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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 1st of June 0193 | EVENT | Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is assassinated. |
| 1st of June 0987 | EVENT | Hugh Capet is elected King of France. |
| 1st of June 1204 | EVENT | King Philip Augustus of France conquers Rouen. |
| 1st of June 1215 | EVENT | Beijing, then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Beijing. |
| 1st of June 1252 | EVENT | Alfonso X is elected King of Castile and Leon. |
| 1st of June 1298 | EVENT | residents of Riga and Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida. |
| 1st of June 1495 | EVENT | Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky. |
| 1st of June 1533 | EVENT | Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England. |
| 1st of June 1648 | EVENT | The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War. |
| 1st of June 1660 | EVENT | Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. |
| 1st of June 1679 | EVENT | The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog. |
| 1st of June 1779 | EVENT | Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, is court-martialed for malfeasance. |
| 1st of June 1792 | EVENT | Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States. |
| 1st of June 1794 | EVENT | The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars. |
| 1st of June 1796 | EVENT | Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state of the United States. |
| 1st of June 1812 | EVENT | War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom. |
| 1st of June 1813 | EVENT | James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, gives his final order: "Don't give up the ship!" |
| 1st of June 1815 | EVENT | Napoleon swears fidelity to the Constitution of France. |
| 1st of June 1831 | EVENT | James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole. |
| 1st of June 1855 | EVENT | American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua. |
| 1st of June 1857 | EVENT | Charles Baudelaire's Fleurs du mal is published. |
| 1st of June 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War, Peninsula Campaign: Battle of Seven Pines (or the Battle of Fair Oaks) ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory. |
| 1st of June 1868 | EVENT | Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico. |
| 1st of June 1869 | EVENT | Thomas Edison receives a patent for his electric voting machine. |
| 1st of June 1879 | EVENT | Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War. |
| 1st of June 1886 | EVENT | The railroads of the Southern United States convert 11,000 miles of track from a five foot rail gauge to standard gauge, beginning May 31. |
| 1st of June 1890 | EVENT | The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns. |
| 1st of June 1891 | EVENT | The Johnstown Inclined Plane opens in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. |
| 1st of June 1910 | EVENT | Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition leaves England. |
| 1st of June 1916 | EVENT | Louis D. Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court. |
| 1st of June 1918 | EVENT | World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood : Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince. |
| 1st of June 1920 | EVENT | Adolfo de la Huerta becomes President of Mexico. |
| 1st of June 1921 | EVENT | Tulsa Race Riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma. |
| 1st of June 1922 | EVENT | The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded. |
| 1st of June 1929 | EVENT | The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires. |
| 1st of June 1935 | EVENT | The first driving tests are introduced in the United Kingdom. |
| 1st of June 1939 | EVENT | Maiden flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Wurger (D-OPZE) fighter aeroplane |
| 1st of June 1940 | EVENT | The Leninist Communist Youth League of the Karelo-Finnish SSR holds its first congress. |
| 1st of June 1940 | EVENT | The Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation goes out of business, giving the City of New York full control of the subway system in the city. |
| 1st of June 1941 | EVENT | The Farhud, a pogrom of Iraqi Jews, takes place in Baghdad. |
| 1st of June 1941 | EVENT | World War II: Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany. |
| 1st of June 1942 | EVENT | World War II: the Warsaw paper Liberty Brigade publishes the first news of the concentration camps. |
| 1st of June 1943 | EVENT | British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation the downing was an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. |
| 1st of June 1946 | EVENT | Ion Antonescu, "Conducator" (leader) of Romania during World War 2, is executed. |
| 1st of June 1956 | EVENT | First international flight (to Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport - YUL) from the Atlanta Municipal Airport (ATL); now Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, and currently the world's busiest airport) |
| 1st of June 1958 | EVENT | Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months. |
| 1st of June 1960 | EVENT | New Zealand's first official television broadcast commences at 7.30pm from Auckland. |
| 1st of June 1963 | EVENT | Kenya gains internal self-rule (Madaraka Day). |
