During the life of EastEnders, there have been a total of 150 deaths, ranging from natural causes to murder, disasters, accidents, and suicide. Some deaths are minor characters or characters that haven't been seen but mentioned by regular characters in the program that may be linked, for example, Charlie Slater's wife Viv Slater was mentioned but not seen, and died off-screen in 1999.
Many regular characters are killed off-screen if the actor or actress portraying them have passed away in real life. For example, John Bardon, who played the role of Jim Branning passed away in 2014, and the character was killed off-screen a few months later. Some characters aren't killed off even when the actor dies in real life (it could be some years after they departed). However, some characters are still worded as dead even after the actor who played them has died. For example, Tommy Eytle who played the flirtatious old gentlemen Jules Tavernier passed away in 2007, over ten years after he left. The character hasn't been given any reference to being dead on-screen, although Jules' date of birth states the character would now be in his 100s, so he has presumably passed away.
Historical deaths (e.g. deaths of characters' parents which occurred years before the character appeared) are not included, except in cases where the deceased character had appeared in the programme and their cause of death and a rough timeframe are known, such as Angie Watts and Felix Kawalski
On-screen[]
Off-screen[]
No | Name | Date (Off-screen) |
Date of Funeral (On-screen) |
Details |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Reg Cox | February 1985 | Beaten to death by Nick Cotton | |
2 | Stuart | 26 September 1985 | Leukaemia | |
3 | Irene Holloway | 18 June 1987 | Lung cancer | |
4 | Lou Beale | 26 July 1988 | 28 July 1988 | Natural causes |
5 | Trevor Kellow | 9 February 1989 | Suicide by hanging | |
6 | Mr Vinnicombe | 23 February 1989 | Murdered by or on the orders of Jack Dalton for failing to kill Den Watts | |
7 | Benny Bloom | 12 September 1989 | Natural causes | |
8 | Charlie Cotton | 9 July 1991 | 25 July 1991 | Lorry accident |
9 | Eddie Royle | 10 September 1991 | Stabbed by Nick Cotton | |
10 | Mo Butcher | 31 December 1992 | Alzheimer's disease | |
11 | Stephanie Watson | 31 December 1992 | Struck by a car driven by Pat Butcher | |
12 | Pete Beale | 9 December 1993 | 23 December 1993 | Staged car accident |
13 | Rose Chapman | 9 December 1993 | Staged car accident | |
14 | Joe Wallace | 28 July 1994 | Complications from AIDS | |
15 | Andy Baker | Prior to 1995 | Hit over the head by Jimmy Doyle causing him to fall off a scaffolding | |
16 | Debbie Bates | 22 June 1995 | 29 June 1995 | Struck by a car |
17 | Clive Dixon | 2 October 1997 | Suicide by hanging himself | |
18 | Reenie Branning | 8 October 1999 | Pneumonia | |
19 | Mark Reynolds | 17 July 2001 | ||
20 | Barbara Owen | 26 July 2001 | Heart disease | |
21 | Harry Slater | 1 February 2002 | Heart attack | |
22 | Angie Watts | 8 April 2002 | 22 April 2002 | Cirrhosis of the liver due to alcoholism |
23 | Rosa di Marco | 24 June 2002 | Heart attack | |
24 | Edee (Edith) | 2003 | 8 December 2003 | Stroke |
25 | Geoff Morton | 4 March 2004 | Suicide by gunshot | |
26 | Mark Fowler | 12 April 2004 | 22 April 2004 | Complications from AIDS |
27 | Vivienne Hobbs | 28 June 2004 | 2 July 2004 | Still born after premature caesarian section |
