List of deaths

A list of all character deaths that have featured in Emmerdale's storylines, totalling to 203 deaths. These range from murders to manslaughters, crashes to hit-and-runs, disasters and suicides. The deaths listed include regular and guest characters, as well as characters that have been mentioned to have died some point post-October 1972. For example, Frank Tate's wife Jean Tate Sr. was mentioned at times between 1989 and 1997, but not seen, and died in 1984.
A regular character is usually killed off if the actor has passed away in real life, whilst their character is still appearing on-screen. For example, Arthur Pentelow passed away in August 1991, and his character Henry Wilks was killed off in October 1991. Sometimes, a character isn't killed off even if the actor playing them has died in real life. For example, Ronald Magill died in 2007, but his character Amos Brearly hasn't been worded dead.
Emmerdale has been noted for its frequent and dramatic deaths. As a matter of fact, Emmerdale's first episode began with the funeral of Jacob Sugden. A plane crash in December 1993 that killed all the two-hundred and fifty passengers and nine characters on the ground was watched by 17 million viewers, and doubled subsequent ratings. Despite the fact there were a total of 259 deaths in the Plane Crash, only characters that have been named appear on the list and count towards the total.
==On-screen deaths==
No.	Date 	Character 	Cause
 	19th February 1973 	Ian 'Trash' McIntyre 	Fell from second-storey window
 	12th April 1979 	Unknown Man 	Hit by a motorbike driven by Smarty Garret and Poor Ocker
 	19th February 1981 	Enoch Tolly 	Crushed after flipping his tractor
 	28th January 1986 	Harry Mowlam 	Drowned after being viciously assaulted by Derek Warner
 	26th August 1986 	Pat Sugden 	Car accident
 	5th November 1987 	Mr. Metcalfe 	Heart attack
 	6th July 1989 	Denis Rigg 	Gored by a bull
 	16th August 1989 	Jackie Merrick 	Accidental gunshot wound
 	16th August 1990 	Pete Whiteley 	Injuries sustained after being run over by Kate Sugden
 	30th December 1993 	Archie Brooks 	Incinerated by a fireball during the plane crash
 	30th December 1993 	Leonard Kempinski 	Car accident during the plane crash
 	31st May 1994 	Simmy 	Shot by Reg Dawson
 	7th June 1994 	Shirley Turner 	Accidentally shot by Reg Dawson
 	7th June 1994 	Reg Dawson 	Shot by a police marksman
 	9th August 1994 	Ben Dingle 	Heart defect
 	1st August 1995 	Luke McAllister 	Van explosion
 	11th April 1996 	Jeremy 'Jed' Connell 	Shot by Nick Bates
 	26th December 1996 	Dave Glover 	Injuries sustained from a fire at Home Farm
 	27th May 1997 	Frank Tate 	Heart attack
 	21st October 1997 	Linda Fowler 	Car accident caused by Alex Oakwell
 	20th November 1998 	Lord Alex Oakwell 	Fell off a roof
 	25th December 1998 	Vic Windsor 	Head injuries sustained after falling against a fridge cabinet during robbery
 	11th May 1999 	Rachel Hughes 	Pushed off a cliff by Graham Clark
 	11th November 1999 	Liam Hammond 	Shot by Zoe Tate
 	18th February 2000 	Graham Clark 	Car explosion after accidentally driving off a cliff
 	20th March 2000 	Pete Collins 	Bus crash
 	20th March 2000 	Patricia Holmes 	Bus crash
 	20th March 2000 	Bob Simmonds 	Bus crash
 	24th March 2000 	Butch Dingle 	Injuries sustained from the bus crash
 	16th November 2000 	Sarah Sugden 	Barn explosion caused by Andy Sugden
 	10th September 2001 	Barbara Strickland 	Run over by Marc Reynolds
 	9th September 2002 	Harry Partridge 	Heart attack
 	22nd November 2002 	DC Adrien Collins 	Car accident
 	22nd November 2002 	Angie Reynolds 	Car accident
 	17th December 2002 	Jedediah Dingle 	Natural Causes
 	26th December 2002 	Ray Mullan 	Broken neck from falling down stairs after being struck in self-defence by Louise Appleton
 	17th September 2003 	Chris Tate 	Suicide by poisoning himself
 	8th January 2004 	Tricia Dingle 	Internal injuries sustained from being crushed by falling bricks during the storm
