Pele (football) – Brazilian legend, widely acknowledged as the greatest player of all time and a World Cup winner in 1958, 1962 and 1970, born 1940.

Steve Harmison (cricket) – England paceman, born 1978.

Sander Westerveld (football) – Former Liverpool and Portsmouth goalkeeper, born 1974.

Simon Davies (football) – Fulham's Welsh midfielder, born 1979.

Jimmy Bullard (football) – Hull midfielder, born 1978.

Christian Dailly (football) – Charlton's former Scotland defender, born 1973.

Wayne Rainey (motorcycling) – winner of three successive world 500cc titles 1990-92, born 1960.

Lorenzo Amoruso (football) – former Rangers and Blackburn defender, born 1971.