouira
May 8, 1975	Singapore	Lee Kuan Yew
May 14, 1975	Netherlands	Joop den Uyl
May 15, 1975	Iran	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
June 11, 1975	Israel	Yitzhak Rabin
June 16, 1975	West Germany	Walter Scheel
August 5, 1975	Japan	Takeo Miki
September 25, 1975	Colombia	Alfonso Lopez Michelsen
October 2, 1975	Japan	Emperor Hirohito
October 27, 1975	Egypt	Anwar Sadat
November 12, 1975	Luxembourg	Gaston Thorn
January 27, 1976	Israel	Yitzhak Rabin
March 17, 1976	Ireland	Liam Cosgrave
March 30, 1976	Jordan	King Hussein of Jordan
May 17, 1976^[6]	France	Valery Giscard d'Estaing
June 2, 1976	Spain	King Juan Carlos
July 7, 1976	United Kingdom	Queen Elizabeth II
July 15, 1976	West Germany	Helmut Schmidt
July 27, 1976	Australia	Malcolm Fraser
August 3, 1976	Finland	Urho Kekkonen

September 21, 1976	Liberia	William Tolbert
December 6, 1976	Italy	Giulio Andreotti

Date	Visiting Country	Guest(s) of Honor	Social Secretary	Entertainment
February 14, 1977^[86]	Mexico	José López Portillo	Gretchen Poston	Rudolf Serkin
February 21, 1977^[86]	Canada	Pierre Trudeau		The Young Columbians
March 7, 1977^[86]	Israel	Yitzhak Rabin		The Alexandria Quartet
March 10, 1977^[86]	United Kingdom	James Callaghan		Robert White
March 21, 1977^[86]	Japan	Takeo Fukuda		The Tokyo String Quartet
April 4, 1977^[86]	Egypt	Anwar Al-Sadat
April 25, 1977^[86]	Jordan	King Hussein of Jordan		Wind Quartet from the Richmond Symphony
May 24, 1977^[86]	Saudi Arabia	Fahd of Saudi Arabia
June 22, 1977^[86]	Australia	Malcolm Fraser
June 28, 1977^[86]	Venezuela	Carlos Andrés Pérez		Cynthia Gregory and Ted Kivitt
July 13, 1977^[86]	West Germany	Helmut Schmidt		Members of the Metropolitan Opera Company
July 19, 1977^[86]	Israel	Menachem Begin
July 26, 1977^[86]	Italy	Giulio Andreotti		Shirley Verrett
August 4, 1977^[86]	Tanzania	Mwalimu Julius K. Neyere		The Richard Quintet
September 7, 1977^[86] (Dinner held in connection with the signing of the Torrijos–Carter Treaties regarding the transfer of the Panama Canal)^[87]	Paraguay Dominican Republic Bolivia Chile Costa Rica Venezuela Guatemala Colombia Honduras Peru Ecuador Argentina Uruguay El Salvador Canada Panama Jamaica Bahamas Grenada Brazil Guyana Haiti Nicaragua Mexico Trinidad and Tobago Suriname Barbados	Alfredo Stroessner Joaquin Balaguer Hugo Banzer Suarez Augusto Pinochet Ugarte Daniel Oduber Quiros Carlos Andres Perez Kjell Eugenio Laugerud Garcia Alfonso Lopez Michelsen Juan Alberto Melgar Castro Francisco Morales Bermudez Alfredo Poveda Burbano Jorge Rafael Videla Aparicio Mendez Carlos Humberto Romero Pierre Elliott Trudeau Omar Torrijos Herrera Michael Norman Manley Lynden O. Pindling Eric Gairy Adalberto Pereira dos Santos Ptolemy A. Reid Edner Brutus Cornelio Hueck Santiago Garcia Victor C. McIntyre Roel F. Karamat Oliver H. Jackman		Martina Arroyo, Isaac Stern and Andre Previn
September 9, 1977^[86]	France	Raymond Barre		Elizabeth Matesky
October 11, 1977^[86]	Nigeria	Olusegun Obasanjo		Susan Starr
October 19, 1977^[86]	Belgium	Leo Tindemans
November 15, 1977^[86]	Iran	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
March 7, 1978^[86]	Yugoslavia	Josip Broz Tito
April 12, 1978^[86]	Romania	Nicolae Ceaușescu		George Shearing, Clamma Dale
May 3, 1978^[86]	Japan	Takeo Fukuda
May 17, 1978^[86]	Zambia	Kenneth Kaunda		Mel Downs
June 13, 1978^[86]	India	Morarji Desai		James Weaver
November 14, 1978^[86]	Morocco	Hassan II of Morocco		Alvin Ailey
January 29, 1979^[86]	China	Deng Xiaoping
February 6, 1979^[86]	Thailand	Kriangsak Chomanan		The American Dance Machine
March 26, 1979^[86]	Egypt Israel	Anwar Al-Sadat Menachem Begin		Omar Khorshid and Gamal Abdel-Rahim Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman Leontyne Price
May 2, 1979^[86]	Japan	Masayoshi Ōhira		Bobby Short
September 28, 1979^[86]	Mexico	José López Portillo		Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
November 8, 1979^[86]	Ireland	Jack Lynch		Washington Opera
December 17, 1979^[86]	United Kingdom	Margaret Thatcher
January 24, 1980^[86]	Italy	Francesco Cossiga		Tom T. Hall
February 20, 1980^[86]	Kenya	Daniel arap Moi		Delphin & Romain
March 5, 1980^[86]	West Germany	Helmut Schmidt		The New York Jazz Repertory Company
April 8, 1980^[86]	Egypt	Anwar Al-Sadat		The Statler Brothers
April 15, 1980^[86]	Israel	Menachem Begin		The Guarneri String Quartet
April 22, 1980^[86]	Belgium	Baudouin of Belgium		New York Harp Ensemble
June 17, 1980^[86]	Jordan	King Hussein of Jordan		Andre Watts
October 7, 1980^[86]	Nigeria	Shehu Shagari		Cicely Tyson

