* 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.

Maximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf ( 1890 )— the discoverer of the first Trojan

* August 26 – Franz Werfel, Austrian writer ( b. 1890 )

Devastated by Levi's assessment, Bruckner revised the work, sometimes with the aid of Franz Schalk, and completed this new version in 1890.

2, pp. 583 – 636 ; J Claassen, Franz von Baaders Leben und theosophische Werke ( Stuttgart, 1886 – 1887 ), and Franz von Baaders Gedanken über Staat und Gesellschaft ( Gütersloh, 1890 ); Otto Pfleiderer, Philosophy of Religion ( vol.

He volunteered in the 1890 electoral campaign, which had to be organized in semi-clandestinity because of continuing government repression, helping the SPD candidate Franz Jöst retake the seat for the district Mainz-Oppenheim in the Reichstag.

* Franz Werfel ( 1890 – 1945 ), poet

In 1890, Franz Boas found only three speakers, and they spoke it imperfectly.

* Franz Werfel ( 1890 – 1945 ), Austrian writer ( whose body was transferred in 1975 to the Zentralfriedhof, Vienna )

* By 1890 after acquiring the patent rights of Franz Windhausen's CO < sub > 2 </ sub >- compression refrigeration system, the J & E Hall company installed the first marine CO < sub > 2 </ sub > refrigerator system on the Nelson Line ship the Highland Chief.

In pieces such as Franz Liszt's À la Chapelle Sixtine ( 1862 ), Edvard Grieg's Holberg Suite ( 1884 ), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's divertissement from The Queen of Spades ( 1890 ), George Enescu's Piano Suite in the Old Style ( 1897 ) and Max Reger's Concerto in the Old Style ( 1912 ), composers " dressed up their music in old clothes in order to create a smiling or pensive evocation of the past " ( Albright 2004, 276 ).

Until 1890 Clemens August and his brother Franz were tutored at home.

In 1890 anthropologist Franz Boas found only three speakers of the Chemakum language, and they spoke it imperfectly.

The windows were made in Munich, Germany by Franz Mayer & Co., and installed beginning in 1890.

The first published version of 1890, edited by Rättig, remains controversial because it hasn't been ascertained how much it reflected Bruckner's wishes, and how much it was influenced by Josef and Franz Schalk.

* 1875 – 1890: Franz Volk

During the following ten years he played at small theaters in Jihlava, Klagenfurt, Opava, Budapest, Leipzig, and Liebenstein ; from 1874 to 1890 he was a member of the " Meininger ", and appeared in such roles as Shylock, Iago, Gessler, Franz Moor, and Marinelli.

Franz Delitzsch ( Leipzig, February 23, 1813 – Leipzig, March 4, 1890 ) was a German Lutheran theologian and Hebraist.

* 1947 – Victor Serge, Russian anarchist, novelist, and historian ( b. 1890 )

* 1890 – Dr. Alan L. Hart, American transsexual, radiologist, and novelist ( d. 1962 )

* 1890 – Conrad Richter, American novelist and short story writer ( d. 1968 )

* 1980 – Katherine Anne Porter, American novelist ( b. 1890 )

* Maurice Genevoix ( 1890 – 1980 ), novelist

* Cid Ricketts Sumner ( 1890 – 1970 ), American novelist

Christopher Morley ( May 5, 1890 – March 28, 1957 ) was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet.

* A. P. Herbert ( 1890 – 1971 ) – humourist, novelist, playwright and law reform activist

* John Boyle O ' Reilly ( 1844 – 1890 ), Irish poet and novelist

* Christopher Morley ( 1890 – 1957 ; resident a few years 1910s ), journalist, novelist, essayist, and poet

* Claude McKay ( 1890 – 1948 ), poet, journalist, novelist

* Thomas Frederic Tweed ( 1890 – 1940 ), British soldier and novelist

* William Gilbert ( author ) ( 1804 – 1890 ), English novelist & surgeon ( father of W. S. Gilbert )

Octave Feuillet ( August 11, 1821 – December 29, 1890 ) was a French novelist and dramatist.

Katherine Anne Porter ( May 15, 1890 – September 18, 1980 ) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist.

Daisy Fellowes ( née Marguerite Séverine Philippine Decazes de Glücksberg, ( April 29, 1890 – December 13, 1962 ), was a celebrated 20th-century society figure, acclaimed beauty, minor novelist and poet, Paris Editor of American Harper's Bazaar, fashion icon, and an heiress to the Singer sewing machine fortune.

William Gilbert, ( 20 May 1804 – 3 January 1890 ) was a British novelist and Royal Navy surgeon, and the author of novels, biographies, histories and several popular fantasy stories, mostly in the 1860s and 1870s.

Conrad Michael Richter ( October 13, 1890 – October 30, 1968 ) was an American novelist whose lyrical work focuses on life along the American frontier.

Zora Bernice May Cross ( 18 May 1890 – 22 January 1964 ) was an Australian poet, novelist and journalist.

* Bertha Louise Ricketts, original name of Cid Ricketts Sumner ( 1890 – 1970 ), American novelist

Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr ( November 24, 1808 – September 29, 1890 ) was a French critic, journalist, and novelist.

Samuel Ornitz ( November 15, 1890 – March 10, 1957 ) was an American screenwriter and novelist who was one of the " Hollywood Ten " who were blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses during the era of McCarthyism.

Their daughter Emilie Charlotte Adele Fehling ( 1865 – 1890 ) married the novelist Lieutenant Bernhard von Hindenburg, brother of the Field Marshal und President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg.