* 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.

* Hanson, Robert Brand, " Dedham, Massachusetts, 1635 – 1890 ," published by Dedham Historical Society, 1976

The Gothic tradition continued in the 19th century, in such works as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1818 ), Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, the works of Sheridan Le Fanu, Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ), Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1890 ), and Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1897 ).

Robert Rasch, a German Trader who married a native woman, was the first administrator, appointed in 1890.

The family moved to Chicago, Illinois, in 1890, hometown of his brother Robert who helped Elias financially for most of his early life.

* October 25 – Robert Ley, German Nazi politician ( suicide ) ( b. 1890 )

* November 21 – Robert Stroud, American prisoner and Alcatraz " Birdman " ( b. 1890 )

* April 20 – Robert Armstrong, American actor ( b. 1890 )

On October 20, 1890, however, Robert Miller " Bob " Womack discovered a rich ore and the last great Colorado gold rush was on.

Brigadier Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler CH, CIE, MC, FBA, FSA ( 10 September 1890 – 22 July 1976 ), was one of the best-known British archaeologists of the twentieth century.

It was first described by Robert Koch 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.

* Robert Webster Cary ( 1890 – 1967 ), U. S. Medal of Honor recipient

* Robert C. Macon ( 1890 – 1980 ), general in the U. S. Army during World War II

The Scottish-born Robert Gair invented the pre-cut paperboard box in 1890 – flat pieces manufactured in bulk that folded into boxes.

* Robert H. Snyder, state representative from Tensas Parish from 1890 – 1896 and 1904 – 1906, Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives in the second term, died in office ; Lieutenant governor from 1896 – 1900

Robert Gair invented the folding carton in 1890.

Examples of these century-old homes are the Arthur O ' Heir House ( 1885 ), Chadburne Hall or High Oaks ( 1890 ), the James Arch House ( 1885 ), the Robert L. Wagner House ( 1881 ) and the Hill-Stone House ( 1908 ).

Richard Owen ( 1810 – 1890 ), Robert Owen's youngest son, came to New Harmony in 1828 and taught school there.

Butch Cassidy ( Robert LeRoy Parker ) owned and managed a ranch on the outskirts of Dubois, beginning in 1890.

The postulates were formulated by Robert Koch and Friedrich Loeffler in 1884 and refined and published by Koch in 1890.

Robert Ley (; 15 February 1890 – 25 October 1945 ) was a Nazi politician and head of the German Labour Front from 1933 to 1945.

Robert Franklin Stroud ( January 28, 1890 – November 21, 1963 ), known as the " Birdman of Alcatraz ", was a federal American prisoner who reared and sold birds and became an ornithologist.

* Robert F. Pennel ; Ancient Rome from the earliest times down to 476 A. D ; 1890

Others were Michael Sadler ( 1780 – 1835 ), a Wesleyan Methodist, who had a business importing Irish linen ; Richard Oastler ( 1789 – 1861 ), a land agent from a Wesleyan background ; Edwin Chadwick ( 1800 – 1890 ) who had been Bentham's secretary and Robert Owen ( 1771 – 1758 ).