* 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.

* December 23 – Anthony Fokker, Dutch-American aircraft manufacturer ( b. 1890 )

* Anthony Fokker, ( 1890 – 1939 ), aviation engineer

The Spanish Capuchins had a catechism and prayer book printed in the Ponape dialect, and Father Anthony of Valentia wrote a small grammar and dictionary of the Yap dialect in 1890.

On the initiative of Anthony Thorold, Bishop of Rochester, the nave was once again rebuilt between 1890 and 1897 to the designs of Arthur Blomfield.

In the late 19th century many of the businessmen in the area were from Syria such as George Dan 1890, Stanton and Aziz Melick in 1888 and Shafiqah Shasha and Anthony and Simon Coorey in the 1890s.

Susan B. Anthony was the dominant figure in NAWSA from 1890 to 1900, at which time she stepped down in favor of Carrie Chapman Catt.

The merger of the two organizations, pushed through by Lucy Stone, Alice Stone Blackwell and Anthony, produced the National American Woman Suffrage Association ( NAWSA ) in 1890.

The two organizations merged in 1890 to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association with Anthony as its dominant figure.

Sheffield had its own student secret societies ( aka final clubs or senior societies, some also known by their Greek letters ) including the Colony Club, 1848 ( now Berzelius ), the Cloister, 1863 ( now Book and Snake ), St. Anthony Hall, 1867 ( now a 3-year society, also called Delta Psi ), St. Elmo, 1889 ( also a senior society ), as well as Franklin Hall, 1865 ( Theta Xi ), York Hall, 1877 ( Chi Phi ), Sachem Hall, 1890 ( Phi Sigma Kappa ), and Vernon Hall, 1895 ( Phi Gamma Delta ).

Pope Leo XIII founded the Pontifical Seminary of Saint Anthony of Padua in 1890 in the town of Comillas ( Cantabria, Spain ) in response to efforts made by the Marquis of Comillas to build an institution for educating candidates to the priesthood.

* Anthony Lefroy ( Irish politician ) ( 1800 – 1890 ), Irish politician, Member of Parliament for Longford

** His son, Anthony Lefroy ( MP ) ( 1800 – 1890 ), Irish Member of Parliament

** Anthony Hamilton, Memoire of Grammont, translated by Boyer, edited by Sir W. Scott ( 2 vols., London, 1885, 1890 )

Eddie Anthony ( 1890 – 1934 ) was an American country blues and jazz musician.

* 1890 – Eustáquio van Lieshout, Dutch priest ( d. 1943 )

In France, where much of his work was produced, it is ; 30 March 185329 July 1890 ) was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty and bold color, had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art.

* March 30 – Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter ( d. 1890 )

* October 10 – Christophorus Buys Ballot, Dutch chemist and meteorologist ( d. 1890 )

In 1890, the divergence of the thrones of Luxembourg and the Netherlands, both ruled by semi-Salic law, was caused by the fact that the Luxembourg line of succession went back more generations than the Dutch one.

After his marriage to an English woman, Annie Hall, in 1886, Toorop alternated his time between The Hague, England and Brussels, and after 1890 also the Dutch seaside town of Katwijk aan Zee.

An immensely popular member of the Dutch royal family, she also was Queen regent ( 1890 – 1898 ) and Queen Mother ( 1890 – 1934 ) of the Netherlands.

The first generation of Dutch pictorialists, including Bram Loman, Chris Schuver and Carl Emile Mögle, began working around 1890.

The King of the Netherlands was Grand Duke of Luxembourg until 1890, when William III was succeeded by his daughter, Wilhelmina of the Netherlands – but Luxembourg still followed the Salic law at the time, which forbade a woman to rule in her own right, so the union of the Dutch and Luxembourger crowns then ended.

* March 30-Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter ( died 1890 )

Christophorus Henricus Diedericus Buys Ballot ( October 10, 1817 – February 3, 1890 ) was a Dutch chemist and meteorologist after whom Buys Ballot's law and the Buys Ballot table are named.

Other known foreign military consultants were the Italian Major Pompeo Grillo, who worked at the Osaka foundry from 1884 to 1888, followed by Major Quaratezi from 1889 to 1890, and the Dutch Captain Schermbeck, who worked on improving coastal defenses from 1883 to 1886.

In 1890, Troelstra joined the Sociaal-Democratische Bond ( Social-Democratic League, SDB ), an early Dutch socialist movement under the leadership of Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis.

Russian documents from the 1600s list " bird down " among the goods sold to Dutch merchants, and communities in northern Norway began protecting the nests of eider ducks as early as 1890.

Other rifles utilizing a frequently improved en-bloc clip include the German 1888 Commission Rifle, the French 1890 Berthier Cavalry Carbine and later models ( upgraded to 5 rounds in 1916 ), the Italian M1870 / 87 Vetterli-Vitali and M91 Carcano, the various ( Romanian, Dutch, Portuguese ) turnbolt Mannlichers, the Austro-Hungarian straight-pull Steyr-Mannlicher M1895, the M1895 Lee Navy, the Hungarian 35M Mannlicher, and the US M1 Garand.

In 1890 a Colonial Reserve ( Koloniale Reserve ) was established in the Netherlands itself to recruit and train these volunteers and to re-integrate them into Dutch society upon the conclusion of their overseas service.

Hagen was born as Jean Shirley Verhagen in Chicago, to Christian Verhagen ( born August 10, 1890 — died April 1983 ), a Dutch immigrant, and his Chicago-born wife, Marie.

In 1890 the Dutch colonial government banned cannibalism in the regions under their control.

It was occupied by the British, Germans and Dutch before the French developed it as a trading port from 1890.

1 ) The Dutch Reformed Church in Gerrit Maritz Street erected in 1890 ( Declared a National Monument ).

* A Dutch peddlar ( 1890 painting )

Fritz Mannheimer ( 19 September 1890 – 9 August 1939 ) was a powerful German Jewish and from 1936 Dutch banker and art collector who was the director of the Amsterdam branch of the Berlin-based investment bank Mendelssohn & Co. that was for some time the main supporter of the Dutch capital market.