Date	Visiting Country	Guest(s) of Honor	Social Secretary	Entertainment
February 26, 1981^[88]	United Kingdom	Margaret Thatcher	Mabel Brandon	Dance Theatre of Harlem^[89]
May 7, 1981	Japan	Zenkō Suzuki		Shirley Verrett^[89]
May 21, 1981	West Germany	Helmut Schmidt		Juilliard String Quartet^[89]
June 30, 1981	Australia	Malcolm Fraser		Vincent Dowling^[89]
August 5, 1981	Egypt	Anwar Sadat		Gold and Fizdale^[89]
September 9, 1981	Israel	Menachem Begin		Andre-Michel Schub^[89]
October 13, 1981	Spain	King Juan Carlos I		Ella Fitzgerald^[89]
November 2, 1981	Jordan	King Hussein I		Benny Goodman^[89] and Buddy Rich
November 17, 1981	Venezuela	Luis Herrera Campins		Robert Goulet^[89]
February 3, 1982	Egypt	Hosni Mubarak		Itzhak Perlman^[89] and Samuel Sanders^[89]
March 25, 1982	Italy	Sandro Pertini		Perry Como^[89] and Frank Sinatra^[89]
April 19, 1982	Netherlands	Queen Beatrix		George Shearing^[89] and Brian Torff^[89]
May 12, 1982	Brazil	João Figueiredo		Sérgio Mendes^[89]
July 29, 1982	India	Indira Gandhi		New York Philharmonic^[89]
September 16, 1982	Philippines	Ferdinand Marcos		The 5th Dimension^[89]
October 12, 1982	Indonesia	Suharto		Frederica von Stade^[89] and Martin Katz^[89]
December 7, 1982	Pakistan	Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq		Pinchas Zukerman,^[89] Eugenia Zukerman,^[89] and Marc Neikrug^[89]
April 12, 1983	Oman	Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said		Anna Moffo^[89] and Robert Merrill^[89]
June 7, 1983	Ivory Coast	Félix Houphouët-Boigny		Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center^[89]
July 19, 1983	Bahrain	Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa		Byron Janis^[89]
September 15, 1983	Portugal	António Ramalho Eanes		Sergio Franchi^[89]
October 4, 1983	West Germany	Karl Carstens		Sherrill Milnes^[89]
December 7, 1983	Nepal	King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah		Ferrante & Teicher^[89]
January 10, 1984	China	Zhao Ziyang		Isaac Stern^[89] and Andrew Wolf^[89]
February 28, 1984	Austria	Rudolf Kirchschläger		Peter Nero^[89] and Mel Torme^[89]
March 22, 1984^[6]	France	François Mitterrand		Julio Iglesias^[89]
April 10, 1984	Dominican Republic	Salvador Jorge Blanco		Wayne Newton^[89]
May 15, 1984	Mexico	Miguel de la Madrid		Gloria Loring^[89]
June 18, 1984	Sri Lanka	J.R. Jayewardene		Frank Sinatra^[89]
November 13, 1984	Luxembourg	Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg		Twyla Tharp Dance Company^[89]
December 4, 1984	Venezuela	Jaime Lusinchi		Andy Williams^[89]
February 11, 1985	Saudi Arabia	Fahd of Saudi Arabia		Montserrat Caballé^[89]
March 19, 1985	Argentina	Raúl Alfonsín		Pete Fountain^[89]
April 17, 1985	Algeria	Chadli Bendjedid		Fernando Bujones^[89] and Marianna Tcherkassky^[89]
June 12, 1985	India	Rajiv Gandhi		Mstislav Rostropovich^[89] and Lambert Orkis^[89]
July 23, 1985	China	Li Xiannian
September 10, 1985	Denmark	Poul Schlüter		Vic Damone^[89]
October 8, 1985^[90]	Singapore	Lee Kuan Yew		Karen Akers^[89] and Mark Hummel^[89]
January 14, 1986	Ecuador	León Febres Cordero		Jessye Norman^[89] and Phillip Moll^[89]
March 18, 1986	Canada	Brian Mulroney		Rosalyn Tureck^[89]
June 17, 1986	Uruguay	Julio María Sanguinetti		Dave Brubeck Quartet^[89]
September 10, 1986^[91]	Brazil	José Sarney	Linda Faulkner	Paul Anka^[89]
October 21, 1986	West Germany	Helmut Kohl		Joel Grey^[89]
March 31, 1987^[6]	France	Jacques Chirac		Dionne Warwick^[89]
April 30, 1987	Japan	Yasuhiro Nakasone		Henry Mancini^[89]
September 9, 1987	Sweden	Ingvar Carlsson		Marilyn Horne^[89] and Martin Katz^[89]
October 14, 1987	El Salvador	José Napoleón Duarte		Lionel Hampton^[89]
November 10, 1987	Israel	Chaim Herzog		Roberta Peters^[89] and Yakov Kreizberg^[89]
December 8, 1987^[88]	Soviet Union	Mikhail Gorbachev		Van Cliburn^[89]
January 28, 1988	Egypt	Hosni Mubarak		Patti Austin^[89] and David Benoit^[89]
April 27, 1988	Canada	Brian Mulroney		Bruce Hubbard^[89] and Larry Woodard^[89]
June 27, 1988	Turkey	Kenan Evren		Christopher Parkening^[89]
October 6, 1988	Mali	Moussa Traoré		Pete Fountain^[89]
November 16, 1988	United Kingdom	Margaret Thatcher		Michael Feinstein^[89]^[92]

