* 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.

Abstract expressionism was an influence in artists Ralph Balson ( 1890 – 1964 ), influential art teachers John Passmore and Desiderius Orban, Carl Plate ( 1907 – 1977 ), Inge King, Nancy Borlase ( 1914 – 2006 ), William Rose, Tony Tuckson ( 1921 – 1973 ) Tom Gleghorn, Ann Thomson, Stan Rapotec, Clement Meadmore ( 1929 – 2005 ) and Yvonne Audette ( 1930 -).

Germaine Yvonne Arnaud ( 20 December 1890 – 20 September 1958 ) was a French-born pianist, singer and actress.

* 1890 – Marjorie Main, American actress ( d. 1975 )

* 1890 – Pina Menichelli, Italian actress ( d. 1984 )

* 1989 – May Allison, American actress ( b. 1890 )

* Rhea Mitchell ( 1890 – 1957 ), American actress

* November 17 – Cora Witherspoon, American actress ( b. 1890 )

** Jane Gail, American silent movie and stage actress ( b. 1890 )

** Jeanne Eagels, American actress ( b. 1890 )

** Judith Lowry, American actress ( b. 1890 )

** Henny Porten, German actress ( b. 1890 )

** Clara Kimball Young, American actress ( b. 1890 )

** Verna Felton, American actress ( b. 1890 )

** May Allison, American actress ( b. 1890 )

** Madoline Thomas, Welsh actress ( b. 1890 )

** Alice Joyce, American actress ( b. 1890 )

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

# Katherine Corri Harris ( 1890 – 1927 ), an actress who starred in the 1918 film The House of Mirth, on September 1, 1910 and divorced in 1917.

* Alice Joyce ( 1890 – 1955 ), film actress known as The Madonna of the Screen had a summer home in Allenhurst.

Jeanne Eagels ( June 26, 1890 – October 3, 1929 ) was an American actress on Broadway and in several motion pictures.

* Roberta Beatty ( 1890 – 1978 ), actress

* Alice Joyce ( 1890 – 1955 ), actress

* Laura Spellman-Middleton ( 1890 – 1945 ), actress

Marjorie Main ( February 24, 1890 – April 10, 1975 ) was an American character actress, mainly at MGM, perhaps best known for her role as Ma Kettle in a series of ten Ma and Pa Kettle movies.

* Alice Joyce ( 1890 – 1955 ), American actress