During the life of Coronation Street, there have been a total of 237 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 programme that maybe linked, for example, Minnie Caldwell's mother Amy Carlton was mentioned but not seen, and died off-screen in 1962.
Many regular characters are killed off-screen if the actor or actress portraying them have passed away in real life. For example, Bernard Youens, who played the role of Stan Ogden passed away in 1984, 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, Violet Carson who played the famous Ena Sharples passed away in 1983, over three years after she left. The character hasn't been given a funeral on-screen, although references to the character intimate that she has died.
Historical deaths (eg. 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 Elsie Tanner and Bill Gregory.
On-screen
No | Name | Date/Episode | Details |
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1 | May Hardman | 30th December 1960 |
Inoperable brain tumour - died alone at 13 Coronation Street |
2 | Martha Longhurst | 13th May 1964 | Heart attack in the snug of the Rovers Return |
3 | Robert Maxwell | 15th September 1965 | Heart attack following a car crash |
4 | Vera Lomax | 16th January 1967 | Inoperable brain tumour |
5 | Harry Hewitt | 4th September 1967 | Crushed to death when the jack slipped on a van he was repairing |
6 | Joe Donelli | 21st December 1970 | Suicide - turned a gun on himself inside 5 Coronation Street |
7 | Valerie Barlow | 27th January 1971 | Electrocuted due to a plug not screwed down properly |
8 | Lynn Johnson | 20th January 1975 | Battered to death by husband Roy Johnson inside 9 Coronation Street |
9 | Janet Barlow | 21st February 1977 | Overdosed on sleeping tablets |
10 | Ernest Bishop | 11th January 1978 | Shot by Ed Jackson during a robbery at Baldwin's Casuals |
11 | Renee Roberts | 30th July 1980 | Car crash |
12 | Brian Tilsley | 15th February 1989 | Fatally stabbed by Darren Whateley outside a nightclub |
13 | Alan Bradley | 8th December 1989 | Ran over by tram in Blackpool |
14 | Ted Sullivan | 9th September 1992 | Inoperable brain tumour |
15 | Lisa Duckworth | 12th February 1993 | Ran over in Coronation Street by John Hargreaves |
16 | Brendan Scott | 20th August 1993 | Heart attack in the Corner Shop |
17 | Samir Rachid | 2nd June 1995 | Injuries sustained after being struck with a lead pipe by youths at the canalside |
18 | Joyce Smedley | 21st February 1997 | Ran over by Tony Horrocks |
19 | Derek Wilton | 7th April 1997 | Heart attack following a road rage incident |
20 | Don Brennan | 8th October 1997 | Car exploded after crashing into the viaduct at the end of Coronation Street |
21 | Babs Fanshawe | 18th March 1998 | Heart attack |
22 | Anne Malone | 9th October 1998 | Froze to death inside the freezer unit at Freshco's |
23 | Des Barnes | 18th November 1998 | Heart attack caused by head injury |
24 | Alf Roberts | 1st January 1999 | Suffered a fatal stroke at Nick Tilsley's 18th birthday party |
25 | Sidney Templeton | 6th August 1999 | Natural causes |
26 | Judy Mallett | 26th September 1999 | Collapsed from an embolism in the backyard of 9 Coronation Street |
27 | Simon | 25th December 1999 | Cardiac arrest |
28 | Jake Webster | 5th June 2000 | Group B Streptococcus infection |
29 | Alison Webster | 7th June 2000 | Ran into the path of an oncoming lorry |
30 | Jez Quigley | 15th September 2000 | Injuries sustained in a beating delivered by Jim McDonald |
31 | Dean Sykes | 12th October 2000 | Shot by police markswoman Emma Taylor following the Freshco siege |
32 | Alma Halliwell | 17th June 2001 | Cervical cancer - passed away peacefully at 5 Grasmere Drive |
33 | Edna Miller | 19th September 2001 | Found lying in Duggie Ferguson's bed at the Rovers Return - cause of death unknown |
