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- Eddie Boland was born on 27 December 1885 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Sunrise (1927), Oliver Twist (1922) and The Lightning Flyer (1931). He was married to Jean Hope. He died on 3 February 1935 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
- Compton Coutts was born on 13 February 1886 in Westminster, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Little Dorrit (1920), Black Cargos of the South Seas (1928) and For the Term of His Natural Life (1927). He died on 3 February 1935 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
- After his school days, Hugo Junkers studied in Charlottenburg, Karlsruhe and Aachen at the technical universities there. In 1883 he passed his examination to become a construction manager. He then worked as a designer for various companies. In 1888 he moved to the Continental company in Dessau. Together with Wilhelm Oechelhäuser, he founded the "experimental station for gas engines". In 1892, the development of the first two-stroke opposed-piston gas engine was completed and production began. In the same year he patented his invention of the calorimeter, a device for determining gas heating values. In 1894 he invented the first gas bath heater. Hugo Junkers founded his own company called "Junkers & Co" in Dessau in 1895, where he manufactured gas appliances. From 1897 to 1912 he was professor of thermal engineering and thermodynamics at the Aachen University of Technology. In 1898 he married Therese Bennhold from Dessau. A total of twelve children were born from this union. In 1902 he founded a research laboratory in Aachen where he worked on oil engines. Junkers further developed the heavy oil aircraft engine to operational readiness.
From 1909 he concentrated on building aircraft. The following year he patented a new type of wing that he had developed. The special feature of the cantilevered large wing is the use of its interior space. In 1913 he founded the company "Junkers Motorenbau GmbH". In 1915, Hugo Junkers succeeded in building the first all-metal aircraft under the name J 1. According to the wishes of the Supreme Army Command "OHL", the Junkers works worked with the Dutch fighter designer and aviator Anthony H. G. Fokker to build an all-metal military aircraft. After the First World War, Hugo Junkers founded "Junkers-Flugzeugwerke AG" in Dessau. After the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was banned from building aircraft and aircraft engines for a period of six months. Junkers wanted to get around this by outsourcing its production to Russia and Sweden. In the same year the F 13, an all-metal aircraft, was built. It is significant for having got German commercial aviation going. In the next few years, Hugo Junkers produced numerous aircraft models under the names W 33, G 24, G 31 or G 38.
The W33 made the first east-west crossing of the Atlantic in 1928. From that year onwards, the legendary Ju 52, also affectionately known as the Aunt Ju, was manufactured. By the 1940s, the machine had become the most frequently built aircraft in the world. In 1921, Hugo Junkers founded the "Air Transport Department of the Junkerswerke" to regulate domestic air traffic. In 1926, "Junkers Luftverkehr AG" was merged into "Deutsche Lufthansa". In 1923, the aircraft manufacturer founded the company "Junkers Motorenbau GmbH" in Dessau. In the same year, aircraft manufacturing operations were opened in Fili near Moscow. Economic connections to the Bauhaus in Dessau developed and with them a friendly relationship with the Bauhaus architect Walter Gropius. In 1933, the year the National Socialists came to power, Junkers had to hand over his patents and his shares in his companies to the Third Reich under pressure from the Nazi regime. He then withdrew into private life and devoted himself to research into the construction of high-rise buildings made of metal. During the Second World War, the Junkers factory developed into the largest forge of military aircraft. Among other things, the legendary Ju 88 dive bomber (Stuka) was built here.
Hugo Junkers died on February 3, 1935 in Gauting near Munich.