* 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.

** Freddie Keppard, American jazz musician ( b. 1890 )

* 1890 – Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist and writer ( d. 1998 )

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.

Therefore, in 1890, Young signed with the Cleveland Spiders, a team which had moved up from the American Association to the National League the previous year.

* Westward by Sea: A Maritime Perspective on American Expansion, 1820 – 1890, digitized source materials from Mystic Seaport, via Library of Congress American Memory

Clarence Brown ( May 10, 1890 – August 17, 1987 ) was an American film director.

* 1890 – Sitting Bull, American Indian tribal chief ( b. c. 1831 )

* 1816 – August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born American financier ( d. 1890 )

* 1890 – Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler ( d. 1992 )

* 1890 – Mark Tobey, American painter ( d. 1976 )

Edwin Howard Armstrong ( 18 December 1890 – 31 January 1954 ) was an American electrical engineer and inventor.

* 1819 – Christopher Sholes, American inventor ( d. 1890 )

* 1890 – Marjorie Main, American actress ( d. 1975 )

* 1819 – Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, American composer ( d. 1890 )

* 1890 – Charles Correll, American actor ( d. 1972 )

* 1890 – Edward Arnold, American actor ( d. 1956 )

Beginning around 1890, the early New Orleans jazz ensemble ( which played a mixture of marches, ragtime, and Dixieland ) was initially a marching band with a tuba or sousaphone ( or occasionally bass saxophone ) supplying the bass line.

In the opinion of jazz historian Ernest Borneman, what preceded New Orleans jazz before 1890, was " Afro-Latin music " similar to what was played in the Caribbean at the time.

* July 10 – Jelly Roll Morton, African-American jazz musician and composer ( b. 1890 )

Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe ( October 20, 1890 – July 10, 1941 ), known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer.

His success led him in this same year to a small role in Swingin ' the Dream, Gilbert Seldes's jazz adaptation of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, set in 1890 New Orleans and featuring, among others, Louis Armstrong as Bottom and Maxine Sullivan as Titania, with the Benny Goodman sextet.

Fate Marable ( 2 December 1890 – 16 January 1947 ) was a jazz pianist and bandleader.

* Steve Brown ( bass player ) ( 1890 – 1965 ), American jazz musician and string bass player from New Orleans

Steve Brown ( January 13, 1890 – September 15, 1965 ) was a jazz musician best known for his work on string bass.

Beginning around 1890, the early New Orleans jazz ensemble ( which played a mixture of marches, ragtime, and dixieland music ) was initially a marching band with sousaphone ( or occasionally bass saxophone ) supplying the bass line.

Eddie Anthony ( 1890 – 1934 ) was an American country blues and jazz musician.

* Virginia Liston ( 1890 – 1932 ), American blues and jazz singer

Bessie Brown ( 1890 – 1955 ) also known as " The Original " Bessie Brown, was an American classic female blues, jazz, and cabaret singer.