* 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 – 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.

During the years 1890 – 1893 when he was most engaged with the theatre, James wrote a good deal of theatrical criticism and assisted Elizabeth Robins and others in translating and producing Henrik Ibsen for the first time on the London stage.

Around 1890 seminary education first became available at Clay Hill College in downtown Elizabeth.

The merger negotiations between the two organizations began in 1887, dragged for three years, and were finally consummated at a joint convention in February 1890 where the NAWSA nominated Elizabeth Cady Stanton as its first President.

Sir Francis Richard Grey ( 31 March 1813 – 22 March 1890 ) married Lady Elizabeth Howard ( 1816 – 1891 ), daughter of George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle and Georgiana Cavendish ( daughter of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire ).

Elizabeth Storrs Billings Mead taught for two years at Oberlin College and subsequently, from 1890 to 1900, served as president of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts.

Mary Elizabeth ( Loveland ) Hoyt was born April 1833 and died October 1890 Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.

* Margaret Elizabeth Darwin ( 1890 – 1974 ), married Sir Geoffrey Keynes.

His mother Nannie Elizabeth Robertson was a local school teacher when Moody Sr. married her in 1890.

Thomas Gilcrease was the son of William Lee Gilcrease and Mary " Elizabeth " ( Vowell ) Gilcrease, and was born in Robeline, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana on February 8, 1890.

* Elizabeth Bolden ( 1890 – 2006 ), world's oldest living person at the time of her death on December 11, 2006

Constance Mary Elizabeth Cochrane-Wishart-Baillie, on 26 August 1890.

* Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ( 1890 – 1964 ), feminist socialist organizer

Chartered by an Act of Assembly in 1890, the Town of Berkley was located directly across the eastern branch of the Elizabeth River from the City of Norfolk in the South Hampton Roads area.

She received her B. A in 1890 along with two other notable women ; Elizabeth Binmore and Carrie Matilda Derick.

Susie Elizabeth Gibson née Potts ( October 31, 1890 ( or 1889, according to herself and her Social Security record ) – February 16, 2006 ) was an American supercentenarian and the third-oldest person in the world at the time of her death.

The death of Ura Koyama of Japan ( August 30, 1890 – April 5, 2005 ) temporarily moved Gibson up to fourth on the world list, but the subsequent validation to be older of fellow American Elizabeth Bolden by April 28, 2005 had once again relegated her to fifth-oldest.

The church in Eyrarbakki was built in 1890 ; its altarpiece was painted by Queen Louise of Denmark, wife of King Christian IX, great-great-grandfather of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and King Harald V of Norway.

Elizabeth " Lizzie " Bolden ( née Jones ; August 15, 1890 – December 11, 2006 ) was an American supercentenarian woman who, at the time of her death at age 116 years and 118 days, was recognized by Guinness World Records as the then world's oldest living person.

Elizabeth Jones was born in 1890 in Somerville, Tennessee, the daughter of freed slaves.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and her husband co-authored two Biblical romances in 1890 and 1891.

Hildegard Anna Augusta Elizabeth Freiin Rebay von Ehrenwiesen, Baroness Hilla von Rebay, or simply Hilla Rebay ( 31 May 1890, Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine – 27 September 1967, Greens Farms, Connecticut ), was a notable woman abstract painter in the early 20th century.

No actual record exists of either his birth or his life prior to his immigration to Cuba, making him ineligible for consideration for the title of oldest living person, by the Guinness Book of World Records, held at the time of his death by Elizabeth Bolden ( August 15, 1890 – December 11, 2006 ), an African-American woman aged 116.

* Lord Alastair St. Clair Sutherland-Leveson-Gower ( 1890 – 1921 ), married Elizabeth Demarest and had Elizabeth Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 24th Countess of Sutherland.