In the year 1890,  the Kingdom of Italy establishes Eritrea as its colony in northeast Africa (Jan 1), Wilhelm II of Germany fires Otto von Bismarck (Mar 20), Vincent van Gogh allegedly shoots himself in the stomach and dies two days later (Jul 27), in New York´s Auburn Prison, William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed in the electric chair (Aug 6), the New Scotland Yard opens near the Big Ben clock tower (Nov), at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, a massacre takes place (Dec 29) - and all these fine people were born:

1890-0101 Anton Melik* Slovenian teacher/geographer - Črna Vas, Austria-Hungary (1966/76) 1890-0107 Henny Porten* actress/ Germany’s first major film star/film producer - Magdeburg, German Empire (1960/70) 1890-0109 Manuel Andrada* polo player/OG - Curumalal, Argentina (1962/72) 1890-0113 Jüri Uluots* lawyer/journalist/politician/PM - Kirbla, Estonia, Russian Empire (1945/54) 1890-0119 Elmer Niklander* athlete (discus throw)/OG - Hausjärvi, GD of Finland (1942/52) 1890-0121 Matti Väisänen* (b Jevremov) Finnish merchant/ industrialist - Kontokki, Karelia, Russian Empire (1973/83) 1890-0125 Paavo Tynell* designer - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1973/83) 1890-0127 Mauno Pekkala* politician/PM - Sysmä, GD of Finland (1952/62) 1890-0128 Robert Stroud* convicted killer/“Birdman of Alcatraz”/ ornithologist - Seattle, WA USA (1963/73) 1890-0131 Einar Rinne* actor/brother of Joel Rinne - Asikkala, GD of Finland (1933/43) 1890-0202 Laina Laine* actress - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1962/72) 1890-0209 Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud* architect - Purmerend, Netherlands (1963/73) 1890-0210 Boris Pasternak* author/N - Moscow, Russian Empire (1960/70) 1890-0222 Robert Ripley* cartoonist/amateur anthropologist/creator of Ripley’s Believe It or Not! - Santa Rosa, CA USA (1949/59 - exact birthdate disputed) 1890-0225 Myra Hess* pianist - Hampstead, London, England (1965/75) 1890-0228 Joe Malone* hockey player - Quebec City, QC Canada (1969/79) 1890-0311 Vannevar Bush* engineer/science administrator/MJ-12 - Everett, MA USA (1974/84) 1890-0319 Nancy Elizabeth Prophet* (b Profitt) sculptor - Warwick, RI USA (1960/70) 1890-0320 Fania Marinoff* Russian-American actress/to U.S. at age 6 - Odessa, Russian Empire (1971/81) 1890-0328 Paul Whiteman* violinist/ composer/bandleader - Denver, CO USA (1967/77) 1890-0331 Lawrence Bragg* physicist/X-ray crystallographer/N - Adelaide, South Australia (1971/81) 1890-0331 Lloyd Wright* architect/landscape architect/son of Frank Lloyd Wright - Oak Park, IL USA (1978/88) 1890-0406 Anthony Fokker* Dutch aviation pioneer/aircraft designer/ aircraft manufacturer - Blitar, East Java, Dutch East Indies (1939/49) 1890-0407 Marjory Stoneman Douglas* journalist/author/conservationist - Minneapolis, MN USA (1998/108) 1890-0407 Victoria Ocampo* writer/ intellectual/publisher - Buenos Aires, Argentina (1979/88) 1890-0415 Percy Shaw* inventor/businessman - Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (1976/86) 1890-0417 Victor Chapman* American-French WW1 pilot/the first American pilot to die in the war - New York City, NY USA (1916/26) 1890-0429 Daisy Fellowes* (b Decazes de Glücksberg) socialite/Paris editor of American Harper’s Bazaar/heiress to the Singer sewing machine fortune - Paris, France (1962/72) 1890-0430 Géza Lakatos* Hungarian Army general/Prime Minister of Hungary - Budapest, Austria-Hungary (1967/77) 1890-0504 Franklin Carmichael* painter/ designer /illustrator - Orillia, ON Canada (1945/55) 1890-0507 George Archainbaud* film and television director - Paris, France (1959/68) 1890-0508 1890-0510 Alfred Jodl* WW2 general/committed of war crimes - Würzburg, Bavaria, German Empire (1946/56) 1890-0511 Woodall Rodgers* attorney/ businessman/Mayor of Dallas - New Market, AL USA (1961/71) 1890-0519 Ho Chi Minh* revolutionary leader/P - Kim Lien, French Indochina (1969/79) 1890-0521 Theodor Björnström* graphic designer/painter - Joroinen, GD of Finland (1959/69) 1890-0523 Herbert Marshall* actor - London, England (1966/75) 1890-0530 Jaakko Korhonen* actor/ director - Käkisalmi, GD of Finland (1935/45) 1890-0601 Frank Morgan* (b Wuppermann) actor - New York City, NY USA (1949/59) 1890-0604 Otto-Iivari Meurman* architect - Ilmajoki, GD of Finland (1994/104) 1890-0606 Ted Lewis* musician/ singer/entertainer - Circleville, OH USA (1971/81) 1890-0610 William A. Seiter* film director - New York City, NY USA (1964/74) 1890-0612 Junius Matthews* actor/ voice actor - Chicago, IL USA (1978/87) 1890-0616 Stan Laurel* actor/ comedian - Ulverston, Cumbria, England (1965/74) 1890-0620 Cedric Popkin* carpenter/machine gunner who is considered the likely person to have killed the Red Baron during WW1 - Sydney, NSW Australia (1968/77) 1890-0621 Lewis H. Brereton* aviation pioneer/Air Force general - Pittsburgh, PA USA (1967/77) 1890-0625 Charlotte Greenwood* actress/ dancer - Philadelphia, PA USA (1977/87) 1890-0626 Jeanne Eagels* (b Eagles) actress - Kansas City, MO USA (1929/39) 1890-0629 Pietro Montana* Italian-American sculptor/painter/teacher/to U.S. at age 14 - Alcamo, Sicily (1978/88) 1890-0629 Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper* needlework teacher/supercentenarian - Smilde, Netherlands (2005/115) 1890-0630 Gertrude McCoy* (b Lyon) actress - Sugar Valley, GA USA (1967/77) 1890-0717 Hilma Granqvist* anthropologist/long field studies of Palestinians - Sipoo, GD of Finland (1972/81) 1890-0720 Verna Felton* actress/ voice actress - Salinas, CA USA (1966/76) 1890-0721 Howie Shanks* baseball player - Chicago, IL USA (1941/51) 1890-0722 Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy*  socialite/ philanthropist/mother of JFK - Boston, MA USA (1995/104) 1890-0723 Mary Agnes Moore* Irish-American actress/to U.S at age 5 – County Meath, Ireland (1919/28) 1890-0728 Grace Albee* printmaker/ wood engraver - North Scituate, RI USA (1985/94) 1890-0803 Konstantin Melnikov* architect/ painter - Moscow, Russian Empire (1974/84) 1890-0810 Angus Lewis Macdonald* Canadian lawyer/law professor/politician - Dunvegan, Nova Scotia, Canada (1954/63) 1890-0815 Elizabeth Bolden* daughter of freed slaves/supercentenarian - Somerville, TN USA (2006/116) 1890-0820 H. P. Lovecraft* writer/editor/poet - Providence, RI USA (1937/46) 1890-0822 Cecil Kellaway* South African engineer/actor - Cape Town, Cape Colony (1973/82) 1890-0824 Duke Kahanamoku* swimmer/OG (Usa) - Honolulu, Kingdom of Hawaii (1968/77) 1890-0827 Man Ray* (b Radnitzky) visual artist - Philadelphia, PA USA (1976/86) 1890-0901 Sakeus Juuri-Oja* (b Järvinen) actor/director/active in the U.S. - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1926/35) 1890-0904 Gunnar Sommerfeldt* actor/ film maker - Copenhagen, Denmark (1947/56) 1890-0910 Bob Heffron* New South Wales politician/union organizer - Thames, Colony of New Zealand (1978/87) 1890-0911 Paul Olsson* landscape architect/son of a Swedish immigrant family - Helsinki, Finland (1973/83) Kaunis Grani 1890-0915 Agatha Christie* author - Torquay, Devon England (1976/85) 1890-0915 Frank Martin* pianist/composer - Geneva, Switzerland (1974/84) 1890-0920 Jelly Roll Morton* (b LaMothe) ragtime and jazz pianist/bandleader/composer - New Orleans, LA USA (1941/50) birthday appr. 1890-0921 Max Immelmann* WW1 fighter pilot - Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony, German Empire (1916/25) 1890-0923 Friedrich Paulus* field marshal during WW2 (Battle of Stalingrad) - Guxhagen, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (1957/66) 1890-1001 1890-1002 Groucho Marx* actor/writer/game show host - New York, NY USA (1977/86) 1890-1008 Eddie Rickenbacker* WWI fighter ace - Columbus, OH USA (1973/82) 1890-1009 Jānis Mediņš* Latvian composer - Riga, Latvia, Russian Empire (1966/75) 1890-1014 Dwight D. Eisenhower* politician/34usp - Denison, TX USA (1969/78) 1890-1016 Michael Collins* Irish patriot - Clonakilty, County Cork, Ireland (1922/31) 1890-1016 Maria Goretti* Italian virgin-martyr of the Catholic Church - Corinaldo, Kingdom of Italy (1902/11) 1890-1019 Jallu Vuolle* actor/ comedian - Tampere, GD of Finland (1956/66) 1890-1020 1890-1025 Max Braun* engineer/ inventor/founder of Braun - Schillgallen, Landkreis Heydekrug, Prussia, German Empire (1951/61) 1890-1031 1890-1107 Jan Matulka* Czech-American modern artist/to U.S. at age 16 - Vlachovo Březí, Austria-Hungary (1972/81) 1890-1108 Conrad Weygand* German chemist/university teacher - Leipzig (1945/54) 1890-1115 1890-1120 Toivo Särkkä* film director/producer - Mikkeli, GD of Finland (1975/84) 1890-1122 Charles de Gaulle* politician/P - Lille, France (1970/79) 1890-1201 1890-1205 Fritz Lang* film director - Vienna, Austria-Hungary (1976/85) 1890-1210 1890-1211 Carlos Gardel* the French Argentine “King of Tango” - Toulouse, France (1935/44) 1890-1218 Edwin Howard Armstrong* electrical engineer/developer of the FM radio - Manhattan, NY USA (1954/63) 1890-1220 1890-1224 Rudolf Koivu* (b Koivunen) Finnish illustrator/painter - St.Petersburg, Russian Empire (1946/55) 1890-1230 Raymond Arnold Disney* insurance company owner/brother of Walt Disney - Chicago, IL USA (1989/98) Find a Grave 1890-1231 1890-0 1890-0 1890-0 Updated 2025-0430 Helsinki Search for another year here