Date	Visiting Country	Guest(s) of Honor	Social Secretary	Entertainment
April 4, 1989	Egypt	Hosni Mubarak	Laurie Firestone
April 6, 1989	Israel	Yitzak Shamir		Michael Carney Orchestra
April 19, 1989	Jordan	King Hussein I		Mstislav Rostropovich and Lambert Orkis
June 6, 1989	Pakistan	Benazir Bhutto		Itzhak Perlman
June 27, 1989	Australia	Robert Hawke		Leontyne Price
October 3, 1989	Mexico	Carlos Salinas de Gortari		Judy Kaye
October 11, 1989	Italy	Francesco Cossiga		Isaac Stern
January 24, 1990	Yemen	Ali Abdullah Saleh		Alessandra Marc
March 6, 1990	Italy	Giulio Andreotti		Roberta Peters
March 21, 1990	Poland	Tadeusz Mazowiecki		Garrick Ohlsson
May 5, 1990	Tunisia	Zine El Abidine Ben Ali		Harry Connick Jr.
May 30, 1990	Soviet Union	Mikhail Gorbachev		Frederica von Stade
October 18, 1990	Hungary	József Antall		Van Cliburn
February 20, 1991^[93]	Denmark	Queen Margrethe II		Frederica von Stade
March 20, 1991	Poland	Lech Wałęsa		Karen Akers
April 17, 1991^[93]	Nicaragua	Violeta Chamorro		Johnny Mathis
May 14, 1991^[93]	United Kingdom	Queen Elizabeth II Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
June 18, 1991^[93]	Brazil	Fernando Collor de Mello		Gloria Estefan
July 2, 1991^[93]	South Korea	Roh Tae Woo		Broadway production The Phantom of the Opera
September 10, 1991^[93]	Senegal	Abdou Diouf		Boys Choir of Harlem
September 26, 1991	Morocco	King Hassan II		Roberta Peters
February 26, 1992	Bolivia Colombia Ecuador Mexico Peru Venezuela	Jaime Paz Zamora César Gaviria Rodrigo Borja Cevallos Carlos Salinas de Gortari Alberto Fujimori Armando Durán
April 29, 1992	Germany	Richard von Weizsäcker
May 13, 1992	Chile	Patricio Aylwin		Yo-Yo Ma
June 16, 1992	Russia	Boris Yeltsin		Carol Vaness