34 | Dennis Stringer | 2nd January 2002 | Car crash |
35 | Duggie Ferguson | 4th February 2002 | Injuries sustained after falling through a bannister at The Ridings property development, and left to die by Richard Hillman |
36 | Patricia Hillman | 20th May 2002 | Beaten over the head with a spade by ex-husband Richard Hillman |
37 | Maxine Peacock | 13th January 2003 | Bludgeoned to death with a crowbar by Richard Hillman at 4 Coronation Street |
38 | Richard Hillman | 14th March 2003 | Drowned when he plunged his car into Weatherfield Canal |
39 | Billy Platt | 2nd June 2004 | Complications of premature birth |
40 | Tommy Harris | 4th March 2005 | Hit in the head with a wrench by daughter Katy Harris |
41 | Ray Langton | 8th April 2005 | Stomach cancer |
42 | Katy Harris | 20th April 2005 | Suicide - induced a diabetic coma by not taking medication. Passed away at Weatherfield General |
43 | Mike Baldwin | 7th April 2006 | Heart attack following a short period of Alzheimer's disease |
44 | Fred Elliott | 9th October 2006 | Suffered a stroke at 5 Grasmere Drive |
45 | Charlie Stubbs | 15th January 2007 | Injuries sustained in a frenzied attack by Tracy Barlow |
46 | Kasia Barowicz | 16th April 2007 | Accidental fall at Underworld |
47 | Paul Connor | 6th June 2007 | Car crash |
48 | Frank Nichols | 3rd October 2007 | Old age |
49 | Vera Duckworth | 18th January 2008 | Heart failure - passed away peacefully at 9 Coronation Street |
50 | Paul Connor | 30th April 2008 | Stillborn |
51 | Liam Connor | 16th October 2008 | Murdered by Jimmy Dockerson in a hit-and-run plotted by Tony Gordon |
52 | Mike Scott | 30th January 2009 | Blood clot on the lung - collapsed and died outside Weatherfield General in front of Janice Battersby |
53 | Colin Grimshaw | 18th May 2009 | Suffered a stroke inside 11 Coronation Street |
54 | Joe McIntyre | 8th February 2010 | Accidentally drowned in Lake Windermere whilst faking his own death |
55 | Robbie Sloane | 7th June 2010 | Fatally shot by Tony Gordon |
56 | Tony Gordon | 9th June 2010 | Perished in the fire he started inside Underworld |
57 | Colin Fishwick | 30th July 2010 | Collapsed during a heated argument with John Stape and Charlotte Hoyle. Had previously sustained a severe brain haemorrhage in a beating from Ben Fielding |
58 | Jack Duckworth | 8th November 2010 | Non-Hodgkin lymphoma - passed away peacefully at 9 Coronation Street |
59 | Taxi Driver (Tram Crash Victim) | 6th December 2010 | Tram derailment in Coronation Street |
60 | Ashley Peacock | 8th December 2010 | Killed when The Joinery collapsed |
61 | Molly Dobbs | 9th December 2010 | Killed when a tram crashed into the Corner Shop |
62 | Charlotte Hoyle | 10th December 2010 | Hit in the head with a hammer by John Stape. Died when her life support machine was turned off at Weatherfield General with the blessing of her parents |
63 | Joy Fishwick | 10th January 2011 | Smothered by John Stape |
64 | Edna Hargreaves | 7th March 2011 | Died under a hairdryer at Audrey's Salon - cause of death unknown |
65 | John Stape | 28th October 2011 | Injuries sustained in a car crash |
66 | Frank Foster | 5th March 2012 | Bludgeoned with a whisky bottle by Anne Foster |
67 | Lesley Kershaw | 11th May 2012 | Electrocuted whilst putting the toaster into the sink at 11 Coronation Street |
68 | Eric Babbage | 25th February 2013 | Natural causes |
69 | Toni Griffiths | 20th March 2013 | Killed in an explosion at the Rovers Return Inn, where a fire was started by Karl Munro |
70 | Sunita Alahan | 3rd April 2013 | Breathing tube removed by Karl Munro after suffering injuries in the Rovers fire |
71 | Hayley Cropper | 20th January 2014 | Took her own life at 16a Victoria Street after suffering from terminal pancreatic cancer |
