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A lot of characters have passed away on "Desperate Housewives". Here's a list:

MARY ALICE YOUNG (Brenda Strong): The narrator of the show commited suicide, shooting herself in the head, after receiving a blackmail note over kidnapping a baby (Dana a.k.a. Zach).

DEIRDRE TAYLOR (Jolie Jenkins): Zach's birth mother and former fiancé of Mike's, sold her baby to the Youngs and, after trying to get him back, was stabbed in the belly by Mary Alice.

MARTHA HUBER (Christine Estabrook): Former busibody neighbor who blackmailed Mary Alice and was murdered by an enraged Paul.

JUANITA SOLIS (Lupe Ontiveros): Carlos's mother, who found out about Gabby's affair with John, and tried to tell her son, but was ran over by Andrew, and fell into a coma. After she woke up, willing to tell her son the truth, she fell down the hospital stairs and died. A freaky death.

REX VAN DE KAMP (Steven Culp): Bree's first husband, who was poisoned by his rival, pharmacist George Williams, who fell in love with Bree.

GEORGE WILLIAMS (Roger Bart): Faked an attempt of suicide, but after confessing to Bree that he had murdered Rex, she left him to die.

MELANIE FOSTER (Joy Bisco): Matthew's girlfriend, back in Chicago, who everyone assumed to have been murdered by his brother Caleb. It turned out to be that Matthew himself killed her.

CURTIS MONROE (Michael Ironside): A private investigator (or hitman) who came to the Applewhites' to get Caleb, and make him pay for Melanie's murder. He fell through the Applewhites' rotten basement stairs and accidentally shot himself in the gut.

RALPH (THE GARDENER) (Alejandro Patino): The Solises' new gardener in season two. Carlos paid him to pay communitary service for him. Ralph was ran over by a moving bus or truck.

NOAH TAYLOR (Bob Gunton): Zach's biological wealthy grandfather, who suffered from a brain tumor. After telling his grandson that he would be cutting him off of his will, Zach killed him.

MATTHEW APPLEWHITE (Mehcad Brooks): Betty's younger son, who killed Melanie. He was shot by a sniper after almost shooting Bree. Matthew became the forth main character on the show to die (after Mary Alice, Rex and George).

MONIQUE POLIER (Kathleen York): Orson (and Harvey's) mistress who was murdered by Gloria, Orson's mom, who hit her over the head with Mike Delfino's wrench.

CAROLYN BIGSBY (Laurie Metcalf): Harvey's wife, who, after discovering he had an affair with Monique, caused a hostage situation in his supermarket. Carolyn was shot with her own gun.

NORA HUNTINGTON (Kiersten Warren): Lynette's rival, and Kayla's mom, who was shot by Carolyn during the hostage situation.

REBECCA SHEPHARD (Jennifer Dundas): Art's sister (Art, the presumed pedophile) who was ill and suffered from a cardiac arrest after enduring through all the scandal and speculation around her brother.

JANE HAINSWORTH (Cecily Gambrell): Ian's wife, who died during a coma from a fever, after her pressure started to drop.

EDWIN HODGE (Carl Mueller): Orson's father, who was murdered by Gloria after he had an affair.

ALMA HODGE (Valerie Mahaffey): Orson's ex-wife, who faked her death, and who raped him, trying to get him back. Alma (and a possible Hodge baby) died after she fell off the roof of her house, after Gloria locked her in the attic and she tried to escape.

GILBERT MCCLUSKEY (John Harnagel): Mrs. McCluskey's husband. She came home one day and found him dead on the couch. She then learnt that if he died, everything he owned would go to his first wife, so she put his body in her basement freezer.

ILENE BRITT (K Callan): Edie's mother, who died alone in a trailer watching game shows.

LILLIAN SIMMS (Ellen Geer): Katherine's aunt, who knows what happened in the mysterious room. She died of old age, and left a note to Dylan behind.

VICTOR LANG (John Slattery): Gabby's mayoral husband, who died during the tornado, while attempting to kill Carlos.

SYLVIA GREENE (Melora Walters): A mysterious woman from Adam's past, with whom he had an affair. She was blown away by the tornado.

AL KAMINSKY (James Luca McBride): Carlos's accountant, who was dealing with his offshore account on the Cayman Islands. He also died during the tornado.

IDA GREENBERG (Pat Crawford Brown): Elderly Wisteria Lane neighbor, who died under Mrs. McCluskey's wrecked house, during the tornado, and who gave her life to save the Scavo family.

ELLIE LEONARD (Justine Bateman): A hip artist and drug dealer that was living with the Solises. Wayne Davis shot her for an alibi when he was taking Katherine hostage.

WAYNE DAVIS (Gary Cole): Katherine's ex-husband, he threatened to hurt her and the present Dylan, so Katherine shot him to protect her family.

DYLAN DAVIS (Hailee Denham): The real Dylan, Katherine and Wayne's child, who died in an accident, and was replaced by present Dylan.