28 | Paul Trueman | 23 December 2004 | Shot by a mob-affiliated hitman on orders from Andy Hunter | |
29 | Neil Miller | 18 March 2005 | Car accident | |
30 | Sue Miller | 18 March 2005 | Car accident | |
31 | Felix Kawalski | 2005 | Natural causes | |
32 | Nora Swann | 16 February 2006 | Pneumonia | |
33 | Margaret Wilson | 1 June 2006 | Fell and struck her head on a mantel | |
34 | Cedric Lucas | 13 October 2006 | Pancreatic cancer | |
35 | Frank Butcher | 31 March 2008 | 1 April 2008 | Throat cancer |
36 | Jack Edwards | 5 May 2010 | Car accident | |
37 | Harry Lewis | 2010 | Unknown reasons | |
38 | Billie Jackson | 9 October 2010 | Chocked on his own vomit from alcohol poisoning | |
39 | James Branning | 31 December 2010 | 11 January 2011 | Sudden infant death syndrome |
40 | Siobhan | 3 November 2011 | Cervical cancer | |
41 | Lorraine Stevens | 22 May 2012 | Pancreatitis caused by alcoholism | |
42 | Tony King | 26 July 2013 | Suicide | |
43 | Lucy Beale | 18 April 2014 | 20 May 2014 | Bludgeoned with a jewellery box by Bobby Beale |
44 | Carol Hanley | February 2015 | Cancer | |
45 | Jim Branning | 9 April 2015 | 23 April 2015 | Heart attack |
46 | Zaair Kazemi | 28 August 2015 | Stillborn | |
47 | Joel Reynolds | 28 January 2016 | Speedboat accident | |
48 | Stephanie Reynolds | 28 January 2016 | Speedboat accident | |
49 | Paul Coker | 18 July 2016 | Beaten to death by Simon Atmore and Frankie Byrne in a homophobic attack | |
50 | Luke Browning | 5 December 2017 | Killed by Aidan Maguire or his henchman | |
51 | Joyce Murray | 29 March 2018 | Natural causes | |
52 | Vincent Hubbard | 20 April 2018 | Shot by Aidan Maguire or his hitmen | |
53 | Dinah Wilson | 16 May 2019 | Suicide | |
54 | Lydia Dawkins | 25 September 2020 | Car crash | |
55 | Jonah Dawkins | 25 September 2020 | Car crash | |
56 | Jordan Johnson | Prior to 2021 | Heroin overdose | |
57 | Gavin Sullivan | 2021 | Heart attack | |
58 | Jags Panesar | 24 June 2021 | 20 July 2021 | Beaten to death in prison |
59 | Alex Atkins | 21 October 2021 | Natural Causes | |
60 | Craig Erskine | 7 July 2022 | Murdered in prison | |
61 | Dot Branning | 1 December 2022 | 12 December 2022 | Died in her sleep |
62 | Sal Martin | 1 January 2024 | 15 January 2024 |
Pre-1985[]
No | Name | Date | Details |
---|---|---|---|
TBA | Mrs Bagstock | Unknown | Drowned |
TBA | Wilfred Walter Bainbridge | 1941 | Died in battle during world war 2 |
TBA | Albert Beale | 11 September 1965 | Fatal heart defect |
TBA | Malcom Keeble | 27 January 1979 | Shot by Eric Mitchell during a robbery. |
Henry Kofi Asare | 1984 | Murdered by Eddie Knight |
Presumed Deaths[]
No | Name | Date of Presumed Death | Details |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Jake Moon | 20 October 2006 | Presumably murdered by a hitman on the orders of Johnny Allen |
2 | James Willmott-Brown | 28 December 2017 | Presumably died from a heart attack |
3 | Dylan Box | 14 December 2018 | Possibly killed by Stuart Highway off-screen after Stuart held him over a river |
4 | Mick Carter | 25 December 2022 | Presumably drowned at sea trying to save Linda Carter |
Fake Funerals[]
- Den Watts - 1 May 1990
- Cindy Beale - 12 November 1998
- Frank Butcher - 28 January 2002
- Denise Johnson - 23 July 2010
- Nick Cotton - 27 March 2014 - Part 1 and 27 March 2014 - Part 2
- Daniel Cook - 11 October 2019
Pets[]
- Rolf - Funeral (23 February 2007)