* 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.

American author Mark Twain noted in his diary on 1 February 1890:

Mark George Tobey ( December 11, 1890 – April 24, 1976 ) an American painter whose densely structured compositions, inspired by Asian calligraphy, resemble Abstract expressionism, although the motives for his compositions differ, philosophically, from most Abstract Expressionist painters, was born in Centerville, Wisconsin.

According to Mark Hall, the Epitaph did indeed print a story about the capture of a large, unusual winged creature, on April 26, 1890.

An 1890 ' 20 Mark ' gold coin contained 0. 2304 troy ounce ( 7. 171 g ) of gold.

* Mark Tobey ( 1890 – 1976 )

* American and British Literature Since 1890 ( 1925 ), co-written with Mark Van Doren

Malvern Grammar School opened in 1890 as a boys-only secondary school and in 1924 moved into the Valentine's Mansion, formerly the home of Sir John Mark Davies ( no relation to the school's founder ), a Victorian Cabinet minister.

Robbins attended Washington and Lee University ( Lexington, Virginia ) and — along with Mark W. Sheafe ( 1884 ?– 1949 ) and Thornton Whitney Allen ( 1890 – 1944 )— wrote the college song " Washington and Lee Swing.

Largely self taught, Callahan founded the Northwest School, along with Guy Anderson ( 1906 – 1998 ), Morris Graves ( 1911 – 2001 ), and Mark Tobey ( 1890 – 1976 ).

Image: Beckwith Twain. jpg | Mark Twain, 1890.

The Home was founded in 1890 by Esther Gusky, in memory of her husband, Jacob Mark Gusky.

* 24 April-Mark Tobey, American abstract expressionist painter ( b. 1890 ).

* 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 )

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 )