Date	Visiting Country	Guest(s) of Honor	Social Secretary	Entertainment
November 23, 1993	South Korea	Kim Young-sam	Ann Stock	Jessye Norman
June 13, 1994	Japan	Emperor Akihito Empress Michiko		Mstislav Rostropovich
July 25, 1994	Israel Jordan	Yitzhak Rabin King Hussein I		United States Marine Band
September 27, 1994	Russia	Boris Yeltsin		Kathleen Battle
October 4, 1994	South Africa	Nelson Mandela		Whitney Houston
February 9, 1995	Germany	Helmut Kohl		Tony Bennett
March 15, 1995	Morocco	King Hassan II		Modern Jazz Quartet
April 20, 1995	Brazil	Fernando Cardoso		Ramsey Lewis and Billy Taylor
July 27, 1995	South Korea	Kim Young-sam		Liza Minnelli
October 10, 1995	Mexico	Ernesto Zedillo		Limon Dance Company
February 1, 1996^[6]	France	Jacques Chirac		Thomas Hampson
June 13, 1996	Ireland	Mary Robinson		Mary Chapin Carpenter and Mary Black
February 26, 1997	Chile	Eduardo Frei		Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, and Mark O'Connor
April 8, 1997	Canada	Jean Chrétien		Warren Jones and Denyce Graves
October 29, 1997	China	Jiang Zemin	Capricia Marshall	National Symphony Orchestra
February 5, 1998	United Kingdom	Tony Blair		Elton John and Stevie Wonder
May 6, 1998	Italy	Romano Prodi		David Miller and Marcus Haddock
June 9, 1998	South Korea	Kim Dae-jung		Hong Hei-kyung
September 16, 1998	Czech Republic	Václav Havel		Lou Reed
October 28, 1998	Colombia	Andrés Pastrana Arango		Ainhoa Arteta
January 11, 1999	Argentina	Carlos Menem		Robert Duvall and Luciana Pedraza
February 24, 1999	Ghana	Jerry Rawlings		Najee
April 8, 1999	China	Zhu Rongji		Yo-Yo Ma
May 3, 1999	Japan	Keizo Obuchi		Van Cliburn
June 8, 1999	Hungary	Árpád Göncz		Judy Collins and Cory Pesaturo
February 23, 2000	Spain	King Juan Carlos I		Placido Domingo
May 22, 2000	South Africa	Thabo Mbeki		Awadagin Pratt
June 20, 2000	Morocco	King Mohammed VI		Earth, Wind, & Fire
September 17, 2000	India	Atal Bihari Vajpayee		Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Date	Visiting Country	Guest(s) of Honor	Social Secretary	Entertainment
September 5, 2001	Mexico	Vicente Fox	Catherine Fenton	Dawn Upshaw
July 17, 2002^[94]	Poland	Aleksander Kwaśniewski		Vanessa Rubin
May 19, 2003	Philippines	Gloria Macapagal Arroyo		Susan Graham
October 6, 2003^[95]	Kenya	Mwai Kibaki		Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater^[96]
July 18, 2005^[97]	India	Manmohan Singh		Preservation Hall Jazz Band
November 2, 2005^[98]	United Kingdom	Charles, Prince of Wales Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall		Yo-Yo Ma
May 16, 2006^[99]	Australia	John Howard	Lea Berman	Kenny Chesney
June 29, 2006	Japan	Junichiro Koizumi	Lea Berman	The Brian Setzer Orchestra
May 7, 2007^[100]	United Kingdom	Queen Elizabeth II Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh	Amy Zantzinger	Itzhak Perlman^[101]
November 6, 2007^[6]^[102]	France	Nicolas Sarkozy		Reenactment of the Visit of the Marquis de Lafayette to the United States
September 15, 2008^[103]	Ghana	John Kufuor		Broadway production The Lion King
September 20, 2008^[104]	Colombia	Alvaro Uribe Velez
October 13, 2008^[105]	Italy	Silvio Berlusconi		Broadway production Jersey Boys

