* 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.

In a letter to Conrad Schmidt dated August 5, 1890, he stated that " And if this man ( i. e., Paul Barth ) has not yet discovered that while the material mode of existence is the primum agens this does not preclude the ideological spheres from reacting upon it in their turn, though with a secondary effect, he cannot possibly have understood the subject he is writing about.

** Conrad Richter, American writer ( b. 1890 )

Conrad Michael Richter ( October 13, 1890 – October 30, 1968 ) was an American novelist whose lyrical work focuses on life along the American frontier.

In 1890, Conrad was a charter member of The Virginia Bar Association.

Building on the innovations of photomontage and artists such as Robert Rauschenberg ( 1925 – 2008 ), Man Ray ( 1890 – 1976 ), Gerhard Richter and Richard Hamilton, urban Australian artists were fascinated by the creative nexus of photography and painting.

* 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 )

* 1890 – Mark Tobey, American painter ( d. 1976 )

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 )

* 1947 – Victor Serge, Russian anarchist, novelist, and historian ( b. 1890 )

* 1890 – Dr. Alan L. Hart, American transsexual, radiologist, and novelist ( d. 1962 )

* 1890 – Franz Werfel, Austrian-Bohemian novelist ( d. 1945 )

* 1980 – Katherine Anne Porter, American novelist ( b. 1890 )

* Maurice Genevoix ( 1890 – 1980 ), novelist

* Cid Ricketts Sumner ( 1890 – 1970 ), American novelist

Christopher Morley ( May 5, 1890 – March 28, 1957 ) was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet.

* A. P. Herbert ( 1890 – 1971 ) – humourist, novelist, playwright and law reform activist

* John Boyle O ' Reilly ( 1844 – 1890 ), Irish poet and novelist

* Christopher Morley ( 1890 – 1957 ; resident a few years 1910s ), journalist, novelist, essayist, and poet

* Claude McKay ( 1890 – 1948 ), poet, journalist, novelist

* Thomas Frederic Tweed ( 1890 – 1940 ), British soldier and novelist

* William Gilbert ( author ) ( 1804 – 1890 ), English novelist & surgeon ( father of W. S. Gilbert )

Octave Feuillet ( August 11, 1821 – December 29, 1890 ) was a French novelist and dramatist.

Katherine Anne Porter ( May 15, 1890 – September 18, 1980 ) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist.

Daisy Fellowes ( née Marguerite Séverine Philippine Decazes de Glücksberg, ( April 29, 1890 – December 13, 1962 ), was a celebrated 20th-century society figure, acclaimed beauty, minor novelist and poet, Paris Editor of American Harper's Bazaar, fashion icon, and an heiress to the Singer sewing machine fortune.

William Gilbert, ( 20 May 1804 – 3 January 1890 ) was a British novelist and Royal Navy surgeon, and the author of novels, biographies, histories and several popular fantasy stories, mostly in the 1860s and 1870s.

Zora Bernice May Cross ( 18 May 1890 – 22 January 1964 ) was an Australian poet, novelist and journalist.

* Bertha Louise Ricketts, original name of Cid Ricketts Sumner ( 1890 – 1970 ), American novelist

Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr ( November 24, 1808 – September 29, 1890 ) was a French critic, journalist, and novelist.

Samuel Ornitz ( November 15, 1890 – March 10, 1957 ) was an American screenwriter and novelist who was one of the " Hollywood Ten " who were blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses during the era of McCarthyism.

Their daughter Emilie Charlotte Adele Fehling ( 1865 – 1890 ) married the novelist Lieutenant Bernhard von Hindenburg, brother of the Field Marshal und President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg.