2008 Death Martin Peake, 2nd Viscount Ingleby, businessman, nobleman, son of Osbert Peake, paralyzed from polio, contributed to the 1970 Disabled Persons Act, dies 1973 Birthday Pat Peake, Rochester, NHL center for the Washington Capitals 1968 Death Mervyn Peake, British Writer 1934 Birthday DAER Peake, CEO, Kleinwort Benson Group 1926 Birthday Martin Peake, born in England, 2nd Viscount Ingleby, businessman, nobleman, son of Osbert Peake, paralyzed from polio, contributed to the 1970 Disabled Persons Act 1911 Birthday Mervyn Peake, British Writer 1862 Event Battle of Hanover Court House, Virginia (Slash Church, Peake's Station)