* 1890 – Anthony Fokker, Dutch aviation engineer ( d. 1939 )

* 1890 – Man Ray, American photographer and artist ( d. 1976 )

* 1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.

* 1890 – Ellen Osiier, Danish fencer ( d. 1962 )

* 1890 – Marin Sais, American actress ( d. 1971 )

* 1890 – David Wilber, American politician ( b. 1820 )

* 1890 – Alexander F. Mozhayskiy, Russian aviation pioneer ( b. 1825 )

* 1947 – King George II of Greece ( b. 1890 )

After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).

* 1890 – Anna Månsdotter becomes the last woman in Sweden to be executed, for the 1889 Yngsjö murder.

* 1890 – Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, American activist ( d. 1964 )

* 1890 – Michalis Dorizas, Greek javelin thrower ( d. 1957 )

* 1890 – Elizabeth Bolden, American super-centenarian ( d. 2006 )

* 1890 – Jacques Ibert, French composer ( d. 1962 )

* 1890 – Harry Frank Guggenheim, American businessman and publisher, co-founded Newsday ( d. 1971 )

* 1890 – Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson, English pilot ( d. 1918 )

* 1890 – The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D. C.

* 1890 – Art Acord, American actor and rodeo rider ( d. 1931 )

Historians identify several waves of migration to the United States: one from 1815 – 1860, in which some five million English, Irish, Germanic, Scandinavian, and others from northwestern Europe came to the United States ; one from 1865 – 1890, in which some 10 million immigrants, also mainly from northwestern Europe, settled, and a third from 1890 – 1914, in which 15 million immigrants, mainly from central, eastern, and southern Europe ( many Austrian, Hungarian, Turkish, Lithuanian, Russian, Jewish, Greek, Italian, and Romanian ) settled in the United States.

Of the Geographie de l ' Ethiopie ( Paris, 1890 ) only one volume has been published.

French Dominicans founded and administer the École Biblique et Archéologique française de Jérusalem founded in 1890 by Père Marie-Joseph Lagrange O. P.

In 1657 du Parquet sold Grenada to the Comte de Cerrillac for the equivalent of £ 1890.

* Bericht über de Ausgrabungen in Troja im Jahre 1890 ( 1891 ) ( reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2010.

* 1890 – Oswald de Andrade, Brazilian author ( d. 1954 )

Gyula Count Andrássy de Csíkszentkirály et Krasznahorka ( 3 March 1823 – 18 February 1890 ) was a Hungarian statesman, who served as Prime Minister of Hungary ( 1867 – 1871 ) and subsequently as Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary ( 1871 – 1879 ).

Facsimile ( c. 1890 ) of Lienzo de Tlaxcala.

* 1890 – Charles de Gaulle, French military general and statesman ( d. 1970 )

Stories like " Boule de Suif " (" Ball of Fat ", 1880 ) and " L ' Inutile Beauté " (" The Useless Beauty ", 1890 ) are good examples of French realism.

pt: Década de 1890

* 1887 – 1890: Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti of Liverpool, England is hired by the London Electric Supply Corporation to design the Deptford Power Station.

* July 18 – Felix du Temple de la Croix, French Army Captain & aviation pioneer ( d. 1890 )

Alphonse de Polignac ( 1817 – 1890 ) was a French mathematician.

He was best known for his Lettres de mon moulin ( eng: Letters from my Mill ) ( 1869 ) and the Tartarin de Tarascon trilogy ( 1872, 1885, 1890 ).

The earliest Arts and Crafts activity in continental Europe was in Belgium in about 1890, where the English style inspired artists and architects including Gabriel Van Dievoet, Gustave Serrurier-Bovy, Henry Van de Velde and a group known as La Libre Esthétique ( Free Aesthetic ).

After a brief de facto protectorate period beginning in 1885 the island became a full formal French protectorate in 1890, then a colony in 1896, and gained full independence from France in 1960 in the wake of decolonization.

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle ( or ; ; 22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970 )

( Paris, 1890, 1896 ), as the Œuvres oratoires de Bossuet.

By 1890, Lalique was recognized as one of France's foremost Art Nouveau jewellery designers ; creating innovative pieces for Samuel Bing's new Paris shop, Maison de l ' Art Nouveau.

The Champs-Élysées in 1890, viewed from the Place de la Concorde.

The novel Tartarin de Tarascon ( 1872 ) and its two sequels Tartarin sur les Alpes ( 1885 ) and Port-Tarascon ( 1890 ), by Alphonse Daudet, were set here.

The University of Lausanne ( UNIL, in French: Université de Lausanne ) in Lausanne, Switzerland was founded in 1537 as a school of theology, before being made a university in 1890.

* The painter Vincent van Gogh was treated here in the psychiatric center at Monastery Saint-Paul de Mausole ( 1889 – 1890 ).