1890 (MDCCCXC) was a common year that started on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar). [edit] Events of 1890 [edit] January–March [edit] April–June [edit] July–September [edit] October–December - October 8 – The first brief, partially controlled flight of Clément Ader's airplane "Eole" takes place in Satory, France.
- October 11 – In Washington, D.C., the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
- October 13
- November 23 – King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir, and his daughter Princess Wilhelmina becomes Queen, causing Luxembourg (who required a male heir) to declare independence.
- November 29
- November – Scotland Yard, headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service, moves to a building on London's Victoria Embankment, as the New Scotland Yard.
- December 27 – The British steamship Shanghai burns in the China Seas; 101 lives are lost.[citation needed]
- December 29 – Wounded Knee Massacre: At Wounded Knee, South Dakota the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment tries to disarm a Native American camp & shooting starts. 153 Lakota Sioux and 25 troops are killed; about 150 flee the scene.
[edit] Undated [edit] Births [edit] January–June - January 1 – Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (d. 1966)
- January 4 – Victor Lustig, Bohemian-born con artist (d. 1947)
- January 9
- January 11 – Oswald de Andrade, Brazilian Modernist writer (d.1954)
- January 19 – Élise Rivet, French Roman Catholic nun and war heroine (d. 1945)
- January 22 – Fred M. Vinson, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1953)
- January 28 – Robert Franklin Stroud, Birdman of Alcatraz (d. 1963)
- February 10 – Boris Pasternak, Russian writer (Doctor Zhivago), Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (d. 1960)
- February 14 – Nina Hamnett, Welsh artist (d. 1956)
- February 17 – Ronald Fisher, English biologist (d. 1962)
- February 18 – Adolphe Menjou, American actor (d. 1963)
- February 24 – Marjorie Main, American actress (d. 1975)
- February 25 – Dame Myra Hess, English pianist (d. 1965)
- February 27 – Freddie Keppard, American jazz musician (d. 1933)
- March 3 – Norman Bethune, Canadian doctor and humanitarian (d. 1939)
- March 9 – (new style) Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician (d. 1986)
- March 11 – Vannevar Bush, American engineer, inventor, and politician (d. 1974)
- March 20
- March 28 – Paul Whiteman, American bandleader (d. 1967)
- March 31 – William Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
- April 6 – Anthony Fokker, Dutch aircraft manufacturer (d. 1939)
- April 7 – Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist and writer (d. 1998)
- April 11 – Rachele Mussolini, Italian, wife of Benito Mussolini (died 1979)
- April 15 – Percy Shaw, British inventor (d. 1976)
- April 16 – Fred Root, English cricketer (d. 1954)
- April 20 – Maurice Duplessis, premier of Quebec (d. 1959)
- May 4 – Franklin Carmichael, Canadian artist (d. 1945)
- May 10 – Alfred Jodl, German general (executed) (d. 1946)
- May 11 – Woodall Rodgers, mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1961)
- May 15 – Katherine Anne Porter, American author (d. 1980)
- May 19 – Ho Chi Minh, Prime minister/President of North Vietnam (d. 1969)
- May 23 – Herbert Marshall, English actor (d. 1966)
- June 6 – Ted Lewis, American jazz musician and entertainer (d. 1971)
- June 16 – Stan Laurel, British actor (d. 1965)
- June 26 – Jeanne Eagels, American actress (d. 1929)
[edit] July–December - July 18 – Frank Forde, Australian Prime Minister (d. 1983)
- July 22 – Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, American philanthropist and matriarch of the Kennedy family (d. 1995)
- August 4 – Erich Weinert, German writer and political activist (d. 1953)
- August 5 – Erich Kleiber, Austrian conductor (d. 1956)
- August 10 – Angus L. Macdonald, Nova Scotia Premier (d. 1954)
- August 15
- August 18 – Walther Funk, German politician (d. 1960)
- August 20 – H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (d. 1937)
- August 24 – Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer (d. 1968)
- September 9 – Harland Sanders, Founder of KFC (d. 1980)
- September 10 – Elsa Schiaparelli, French couturiere (d. 1973)
- September 15
- September 20 – Jelly Roll Morton, American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1941)
- October 2 – Groucho Marx, American comedian (d. 1977)
- October 8 – Eddie Rickenbacker, American WWI fighter pilot (d. 1973)
- October 13 – Conrad Richter, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1968)
- October 14 – Dwight David Eisenhower, U.S. general and President of the United States (d. 1969)
- October 16
- October 17 – Roy Kilner, English cricketer (d. 1928)
- October 29 – Hans-Valentin Hube, German army general (d. 1944)
- November 7 – Jan Matulka, American painter (d. 1972)
- November 20 – Leon Cadore, American baseball pitcher (d. 1968)
- November 22 – Charles de Gaulle, President of France (d. 1970)
- November 23 – El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (d. 1941)
- December 5 – David Bomberg, English painter (d. 1957)
- December 8 – Bohuslav Martinů, Czech composer (d. 1959)
- December 11 – Carlos Gardel, Argentine tango singer (d. 1935)
- December 20 – Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
- December 21 – Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1967)
- December 26 – Uncle Charlie Osborne, Appalachian fiddler (d. 1992)
- December 30 – Lanoe Hawker, British fighter pilot (d. 1916)
- date unknown
[edit] Deaths [edit] January–June [edit] July–December - July 9 – Clinton B. Fisk, American philanthropist and temperance activist (b. 1828)
- July 13 –John C. Frémont, American explorer and military officer (b. 1813)
- July 15 – Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer (b. 1819)
- July 29 – Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (b. 1853)
- August 11 – John Henry Newman, English Roman Catholic Cardinal (b. 1801)
- October 4 – Catherine Booth, Mother of The Salvation Army (b. 1829)
- October 20 – Richard Francis Burton, English explorer, linguist, soldier (b. 1820)
- October 26 – Carlo Collodi, Italian writer (The Adventures of Pinocchio) (b. 1826)
- November 3 – Ulrich Ochsenbein, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1811)
- November 8 – César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (b. 1822)
- November 11 – Marie-Charles David de Mayréna, French adventurer and self-styled King of Sedang (b. 1842)
- November 23 – King William III of the Netherlands (b. 1817)
- November 24 – August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born financier (b. 1816)
- December 15 – Sitting Bull, Native American chief (b. c. 1831)
- December 21 – Johanne Luise Heiberg, Danish actress (b. 1812)
- December 26 – Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (b. 1822)
- December 31 – Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican war heroine (b. 1826)
- date unknown – Comanche, horse, sole survivor of Custer's cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn
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