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Events on Wednesday 4 May 1938 2
1860 – 1938Kanō Jigorō (1860-1938)Died 4 May 1938, aged 77Kanō Jigorō founded judo and was the first Asian member of the International Olympic Committee.
1889 – 1938Carl von Ossietzky (1889-1938)Died 4 May 1938, aged 48Ossietzky was a German pacifist journalist who exposed secret German rearmament. He won the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize while held in a concentration camp and died in custody from tuberculosis.