 	6th July 2004 	Paul Marsden 	Fell off scaffolding
 	24th November 2004 	Roger Dyson 	Heart attack
 	17th March 2005 	Shelly Williams 	Drowned after falling from a cruise ship
 	2nd October 2005 	Max King 	Car explosion following a crash
 	13th April 2006 	Terence Turner 	Fell down stairs after being struck with a fire extinguisher by Adam Forsythe
 	13th July 2006 	Noreen Bell 	House collapse
 	14th July 2006 	David Brown 	House collapse
 	14th July 2006 	Dawn Woods 	Injuries sustained in house collapse
 	31st July 2006 	Alice Dingle 	Assisted suicide; morphine overdose administered by Sam Dingle
 	25th December 2006 	Tom King 	Accidentally pushed out of a window by Carl King
 	17th May 2007 	Len Reynolds 	Heart attack
 	1st August 2007 	Colin McFarlane 	Natural causes
 	27th September 2007 	DCI Grace Barraclough 	Run over by a lorry
 	21st February 2008 	Daniel Thomas 	Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
 	18th November 2008 	Donald De Souza 	Heart attack
 	2nd December 2008 	Shane Doyle 	Bludgeoned with a chair leg by Jasmine Thomas
 	16th December 2008 	Matthew King 	Injuries sustained after being catapulted through van windshield
 	12th January 2010 	Mark Wylde 	Shot by Natasha Wylde
 	23rd July 2010 	Shadrach Dingle 	Drowned in The Ford after collapsing due to liver problems
 	13th January 2011 	Viv Hope 	Post Office explosion caused by Nick Henshall
 	13th January 2011 	Terry Woods 	Post Office explosion caused by Nick Henshall
 	17th February 2011 	Nick Henshall 	Suicide by gunshot
 	7th June 2011 	Jackson Walsh 	Assisted suicide; overdose administered by Aaron Livesy
 	16th February 2012 	John Barton 	Injuries sustained in a car accident
 	17th October 2012 	Carl King 	Bludgeoned with a brick by Cameron Murray
 	25th July 2013 	Gennie Walker 	Suffocated by Cameron Murray, whilst injured following a car accident
 	17th October 2013 	Cameron Murray 	Electrocuted after The Woolpack Siege
 	4th March 2014 	Gemma Andrews 	Head injuries sustained in a fight with Belle Dingle
 	14th August 2014 	Donna Windsor 	Jumped from a multi-storey car park
 	14th August 2014 	Gary North 	Fell from multi-storey car park whilst handcuffed to Donna Windsor
 	25th September 2014 	Robbie Lawson 	Accidentally shot with a flare gun by Declan Macey
 	5th February 2015 	Katie Sugden 	Fell through rotten floorboards after being pushed by Robert Sugden
 	4th August 2015 	Unknown helicopter pilot	Helicopter crash at the village hall
 	4th August 2015 	Ruby Haswell 	Injuries in stomach from debris after a helicopter crashed into the village hall
 	4th August 2015 	Val Pollard 	Hit by a falling shard of glass in the mirror maze due to the helicopter explosion at the village hall
 	3rd September 2015 	Suzie 	Heart attack
 	11th February 2016 	Tess Harris 	Ran over by Kirin Kotecha
 	29th September 2016 	Holly Barton 	Heroin overdose
 	17th October 2016 	James Barton 	Injuries sustained after being accidentally pushed off a bridge by Emma Barton
 	30th January 2017 	Joanie Dingle 	Cardiac arrest
 	7th April 2017 	Ashley Thomas 	Pneumonia
 	3rd October 2017 	Finn Barton 	Cardiac arrest after accidentally being shot by Emma Barton
 	3rd October 2017 	Emma Barton 	Pushed off the Hotten Viaduct by Moira Dingle
 	9th November 2017 	Amelia Dumphreys 	Unknown causes - died under the hairdryer in Beauty & Bernice
 	11th January 2018 	Lawrence White 	Car crash caused by Lachlan White
 	11th January 2018 	Chrissie White 	Injuries sustained in a car crash caused by Lachlan White
 	17th May 2018 	Gerry Roberts 	Crushed with a rock by Lachlan White
 	31st July 2018 (flashback)	Cheryl Foster 	Car explosion following a crash caused by Graham Foster
 	1st October 2018 	Grace Dingle 	Biateral Renal Agenesis
 	23rd May 2019 	Lisa Dingle 	Amyloidosis
 	1st August 2019 	Frank Clayton 	Blast injury from an explosion after being viciously hurled into a van during a fire at the Sharma & Sharma factory caused by Amy and Kerry Wyatt.
