During the life of EastEnders, there have been a total of 130 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 Tommy Eytle 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
No | Name | Date/Episode | Details |
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1 | Hassan Osman | 20 June 1985 | Sudden infant death syndrome |
2 | Andy O'Brien | 14 August 1986 | Struck by a lorry |
3 | Tom Clements | 21 April 1988 | Heart attack |
4 | Donna Ludlow | 13 April 1989 | Choked on her own vomit following a suicidal heroin overdose |
5 | Harry Osborne | 20 February 1990 | Natural causes |
6 | Gill Fowler | 25 June 1992 | Complications from AIDS |
7 | Alan Hall | 8 March 1994 | Blast injuries from a fire started by Phil Mitchell |
8 | Arthur Fowler | 20 May 1996 | Intracerebral hemorrhage after being bludgeoned with a lead pipe |
9 | Tiffany Mitchell | 31 December 1998 | Skull fracture after being struck by a car driven by Frank Butcher |
10 | Saskia Duncan | 14 February 1999 | Bludgeoned with an ashtray by Steve Owen |
11 | Ethel Skinner | 7 September 2000 | Suicide by drug overdose assisted by Dot Cotton |
12 | Ashley Cotton | 14 June 2001 | Crashed on a motorbike sabotaged by Nick Cotton |
13 | Audrey Trueman | 7 September 2001 | Intracerebral hemorrhage from being struck by falling debris |
14 | Jane Williams | 11 January 2002 | Ovarian cancer |
15 | Steve Owen | 1 March 2002 | Blast injury from a car explosion, caused by himself |
16 | Tom Banks | 1 November 2002 | Blast injury from an explosion during a house fire, started by Trevor Morgan |
17 | Trevor Morgan | 1 November 2002 | Blast injury from an explosion during a house fire, started by himself |
18 | Jamie Mitchell | 25 December 2002 - Part 2 | Ruptured spleen after being struck by a car driven by Martin Fowler |
19 | Roy Evans | 17 March 2003 | Heart attack |
20 | Jack Dalton | 18 July 2003 | Shot by Dennis Rickman |
21 | Barry Evans | 1 January 2004 | Head injuries after being pushed down a cliff by Janine Butcher |
22 | Laura Beale | 30 April 2004 | Cervical fracture after falling down a flight of stairs |
23 | David Collins | 31 December 2004 | Huntington's disease |
Andy Hunter | 18 February 2005 | Pushed off a flyover by Johnny Allen | |
25 | Den Watts | 18 February 2005 | Bludgeoned with a doorstop by Chrissie Watts |
26 | Leo Taylor | 12 August 2005 | Suicide by heroin overdose |
27 | Nana Moon | 16 December 2005 | Aortic aneurysm |
28 | Dennis Rickman | 30 December 2005 | Stabbed by Danny Moon on orders from Johnny Allen |
Danny Moon | 31 March 2006 | Shot by Jake Moon | |
30 | Johnny Allen | 20 October 2006 | Heart attack |
31 | Evie Brown | 8 December 2006 | Breast cancer |
32 | Pauline Fowler | 25 December 2006 - Part 2 | Intracerebral hemorrhage after being bludgeoned with a frying pan by Joe Macer |
33 | Joe Macer | 26 January 2007 | Fell from a window |
34 | Jed | 9 March 2007 | Bus accident |
35 | Stella Crawford | 20 July 2007 | Suicide by jumping from a roof |
36 | Kevin Wicks | 31 December 2007 | Car accident, caused by himself |
37 | May Wright | 18 June 2008 | Suicide by gas explosion |
38 | Wellard | 15 August 2008 | Euthanised after being fed chocolate by Bianca Jackson |
39 | Jase Dyer | 28 August 2008 | Stabbed by Terry Bates |
40 | David | 19 December 2008 | Heart attack |
41 | Danielle Jones | 2 April 2009 | Struck by a car driven by Janine Butcher |
42 | Tommy Clifford | 23 April 2009 | Kidney failure |
43 | Trina Johnson | 3 September 2009 | Exsanguination after being impaled on a rake by Lucas Johnson |
44 | Owen Turner | 26 November 2009 | Strangled by Lucas Johnson |
4 | Archie Mitchell | 25 December 2009 | Bludgeoned with a bust by Stacey Slater |
Bradley Branning | 19 February 2010 | Fell from a roof | |
47 | Lydia Simmonds | 13 June 2011 | Natural causes |
48 | Rob Grayson | 25 August 2011 | Drowned during a fight with Ryan Malloy |
49 | Yusef Khan | 26 December 2011 | Building collapse during a house fire |
50 | Pat Evans | 1 January 2012 | Pancreatic cancer |
51 | Heather Trott | 21 March 2012 | Bludgeoned with a picture frame by Ben Mitchell |
52 | Derek Branning | 25 December 2012 | Heart attack |
53 | Michael Moon | 31 October 2013 | Stabbed by Janine Butcher |
54 | Carl White | 1 January 2014 | Bludgeoned with a car boot lid by Ronnie Mitchell |
55 | Tramp | 2 October 2014 | Ran over by Abi Branning |
56 | Emma Summerhayes | 1 January 2015 | Intracerebral haemorrhage after being struck by a car sabotaged by Nick Cotton and driven by Roxy Mitchell |
57 | Nick Cotton | 13 February 2015 | Respiratory failure following an impure heroin overdose |
58 | Cyril Bishop | 19 March 2015 | Cancer |
