* 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 – 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.

Sewing Fisherman ´ s Wife by Anna Ancher, 1890.

** Anna Teresa de Morny ( 1890 – 1924 ), unmarried and without issue.

Anna Kirstine Brøndum was born in Skagen, Denmark the daughter of Erik Andersen Brøndum ( 1820 – 1890 ) and Ane Hedvig Møller ( 1826-1916 ).

In 1890, Prokudin-Gorsky married Anna Aleksandrovna Lavrova, and later the couple had two sons, Mikhail and Dmitri, and a daughter, Ekaterina.

The Red Vineyard was exhibited for the first time at the annual exhibition of Les XX, 1890 in Brussels, and sold for 400 Francs ( equal to about $ 1, 000-1, 050 today ) to Anna Boch, an impressionist painter, member of Les XX and art collector from Belgium ; Anna was the sister of Eugène Boch, another impressionist painter and a friend of Van Gogh, too, who had painted Boch's portrait ( Le Peintre aux Étoiles ) in Arles, in autumn 1888.

Anna May's father spent his youth traveling between the U. S. and China, where he married his first wife and fathered a son in 1890.

O ' Hare married Selma Anna Lauth, a native of St. Louis, born on November 13, 1890.

Hildegard Anna Augusta Elizabeth Freiin Rebay von Ehrenwiesen, Baroness Hilla von Rebay, or simply Hilla Rebay ( 31 May 1890, Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine – 27 September 1967, Greens Farms, Connecticut ), was a notable woman abstract painter in the early 20th century.

* 1890 – The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Rail Bridge in Scotland, measuring long, is opened by the Prince of Wales, who later becomes King Edward VII.

* 1890 Sonora becomes the county seat.

* 1840-Albert Black ( 1840 – 1890 ) becomes customs officer and adopted grandson of merchant Simeon Lord famous in early Sydney.

* 1890 Matsuyama becomes a town

In the last years of his life he regained his popularity, and his death on 18 February 1890, aged 66, was mourned as a national calamity.

The last practical effect of the Salic Law at the international level was the separation of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg from the Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1890, almost fourteen centuries after the Law was codified.

On October 20, 1890, however, Robert Miller " Bob " Womack discovered a rich ore and the last great Colorado gold rush was on.

The count filed a futile suit to establish that his morganatic status in Germany should not exclude him from succession to the throne of Luxembourg after the last male of the House of Orange, King William III of the Netherlands, died in 1890 and it became apparent that the House of Nassau faced the imminent extinction of its male members, as well, upon the eventual death of Grand Duke William IV.

In a last attempt to stimulate the infant domestic tin-plate industry, the 1890 tariff raised the duty level from thirty percent to seventy percent.

By 1906, Argentina had cleared the last remnants of the 1890 default and a year later the country re-entered the international bond markets.

The discovery of Aristotle's Constitution of the Athenians in 1890 reversed this trend for the broad assessment of Theramenes ' character, and Diodorus ' account of the Arginusae trial has been preferred by scholars since Antony Andrewes undermined Xenophon's account in the 1970s ; Diodorus ' more melodramatic passages, such as his elaborate presentation of Theramenes ' last moments, are still discounted, but he is now preferred on a number of issues, and on the Arginusae trial in particular.

By 1890 every last immigrant had been driven from town by social pressures and outright violence.

Upon completion of the initial line the last spike was driven by the nephew of Ezra Meeker, Frank Oliver Meeker on June 29, 1890.

Frank Meeker drove the customary last spike on June 29, 1890, making the track still under construction when the plat was signed.

The bridge was opened on 4 March 1890 by the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, who drove home the last rivet, which was gold plated and suitably inscribed.

was one of the last to be recorded as being Lord of the Manor of Askham Bryan in 1890.

The second, in 1890, was a love match with Princess Hélène of Orléans, a daughter of Prince Philippe, Count of Paris, and great-granddaughter of King Louis-Philippe I, the last Bourbon King of France.

The last two decades of the 19th century saw a decline in the demand for slate and many smaller quarries fell on hard times, including Bryn Eglwys, where by 1890 production had halved to a year.

* Joseph Yoakum ( 1890 – 1972 ), an African-American artist who spent his last years producing a vast quantity of sinuous, surreal landscapes based on both real and imagined travels.

His last book, Gottheit, Freiheit und Unsterblichkeit, appeared in 1866 ( 2nd ed., 1890 ).

In American architecture, neoclassicism was one expression of the American Renaissance movement, ca 1890 – 1917 ; its last manifestation was in Beaux-Arts architecture, and its very last, large public projects were the Lincoln Memorial ( highly criticized at the time ), The National Gallery in Washington, DC ( also heavily criticized by the architectural community as being backward thinking and old fashioned in its design ), and the American Museum of Natural History's Roosevelt Memorial.

Prince Phetsarath Rattanavongsa ( Somdej Chao Maha Oupahat Pethsarath Rattanavongsa lit: His Highness ( the ) Vice-King Phetsarath Rattanavongsa ) ( 19 January 1890 – 14 October 1959 ) was prime minister of Laos from 1942 to 1945, and was the first and last vice-king of the Kingdom of Laos.

* Canon Liddon: A Memoir with his five last sermons ( 1890 )

The last American chapter in the use of the stagecoaches took place between 1890 and the late 1920s, when the road to Young, Arizona was paved and the stagecoach was replaced with a Ford motorcar.

The last of the UK's original Temperance Bars, Fitzpatrick's in Rawtenstall, which opened in 1890, still produces its dandelion and burdock to an original recipe brought over from Ireland at the end of the 19th century.

In 1888 his only son died ; his own health declined, and he appeared for the last time in public at the funeral of Henry Parry Liddon on 9 September 1890, dying on 9 December in the same year, at Dover.

In 1870 Train made the first of his three trips around the globe, with the last in 1890.