 	20th January 2020 	Graham Foster 	Bludgeoned with a torch by Pierce Harris.
 	19th August 2020 	DI Mark Malone 	Shot by Dawn Taylor.
 	1st April 2021 	Paul Ashdale 	Injuries sustained from a barn explosion.
 	8th July 2021 	Leanna Cavanagh 	Pushed off a bridge by Meena Jutla.
 	18th October 2021 	Andrea Tate 	Head bashed against wooden stage by Meena Jutla, along with injuries from fire and smoke inhalation.
 	25th November 2021 	Ben Tucker 	Bludgeoned with a wooden oar by Meena Jutla.
 	13th October 2022 	Faith Dingle 	Suicide; morphine overdose.
 	17th October 2022 	Harriet Finch 	Crashed and then was crushed by her quad bike that then exploded.
 	19th October 2022 	Liv Dingle 	Injuries sustained after being crushed under a caravan.
 	31st October 2022 	Al Chapman 	Shot by Kyle Winchester.
 	27th July 2023 	Rishi Sharma 	Pushed down the stairs at Holdgate Farm by Amit Sharma.
 	3rd August 2023 	Lloyd Sawyer 	Injuries sustained after being punched by Dan Spencer.
 	29th August 2023 	Victor Anderson 	Hereditary Brain Aneurysm.
 	27th October 2023 	Craig Reed 	Kicked to death by Kim Tate's horse, Ice.
 	25th December 2023 	Damon Harris 	Accidentally shot during a struggle with Charity Dingle.
 	31st December 2023 	Heath Hope 	Died on impact following a car crash caused by Angelica King.
 	28th May 2024 	Ethan Anderson 	Brain Aneurysm
 	18th September 2024 	Helen Fox 	Unknown
 	25th December 2024 	Will Taylor 	Heart attack
 	2nd January 2025 	Unknown girl 	Injuries from being stabbed
 	2nd January 2025 	Henry Moore 	Coronary heart disease
==Off-screen deaths==
No.	Date 	Character 	Cause
 	30th January 1973 	Sharon Crossthwaite	Strangled by Jim Latimer
 	26th March 1973 	Mrs Hinton 	Natural causes
 	16th July 1973 	Peggy Skilbeck 	Brain haemorrhage
 	22nd October 1973 	Luke Brearly 	Liver Failure
 	May 1974 	Tom Ratcliffe 	Unknown causes
 	20th January 1975 	Wally Lumm 	Pneumonia
 	13th January 1976 	Sam Skilbeck 	Car accident
 	13th January 1976 	Sally Skilbeck 	Car accident
 	13th January 1976 	Beattie Dowton 	Car accident
 	27th April 1976 	Bella Ryland 	Cancer
 	1977 	Percy Edgar 	Natural causes
 	May 1977 	George Barrett 	Unknown causes
 	21st June 1977 	Jim Gimbel 	Suicide by gunshot
 	October 1977 	Mr Armitage 	Long-term illness
 	September 1978 	George Verney 	Natural causes
 	17th October 1978 	Carria 	Unknown causes
 	1979 	Jack Hathersage 	Unknown causes
 	6th May 1980 	Harry Moore 	Heart attack
 	1980 	Arthur Brearly 	Unknown causes
 	1981 	Padraic Flynn 	Cancer
 	27th November 1984 	Sam Pearson 	Natural causes
 	November 1987 	Rachel Weiss 	Unknown causes
 	24th November 1988 	Stephen Fuller 	Crushed by a falling tree
 	8th March 1990 	Lord Luscomb 	Heart attack
 	1st January 1991 	Paolo Rosetti 	Overdose
 	30th July 1991 	Bill Whiteley 	Natural causes
 	3rd October 1991 	Henry Wilks 	Heart attack
 	1992 	George Windslow 	Natural causes
 	2nd February 1993 	Meg Armstrong 	Stroke
 	May 1993 	Tina 	Natural causes
 	16th December 1993 	Wally Eagleton 	Unknown causes
 	30th December 1993 	Mark Hughes 	Crushed by falling wall in plane crash