| 1st of June 1974 | EVENT | Flixborough disaster: an explosion at a chemical plant kills 28 people. |
| 1st of June 1974 | EVENT | The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine. |
| 1st of June 1978 | EVENT | The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed. |
| 1st of June 1979 | EVENT | The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power. |
| 1st of June 1980 | EVENT | Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting. |
| 1st of June 1989 | EVENT | Oba Chandler murders an Ohio family on their Florida vacation by drowning them in Tampa Bay. |
| 1st of June 1990 | EVENT | George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production. |
| 1st of June 1993 | EVENT | Dobrinja mortar attack: 13 are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo. |
| 1st of June 1999 | EVENT | American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock. |
| 1st of June 2001 | EVENT | Nepalese royal massacre : Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother, King Birendra of Nepal and Queen Aiswarya. |
| 1st of June 2001 | EVENT | Dolphinarium massacre: an Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv. |
| 1st of June 2003 | EVENT | The People's Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam. |
| 1st of June 2007 | EVENT | Jack Kevorkian is released from prison after serving eight years of his 10-25 year prison term for second-degree murder in the 1998 death of Thomas Youk, 52, of Oakland County, Michigan. |
| 1st of June 2009 | EVENT | General Motors files for chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history. |
| 1st of June 2009 | EVENT | Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew are killed. |
| 1st of June 0719 | BIRTHDAY | Yang Yuhuan (d. 756) |
| 1st of June 1076 | BIRTHDAY | Mstislav I of Kiev (d. 1132) |
| 1st of June 1300 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (d. 1338) |
| 1st of June 1480 | BIRTHDAY | Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop (d. 1550) |
| 1st of June 1503 | BIRTHDAY | Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer (d. 1567) |
| 1st of June 1563 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English statesman and spymaster (d. 1612) |
| 1st of June 1633 | BIRTHDAY | Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (d. 1687) |
| 1st of June 1637 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Marquette, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d. 1675) |
| 1st of June 1653 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Muffat, French composer (d. 1704) |
| 1st of June 1675 | BIRTHDAY | Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist (d. 1755) |
| 1st of June 1754 | BIRTHDAY | Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Este, Austrian governor of the Duchy of Milan and Duke of Breisgau (d. 1806) |
| 1st of June 1762 | BIRTHDAY | Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (d. 1844) |
| 1st of June 1771 | BIRTHDAY | Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer (d. 1839) |
| 1st of June 1790 | BIRTHDAY | Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (d. 1836) |
| 1st of June 1796 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot, French physicist (d. 1832) |
| 1st of June 1800 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Deas Thomson, Australian politician (d. 1879) |
| 1st of June 1801 | BIRTHDAY | Brigham Young, American colonizer and religious leader (d. 1877) |
| 1st of June 1804 | BIRTHDAY | Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (d. 1857) |
| 1st of June 1815 | BIRTHDAY | Otto of Greece (d. 1862) |
| 1st of June 1825 | BIRTHDAY | John Hunt Morgan, American Confederate cavalry general (d. 1864) |
| 1st of June 1831 | BIRTHDAY | John Bell Hood, American Confederate general (d. 1879) |
| 1st of June 1833 | BIRTHDAY | John Marshall Harlan, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1911) |
| 1st of June 1843 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Faulds, Scottish fingerprinting pioneer (d. 1930) |
| 1st of June 1844 | BIRTHDAY | John J. Toffey, American army officer (d. 1911) |
| 1st of June 1878 | BIRTHDAY | John Masefield, English novelist and poet (d. 1967) |
| 1st of June 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Kay Ogden, English writer and linguist (d. 1957) |
| 1st of June 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Morgan, American actor (d. 1949) |
| 1st of June 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Molly Picon, American actress (d. 1992) |
| 1st of June 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Charles Titchmarsh, English mathematician (d. 1963) |
| 1st of June 1901 | BIRTHDAY | John Van Druten, English screen writer (d. 1957) |
| 1st of June 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Hap Day, Canadian hockey player and manager (d. 1990) |
| 1st of June 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Vasyl Velychkovsky, Ukrainian bishop (d. 1973) |
| 1st of June 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Whittle, English inventor of the jet engine (d. 1996) |
| 1st of June 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Yechezkel Kutscher, Slovakian-born Israeli philologist and Hebrew linguist (d. 1971) |
| 1st of June 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist (d. 1986) |
| 1st of June 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Herbert Tichy, Austrian mountaineer (d. 1987) |
