* 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.

** Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist and writer ( b. 1890 )

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

Marjory Stoneman Douglas ( April 7, 1890 – May 14, 1998 ) was an American journalist, writer, feminist, and environmentalist known for her staunch defense of the Everglades against efforts to drain it and reclaim land for development.

Marjory Stoneman was born on April 7, 1890, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the only child of Frank Bryant Stoneman ( 1857 – 1941 ) and Lillian Trefethen ( 1859 – 1912 ), a concert violinist.

* July 9 – Douglas MacLean, American actor ( b. 1890 )

Douglas Irwin ’ s 1998 paper examines the validity of the opposite tariff hypotheses posed by the Republicans and Democrats in 1890.

# Sir Douglas Maclagan ( 1890 – 1895 )

He had been assisted by Douglas Hyde, whose Beside the Fire, a collection of folklore in Irish, was published in 1890.

Further along the avenue is a Grade II listed obelisk in red sandstone with a copper cap, dated 1890, designed by Douglas & Fordham.

Dunlay was born in Douglas, County Cork and died in the South Infirmary, Cork on 17 October 1890.

* Douglas MacLean ( 1890 – 1967 ), American silent motion picture actor, producer, and writer

Douglasdale is built upon Douglasdale Farm, a large farm that was started in 1905 by Thomas Douglas and his wife Janet Alexander who both immigrated to South Africa from Scotland in 1890.

* 1890: Douglas Beresford Malise Ronald Graham, 5th Duke of Montrose

* Douglas Fisher ( Royal Navy officer ) ( 1890 – 1963 ), British sailor & Fourth Sea Lord

During that decade rumours arose that Bramall would be dismantled and transported to the United States ; this may have been popularised by the autobiography of Kate Douglas Wiggin which described the author's visit to Bramall in 1890.

* On July 28, 1968: a United States Air Force Douglas C-124C Globemaster II registration 51-5178 flying from Paramaribo-Zanderij to Recife, while on approach to land at Recife, flew into a 1890 feet high hill 80km ( 50 miles ) away from Recife.

* 28 July 1968: a United States Air Force Douglas C-124C Globemaster II registration 51-5178 flying from Paramaribo-Zanderij to Recife, while on approach to land at Recife, flew into a 1890 feet high hill 80 km away from Recife.

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 )