* 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.

Years later in 1890 Edward Granville Browne described how ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was " one more eloquent of speech, more ready of argument, more apt of illustration, more intimately acquainted with the sacred books of the Jews, the Christians, and the Muhammadans ... scarcely be found even amongst the eloquent.

From 1890 on, he had a friend and admirer in Judge Francis C. Russell of Chicago, who introduced Peirce to editor Paul Carus and owner Edward C. Hegeler of the pioneering American philosophy journal The Monist, which eventually published articles by Peirce, at least 14.

* 1890 – The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Rail Bridge in Scotland, measuring long, is opened by the Prince of Wales, who later becomes King Edward VII.

William Morris ( right ) with artist Edward Burne-Jones, 1890.

* April 26 – Edward Arnold, American actor ( b. 1890 )

Edward Maunder published two papers in 1890 and 1894, and he cited earlier papers written by Gustav Spörer.

* 26 October 1890: His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VII, who on a private visit to Paris, booked a table to see this quadrille whose reputation had already crossed the Channel.

After immense hardships and great loss of life, Stanley met Emin in 1888, charted the Ruwenzori Range and Lake Edward, and emerged from the interior with Emin and his surviving followers at the end of 1890.

# Merrill Edward Gates, 1890 — 1899

Other significant houses in the village include Keys Hill House, built to the east of Norwich Road around 1890 by an important Norwich architect, Edward Boardman, as a substantial country house in Jacobean style.

A post office was established on April 28, 1890, with Edward Cunning as postmaster.

His son, Sir Edward Baines ( 1800 – 1890 ), of St Ann's Hill, Leeds, was editor and afterwards proprietor of the Leeds Mercury, M. P.

The bridge was opened on 4 March 1890 by the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, who drove home the last rivet, which was gold plated and suitably inscribed.

The Forth Bridge was opened on 4 March 1890, by the then Duke of Rothesay ( later to become King Edward VII ).

In 1890, White married Helen Magill, the daughter of Swarthmore College's second president, Edward Magill.

Jeanne Eagels was born in Kansas City, Missouri to Edward and Julia Sullivan Eagles ( 1865 – 1945 ) on June 26, 1890 of German and Irish descent.

Image: Edward Burne-Jones Star of Bethlehem. jpg | The Star of Bethlehem, 1890

* Edward Arnold ( 1890 – 1956 ), actor

Edward Vernon Rickenbacker ( October 8, 1890 – July 23, 1973 ) was an American fighter ace in World War I and Medal of Honor recipient.

* General Sir Arthur Edward Hardinge, 1890 – 1892

In fact, this concept can be traced further back, via Ernest Crocker in 1922, to Henry Edward Armstrong, who in 1890, in an article entitled The structure of cycloid hydrocarbons, wrote the ( six ) centric affinities act within a cycle ... benzene may be represented by a double ring ( sic ) ... and when an additive compound is formed, the inner cycle of affinity suffers disruption, the contiguous carbon-atoms to which nothing has been attached of necessity acquire the ethylenic condition.

His record in matches was equally impressive: at Berlin in 1890 he drew a short play-off match against his brother Berthold ; and won all his other matches from 1889 to 1893, mostly against top-class opponents: Curt von Bardeleben ( 1889 ; ranked 9th best player in the world by Chessmetrics at that time ), Jacques Mieses ( 1889 ; ranked 11th ), Henry Edward Bird ( 1890 ; then 60 years old ; ranked 29th ), Berthold Englisch ( 1890 ; ranked 18th ), Joseph Henry Blackburne ( 1892, without losing a game ; Blackburne was aged 51 then, but still 9th in the world ), Jackson Showalter ( 1892 – 1893 ; 22nd ) and Celso Golmayo Zúpide ( 1893 ; 29th ).