* 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 – 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.

The Dominicans of the province of France furnished Lacordaire ( 1835 – 1836, 1843 – 1851 ), Jacques Monsabré ( 1869 – 1870, 1872 – 1890 ), Joseph Ollivier ( 1871, 1897 ), Thomas Etourneau ( 1898 – 1902 ).

* February 5 – Jacques Ibert, French composer ( b. 1890 )

* Jacques Ibert ( 1890 – 1962 ), composer

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 ).

When Jacques Bauer died in 1890, the Bauers moved to Portland, Oregon, where Bauer graduated from St. Helen's Hall in 1898.

Urban James Shocker ( August 22, 1890 – September 9, 1928 ), born Urbain Jacques Shockor in Cleveland, Ohio, was a Major League Baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees and St. Louis Browns from to.

French Dominicans founded and administer the École Biblique et Archéologique française de Jérusalem founded in 1890 by Père Marie-Joseph Lagrange O. P.

* 1812 – Edmond Hébert, French geologist ( d. 1890 )

In 1890, the British accepted the full formal imposition of a French protectorate on the island, but French authority was not acknowledged by the government of Madagascar.

This empire, founded by El Hadj Umar Tall of the Toucouleur peoples, beginning in 1864, ruled eventually most of what is now Mali until the French conquest of the region in 1890.

* 1890 – Roger Salengro, French politician ( d. 1936 )

* 1890 – Henri Decoin, French film director and screenwriter ( d. 1969 )

* 1890 – Charles de Gaulle, French military general and statesman ( d. 1970 )

To forestall French incursion into what they had come to consider as their own sphere, the British government renewed efforts to finalise a boundary agreement with France and on 1 January 1890 instructed Governor Hay in Sierra Leone to get from chiefs in the boundary area friendship treaties containing a clause forbidding them to treat with another European power without British consent.

Stories like " Boule de Suif " (" Ball of Fat ", 1880 ) and " L ' Inutile Beauté " (" The Useless Beauty ", 1890 ) are good examples of French realism.

** André Gobert, French tennis player ( b. 1890 )

* March 30 – Élise Rivet, French nun and war heroine ( b. 1890 )

* 1888 – 1890: Gustave Zédé and Arthur Constantin Krebs launch the Gymnote, a 60-foot submarine for the French Navy.

* July 18 – Felix du Temple de la Croix, French Army Captain & aviation pioneer ( d. 1890 )

Alphonse de Polignac ( 1817 – 1890 ) was a French mathematician.

After a brief de facto protectorate period beginning in 1885 the island became a full formal French protectorate in 1890, then a colony in 1896, and gained full independence from France in 1960 in the wake of decolonization.

The British accepted the imposition of a French protectorate over Madagascar in 1890 in return for eventual British control over Zanzibar ( subsequently part of Tanzania ) and as part of an overall definition of spheres of influence in the area.

It is in fact jarring to find the champion of American prose Realism, William Dean Howells, introducing Pastels in Prose ( 1890 ), a volume of French prose-poems translated by Stuart Merrill and containing a Paul Margueritte pantomime, The Death of Pierrot, with words of warm praise ( and even congratulations to each poet for failing “ to saddle his reader with a moral ”).

* French — Burguet, Paul Henry: The Imprint, or The Red Hand ( 1908 ; Gaston Séverin plays Pierrot ); Carné, Marcel: Children of Paradise ( 1945 ; see above under The Pantomime of Deburau at the Théâtre des Funambules ); Carré fils, Michel: The Prodigal Son a. k. a. Pierrot the Prodigal ( 1907 ; the first feature-length film and the first film of a stage-play Carré's pantomime of 1890 ; George Wague plays Pierrot père ); Feuillade, Louis: Pierrot's Projector ( 1909 ), Pierrot, Pierrette ( 1924 ); Guitry, Sacha: Deburau ( 1951 ; based upon Guitry's own stage-play # Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues | Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues above ); Guy, Alice: Pierrot, Murderer ( 1904 ); Leprince, René: Pierrot Loves Roses ( 1910 ); Méliès, Georges: By Moonlight, or The Unfortunate Pierrot ( 1904 ).

* Medical History Annick Opinel 2008, The Emergence of French Medical Entomology: The Influence of Universities, the Institut Pasteur and Military Physicians ( 1890 – c. 1938 ) Med Hist.

** Bangassou created ca. 1878 ; 14 June 1890 under Congo Free State protectorate, 1894 under French protectorate ; 1917 Sultanate suppressed by the French.

André-Louis Danjon ( 6 April 1890 – 21 April 1967 ) was a French astronomer born in Caen to Louis Dominique Danjon and Marie Justine Binet.