* 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.

The Gothic tradition continued in the 19th century, in such works as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1818 ), Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, the works of Sheridan Le Fanu, Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ), Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1890 ), and Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1897 ).

Dr. Bush ( 1890 – 1974 ) was a prominent scientist, adviser to Presidents, and the force behind the establishment of the National Science Foundation.

The then Bishop of Rochester, the Right Revd Dr Thomas Legh Claughton, elected to take the northern division of his old diocese and on 12 June 1877 was enthroned first Bishop of St Albans, a position he held until 1890.

The " Elephant Man ", Joseph Carey Merrick ( 1862 – 1890 ) became well known in Whitechapel — he was exhibited in a shop on the Whitechapel Road before being helped by Dr Frederick Treves ( 1853 – 1923 ) at the Royal London Hospital, opposite the actual shop.

Sited in then-virgin forest and following the ' if you build it, they will come ' ethos predominant in 19th Century Western American development, the town of McMurray was platted by a Dr. Marcus Kenyon in 1890 beside right-of-way of the newly constructed Seattle & Lake Shore Railway.

Professor Dr. Albert Peter laid out the Brocken Garden in 1890.

In 1890 he introduced a new form of the mantle based on a mixture of 99 % thorium dioxide and 1 % cerium ( IV ) oxide which he developed in collaboration with his colleague Dr. Haittinger.

1899 – 1901 ); obituary notice in The Times, January 11, 1890 ; L. von Kobell, Conversations of Dr Doellinger ( tr.

Frontispiece displayed on page 10 in Footsteps of Dr. Johnson in Scotland, 1890

* Footsteps of Dr Johnson in Scotland ( 1890 )

Vincent van Gogh-Portrait of Dr. Gachet, 1890 ( Musée d ' Orsay, Paris )

Dr. James Strong first published his seminal work, Strong's Concordance, in 1890, during his tenure as Professor of exegetical theology at Drew Theological Seminary.

* Dr. Francis F. Rowland, 1890, 1892, 1894, 1904, 1905, 1910, 1916

Dr. Fletcher B. Chereington ( 1890 – 1892 )

( 1890 ) Dr John Brown and his Sister Isabella ( 4th edition )

In 1890 Dr. Fritz Michel gained a concession to build an " electrical cable railway " on the Harder mountain, to the north of the city of Interlaken, however financial backing for such a project was difficult to obtain and it was not until November 1905 that construction started and was to last for three years.

The course was established in 1890 and, in 1898, the club was the testing ground of Dr Frank Stableford ’ s revolutionary new Stableford golf scoring system still used all over the world today.

Following his release he moved his families to Colorado and married a third wife, Dr. Margaret Curtis Shipp ( his third marriage was childless ), either shortly before or shortly after Wilford Woodruff, president of the LDS Church, issued the 1890 Manifesto that abolished plural marriage.

Dr. Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger ( April 14, 1890 – April 25, 1947 ) was a German official and state secretary in the Reich Chancellery during the period of Nazi Germany.

She was lauded after her death for both her philosophical writings, by Dr. Robert Lewins and for her poetry in an article by the Liberal MP William Ewart Gladstone ( three times prime minister ) in the Spectator ( 11 January 1890 ), in which he ranked her among the top eight women poets of the nineteenth century.

* Dr William Collier, LLD, ( Trinity College, Dublin ) ( 1880 – 1890 )

Dr. John Henry Augustus Bomberger, for whom the campus ' signature Romanesque building is named ( see Gallery, below ), served as the college ’ s first president until his death in 1890.

He was instructor ( 1888-1890 ) and professor ( 1890 1893 ) of church history at Lane Theological Seminary, and in 1893 became Washburn professor of church history in Union theological seminary, succeeding Dr Philip Schaff.

1890: Pharmacist Dr. Oskar Troplowitz ( born in 1863 in Gliwice in Poland ) takes over the company.