List of deaths in Emmerdale

Notice the discrepancies is Jacob Sugden's death date and the "moving headstone"?

Over the years there has been 102 deaths in Emmerdale Farm/Emmerdale since 1972. This is a list of deaths in the show since then, including Jacob Sugden, while he died 6 days before the show began, his funeral opened up the series on 16 October 1972.

This list also includes unseen characters and offscreen deaths, these are marked with an asterix*.

Deaths in Emmerdale Farm/Emmerdale

Character Name	Date of death	Cause of death	Age at death
Jacob Sugden *	10 October 1972	Pneumonia	56
Sharon Crossthwaite *	30 January 1973	Strangled by Jim Latimer	17
Trash - The Tramp	5 February 1973	Cervical fracture from falling out a window.	48
Peggy Skilbeck*	16 July 1973	Brian haemorrhage	25
Luke Brearly *	October 1973	Liver failure	Unk
Tom Ratcliffe *	May 1974	Unknown	Unk
Wally Lumm *	21 January 1975	Pneumonia	About 72
Sam and Sally Skilbeck *	13 January 1976	Railway accident	2
Beattie Dowton *	13 January 1976	Railway accident	Unk
Bella Ryland *	March 1976	Cancer	About 50
Percy Edgar *	1977	Old age	Unk
Jim Gimbel *	21 June 1977	Suicide by gunshot	53
George Verney*	September 1978	Natural causes	68
Rapist (Episode 518)	12 April 1979	Run over by motorbike	Unk
Harry Moore	13 May 1980	Heart attack	About 75
Enoch Tolly *	9 February 1981	Tractor accident	Unk
Sam Pearson *	27 November 1984	Old age	84
Jean Tate *	December 1984	Assisted suicide	Unk
Harry Mowlam *	23 January 1986	Beaten to death by Derek Warner	About 55
Pat Sugden	26 August 1986	Car crash	42
Mr Metcalfe	5 November 1987	Heart attack	About 70
Steve Fuller *	14 November 1988	Killed by a falling tree	About 42
Denis Rigg	6 July 1989	Crushed by a bull	49
Jackie Merrick	16 August 1989	Gunshot wound	24
Pete Whiteley	16 August 1990	Run over by Kate Sugden	27
Paolo Rosetti *	1 January 1991	Shot by an unknown assailant	Unk
Bill Whiteley *	30 July 1991	Old age	72
Henry Wilks *	3 October 1991	Heart attack	69
Meg Armstrong *	2 February 1993	Stroke	58
Wally Eagleton *	November 1993	Unknown	66
Mark Hughes *	30 December 1993	Crushed by falling wall during plane crash	20
Elizabeth Pollard *	30 December 1993	Struck by debris from plane crash	46
Leonard Kempinski	30 December 1993	Car crash caused by part of the plane	About 78
Archie Brooks	30 December 1993	Vapourised by aviation fuel from plane crash	30
Shirley Turner	7 June 1994	Shot by Reg Dawson	Unk
Reg Dawson	7 June 1994	Shot by police	About 40
Ben Dingle	9 August 1994	Heart defect	20
Alice Wood *	13 December 1994	Old age	Unk
Joe Sugden *	6 June 1995	Car accident in Spain	46
Luke McAllister	1 August 1995	Car accident	19
Jed Connell	11 April 1996	Shot by Nick Bates	Unk
Granny Hopwood *	22 August 1996	Old age	Unk
Dave Glover	26 December 1996	Burned to death	23
Ron Hudson *	8 May 1997	Huntingdons disease	Unk
Frank Tate	27 May 1997	Heart attack	59
Kate Sugden *	30 July 1997	Brain haemorrhage	45
Linda Fowler	21 October 1997	Car crash	19
Lord Alex Oakwell	1998	Fell off a roof	Unk
Vic Windsor	25 December 1998	Head injury during fight with Billy Hopwood	40
Rachel Hughes	11th May 1999	Pushed off a cliff by Graham Clark	27
Liam Hammond	11th November 1999	Shot by Zoe Tate	38
Graham Clark	18th February 2000	Car accident	29
Pete Collins	20 March 2000	Bus crash	25
Bob Simmons	20 March 2000	Bus crash	57
Butch Dingle	24 March 2000	Ruptured liver caused by bus crash	27
Sarah Sugden	16 November 2000	Barn fire caused by Andy Sugden	48
Jean Strickland	10th September 2001	Run over by Marc Reynolds	47
Edith Weatherall *	16th September 2002	Old age	Unk
DC Adrien Collins	22 November 2002	Car accident	Unk
Angie Reynolds	22 November 2002	Car accident	37
Jedediah Dingle	17 December 2002	Old age	81
Tony Bell *	25 December 2002	Stabbed by Ray Mullan	Unk
Ray Mullan	25 December 2002	Struck in self defense by Louise Appleton	46
Chris Tate	17 September 2003	Suicide by medication overdose	39
Tricia Dingle	8 January 2004	Injuries sustained after being crushed by falling bricks.	27
Paul Marsden	6 July 2004	Fell off a roof	About 25
Roger Dyson	24 November 2004	Heart attack	Unk
Shelley Williams	17 March 2005	Drowned	Unk
Max King	2 October 2005	Car crash	25
Seth Armstrong *	30 October 2005	Heart attack	78
Brian Addyman *	27 February 2006	Car accident	Unk
Terence Turner	13 April 2006	Stuck over the head with a fire extinguisher by Dr Adam Forsythe	53
Noreen Bell	13 July 2006	House collapse	Unk
David Brown	13 July 2006	House collapse	Unk
Dawn Woods	14 July 2006	Injuries sustained in house collapse	22
Alice Dingle	31 July 2006	Morphine overdose	29
Dr Adam Forsythe *	12 November 2006	Suicide by hanging	About 45
Tom King	25 December 2006	Pushed out of a window by Carl King	67
Len Reynolds	17 May 2007	Heart attack	70
Colin McFarlane	1 August 2007	Natural causes	Unk
DCI Grace Barraclough	27 September 2007	Run over by a lorry	Unk
Rosemary King	25 December 2007	Suicide by gunshot	61
Daniel Thomas	21 February 2008	Cot death	0
Donald De Souza	18 November 2008	Heart attack	75
Shane Doyle	1 December 2008	Struck over the head with a chair leg by Jasmine Thomas	28
Matthew King	16 December 2008	Car accident	40
Jack Sugden *	5 February 2009	Heart attack	61
Mark Wylde	14 January 2010	Shot by Natasha Wylde	50
Shadrach Dingle	23 July 2010	Drowned	62
Terry Woods	13 January 2011	Fire started by Nick Henshall	53
Viv Hope	13 January 2011	Fire started by Nick Henshall	54
DC Nick Henshall *	17 February 2011	Suicide by gunshot	About 50
Jackson Walsh	7th June 2011	Assisted suicide	21
Mia Macey *	8 November 2011	Car accident	19
John Barton	16 February 2012	Car accident	41
Car2020l King	17th October about2012	Hit with a brick by Cameron Murray	39
Alex Moss *	24 December 2012	Murdered by Cameron Murray	21
Gennie Walker	25 July 2013	Suffocated by Cameron Murray	25
Cameron Murray	17th October 2013	Drowned after being Electrocuted while fighting Debbie, Chas and Marlon	40
Alan Turner *	24 October 2013	Old age	78
Gemma Andrews	4 March 2014	Brain injury	15
Donna Windsor	14 August 2014	Jumped from a multi-storey car park	28
Gary North	14 August 2014	Fell from a multi-storey car park whilst handcuffed to Donna Windsor.	About 40
Robbie Lawson	25th September 2014	Shot with a flare gun by Declan Macey	24
Katie Sugden	5th February 2015	Pushed through rotten floorboards by Robert Sugden	28
Hilary Potts *	16th July 2015	Heart failure	66
Ruby Haswell	4th August 2015	Slashed across the abdomen by a helicopter blade	37
Val Pollard	4th August 2015	Impaled with a shard of glass	58
Suzie	3rd September 2015	Natural causes	Unk
Tess Harris	11th February 2016	Struck by a car driven by Kirin Kotecha	42
Edna Birch *	3rd May 2016	Ovarian cancer	79
Gordon Livesy *	12th May 2016	Suicide by hanging	40
Dylan *	18th May 2016	Pneumonia	Unk
Holly Barton	29th September 2016	Heroin overdose	25
James Barton	21st October 2016	Major trauma after being pushed off a bridge by Emma Barton	49
Joanie Wright	30th January 2017	Cardiac arrest	Unk
Ashley Thomas	7th April 2017	Pneumonia caused by vascular dementia	55
Finn Barton	5th October 2017	Cardiac arrest after accidentally being shot by Emma Barton	25
Emma Barton	6th October 2017	Pushed off a viaduct by Moira Dingle	49
Mrs Dumphreys	9th November 2017	Natural causes	87
Chrissie White	11th January 2018	Car accident	37
Lawrence White	11th January 2018	Car accident	74
Frank Clayton	1st August 2019	Factory Explsion caused by Amy Wyatt	about 60
Graham Foster	24th January 2020	Killed by Pierce Harris	About 50
DI Malone	19th August 2020	Shot by Dawn Taylor	about 50
Annie Sugden	Late August 2020	Old	100
Leanna Cavanagh	7th July 2021	Murdered By Meena Julta	18
Paul Ashdale	1st April 2021	Died after being in a barn expolosion	61 Years old
Andrea Tate	18th October 2021	Died in the maze fire	31 Years old