LILA DASH (Marie Caldare): A woman that gave birth to her daughter the same day Susan gave birth to Maynard. She was killed in a car crash along with her daughter. Lila is Dave Williams' first wife and only true love.

PAIGE DASH (Madeleine Michelle Dunn): Paige is Dave and Lila's little girl, who died in the same car crash that killed her mother.

DR. SAMUEL HELLER (Stephen Spinella): Dave's doctor, who treats the criminally insane; was murdered by Dave at "The White Horse" club, and was lit on fire.

GLEN WINGFIELD (Richard Chamberlain): Stella's ex-husband and Lynette's former stepfather, who turned out to be gay It was revealed in "Connect! Connect!" that he died, which led to Lynette putting her mother in a retirement home.

ELI SCRUGGS (Beau Bridges): The most notable one episode guest star, Eli was a handyman on Wisteria Lane, who helped the housewives a lot. Died in the 100th episode of the series.

BRADLEY SCOTT (David Starzyk): Carlos' former boss and unfaithful husband to his wife Maria, was murdered by her after confessing he had cheated.

EDIE BRITT (Nicollette Sheridan): The most notable character on the series to die after Mary Alice, Edie was the quintessential housewife of Wisteria Lane, who met an untimely end by being electrocuted after a car accident. Edie Britt became the fifth regular to die, when the previous one was killed off in the second season finale.

EMILY PORTSMITH (Julie McNiven): A nice waitress working at The Coffee Cup, a local café in Fairview. Everyone knew Emily, and everyone mourned her after she became the second known victim of the Fairview strangler.

JEFF BICKS (Dan Castellaneta): The pilot of a small plane that Karl hired to send a message to Bree, he suffered a heart attack during a heated arguement with his annoying wife.

MONA CLARK (Maria Cominis): A nosy neighbor with a big mouth, Mona blackmailed the Bolens after learning their big secret, and it all blew up in her face when the small plane that crashed WL made her the first known victim.

KARL MAYER (Richard Burgi): Susan's first husband, who got hit by the same plane he had hired to propose to his then-romantic partner Bree.

DAPHNE BICKS (Caroline Aaron): Pilot Jeff's nagging shrew of a wife, with whom he bickered constantly. She died upon impact of the plane.

PATRICK SCAVO (Zayne Emory and Anthony Traina): Lynette's unborn twin baby, who died from complications that resulted from Lynette saving Celia following the plane crash.

IRIS BECKLEY (Ellen Crawford): Rose de Luca's neighbor in NYC, who contacted Patrick Logan after she spotted Angie, and was eventually murdered by him as a result.

IRINA KORSAKOV (Helena Mattsson): Preston's trashy European girlfriend, who became one more of the Fairview Strangler's victims.

RAMONA (Jaime Sorrentini): A street prostitute who mocked Eddie's attempts to romance her and who wound up dying because of it.

BARBARA ORLOFSKY (Diane Farr): Eddie's mother, the epitome of "white trash", who constantly ridiculed his son and who died upon discovering that he had murdered several young women.

TERESA PRUITT (Patty McCormack): A hospital nurse who helped deliver several of the ladies' children, and who accidentally switched one of them due to a drinking condition.

PATRICK LOGAN (John Barrowman): Angie's psycho eco-terrorist ex-boyfriend, who had wild fantasies of saving the world via perilous violence, and who tracked her down in order to avenge himself and get in touch with his long-lost son... oh, and kill him too. Why not?

FRANK KAMINSKY (Larry Hagman): Stella Wingfield's third husband, a curmudgeonly millionaire with a racist and arrogant attitude, who died during a family photoshoot intended to be rubbed in the faces of all his former families.

BETH YOUNG (Emily Bergl): Felicia Tilman's quirky young daughter, who shot herself after being pushed away by both her mother and her husband Paul, in a manner very similar to his first wife's, and whose kidney would wind up saving Susan Delfino's life.

DICK BARROWS (Gregory Itzin): Susan's dialysis buddy, who died from a viral disease.

FELICIA TILMAN (Harriet Sansom Harris): Paul's arch-nemesis, who was ironically killed by her daughter's ashes (well, and an oncoming truck) after attempting to kill both Paul and Susan.

ALEJANDRO PEREZ (Tony Plana): Gabrielle's evil and abusive stepfather, who attacked her and got whacked by Carlos with a candlestick. The ladies all proceeded to cover up the murder, with severe implications.

CHUCK VANCE (Jonathan Cake): Bree's sweet and charming detective boyfriend, who turned out to not be so sweet and charming after she dumped him to protect her secrets. He got killed by a person (later revealed to be Orson) in a hit-and-run ordeal.

MIKE DELFINO (James Denton): The love of Susan's life, and the charming, hunky plumber, Mike was gunned down by a loan shark right after making clear to the woman of his dreams how much he loved her.

As the show goes on, I will keep updating the list. Anyway, who do you miss most? Or less? Express your condolences, your sorrow (or your happiness to have the show rid of some characters).