Famous Birthdays Apr 5 Georg Gottfried Wagner, German composer, born in Mühlberg, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1756) Born in 1698 Famous Deaths Apr 29 Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1655) Mar 1698 History by Year May 1698 Famous People by Cause of Death Assassination Drug Overdose Gunshot Wound Murder Plane Crash Suicide