| 1st of June 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Deedes, British journalist (d. 2007) |
| 1st of June 1915 | BIRTHDAY | John Randolph, American actor (d. 2004) |
| 1st of June 1917 | BIRTHDAY | William S. Knowles, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 1st of June 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Nelson Riddle, American bandleader and arranger (d. 1985) |
| 1st of June 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Joan Caulfield, American actress (d. 1991) |
| 1st of June 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Joan Copeland, American actress |
| 1st of June 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Povel Ramel, Swedish entertainer (d. 2007) |
| 1st of June 1924 | BIRTHDAY | William Sloane Coffin, American clergyman (d. 2006) |
| 1st of June 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Marie Knight, American gospel singer (d. 2009) |
| 1st of June 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Dilia Diaz Cisneros, Venezuelan teacher |
| 1st of June 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Griffith, American actor |
| 1st of June 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Marilyn Monroe, American actress (d. 1962) |
| 1st of June 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Georgi Dobrovolski, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1971) |
| 1st of June 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Monkhouse, English comedian (d. 2003) |
| 1st of June 1929 | BIRTHDAY | James Billington : American librarian |
| 1st of June 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Woodward, English actor (d. 2009) |
| 1st of June 1930 | BIRTHDAY | John Lemmon, English logician (d. 1966) |
| 1st of June 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Lasch, American historian and social critic (d. 1994) |
| 1st of June 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Haruo Remeliik, 1st President of Palau (d. 1985) |
| 1st of June 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Wilson, American politician (d. 2010) |
| 1st of June 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Boone, American singer |
| 1st of June 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Reverend Ike, American televangelist (d. 2009) |
| 1st of June 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Gerald Scarfe, British illustrator |
| 1st of June 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Doyle, Irish politician |
| 1st of June 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Bekim Fehmiu, Albanian actor (d. 2010) |
| 1st of June 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Morgan Freeman, American actor |
| 1st of June 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Rosaleen Linehan, Irish actress |
| 1st of June 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Colleen McCullough, Australian novelist (The Thorn Birds) |
| 1st of June 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Cleavon Little, American actor (d. 1992) |
| 1st of June 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Katerina Gogou, Greek actress and poet (d. 1993) |
| 1st of June 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Auberjonois, American actor |
| 1st of June 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Kip Thorne, American physicist |
| 1st of June 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Powell, English actor |
| 1st of June 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Frederica von Stade, American mezzo-soprano |
| 1st of June 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Linda Scott, American singer |
| 1st of June 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Cox, Scottish actor |
| 1st of June 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Pryce, British actor |
| 1st of June 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Dennis, F1 team principal (McLaren) |
| 1st of June 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Ronnie Wood, English guitarist (Rolling Stones) |
| 1st of June 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Sneva, American race car driver and Indianapolis 500 winner |
| 1st of June 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Powers Boothe, American actor |
| 1st of June 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Plasse, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2006) |
| 1st of June 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Tomas Halik, Czech priest and public intellectual |
| 1st of June 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Wayne Nelson, American musician (Little River Band) |
| 1st of June 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Ronnie Dunn, American musician (Brooks & Dunn) |
| 1st of June 1953 | BIRTHDAY | David Berkowitz, American serial killer known as the Son of Sam |
| 1st of June 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Chiyonofuji Mitsugu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 58th Yokozuna |
| 1st of June 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Snow, American news anchor, former White House Press Secretary for George W. Bush (d. 2008) |
| 1st of June 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Hartman, American actress |
| 1st of June 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Dorota Kedzierzawska, Polish film director |