59 | Stan Carter | 10 April 2015 | Prostate cancer |
60 | Fatboy | 24 December 2015 | Crushed in a car by Ronnie Mitchell’s hitmen |
61 | Charlie Slater | 6 January 2016 | Heart attack |
62 | Peggy Mitchell | 17 May 2016 | Suicide by drug overdose |
63 | Margaret Midhurst | 5 July 2016 | Cervical fracture after being pushed off a balcony by Gavin Sullivan |
64 | Roxy Mitchell | 1 January 2017 | Drowned in a swimming pool |
65 | Ronnie Branning | 1 January 2017 | Drowned in a swimming pool |
66 | Sylvie Carter | 30 March 2017 | Electrocuted after inadvertently pulling a CD player into the bath |
67 | Steven Beale | 8 September 2017 | Cardiac arrest after a liver bleed from being pushed into a countertop by Max Branning |
68 | Abi Branning | 19 January 2018 | Life support withdrawn following brainstem death after falling from a roof |
69 | Shakil Kazemi | 25 May 2018 | Stabbed during a gang attack |
70 | Ray Kelly | 3 January 2019 - Part 2 | Shot by Hunter Owen |
71 | Harold Legg | 15 February 2019 | Pancreatic cancer |
72 | Hunter Owen | 6 September 2019 | Shot by armed police |
73 | Mel Owen | 14 November 2019 | Struck by a lorry |
74 | Leo King | 14 February 2020 | Stabbed by Whitney Dean |
75 | Dennis Rickman | 21 February 2020 | Drowned in a boat crash caused by Phil Mitchell |
76 | Daniel Cook | 27 February 2020 | Terminal cancer |
77 | Chantelle Atkins | 18 September 2020 | Impaled by a knife after being pushed onto an open dishwasher by Gray Atkins |
78 | Tina Carter | 28 December 2020 | Strangled by Gray Atkins |
Off-screen
No | Name | Date/Episode | Details |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Reg Cox | February 1985 | Bludgeoned with a lead pipe by Nick Cotton |
2 | Stuart | 26 September 1985 | Leukaemia |
3 | Irene Holloway | 18 June 1987 | Lung cancer |
4 | Lou Beale | 26 July 1988 | Natural causes |
5 | Trevor Kellow | 9 February 1989 | Suicide by hanging |
6 | Mr Vinnicombe | 23 February 1989 | Killed for failing to kill Den Watts |
7 | Benny Bloom | 12 September 1989 | Natural causes |
8 | Charlie Cotton | 9 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 | Staged car accident |
13 | Rose Chapman | 9 December 1993 | Staged car accident |
14 | Joe Wallace | 28 July 1994 | Complications from AIDS |
15 | Debbie Bates | 22 June 1995 | Struck by a car |
16 | Clive Dixon | 2 October 1997 | Suicide by hanging himself |
17 | Natasha Butcher | 27 November 1997 | Aborted because of spina bifida |
18 | Cindy Beale | 5 November 1998 | Pulmonary embolism during childbirth |
19 | Reenie Branning | 8 October 1999 | Pneumonia |
20 | Barbara Owen | 26 July 2001 | Heart disease |
21 | Harry Slater | 1 February 2002 | Heart attack |
22 | Angie Watts | 8 April 2002 | Cirrhosis of the liver due to alcoholism |
23 | Rosa di Marco | 24 June 2002 | Heart attack |
24 | Geoff Morton | 4 March 2004 | Suicide by gunshot |
25 | Mark Fowler | 12 April 2004 | Complications from AIDS |
26 | Vivienne Hobbs | 28 June 2004 | Placental abortion |
27 | Paul Trueman | 23 December 2004 | Shot by a mob-affiliated hitman on orders from Andy Hunter |
28 | Neil Miller | 18 March 2005 | Car accident |
29 | Sue Miller | 18 March 2005 | Car accident |
30 | Felix Kawalski | 2005 | Natural causes |
31 | Nora Swann | 16 February 2006 | Pneumonia |
32 | Margaret Wilson | 1 June 2006 | Fell and struck her head on a mantel |
33 | Cedric Lucas | 13 October 2006 | Pancreatic cancer |
34 | Frank Butcher | 31 March 2008 | Throat cancer |
35 | Jack Edwards | 5 May 2010 | Car accident |
36 | Billie Jackson | 9 October 2010 | Chocked on his own vomit from alcohol poisoning |
James Branning | 31 December 2010 | Sudden infant death syndrome | |
38 | Siobhan | 3 November 2011 | Cervical cancer |
39 | Lorraine Stevens | 22 May 2012 | Pancreatitis caused by alcoholism |
40 | Tony King | 26 July 2013 | Suicide |
41 | Lucy Beale | 18 April 2014 | Bludgeoned with a jewellery box by Bobby Beale |
42 | Carol Hanley | February 2015 | Cancer |
43 | Jim Branning | 9 April 2015 | Heart attack |
44 | Zaair Kazemi | 28 August 2015 | Stillborn |
45 | Joel Reynolds | 28 January 2016 | Speedboat accident |
46 | Stephanie Reynolds | 28 January 2016 | Speedboat accident |
47 | Paul Coker | 18 July2016 | Beaten to death by Simon Atmore and Frankie Byrne in a homophobic attack |
49 | Luke Browning | 5 December 2017 | Killed by thugs on the orders of Aidan Maguire |
50 | James Willmott-Brown | 28 December 2017 | Complications after a heart attack |
51 | Joyce Murray | 29 March 2018 | Natural causes |
52 | Dinah Wilson | 16 May 2019 | Suicide |
53 | Lydia Dawkins | 25 September 2020 | Car crash |
54 | Jonah Dawkins | 25 September 2020 | Car crash |