* 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.

The couple had three children: Cecil ( born in 1890 ), Hazel ( born in 1893 ), and Marjorie ( born in 1903, but died sixteen months later ).

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.

* 1890: Extension of the rail line ( now the Tōhoku Main Line ) from Ueno to Akihabara.

In 1890 a great fall of rock killed nine people in Jamestown, a fountain being erected in Main Street in their memory.

Part of Main Street 1890

Landmarks and historic sites in Buena Vista include the 1890 Buena Vista Hotel ( now Main Hall at SVU ), original Buena Vista Courthouse ( now A. B.

By 1890, the Zachry Building was constructed at the corner of Main and College.

Fires obliterated the S. Benton & Main St. business buildings on one side in 1890, and then a year later destroyed the business buildings on the other side of the street.

Image: TexasRichardson_mainStreet1890. jpg | Main Street ( now Belt Line Road ), 1890

The town's public library is located on Main Street in Hull Village in a stone Victorian mansion, built in 1889 as a summer home by John Boyle O ' Reilly ( 1844 – 1890, famed as an Irish patriot, editor of the Catholic weekly Pilot, and poet ).

The first building was replaced in 1890 by the current Main Building.

* Bruno Asch ( 1890 – 1940 ), politician ( SPD ) and last mayor of Höchst am Main, Germany

Classes began in 1890, with funds for a building (" Old Main ") provided by the Second Legislative Assembly in early 1891, where classes were initially held in 1893.

The Tasmanian Government bought the Tasmanian Main Line Company in 1890, creating the Tasmanian Government Railways.

Memorial to the March 1890 Mid-Mississippi Valley tornado outbreak | 1890 tornado, on Main Street in downtown Louisville

* April 16, 1890: Station begins operation on the Nippon Railway ( now the Tōhoku Main Line ).

* 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 )

* 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 )