Sports deaths in California

Conrad Bastien McRae (January 11, 1971 – July 10, 2000) was an American professional basketball player who had a successful career in Europe for teams in France, Italy, Greece and Turkey.

Barbara Warren (April 9, 1943 – August 26, 2008) was an Austrian-American counselor, model, actress, author, and triathlete.

Raymond L. Cariens (May 1, 1896 – December 1, 1925) was an American racing driver from Evansville, Indiana who competed in the AAA Championship Car series.

Frankie Campbell (born Francesco Camilli; 1904 – August 25, 1930) was an Italian-American boxer who fought professionally as a heavyweight.

John Richard Owens (7 January 1956 – 4 November 1980) was a professional boxer from Wales who fought under the name Johnny Owen.

Tommy Aquino (May 24, 1992 – February 2, 2014) was an American motorcycle racer who competed in the AMA Pro Daytona Sportbike Championship.

Bob Carey (28 September 1904 Anderson, Indiana – 16 April 1933 Los Angeles, California) was an American race car driver.

Daniel Eugene Osman (February 11, 1963 – November 23, 1998) was an American extreme sport practitioner, known for the dangerous sports of free-soloing, rock climbing without ropes or other safety gear.

Lynwood Lacey "Sonny" Easley (June 5, 1939 - January 15, 1978) was an American racecar driver who is best known for competing in the NASCAR Winston West Series and a handful of Winston Cup Series events.

John Bachar (March 23, 1957 – July 5, 2009) was an American rock climber noted for his skill at free soloing.

Ernie Triplett (1906 Barry, Illinois – 5 March 1934 El Centro, California) was an American racecar driver.

Joseph Herbert "Joe" Weatherly (May 29, 1922 – January 19, 1964) was an American stock car racing driver.

Donald L. Branson (June 2, 1920 – November 12, 1966) was an American racecar driver.

Walt Faulkner (February 16, 1918 – April 22, 1956) was an American racing driver from Tell, Texas, who moved to Milledgeville, Georgia at the age of two-and-a-half, and to Lake Wales, Florida at the age of eight.

Joe James (May 23, 1925 Saucier, Mississippi – November 5, 1952 San Jose, California) was an American racecar driver.

Richard Charles Atkins (April 23, 1936-November 13, 1966) was an American racing driver from Oakland, California.

Álvaro Pineda (November 9, 1945 – January 18, 1975) was a Mexican jockey who competed in thoroughbred horse racing in the United States.

Kenneth Henry Miles (1 November 1918 – 17 August 1966) was a sports car racing engineer and driver best known for his career in the USA and with American teams on the international scene.

Andrew James Simpson, MBE (17 December 1976 – 9 May 2013), nicknamed "Bart", was an English sailor.

Herman Schurch (April 7, 1903 in Sumiswald, Switzerland – November 10, 1931 Los Angeles) was a Swiss-American racecar driver.

Rolf Johann Stommelen (11 July 1943 – 24 April 1983) was a racing driver from Siegen, Germany.

Robert Wilson "Bob" Simmons (March 29, 1919 – September 26, 1954) was an American surfer and surfboard shaper, considered to be the father of the modern surfboard.

Robert R. Burman (23 April 1884 – 8 April 1916) was an American racecar driver who participated in the 1911 Indianapolis 500.

Howard Malcolm "Mac" Baldrige Jr.

Mark Sheldon Foo (February 5, 1958 – December 23, 1994) was a professional surfer.

Eric "Hank" Gathers (February 11, 1967 – March 4, 1990) was an American college basketball star at Loyola Marymount University who collapsed and died during a game.

Gaston Chevrolet (4 October 1892 – 25 November 1920) was a French-born American racecar champion driver and automobile manufacturer.

Al Gordon (1903 Redlands, California – 26 January 1936 Alhambra, California) was an American racecar driver.

Albert Lucas (September 1, 1978 – April 10, 2005) was an American football player in the National Football League (NFL) and Arena Football League (AFL) who died from a game-related spinal cord injury while playing for the Los Angeles Avengers.

William Bryan Saulpaugh (1905 – 22 April 1933) was an American racecar driver.

Charles Russell Johnson III ( August 10, 1983 – February 24, 2010) was a professional skier and a pioneer in the freeskiing movement.

Evon Daniel "Denny" Williams (December 13, 1896 – March 23, 1929) was a professional baseball player whose career spanned eight seasons, three of which were spent in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Cincinnati Reds (1921) and Boston Red Sox (1924–25, 1928).

Derek Geoffrey Hersey (26 October 1956 – 28 May 1993) was a British rock climber and for many years an active participant in the Boulder, Colorado climbing scene.

William Patrick "Parry" O'Brien (January 28, 1932 – April 21, 2007) was an American shot put champion.

George Monroe Woolf (May 31, 1910 – January 4, 1946), nicknamed "The Iceman", was a Canadian-born thoroughbred race horse jockey.

Edward Francis O'Donnell (22 June 1887 Whitewater, Wisconsin – 26 November 1920 Beverly Hills, California) was an American racecar driver.

Alfred Harris Insinger, Jr.

Gregory William Moore (April 22, 1975 – October 31, 1999) was a Canadian racecar driver who competed in the Indy Lights and CART World Series, where he had great success with several wins in both series and a championship in the 1995 Indy Lights series.

Rex Houston Mays, Jr.

Jack Gordon Westrope (January 18, 1918 - June 19, 1958) was an American Hall of Fame jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing.

Jan Michael Barrett (November 13, 1939 – October 7, 1973) was an American college and professional football player.