* 1890 – Anthony Fokker, Dutch aviation engineer ( d. 1939 )

* 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.

* November 18 – Man Ray, American artist ( b. 1890 )

Man Ray was born as Emmanuel Radnitzky in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U. S. in 1890.

The " Elephant Man ", Joseph Carey Merrick ( 1862 – 1890 ) became well known in Whitechapel — he was exhibited in a shop on the Whitechapel Road before being helped by Dr Frederick Treves ( 1853 – 1923 ) at the Royal London Hospital, opposite the actual shop.

* Man Ray ( 1890 – 1976 ), one of the most important painters and photographers of the Surrealist and Dada movements, had a house in an artists ' colony that once existed in Ridgefield.

Joseph Carey Merrick ( 5 August 1862 – 11 April 1890 ), sometimes incorrectly referred to as John Merrick, was an English man with severe deformities who was exhibited as a human curiosity named the Elephant Man.

The Man of Quality ( 1870 ) was one such robust production, Miss Tomboy ( 1890 ) another.

* The Gentleman Who Vanished: A Psychological Phantasy ( 1890, aka The Man Who Vanished )

Building on the innovations of photomontage and artists such as Robert Rauschenberg ( 1925 – 2008 ), Man Ray ( 1890 – 1976 ), Gerhard Richter and Richard Hamilton, urban Australian artists were fascinated by the creative nexus of photography and painting.

Among his many and varied parts may be mentioned Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Shylock, Richard III, Wolsey, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Richelieu, David Garrick, Hernani, Alfred Evelyn, Lanciotto in George Henry Bokers ( 1823 – 1890 ) Francesca da Rimini, and Janies Harebell in The Man o ' Airlie.

From 1890, Leno commissioned George Le Brunn to compose the incidental music to many of his songs, including " The Detective ", " My Old Man ", " Chimney on Fire ", " The Fasting Man ", " The Jap ", " All Through A Little Piece of Bacon " and " The Detective Camera ".

Amongst the finest of his later works may be mentioned the unique and incomparable Az arany ember ( A Man of Gold, translated into English, among others, under the title The Man with the Golden Touch ), the most popular A kőszívű ember fiai ( The Heartless Man's Sons ), the heroic chronicle of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, and A tengerszemű hölgy ( Eyes like the Sea ), the latter of which won the Academy's prize in 1890.

* Joseph Merrick ( 1862 – 1890 ), the Elephant Man ; early biographies inaccurately give his first name as " John ", and this name was used in the 1980 film The Elephant Man

In 1875 her first novel Up the Murray appeared in the Australasian but was not published separately, and it was not until 1890 with the publication of A Marked Man that her fame as a writer was established.

* A Marked Man ( Novel, 1890 )

In the Riverside Church hang three paintings by Heinrich Hofmann which were purchased by John D. Rockefeller, Jr .: Christ in the Temple ( 1871 ), Christ and the Young Rich Man ( 1889 ), and Christ in Gethsemane ( 1890 ).

* Joseph Merrick ( 1862 – 1890 ), the Elephant Man

Category: 1890 establishments in the Isle of Man

In 1890, Streptocarpus galpini was introduced to Kew by Mr E Galpin, who found it on the “ Bearded Man ” peak that forms one of the boundaries of Swaziland.

* 1890: On September 14, 1890, Ray Frank gave the Rosh Hashana sermon for a community in Spokane, Washington, thus becoming the first woman to preach from a synagogue pulpit, although she was not a rabbi.

Ray Grey ( February 19, 1890, San Diego, California-April 18, 1925, Glendale, California ) was an American film director and film actor and the father of actress Virginia Grey.

* 18 November-Man Ray, American artist and photographer ( b. 1890 ).

Ray Orion Wyland ( April 15, 1890 – October 26, 1969 Los Angeles, California ) served as National Director of Education and National Director of the Division of Relationships for the Boy Scouts of America ( BSA ).

* 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 – Freddie Keppard, American jazz musician ( d. 1933 )

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

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