 	30th December 1993 	Elizabeth Pollard 	Struck by falling debris during plane crash
 	30th December 1993 	Unknown baby 	Plane crash
 	30th December 1993 	Jess Hutchinson 	Plane crash
 	30th December 1993 	Margaret Hutchinson	Plane crash
 	13th December 1994 	Alice Wood 	Natural causes
 	6th June 1995 	Joe Sugden 	Car accident
 	September 1995 	Mr Holdgate 	Unknown causes
 	22nd August 1996 	Granny Hopwood 	Heart attack
 	February 1997 	Unnamed woman 	Drowned
 	8th May 1997 	Ron Hudson 	Huntington's disease
 	30th July 1997 	Kate Sugden 	Brain haemorrhage
 	February 2001 	Eileen Reynolds 	Unknown causes
 	22nd October 2001 	Les Taylor 	Cancer
 	17th January 2002 	Barbara Kirk 	Natural causes
 	1st July 2002 	Tony Bell 	Stabbed by Ray Mullan
 	16th September 2002	Edith Weatherall 	Natural causes
 	26th February 2003 	Pat Jones 	Alcohol poisoning
 	17th August 2004 	Fairground Freddie 	Unknown
 	30th October 2005 	Seth Armstrong 	Heart attack
 	27th February 2006 	Brian Addyman 	Car accident
 	3rd May 2006 	Irvin Ward 	Unknown
 	12th November 2006 	Adam Forsythe 	Suicide by hanging
 	September 2007 	Anne Tofting 	Aneurysm
 	5th September 2007 	Harriet Barraclough	Stroke
 	25th December 2007 	Rosemary King 	Suicide by gunshot
 	5th February 2009 	Jack Sugden 	Heart attack
 	6th August 2010 	Yvonne Harding 	Unknown illness
 	8th November 2011 	Mia Macey 	Car accident
 	3rd December 2012 	Tracey 	Suicide
 	24th December 2012 	Alex Moss 	Murdered by Cameron Murray
 	28th July 2013 	Tom Winchester 	Carbon monoxide poisoning
 	28th July 2013 	Karen Winchester 	Carbon monoxide poisoning
 	24th October 2013 	Alan Turner 	Heart failure
 	16th July 2015 	Hilary Potts 	Heart problems
 	3rd May 2016 	Edna Birch 	Ovarian cancer
 	12th May 2016 	Gordon Livesy 	Suicide by hanging
 	18th May 2016 	Dylan 	Lung infection
 	24th April 2018 	Lee 	Overdose
 	26th April 2018 	Ali Spencer 	Injuries sustained in a car crash
 	13th July 2018 	Paul Tozer 	Murdered by Lachlan White
 	October 2018 	Swampy 	Unknown
 	November 2018 	Tracy Shankley Sr. 	Unknown
 	September 2019 	Rachel Breckle 	Heart Failiure
 	26th September 2019	Derek Malone 	Salmonella poisoning
 	15th October 2019 	Lee Posner 	Intracerebral Haemorrhage after being bludgeoned with a shovel by Robert Sugden
 	5th February 2020 	Sandy Thomas 	Natural causes
 	27th August 2020 	Annie Sugden 	Natural causes
 	24th January 2022 	Irene Stocks 	Heart complications
 	4th February 2022 	Pierce Harris 	Cancer
 	July 2022 	Eileen 	Unknown
 	5th January 2023 	Mark Bails 	Heart attack
 	21st October 2023 	Colleen King 	Heart attack
 	16th November 2023 	Lucy Malcolms 	Postpartum haemorrhage
 	2024 	Pearl Ladderbanks 	Unknown illness
 	23rd May 2024 	June Phillips 	Suspected heart attack
 	c.July 2024 	Rebecca White 	Cardiac arrest
 	14th October 2024 	Zak Dingle 	Natural causes
==Historical deaths==
Historical deaths are when a character who has never appeared in Emmerdale or Emmerdale Farm is mentioned to have died months or years after their death has taken place.
