Sports deaths in California

Canadian actor, songwriter, and television host (1947–2016)

British actor (1958–2023)

Athletics competitor, shot putter (1932-2007)

Kenneth Henry Jarvis Miles was an English sports car racing engineer and driver best known for his motorsport career in the U.S. and with American teams on the international scene. He is an inductee to the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America. As an automotive engineer, he is known for developing, along with driver and designer Carroll Shelby, the Ford GT40, the car that won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966, 1967, 1968, and 1969. Miles and Shelby's efforts at Le Mans were dramatized in the 2019 Oscar-winning film Ford v Ferrari.

German racecar driver (1943–1983)

academic and Wikipedian

British competitive sailor (1976–2013)

racecar driver

South African actor (1962–2021)

Uruguayan racing driver (1971–1999)

racecar driver (1920-1966)

American rock climber (1963-1998)

Canadian open-wheel racing driver

Welsh boxer (1956–1980)

American businessman (1922-1987)

American boxer (1933–1963)

American racing driver

American rock climber (1957-2009)

American racing driver (1884–1916)

American NASCAR and motorcycle racer (1922-1964)

American racing driver (1892-1920)

American basketball player (1971-2000)

Canadian jockey (1910–1946)

American basketball player (1967–1990)

Singapore-born Hawaiian professional surfer of Chinese ancestry (1958-1994)

American racecar driver

American racing driver (1904-1933)

American mountain climber (2002–2025)

American football player (1991–2022)

American boxer

American rock climber (1958-2006)