Date	Visiting Country	Guest(s) of Honor	Social Secretary	Entertainment
November 24, 2009	India	Manmohan Singh	Desiree Rogers	National Symphony Orchestra, Jennifer Hudson, Kurt Elling, and A. R. Rahman
May 19, 2010	Mexico	Felipe Calderon	Julianna Smoot	Beyoncé^[106] and Rodrigo y Gabriela^[106]
January 19, 2011^[107]	China	Hu Jintao	Julianna Smoot	Chris Botti,^[107] Dee Dee Bridgewater,^[107] Herbie Hancock,^[107] Lang Lang,^[107] Dianne Reeves,^[107] Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz^[107]
June 7, 2011^[108]	Germany	Angela Merkel	Jeremy Bernard	James Taylor^[108]
October 13, 2011^[109]	South Korea	Lee Myung-bak		Ahn Trio and Janelle Monae
March 14, 2012^[110]	United Kingdom	David Cameron		Mumford and Sons,^[110] John Legend^[110]
February 11, 2014^[6]^[111]	France	François Hollande		Mary J. Blige^[111]
April 28, 2015^[112]	Japan	Shinzō Abe		Cast of the film Jersey Boys^[112]
September 25, 2015^[113]	China	Xi Jinping	Deesha Dyer	Ne-Yo
March 10, 2016^[114]	Canada	Justin Trudeau		Sara Bareilles
May 13, 2016^[115]	Denmark Finland Iceland Norway Sweden	Lars Løkke Rasmussen Sauli Niinistö Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson Erna Solberg Stefan Löfven		Demi Lovato
August 2, 2016	Singapore	Lee Hsien Loong		Chrisette Michele
October 18, 2016^[116]	Italy	Matteo Renzi		Gwen Stefani

Date	Visiting Country	Guest(s) of Honor	Social Secretary	Entertainment
April 24, 2018^[117]	France	Emmanuel Macron	Rickie Niceta	Washington National Opera
September 20, 2019	Australia	Scott Morrison	Rickie Niceta	U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines Bands^[118]

Date	Visiting Country	Guest(s) of Honor	Social Secretary	Entertainment
December 1, 2022^[119]	France	Emmanuel Macron	Carlos Elizondo	Jon Batiste^[120]
April 26, 2023^[121]	South Korea	Yoon Suk Yeol		Norm Lewis, Jessica Vosk, Lea Salonga, Yoon Suk Yeol ^[a]^[126]
June 22, 2023	India	Narendra Modi		Joshua Bell^[127]
October 25, 2023	Australia	Anthony Albanese		U.S. Marine Band^[128]
April 10, 2024	Japan	Fumio Kishida		Paul Simon^[129]
May 23, 2024	Kenya	William Ruto		Brad Paisley, Gospel Choir of Howard University^[130]

Date	Visiting Country	Guest(s) of Honor	Social Secretary	Entertainment
November 18, 2025^[131]	Saudi Arabia	Mohammed bin Salman	Vacant	Christopher Macchio
April 28, 2026^[132]	United Kingdom	King Charles III Queen Camilla		U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines Bands^[133]
September 24, 2026^[134]	China	Xi Jinping