No.	Date 	Character 	Cause
 	1973 	Peter Gibbons 	Unknown illness
 	1974 	Herbert Ainsworth	Unknown causes
 	1977 	Mrs Wylie 	Unknown causes
 	14th March 1978 	Edward Pollock 	Stillborn
 	1982 	Raymond Sinclair 	Suicide by gunshot
 	1984 	Anne Windsor 	Hit by car
 	24th December 1984 	Jean Tate Sr. 	Assisted suicide
 	28th February 1986 	Mary King 	Cancer
 	15th November 1987 	Shirley Pascoe 	Complications in childbirth
 	1992 	Adam Forsythe Sr.	Unknown
 	19th March 1998 	Alison Henshall 	House fire
 	c.2004 	Sana Kotecha 	Car accident
 	2006 	Lydia Metcalfe 	Breast cancer
 	August 2006 	Sally Brannigan 	Hit and run
 	4th February 2009 	Lara Cavanagh 	Anaphylaxis caused by a nut allergy
 	2011 	Ellen White 	Cancer
 	30th September 2012	Billy Hope 	Sudden unexplained infant death
 	2013 	Kelly Hawkins 	Ecstasy overdose
 	2014 	Steve 	Pulmonary embolism
 	15th October 2018 	Gemma Harris 	Trauma due to a car accident
 	Prior to 2020 	Nadine Butler 	Locked in a car full of carbon monoxide fumes by Meena Jutla
 	2020 	Ann Boyd 	Unknown
 	14th February 2021 	Louise Harrison 	Covid
==Book deaths==
No.	Date 	Character 	Cause 	Book
 	1914 	Albert Oldroyd 	Natural Causes 	Christmas at Emmerdale
 	November 1914 	Bert Clark 	Shell explosion 	Christmas at Emmerdale
 	November 1914 	George Kirkby 	Shell explosion 	Christmas at Emmerdale
 	November 1914 	Ralph Verney 	Shell explosion 	Christmas at Emmerdale
 	1915 	Billy Hutton 	Killed whilst serving in WWI 	Christmas at Emmerdale
 	1915 	Alfred Porter 	Shot in the lung 	Christmas at Emmerdale
 	October 1915 	Sergeant Donald 	Injuries sustained whilst serving in WWI 	Christmas at Emmerdale
 	17th October 1915 	Frank Pickles 	Killed whilst serving in WWI 	Christmas at Emmerdale
 	November 1915 	Ava Bainbridge 	Injuries sustained in The Woolpack blaze started by Levi Dingle	Christmas at Emmerdale
 	1916 	Nat Dingle 	Killed whilst serving in WWI 	Christmas at Emmerdale
 	1918 	Agatha Tucker 	Influenza 	Spring Comes to Emmerdale
 	June 1918 	Bill Colton 	Influenza 	Spring Comes to Emmerdale
 	1918 	William Petty 	Infection 	Spring Comes to Emmerdale
 	1918 	Arthur Haywood 	Executed by firing squad 	Spring Comes to Emmerdale
 	1918 	Will Hutton 	Influenza 	Spring Comes to Emmerdale
 	16th November 1918	Walter Dinsdale 	Influenza 	Spring Comes to Emmerdale
 	December 1918 	Joan Carr 	Influenza 	Spring Comes to Emmerdale
 	1919 	Hugo Dawson 	Asphyxiation from choking on his own blood, caused by influenza	Spring Comes to Emmerdale
 	1920 	Levi Dingle 	Car accident 	Spring Comes to Emmerdale
 	1929 	Rose Warcup 	Fell down a ravine 	Emmerdale at War
 	1930 	Polly Warcup 	Unknown 	Emmerdale at War
 	1935 	Rose Dingle 	Brain aneurysm 	Emmerdale at War
 	1939 	Robert Warcup 	Unknown 	Emmerdale at War
 	February 1941 	Ted Mickelthwaite	Killed whilst serving in Ethiopia 	Emmerdale at War
 	February 1941 	George Ransome 	Tank explosion in Libya 	Emmerdale at War
 	February 1941 	Violet Pickles 	House explosion during air raid 	Emmerdale at War
 	1941 	Beryl Dubbs 	Factory explosion during air raid 	Emmerdale at War
 	1941 	Hanna Schrieber 	House explosion during air raid 	Emmerdale at War
 	1941 	Klara Schrieber 	House explosion during air raid 	Emmerdale at War
 	1941 	Edward Sugden 	Drowned 	Emmerdale: Their Finest Hour
==See also==
*List of births and pregnancies
*List of weddings
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