* 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 – 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.

* 1957 – Michalis Dorizas, Greek Olympic medalist ( b. 1890 )

* A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities ( 1890 ) ( eds.

* 1940 – George Regas, Greek actor ( b. 1890 )

* 1890 – George Regas, Greek actor ( d. 1940 )

* Smith, William ; A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London ( 1890 ).

* A Dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities ( 1890 ), Perseus Project

He published an enlarged edition of Kuhner's Greek Grammar ( 1890 – 1904 ).

Construction resumed in 1890 when the project was transferred to a Greek company, and was finally completed on 25 July 1893 after eleven years ' work.

* A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities ( 1890 )

The term nekton was coined in 1890 by Ernst Haeckel ; it is rooted in the Greek adjective νηκτός nēktós (" the swimming ") derived from the verb νήχειν nḗkhein (" to swim ").

* J. W. Mackail, Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology ( with text, introduction, notes, and prose translation ; London 1890, revised 1906 )

In 1890, when Sophie announced her intention to leave her Evangelical faith for Greek Orthodoxy, Dona summoned her and told her that if she did so, not only would Wilhelm find it unacceptable, being the head of the Evangelical State Church of Prussia's older Provinces ; she would be barred from Germany and her soul would end up in Hell.

Naim Frashëri wrote a pastoral poem Bagëti e bujqësia ( Shepherds and Farmers ) ( 1886 ), a collection of philosophical, patriotic and love lyrics Lulet e verës ( Summer Flowers ), ( 1890 ), an epical poem on Skanderbeg Histori e Skënderbeut ( The History of Skanderbeg ) ( 1898 ), a religious epical poem Qerbelaja ( 1898 ), two poems in Greek O Eros ( i. e. O Love ) and O alithis pothos ton skipetaron ( i. e. The True Desire of Albanians ), some lyrics in Persian Tehajylat ( The Dream ) and many erudite works in Albanian.

Delta Chi ( ΔΧ ) ( del-ta kai ) or D-Chi is an international Greek letter college social fraternity formed on October 13, 1890,

Sheffield had its own student secret societies ( aka final clubs or senior societies, some also known by their Greek letters ) including the Colony Club, 1848 ( now Berzelius ), the Cloister, 1863 ( now Book and Snake ), St. Anthony Hall, 1867 ( now a 3-year society, also called Delta Psi ), St. Elmo, 1889 ( also a senior society ), as well as Franklin Hall, 1865 ( Theta Xi ), York Hall, 1877 ( Chi Phi ), Sachem Hall, 1890 ( Phi Sigma Kappa ), and Vernon Hall, 1895 ( Phi Gamma Delta ).

* Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, edited by William Smith ( 1890 )

In 1890 Flinders Petrie discovered further papyrus fragments, which had been reused in constructing a 3rd century BCE Ptolemaic mummy case found in the Fayoum ; the palaeography suggested that the scroll was old before it was reused as waste, making these fragments the earliest surviving text of any Greek play ; the discovery occasioned a rash of new readings of the existing fragments.

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities is an English-language encyclopedia first published in 1842 and then in many revised editions through 1890.

Die Gastfreundschaft im Altertum ( 1887 ); see also Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities ( 3rd ed., 1890 ).

* Select Epigrams From The Greek Anthology ( 1890 )

" Eddie " Doherty ( October 30, 1890 – May 4, 1975 ) was a famed American newspaper reporter, best-selling author, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, co-founder of the Madonna House Apostolate, and later ordained a priest in the Melkite Greek Catholic Church.

He is chiefly known for his editions of Greek philosophical works: Heracliti Ephesii Reliquiae ( 1877 ); Prisciani Lydi quae extant ( edited for the Berlin Academy in the Supplementum Aristotelicum, 1886 ); Aristotle, Ethica Nicomachea ( 1890 ), De Arte Poetica ( 1898 ); Contributions to the Textual Criticism of the Nicomachean Ethics ( 1892 ).

* 1814 – Henri Nestlé, German businessman, founded Nestlé ( d. 1890 )

* 1890 – Angus Lewis Macdonald, Canadian politician ( d. 1954 )

* 1865 – Gus Kempis, South African cricketer ( d. 1890 )

* 1890 – Dolf Luque, Cuban baseball player ( d. 1957 )

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

* 1890 – Paul Berth, Danish football player ( d. 1969 )

The Sermon On the Mount by Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter, d. 1890.

* 1816 – August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born American financier ( d. 1890 )

* 1890 – Bohuslav Martinů, Czech composer ( d. 1959 )

* 1890 – Dion Fortune, British occultist ( d. 1946 )

* 1890 – Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist ( d. 1951 )

* 1890 – Rudolf Schlichter, German artist and writer ( d. 1955 )

* 1890 – David Bomberg, English painter ( d. 1957 )

* 1890 – Fritz Lang, Austrian-born film director ( d. 1976 )