* 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.

Dwight David " Ike " Eisenhower ( pronounced, ; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969 ) was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961.

* March 28 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States ( b. 1890 )

* Dwight D. Eisenhower ( 1890 – 1969 ), a five-star general in the United States Army and the 34th President of the United States, popularly known as " Ike "

* James Dwight Dana, 1890

Many other buildings stood on the Old Campus which were removed to make way for the current configuration of structures, including The Old Laboratory ( 1782 – 1888 ), The Cabinet ( 1819 – 1890 ), Trumbull Gallery ( 1832 – 1901 ), Alumni Hall ( 1853 – 1911, Alexander Jackson Davis ; the towers from this building were rescued and rebuilt behind the tomb of Skull and Bones ), Old Dwight Hall ( 1885 – 1926, J. Cleaveland Cady ), and Osborn Hall ( 1888 – 1926, Bruce Price ).

* President Dwight Eisenhower ( 1890 – 1969 )

C. D. Yonge, London, H. G. Bohn, 1854 – 1890 ):

* Washington, D. C. ( 1890 – 1899, part of the Washington streetcar system )

In North America, Samuel D. Warren and Louis D. Brandeis wrote that privacy is the " right to be let alone " ( Warren & Brandeis, 1890 ) focuses on protecting individuals.

* Cary D. Wintz, African American Political Thought, 1890 – 1930: Washington, Du Bois, Garvey, and Randolph ( 1996 ).

* Bavarian D X, a 1890 German saturated steam locomotive model

At its height, around 1890, the D & RG had the largest operating narrow gauge railroad network in North America.

During the latter 1880s, the Texas surveyor and civil engineer W. D. Twichell lived in Tascosa, now a ghost town in Oldham County, prior to his relocating in 1890 to Amarillo

1895 ), in which the prominent ethnologist is seen performing an incantation in a Zuñi pueblo ; Professor Henry A. Rowland ( 1897 ), a brilliant scientist whose study of spectroscopy revolutionized his field ; Antiquated Music ( 1900 ), in which Mrs. William D. Frishmuth is shown seated amidst her collection of musical instruments ; and The Concert Singer ( 1890 – 92 ), for which Eakins asked Weda Cook to sing " O rest in the Lord ", so that he could study the muscles of her throat and mouth.

Organized on January 15, 1890, by Fresno businessmen Thomas E. Hughes, Fulton Berry, Gilbert R. Osmun, H. D.

Smart ; 1887, William Upham ; 1888, A. D. McConihe ; 1889 – 1890, Sanford B. Horton ; 1891, Chris.

In 1890 Jay Gould and John D. Rockefeller pooled their money and gained control of the Union Pacific, halting further progress of the Portland and Puget Sound Rail Road.

In 1890, the company bought 850 acres ( 3. 4 km² ) adjoining the western and northern corporate limits of Charles Town and commissioned D. G.

Chevy Chase was unincorporated farmland in the years before 1890, during which time Senator Francis G. Newlands of Nevada and his partners began the aggressive acquisition of land in northwestern Washington, D. C., and southern Montgomery County, Maryland, for the purpose of developing a residential streetcar suburb for Washington, DC.

* Robert F. Pennel ; Ancient Rome from the earliest times down to 476 A. D ; 1890

It was edited by Benjamin Hall Kennedy, James Riddell and William George Clark ; there was also a revised edition ( 1890 ) with revisions by Henry Holden and R. D. Archer-Hind.

Image: Albert Pinkham Ryder 003. jpg | Albert Pinkham Ryder, Seacoast in Moonlight, 1890, the Phillips Collection, Washington, D. C.

In addition to the above, he was also the author of the following works: " Fragments of Criticism ," a volume of essays, ( 1860 ); Tables of European Literature and History, A. D. 200-1876 " ( 1876 ) " Tables of Ancient Literature and History ," ( 1877 ); " English Composition ," a literature primer, ( 1879 ); " Questions on English Composition ," ( 1890 ); and two volumes on " Lord Bacon's Life and Philosophy " for Black's Series of Philosophical Writers, ( 1887 – 89 ).

He gained his Ph. D. in history from Johns Hopkins University in 1890 with a thesis on the Wisconsin fur trade, directed by Herbert Baxter Adams.

Former Confederate General John Brown Gordon was the first commander of the UCV in 1890, holding this position until his death in 1904, when he was succeeded by Stephen D. Lee.

Rowing Home, 1890, watercolor ( Phillips Collection, Washington, D. C .)