A Guardian article on him last year noted that "Statham was born in Chesterfield 44 years ago." I suppose the writer might have got that off Wikipedia. The Shirebrook birth will have been registered in Chesterfield, where there is a Jason Statham birth registered in the third quarter of 1967. There is no Jason Statham birth registered anywhere near London, and the only other ones worth considering on age were registered in Swansea, Manchester, Birmingham and Reading, between 1968 and 1971.