* 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.

* Bérenger Saunière, Mon enseignement à Antugnac, 1890 ( edited by Abbé Bruno de Monts ; Éditions Bélisane, 1984 ).

* Bruno Asch ( 1890 – 1940 ), politician ( SPD ) and last mayor of Höchst am Main, Germany

* SALMIALA, Bruno Aleksandr ( 1890 – 1981 ) Patriotic People's Movement member.

Image: Bruno Liljefors_-_Partridge_with_Daisies. jpg | Partridge with Daisies, 1890

* Bruno Kastner ( 1890 – 1932 ), actor

A pyrophone, possibly the one constructed by Kastner, as illustrated in an 1890 science handbook.

* 1814 – Henri Nestlé, German businessman, founded Nestlé ( d. 1890 )

* 1890 – Rudolf Schlichter, German artist and writer ( d. 1955 )

* 1935 – Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist ( b. 1890 )

The first large encyclopedia in Russian, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary ( 86 volumes, 1890 – 1906 ), was a direct cooperation with the German Brockhaus.

After Germany was united by Otto von Bismarck into the " Second German Reich ", he determined German politics until 1890.

" Dropping the Pilot " – British caricature depicting Bismarck's dismissal by Wilhelm II, German Emperor | Wilhelm II in 1890

Heinrich Schliemann (; ( January 6, 1822 – December 26, 1890 ) was a German businessman and amateur archaeologist, and an advocate of the historical reality of places mentioned in the works of Homer.

* 1890 – Henri Nestlé, German confectioner and businessman, founder of Nestlé ( b. 1814 )

* 1822 – Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist ( d. 1890 )

Incipient imperial rivalry was forestalled when Germany handed its coastal holdings to Britain in 1890, in exchange for German control over the coast of Tanganyika.

German sailor c. 1890

The significance of meiosis for reproduction and inheritance, however, was described only in 1890 by German biologist August Weismann, who noted that two cell divisions were necessary to transform one diploid cell into four haploid cells if the number of chromosomes had to be maintained.

Thus the Masurian population in 1890, 143, 397 were reported by German officials as having German as their language ( either primary or secondary ), 152, 186 Polish, and 94, 961 Masurian.

Robert Rasch, a German Trader who married a native woman, was the first administrator, appointed in 1890.

Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg ( 1 April 1815 – 30 July 1898 ), simply known as Otto von Bismarck, was a conservative German statesman who dominated European affairs from the 1860s to his dismissal in 1890.

Bismarck designed and created the German Empire in 1871, becoming its first Chancellor and largely controlling its affairs until he was removed by Kaiser ( Emperor ) William II in 1890.

Based on his research into the modern German occult revival ( 1890 – 1910 ), Goodrick-Clarke puts forward a thesis on the driving force behind occultism.

* 1890 – Max Immelmann, German pilot ( d. 1916 )

* 1890 – Friedrich Paulus, German general ( d. 1957 )

In 1886 and 1890, Anglo-German agreements were negotiated that delineated the British and German spheres of influence in the interior of East Africa and along the coastal strip previously claimed by the Sultan of Zanzibar.

The Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty of 1890 made Zanzibar and Pemba a British protectorate, and the Caprivi Strip in Namibia became a German protectorate.

The relationship between Britain and the German Empire, at that time the nearest relevant colonial power, was formalized by the 1890 Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty, in which Germany pledged not to interfere with British interests in insular Zanzibar.