* 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.

They had two children, a daughter ( Aimee Sarah Agnes Dyke Acland ) who died in infancy in 1889, and a son, Theodore Acland ( 1890 – 1960 ), who became headmaster of Norwich School.

Agnes Campbell Macphail ( March 24, 1890 – February 13, 1954 ) was the first woman to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons, and one of the first two women elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

Agnes Macphail was born to Dougald McPhail and Henrietta Campbell in Proton Township, Grey County, Ontario on March 24, 1890.

* February 13 – Agnes Macphail, politician, first woman to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons ( b. 1890 )

A German woman and independent scientist, Agnes Pockels, wrote to Lord Rayleigh shortly after his publication in 1890.

In April 1890 he was appointed court pianist to the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar and the following July he married Agnes Denninghof ( better known as Agnes Denis-Stavenhagen, 1860-1945 ), a soprano with the Weimar Court Opera.

In 1890, he married Agnes Almquist ( 1866 – 1940 ).

" He was well received in two Scottish roles in this part of his career, Tammy Tamson in his own play A Highland Legacy ( 1888 ), and Macphail of Bullocheevin in Pinero's The Cabinet Minister ( 1890 ).

* 1890 – Angus Lewis Macdonald, Canadian politician ( d. 1954 )

* 1939 – Norman Bethune, Canadian doctor and humanitarian ( b. 1890 )

* Rhea Fairbairn ( 1890 – 1953 ), Canadian tennis player

It is used, or was once used, in the national legislatures and subnational legislatures of most Commonwealth and ex-Commonwealth nations upon being granted responsible government, beginning with the first of the Canadian provinces in 1848 and the six Australian colonies between 1855 and 1890.

** Jean Brillant, Canadian soldier ( b. 1890 )

* November 12 – Norman Bethune, Canadian humanitarian ( b. 1890 )

Brisebois, Canadian police officer ( d. 1890 )

Henry Norman Bethune ( March 4, 1890 – November 12, 1939 ; Chinese name: 白求恩 ; pinyin: Bái Qiúēn ) was a Canadian physician and medical innovator.

The population in 1860 was only about 4, 000 but by 1890 it was about 12, 000, when its shoe factories attracted many French Canadian immigrants, many of whom arrived by train from Quebec.

In 1890, a barbed-wire fence was built along the street now called Broadway from the North Canadian River to the Canadian River to keep the Native Americans out of Oklahoma Territory.

The Institute regularly published a journal, ' the Canadian Journal ', 1852-1878 under various titles, as Proceedings, 1879-1890 Transactions 1890 -, etc., to the present time.

Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis (; 20 April 1890 – 7 September 1959 ) served as the 16th Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec from 1936 to 1939 and 1944 to 1959.

The distinctive row of maple trees which lines the High Street between the cricket field and the Rowland Road junction was planted in 1890, and not by Canadian servicemen in World War I as is widely believed.

John William Ritchie ( 26 March 1808 – 13 or 18 December 1890 ) was a Canadian lawyer and politician from Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia.

He also served as President of the Canadian Swine Breeders Association from 1890 – 1891.

The Group of Seven — sometimes known as the Algonquin school — were a group of Canadian landscape painters from 1920 to 1933, originally consisting of Franklin Carmichael ( 1890 – 1945 ), Lawren Harris ( 1885 – 1970 ), A. Y. Jackson ( 1882 – 1972 ), Frank Johnston ( 1888 – 1949 ), Arthur Lismer ( 1885 – 1969 ), J. E. H. MacDonald ( 1873 – 1932 ), and Frederick Varley ( 1881 – 1969 ).

* William Morgan ( Canadian politician ) ( 1848 – after 1890 ), politician in Ontario, Canada

Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau ( May 30, 1820 – April 4, 1890 ), born in Charlesbourg, near Quebec City, was the first Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec following the establishment of the Dominion of Canada in 1867.

In 1890, Otter founded the Royal Canadian Military Institute as a body for " the promotion and fostering of military art, science and literature in Canada.

* Robert Leckie ( aviator ), ( 1890 – 1975 ), Canadian RCAF Air Marshal