Deaths mentioned during the serial run but happened before 1972

Since 1972, several relatives of characters have been mentioned as having died before 1972 when the serial began. Here is a list of these unseen characters, and relation to the character seen in the series.

Name	Date of Death	Relation to regular character	Age, if mentioned
Samuel Gough	1801	4xgreat grandfather of Sam Pearson	Unknown
Elizabeth Gough	1801	4xgreat grandmother of Sam Pearson	Unknown
Hannah Elizabeth Gough	1803	3xgreat grandmother of Sam Pearson	19
Joshua Sugden	1855	3xgreat grandfather of Jack Sugden and Joe Sugden	About 22
Orton Sugden	1908	2xgreat grandfather of Jack Sugden and Joe Sugden	About 55
Isaac Dingle	1922	Great grandfather of Zak Dingle	Unknown
Millie Verney	1938	Wife of George Verney	About 25
Mary Nelson	1938	Wife of Charlie Nelson	About 22
Edward Sugden	941	Uncle of Jack Sugden and Joe Sugden	21
Mr Merrick	About 1945	Father of Tom Merrick	About 30
Jeremiah Braithwaite	1945	Uncle of Arthur Braithwaite	104
Mrs Merrick	About 1962	Mother of Tom Merrick	About 45
Joseph Sugden	1963	Grandfather of Jack and Joe Sugden	About 80
Margaret Sugden	1964	Grandmother of Jack and Joe Sugden	About 80
Grace Pearson	About 1968	Mother of Annie Sugden	About 70
Maggie Wilks	1971	Wife of Henry Wilks	About 50