* 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.

January 25: Nellie Bly, 1890.

A woodcut image of Nellie Bly's homecoming reception in Jersey City printed in Frank Leslie's Weekly | Frank Leslie's Illustrated News on 8 Feb 1890.

* Yorkshire completes the County Championship season unbeaten, the first time this has happened since the start of the official championship in 1890.

* William Dickson completes his work for Thomas Edison on the Kinetograph cylinder either in this year or 1890.

In 1890 the firm of Hildesheimer and Faulkner bought several of her drawings of her rabbit, Benjamin Bunny, to illustrate verses by Frederic Weatherly titled A Happy Pair.

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

Kohl was born in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ( at the time part of Bavaria, now in Rhineland-Palatinate ) Germany, the third child of Cäcilie ( née Schnur ; 1890 – 1979 ) and her husband Hans Kohl ( 1887 – 1975 ), a civil servant.

The 1890 British Ultimatum was considered by Portuguese historians and politics at that time, the most outrageous and infamous action of the British against her oldest ally.

Giving the Gymnote submarine the ability to keep a straight line under water during several hours, it allowed her to force a naval block in 1890.

In 1890 Robert Louis Stevenson, his wife Fanny Vandegrift Stevenson, and her son Lloyd Osbourne sailed on the Janet Nicoll, a trading steamer owned by Henderson and Macfarlane of Auckland, New Zealand, which operated between Sydney, Auckland and into the central Pacific.

# Blanche Marie Louise Oelrichs ( 1890 – 1950 ), aka " Michael Strange ," on August 5, 1920 and divorced her in 1925.

By 1890 the family had settled in Glasgow and Margaret and her sister, Frances MacDonald, enrolled as students at the Glasgow School of Art.

She participated in the Crimean War, and after her return to France later housed the French Naval Academy under the name Borda from 1864 to 1890.

King William III died on 23 November 1890, and, although Princess Wilhelmina became Queen of the Netherlands instantly, her mother, Emma, was named regent.

1895 ), in which the prominent ethnologist is seen performing an incantation in a Zuñi pueblo ; Professor Henry A. Rowland ( 1897 ), a brilliant scientist whose study of spectroscopy revolutionized his field ; Antiquated Music ( 1900 ), in which Mrs. William D. Frishmuth is shown seated amidst her collection of musical instruments ; and The Concert Singer ( 1890 – 92 ), for which Eakins asked Weda Cook to sing " O rest in the Lord ", so that he could study the muscles of her throat and mouth.

She wrote it on June 6 and 7 of 1890 in her home of Pasadena, and it was printed a year and a half later in the January 1892 issue of The New England Magazine.

In 1890, Charlotte Alice Baker returned to Deerfield to restore her family home, the Frary House.

Besides children's music ( which includes four fairytale operas as well as the aforementioned songs ), three other special categories of compositions stand out among his works: ( 1 ) pieces inspired by and dedicated to the Comtesse de Mercy-Argenteau ( whom the composer knew from 1885 to her death in 1890 ; ( 2 ) works associated with the Circle of Russian Music Lovers ( the " Kerzin Circle "); and ( 3 ) pieces inspired by the Russo-Japanese War and World War I.

A similar case concerns the noted American poet Emily Dickinson, who died in 1890 and left to her sister Lavinia the instruction of burning all her papers.

To compound her losses, Count Gyula Andrássy died a year later, on 18 February 1890.

* Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands reigned from 1890 to 1948, before abdicating in favor of her daughter, Queen Juliana who did herself.

Milner is credited with organizing the university's initial collection of more than 40, 000 items and was a prolific author of more than seventy articles and short monographs in library and education journals during her tenure as University Librarian from 1890 to 1927.

Built in 1940, the building was named in honor of Milner who served as University Librarian from 1890 until her retirement in 1927.

However, World owner Pulitzer chartered a private train to bring her home, and she arrived back in New Jersey on January 25, 1890, at 3: 51 p. m.

When William died on 23 November 1890, Emma became regent for her underaged daughter, Wilhelmina, the late king's only surviving child.