72 | Tina McIntyre | 2nd June 2014 | Injuries sustained after being bludgeoned with a pipe by Rob Donovan |
73 | Kal Nazir | 28th May 2015 | Killed in an explosion following a fire which broke out inside 12 Victoria Court which was started by Tracy Barlow |
74 | Maddie Heath | 1st June 2015 | Injuries sustained after an explosion at the builder's yard caused by the fire at 12 Victoria Court, which was started by Tracy Barlow |
75 | Callum Logan | 21st September 2015 | Bludgeoned with a wrench by Kylie Platt inside 8 Coronation Street |
76 | Kylie Platt | 15th July 2016 | Blood loss after being stabbed by Clayton Hibbs |
77 | Michael Rodwell | 18th November 2016 | Heart attack caused by Pat Phelan, who then watched him die |
78 | Ruairi McDonald | 11th January 2017 | Stillborn due to premature birth |
79 | Vinny Ashford | 27th October 2017 | Shot by Andy Carver under coercive instructions of Pat Phelan |
80 | Andy Carver | 27th October 2017 | Shot by Pat Phelan |
81 | Luke Britton | 5th January 2018 | Burned to death after his car's petrol tank exploded when Pat Phelan fired his gun at it |
82 | Pat Phelan | 1st June 2018 | Stabbed by Anna Windass, bled to death when he took the knife out of his body |
83 | Hassan Habeeb | 17th August 2018 | Stroke |
84 | Cormac Truman | 18th September 2018 | Drug overdose |
85 | Ronan Truman | 12th October 2018 | Impaled by fence after causing a car crash |
86 | Lewis Archer | 1st January 2019 | Unknown |
87 | Rana Habeeb | 20th March 2019 | Crushed when the roof of Underworld collapsed, which was later revealed to have been caused by Gary Windass |
88 | Rick Neelan | 19th June 2019 | Bludgeoned with a rock in self-defence by Gary Windass |
89 | Sinead Osbourne | 25th October 2019 | Cervical cancer |
90 | Richard Lucas | 18th December 2019 | Heart attack |
91 | Derek Milligan | 25th December 2019 | Fell from the top of the stairs of the helter-skelter at Weatherfield Winter Wonderland |
92 | Robert Preston | 25th December 2019 | Accidentally shot by Derek Milligan |
93 | Oliver Battersby | 27th November 2020 | Mitochondrial disease |
94 | Geoff Metcalfe | 9th December 2020 | Fell off the roof of 6 Coronation Street |
95 | Seb Franklin | 7th May 2021 | Brain haemorrhage following an unprovoked gang attack led by Corey Brent |
96 | Johnny Connor | 18th October 2021 | Drowned in the sewers after helping to rescue estranged wife Jenny |
97 | Hashim Elamin | 10th December 2021 | Heart attack |
98 | Laura Neelan | 8th April 2022 | Stomach cancer |
99 | Imran Habeeb | 30th May 2022 | Cardiac arrest following a car crash |
100 | Leo Thompkins | 26th September 2022 | Dumped off the Underworld gantry by Stephen Reid |
101 | Teddy Thompkins | 20th January 2023 | Bludgeoned with a hole punch by Stephen Reid |
102 | Rufus Donahue | 12th April 2023 | Forcibly drowned by Stephen Reid in his own swimming pool |
103 | Stephen Reid | 13th October 2023 | Ran over by Peter Barlow |
Off-screen
No | Name | Date/Episode | Details |
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1 | Ida Barlow | 11th September 1961 | Hit by a bus in Gray Street |
2 | Joan Walker | Late March 1962 | Cause of death unknown |
3 | Amy Carlton | 4th July 1962 | Old age |
4 | Councillor Woodstock | September 1962 | Cause of death unknown |
5 | Colin Appleby | 12th October 1962 | Car crash |
6 | Alice Raybould | 21st March 1963 | Natural causes |
7 | Susan Schofield | 27th January 1964 | Hit by a lorry outside Bessie Street School |
8 | Nellie Bailey | 18th October 1964 | Cancer |
9 | Nellie Booth | Late 1964 | Cause of death unknown |
10 | Mrs. Briggs | Late 1964 | Cause of death unknown |
11 | Ernie Lewthwaite | 23rd November 1966 | Heart attack |
12 | Sonia Peters | 10th May 1967 | Crushed when a goods train derailed off the viaduct |
