* 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.

* 1890 – Frank Morgan, American actor ( d. 1949 )

* 1890 – Frank Forde, Australian politician, 15th Prime Minister of Australia ( d. 1983 )

* Frank S. Land ( 1890 – 1959 ), Americal founder of Order of DeMolay

* 1959 – Frank Sherman Land, American Freemason ( b. 1890 )

* 1949 – Frank Morgan, American actor ( b. 1890 )

* September 18 – Frank Morgan, American actor ( b. 1890 )

* November 21 – Frank Martin, Swiss composer ( b. 1890 )

* Frank Martin ( 1890 – 1974 )

His publication in 1890 of infrared observations at the Allegheny Observatory in Pittsburgh together with Frank Washington Very along with the data he collected from his invention, the bolometer, was used by Svante Arrhenius to make the first calculations on the greenhouse effect.

He was one of four Muscatine residents to be appointed as a diplomatic envoy between 1855 and 1900, a remarkable feat for a town of such small size: George Van Horne was consul at Marseilles, France during the 1860s ; Samuel McNutt served at Maracaibo, Venezuela in 1890 ; and Frank W. Mahin represented his country in Reichenberg, Austria in 1900.

Park Rapids became a city in 1890, and was named by Frank C. Rice after the park groves and prairies beside the Fish Hook River rapids.

Upon completion of the initial line the last spike was driven by the nephew of Ezra Meeker, Frank Oliver Meeker on June 29, 1890.

Frank Meeker drove the customary last spike on June 29, 1890, making the track still under construction when the plat was signed.

Frank Morgan ( June 1, 1890 – September 18, 1949 ) was an American actor.

Frank Martin ( 15 September 1890 in the Eaux-Vives quarter of Geneva – 21 November 1974 in Naarden ) was a Swiss composer, who lived a large part of his life in the Netherlands.

* Frank Morgan Wupperman ( 1890 – 1949 ), played the character of the Wizard in The Wizard of Oz ( as Frank Morgan ).

A woodcut image of Nellie Bly's homecoming reception in Jersey City printed in Frank Leslie's Weekly | Frank Leslie's Illustrated News on 8 Feb 1890.

**** Harry Frank Guggenheim philanthropist who privately funded Goddard's liquid fuel rocket research ( 1890 – 1971 )

The Group of Seven — sometimes known as the Algonquin school — were a group of Canadian landscape painters from 1920 to 1933, originally consisting of Franklin Carmichael ( 1890 – 1945 ), Lawren Harris ( 1885 – 1970 ), A. Y. Jackson ( 1882 – 1972 ), Frank Johnston ( 1888 – 1949 ), Arthur Lismer ( 1885 – 1969 ), J. E. H. MacDonald ( 1873 – 1932 ), and Frederick Varley ( 1881 – 1969 ).

However, Houdini was only sixteen years old in 1890, the year of Frank Gilmore's birth.

Marjory Stoneman was born on April 7, 1890, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the only child of Frank Bryant Stoneman ( 1857 – 1941 ) and Lillian Trefethen ( 1859 – 1912 ), a concert violinist.

A post office named Temple, after Martin Temple, opened on April 21, 1890, with hotelman, Bert Trall, as the first postmaster.

The Village of Welcome, geographically located in the center of Martin County, was incorporated in 1890.

Homer Martin Adkins ( October 15, 1890 – February 26, 1964 ) was the 32nd governor of the U. S. state of Arkansas.

Together with Edward L. Martin, Stilwell built the Kansas City Suburban Belt Railway, which was incorporated in 1887 and began operation in 1890, serving the Argentine District in Kansas City, Kansas ; Independence, Missouri ; and the riverside commercial and industrial districts of Kansas City.

F. Jackson, E. Gedge, and J. Martin made the first recorded ascent of Sudek in 1890.

* John Hanbury Martin ( 1890 – 1983 ), British Labour politician

And in 1890, Martin graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics at the age of sixteen, which was almost unheard of because of the masculinity associated with that field.

* Frank Martin ( composer ) ( 1890 – 1974 ), Swiss classical composer

* Martin Corry ( Irish politician ) ( 1890 – 1979 ), Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála ( TD ) from Cork 1927 – 1969

Line opened on 18 February 1890 and was originally operated as an independent line, with the powerhouse located on the north east corner of High Street and Martin Street.

In an article by Serge Basset printed in Le Martin in 1890, Rodin said: " For a whole year I lived with Dante, with him alone, drawing the circles of his inferno.

* Union Station ( Raleigh, North Carolina ), in Raleigh, North Carolina was constructed in 1890 by the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad, a predecessor of the Seaboard Air Line, at the corner of Dawson and West Martin streets

From this, Martin rose in 1890 to his greatest height: for both Kent and MCC, he was a formidable bowler in a damp summer and took 190 wickets for under fourteen each.

1895 was a mixed season for Martin, punctuated by four wickets in four balls for MCC against the newly-promoted Derbyshire eleven at Lord's ; however, for Kent he was very expensive until the wickets became treacherous in mid-July, and, even then, the Martin of 1890 would have surely been more deadly.