| 1st of June 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Ahron Bregman, Israeli journalist |
| 1st of June 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Brundle, British race car driver and F1 television commentator |
| 1st of June 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Wilder, British musician (Depeche Mode and Recoil) |
| 1st of June 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Gallup, English bassist (The Cure) |
| 1st of June 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Giorgos Lillikas, Cypriot politician |
| 1st of June 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Machajdik, Slovakian composer |
| 1st of June 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Coffey, Canadian hockey player |
| 1st of June 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Joyce, English drummer (The Smiths) |
| 1st of June 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Tribhuvan, Indian Poet and journalist |
| 1st of June 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Curry, American comedian and actor |
| 1st of June 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Larisa Lazutina, Russian cross-country skier |
| 1st of June 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Nigel Short, English chess player |
| 1st of June 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Schiano, American football coach |
| 1st of June 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Sanchez, American disc jockey |
| 1st of June 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Donovan, Australian actor and singer |
| 1st of June 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Hackett, Canadian hockey player |
| 1st of June 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Karen Mulder, Dutch model |
| 1st of June 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Liu, Taiwanese actress and singer |
| 1st of June 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Teri Polo, American actress |
| 1st of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Alexi Lalas, American soccer player |
| 1st of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | R. Madhavan, Indian actor |
| 1st of June 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Roldan Gonzalez, Cuban singer |
| 1st of June 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Cimarro, Cuban actor and singer |
| 1st of June 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Casey, English actor |
| 1st of June 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Dunham, American hockey player |
| 1st of June 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Frederik Deburghgraeve, Belgian swimmer |
| 1st of June 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Heidi Klum, German model |
| 1st of June 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Garcia, Australian actor |
| 1st of June 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Derek Lowe, American baseball player |
| 1st of June 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Ashok Jadeja, Indian fraudster |
| 1st of June 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Alanis Morissette, Canadian singer-songwriter |
| 1st of June 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Rasmussen, Danish cyclist |
| 1st of June 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Melissa Sagemiller, American actress |
| 1st of June 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Akis Zikos, Greek footballer |
| 1st of June 1975 | BIRTHDAY | James Storm, American professional wrestler |
| 1st of June 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Michal Grosek, Czech hockey player |
| 1st of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Danielle Harris, American actress |
| 1st of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Wilkerson, American baseball player |
| 1st of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Williams, British racing driver |
| 1st of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Wayne Callies, American actress |
| 1st of June 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Santana Moss, American football player |
| 1st of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Oliver James, British actor |
| 1st of June 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Brandi Carlile, American singer and songwriter |
| 1st of June 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Zambrano, Venezuelan baseball player |
| 1st of June 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Smush Parker, American basketball player |
| 1st of June 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Justine Henin (formerly Henin-Hardenne), Belgian tennis player |
| 1st of June 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jake Silbermann, American actor |
| 1st of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Naidangiin Tuvshinbayar, Mongolian athlete |
| 1st of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Oliver Tielemans, Dutch racing driver |
| 1st of June 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Ari Herstand, American Singer/Songwriter |
| 1st of June 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Hipolito, Angolan footballer |
| 1st of June 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Young, American basketball player |