13 | Steve Tanner | 25th September 1968 | Pushed down a flight of stairs by Joe Donelli |
14 | Caroline Bishop | 13th June 1969 | Cause of death unknown |
15 | Reg Ellis | 5th November 1969 | Injuries sustained after Lake District coach crash |
16 | David Barlow | 8th April 1970 | Killed in a car crash in Australia |
17 | Darren Barlow | 9th April 1970 | Killed in a car crash in Australia |
18 | Jack Walker | 30th June 1970 | Heart attack |
19 | Phyllis Roberts | 18th September 1972 | Cancer |
20 | Herbert James | 27th April 1973 | Heart attack |
21 | Tom Schofield | 7th May 1973 | Old age |
22 | Cyril Turpin | 25th February 1974 | Heart attack |
23 | Martin Downes | March 1975 | Car crash while serving the army in Northern Ireland |
24 | Edna Gee | 1st October 1975 | Burned to death in the Mark Brittain Warehouse fire |
25 | Jerry Booth | 10th November 1975 | Heart attack |
26 | Edith Platt | 17th August 1977 | Heart attack |
27 | Dora Entwistle | Early 1980 | Cause of death unknown |
28 | Monty Shawcross | 9th November 1980 | Heart attack |
29 | Amy Wilton | 1981 | Cause of death unknown |
30 | Edward Wormold | 1981 | Cause of death unknown |
31 | Arnold Swain | December 1981 | Natural causes |
32 | Frankie Baldwin | 4th July 1982 | Heart attack |
33 | Archie Crabtree | 16th May 1983 | Stroke |
34 | Len Fairclough | 7th December 1983 | Motorway accident. Len was returning from a date with Marjorie Proctor |
35 | Bert Tilsley | 16th January 1984 | Natural causes |
36 | Albert Tatlock | 14th May 1984 | Heart attack |
37 | Stan Ogden | 21st November 1984 | Illness |
38 | Don Ashton | 3rd June 1985 | Drowned when car plunged into the canal |
39 | Pat Bradley | 6th January 1986 | Hit by a car |
40 | Ada Arrowsmith | 23rd April 1986 | Pneumonia |
41 | Joan Lowther | 23rd November 1987 | Heart attack following an attack by intruders at her home |
42 | Eddie Seddon | 11th January 1989 | Injuries sustained in a lorry crash |
43 | Peter Ingram | 17th August 1990 | Heart attack |
44 | Amy Burton | 18th February 1991 | Heart attack |
45 | Joyce Shaw | 15th July 1991 | Heart attack |
46 | Sandra Arden | 19th July 1991 | Car crash in Whitby |
47 | Tim Arden | 19th July 1991 | Car crash in Whitby |
48 | Cyril Marsden | 24th November 1991 | Natural causes |
49 | Harry Redman | December 1991 | Cause of death unknown |
50 | Katie McDonald | 3rd January 1992 | Complications of premature birth |
51 | Nobby Clarke | 1992 | Cause of death unknown |
52 | Arthur Titchum | February 1992 | Heart attack |
53 | Les Curry | 4th May 1993 | Heart attack |
54 | Joss Shackleton | 8th November 1993 | Natural causes |
55 | Mandy Baker | 24th March 1994 | Asthma attack |
56 | Jim Sedgewick | December 1994 | Cause of death unknown |
57 | Clifford Duckworth | 21st June 1995 | Car crash while holidaying in Malaga |
58 | Elsie Duckworth | 21st June 1995 | Car crash while holidaying in Malaga |
59 | Ivy Brennan | 23rd August 1995 | Stroke |
60 | Charlie Hunter | 4th May 1996 | Heart attack |
61 | Maisie McDonald | 1st July 1996 | Haemorrhage |
62 | Tommy Mook | 9th August 1996 | Heart attack |
63 | Billy Williams | 3rd November 1997 | Heart attack |
64 | Fred Gee | 1998 | Heart attack |
65 | Harry Patterson | 2nd February 1998 | Cause of death unknown |
66 | Shannon Tattersall | 17th April 1998 | Meningitis |
67 | Elsie Seddon | 25th May 1998 | Stroke |
68 | Bernard Bottomley | January 1999 | Cause of death unknown |
69 | Tony Horrocks | 6th February 1999 | Bludgeoned with a baseball bat by Jez Quigley |
70 | Walter Byford | 7th February 1999 | Old age |
71 | Raj Desai | 30th October 1999 | Cancer |
72 | John McDonald | 28th April 2000 | Unknown |
73 | Susan Barlow | 11th February 2001 | Car crash |
74 | Isabel Stephens | 24th June 2001 | Heart failure following a long period of Alzheimer's disease |
