* 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 – 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.

* Marin Sais ( 1890 – 1971 ), American film actress

* 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 )

* 1890 – Yvonne Arnaud, French-born actress ( d. 1958 )

* 1890 – Pina Menichelli, Italian actress ( d. 1984 )

* 1989 – May Allison, American actress ( b. 1890 )

* Rhea Mitchell ( 1890 – 1957 ), American actress

* November 17 – Cora Witherspoon, American actress ( b. 1890 )

** Jane Gail, American silent movie and stage actress ( b. 1890 )

** Jeanne Eagels, American actress ( b. 1890 )

** Judith Lowry, American actress ( b. 1890 )

** Henny Porten, German actress ( b. 1890 )

** Clara Kimball Young, American actress ( b. 1890 )

** Verna Felton, American actress ( b. 1890 )

** May Allison, American actress ( b. 1890 )

** Madoline Thomas, Welsh actress ( b. 1890 )

** Alice Joyce, American actress ( b. 1890 )

* November 3 – Lucile McVey, American actress, part of comedy team with her late husband Sidney Drew ( b. 1890 )

# Katherine Corri Harris ( 1890 – 1927 ), an actress who starred in the 1918 film The House of Mirth, on September 1, 1910 and divorced in 1917.

* Alice Joyce ( 1890 – 1955 ), film actress known as The Madonna of the Screen had a summer home in Allenhurst.

Jeanne Eagels ( June 26, 1890 – October 3, 1929 ) was an American actress on Broadway and in several motion pictures.

* Roberta Beatty ( 1890 – 1978 ), actress

* Alice Joyce ( 1890 – 1955 ), actress

* Laura Spellman-Middleton ( 1890 – 1945 ), actress

Marjorie Main ( February 24, 1890 – April 10, 1975 ) was an American character actress, mainly at MGM, perhaps best known for her role as Ma Kettle in a series of ten Ma and Pa Kettle movies.

* Alice Joyce ( 1890 – 1955 ), American actress