* 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.

* John Granville Cornwallis Eliot, 6th Earl of St Germans ( 1890 – 1922 )

* Robert Cornwallis Maude, 6th Viscount Hawarden ( 1890 – 1914 )

John Granville Cornwallis Eliot, 6th Earl of St Germans, MC was born on 11 June 1890 at 13 Grosvenor Gardens London to Henry Cornwallis Eliot, 5th Earl of St Germans ( 11 February 1835 – 24 September 1911 ) and his wife Emily Harriett Labouchere ( 24 June 1844 – 18 October 1933 ).

John Muir publicized the damage to the subalpine meadows that surround the Valley and in 1890, the government created a national park that included a much larger territory — enclosing Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove.

In 1887, Eddy built the Halagueno diversion ditch on the Pecos, 3 miles above the site of the Avalon Dam ( which was completed in 1890 ) and incorporated the venture, calling it the Pecos Valley Land and Ditch Company.

Vaca Valley Railroad officials gave the name Esperanza (" hope " in Spanish ) to their new townsite in 1888, but when the post office was established in 1890 the name had to be changed because there was already an Esperanza in Tulare County.

South Shore was first settled in 1890 by the Fullerton, Warnock, and the Morton families from the nearby Tygarts Valley.

The name changed to " Roots " on September 11, 1885, then to " Valley Villa " on December 20, 1885, and the name of Roots was restored on March 1, 1890.

The town over time was known as Nasby, Sulphur Springs, Quinette, Meramec, and finally Valley Park by around 1890.

Elko had been formed in 1890 from part of the Town of South Valley and is now the south part of Coldspring.

Valley View had four church buildings and a hotel by 1890, and the Valley View Independent School District was incorporated in 1902.

Around 1890, the Wilders left DeSmet and spent about a year resting at Wilder's parents ' prosperous Spring Valley ( Minnesota ) farm before moving briefly to Westville, Florida.

Muir, based in California, in 1889 started organizing support to preserve the sequoias in the Yosemite Valley ; Congress did pass the Yosemite National Park bill ( 1890 ).

It had a publishing house ( 1834 ) and Bonebrake Theological Seminary ( 1871 ) at Dayton, Ohio ; and supported Otterbein University ( 1847 ) at Westerville, Ohio ; Westfield College ( 1865 ) at Westfield, Illinois ; Leander Clark College ( 1857 ) at Toledo, Iowa ; York College ( 1890 ) at York, Nebraska ; Philomath College ( 1867 ) at Philomath, Oregon ; Lebanon Valley College ( 1867 ) at Annville, Pennsylvania ; Campbell College ( 1864 ) at Holton, Kansas, and Indiana Central College ( later Indiana Central University and now the University of Indianapolis ) ( 1907 ) at Indianapolis, Indiana.

Members of Pasadena's Valley Hunt Club first staged the parade in 1890.

The Midland Railway ( later part of the LMS ), arrived first with their north-south running " Doe Lea Valley Line " from Staveley to Pleasley, opened in September 1890 and thus enabling a through service between Chesterfield and Mansfield to be operated, but services were withdrawn as early as September 1930.

In 1864 Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove were ceded by the federal government to California until Yosemite National Park was proclaimed in 1890.

The Valley Hunt Club is a private social club located in Pasadena, California, that is most noted for starting the Tournament of Roses Parade in 1890.

Exponents of this style range from Brinsley MacNamara ( 1890 – 1963 ) ( real name John Weldon ), whose 1918 The Valley of the Squinting Windows could be said to have created the genre, to John McGahern ( born 1934 ), whose first novel, The Dark ( 1965 ), a portrayal of child abuse in a rural community, cost him his job as a teacher.

A flood in 1890 brought calls for a similar system for the entire Mississippi Valley.

The success of the Northern Pacific Railroad and the Great Northern Railroad was based on the abundant crops and rapidly increasing settlement in the Red River Valley along the Minnesota border between 1871 and 1890.

In 1894, Kelly signed with Albert L. Johnson, the main benefactor of the 1890 Players ' League, to play for his new minor league club in Allentown, Pa. Days before signing him, Johnson had assumed control of the Allentown & Lehigh Valley Traction Company, a trolley line.

) David Kagery of Luray and George Marshall of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, purchased the property in July 1890 and in October of that year the tract was sold to the Valley Land and Improvement Company.

In 1888, Spreckels established the Western Beet Sugar Company in Watsonville, which was at that time the largest beet sugar factory in the U. S. By 1890, Spreckels main growing operations had shifted to the Salinas Valley, so he built the 42-mile narrow gauge Pajaro Valley Consolidated Railroad to ship his sugar beets from the fields near Salinas to Watsonville.