75 | Jimmy Kelly | July 2001 | Natural causes |
76 | Sharon Unwin | 16th March 2003 | Internal bleeding from perforated stomach ulcer |
77 | Maurice Preston | September 2003 | Cancer |
78 | Neil Fearns | 13th September 2003 | Car crash |
79 | Preston King | 5th November 2003 | Heart attack |
80 | Cecil Newton | 28th November 2003 | Heart attack |
81 | Margaret Phillips | 25th August 2004 | Cause of death unknown |
82 | Bill Gregory | c.2004 (exact date/month unknown) | Car crash in Portugal |
83 | Elsie Tanner | c.2004 (exact date/month unknown) | Car crash in Portugal |
84 | Royston Cropper | 2005 | Cause of death unknown |
85 | Harry Baldwin | 25th July 2005 | Cause of death unknown |
86 | Lena Thistlewood | 1st January 2006 | Cause of death unknown |
87 | Betty | May 2006 | Cause of death unknown |
88 | Angela Hawthorne | 4th August 2007 | Heart attack |
89 | Aunty Monica | August 2007 | Cause of death unknown |
90 | Nel | 5th September 2008 | Cause of death unknown |
91 | Lucy Barlow | 2nd October 2008 | Breast cancer |
92 | Ramsay Clegg | 26th August 2009 | Inoperable brain tumour - passed away on his flight back to Australia |
93 | Blanche Hunt | 3rd May 2010 | Suffered heart attack whilst holidaying in Portugal |
94 | Quinny | 15th November 2010 | Killed in action serving in Afghanistan |
95 | Roger Goodwin | March 2011 | Cause of death unknown |
96 | Jenny Butler | April 2011 | Heroin overdose |
97 | Sharon Donovan | June 2011 | Cause of death unknown |
98 | Jonno Richardson | 8th December 2011 | Collapsed due to liver failure |
99 | Sam Foster | 6th January 2012 | Heart attack |
100 | Jeff Horton | 5th April 2012 | Heart attack |
101 | Betty Williams | 16th April 2012 | Natural causes |
102 | Meredith McGuire | 23rd September 2012 | Natural causes |
103 | St. John Cropper | 9th February 2013 | Heart attack |
104 | Jane Rayner | 7th November 2013 | Pancreatic cancer |
105 | George | March 2014 | Heart attack |
106 | Lenny Baker | October 2014 | Cause of death unknown |
107 | Gavin Rodwell | 13th March 2015 | Heart attack which caused car crash |
108 | Lucy | 20th April 2015 | Cancer |
109 | Deirdre Barlow | 8th July 2015 | Aneurysm |
110 | Tony Stewart | April 2016 | Suspected heart attack |
111 | Mrs. Moss | April 2017 | Cause of death unknown |
112 | Drew Spellman | 19th June 2017 | Heart failure |
113 | Lara Cutler | 2nd October 2017 | Jumped onto a train track |
114 | Katy Armstrong | 18th October 2017 | Car crash in Portugal |
115 | Aidan Connor | 7th May 2018 | Took his own life following months of depressive thoughts |
116 | Jackie Dobbs | 23rd July 2018 | Cause of death unknown |
117 | Joey Buchanan | October 2018 | Murdered by Ronan Truman |
118 | Steff Mulvenney | 11th December 2018 | Cancer |
119 | Archie Shuttleworth | 12th December 2018 | Cause of death unknown |
120 | Sylvia Goodwin | 23rd January 2019 | Heart attack |
121 | Dane Hibbs | 1st February 2019 | Drug overdose |
122 | John Brooker | 12th August 2019 | Stomach cancer |
123 | Dennis Tanner | 2020 | Dementia-related illness |
124 | Kel Hinchley | 2020 | Drowned after falling into the canal |
125 | Beryl Medwin | Late 2020 | Stroke |
126 | Kirsty Soames | 2021 | Aneurysm |
127 | Ted Page | February 2021 | Cause of death unknown |
128 | Liam | 2021 | Complications of birth |
129 | Joe Chissick | 8th February 2021 | Accidental overdose |
130 | Norris Cole | 15th September 2021 | Stroke |
131 | Natasha Blakeman | 19th October 2021 | Internal bleeding after being shot by Harvey Gaskell |
132 | Ted Spear | 1st January 2022 | Blood clot |
133 | Bill Webster | April 2023 | Cause of death unknown |
134 | Melvyn | 10th April 2023 | Heart attack |
135 | Shelly Rossington | 15th September 2023 | Respiratory failure caused by Motor neurone disease |