| 1st of June 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Tirunesh Dibaba, Ethiopian athlete |
| 1st of June 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Young, American basketball player |
| 1st of June 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Dayana Mendoza, Venezuelan beauty queen and Miss Universe 2008 winner |
| 1st of June 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Smith, New Zealand rugby player |
| 1st of June 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Zoltan Harsanyi, Slovakian footballer |
| 1st of June 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Hernandez, Mexican footballer |
| 1st of June 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Jerel McNeal, American basketball player |
| 1st of June 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Nami Tamaki, Japanese pop singer |
| 1st of June 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Javier Hernandez Balcazar, Mexican footballer |
| 1st of June 0193 | DEATH | Marcus Severus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (Born 133) |
| 1st of June 1434 | DEATH | Wladislaus II of Poland (Born 1362) |
| 1st of June 1571 | DEATH | John Story, English Catholic (Born 1504) |
| 1st of June 1616 | DEATH | Tokugawa Ieyasu (Born 1543) |
| 1st of June 1625 | DEATH | Honore d'Urfe, French writer (Born 1568) |
| 1st of June 1639 | DEATH | Melchior Franck, German composer (Born 1579) |
| 1st of June 1660 | DEATH | Mary Dyer, English Quaker (Born 1611) |
| 1st of June 1710 | DEATH | David Mitchell, British admiral (Born 1642) |
| 1st of June 1740 | DEATH | Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (Born 1657) |
| 1st of June 1769 | DEATH | Edward Holyoke, President of Harvard University (Born 1689) |
| 1st of June 1795 | DEATH | Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist (Born 1744) |
| 1st of June 1815 | DEATH | Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (Born 1753) |
| 1st of June 1823 | DEATH | Louis Nicolas Davout, French marshal (Born 1770) |
| 1st of June 1826 | DEATH | Jean Frederic Oberlin, Alsatian pastor (Born 1740) |
| 1st of June 1830 | DEATH | Swaminarayan, Indian Hindu figure (Born 1781) |
| 1st of June 1841 | DEATH | David Wilkie, Scottish artist (Born 1785) |
| 1st of June 1846 | DEATH | Pope Gregory XVI (Born 1765) |
| 1st of June 1864 | DEATH | Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel,build Taiping Rebellion (Born 1812) |
| 1st of June 1868 | DEATH | James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (Born 1791) |
| 1st of June 1872 | DEATH | James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American newspaper publisher (Born 1795) |
| 1st of June 1873 | DEATH | Joseph Howe, Canadian politician (Born 1804) |
| 1st of June 1879 | DEATH | Napoleon Eugene, Prince Imperial son of Emperor Napoleon III (Born 1856) |
| 1st of June 1927 | DEATH | J. B. Bury, Irish historian (Born 1861) |
| 1st of June 1935 | DEATH | Arthur Arz von Straussenburg, Austro-Hungarian Colonel General (d. 1857) |
| 1st of June 1941 | DEATH | Hans Berger, German neuroscientist (Born 1873) |
| 1st of June 1943 | DEATH | Wilfrid B. Israel, Jewish activist |
| 1st of June 1943 | DEATH | Leslie Howard, English actor (Born 1893) |
| 1st of June 1946 | DEATH | Ion Antonescu, Prime Minister of Romania (Born 1882) |
| 1st of June 1948 | DEATH | Sonny Boy Williamson I, American musician (Born 1914) |
| 1st of June 1948 | DEATH | Alex Gard, Russian-born caricaturist (Born 1900) |
| 1st of June 1952 | DEATH | John Dewey, American philosopher and educational theorist (Born 1859) |
| 1st of June 1954 | DEATH | Martin Andersen Nex?, Danish writer (Born 1869) |
| 1st of June 1955 | DEATH | Kathleen, Duchess of Newcastle, British duchess (Born 1872) |
| 1st of June 1959 | DEATH | Sax Rohmer, English author (Born 1883) |
| 1st of June 1960 | DEATH | Paula Hitler, sister of Adolf Hitler (Born 1896) |
| 1st of June 1960 | DEATH | Lester Patrick, Canadian hockey player (Born 1883) |
| 1st of June 1965 | DEATH | Earl "Curly" Lambeau, American football coach (Born 1898) |
| 1st of June 1966 | DEATH | Papa Jack Laine, American musician (Born 1873) |
| 1st of June 1968 | DEATH | Andre Laurendeau, French Canadian writer, journalist and politician (Born 1912) |
| 1st of June 1968 | DEATH | Helen Keller, American humanitarian (Born 1880) |
| 1st of June 1969 | DEATH | Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian ice skater (Born 1904) |
| 1st of June 1971 | DEATH | Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian (Born 1892) |
| 1st of June 1973 | DEATH | Mary Kornman, American actress (Born 1915) |
| 1st of June 1979 | DEATH | Werner Forssmann, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1904) |
| 1st of June 1980 | DEATH | Rube Marquard, baseball player (Born 1886) |
| 1st of June 1980 | DEATH | Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst (Born 1897) |
| 1st of June 1981 | DEATH | Carl Vinson, U.S. Congressman (Born 1883) |
| 1st of June 1983 | DEATH | Prince Charles of Belgium (Born 1903) |
| 1st of June 1985 | DEATH | Richard Greene, British actor (Born 1918) |
| 1st of June 1986 | DEATH | Jo Gartner, Austrian racing driver (Born 1958) |
| 1st of June 1987 | DEATH | Rashid Karami, Lebanese statesman (Born 1921) |
| 1st of June 1989 | DEATH | Aurelio Lampredi, Italian mechanical engineer (Ferrari) (Born 1917) |
| 1st of June 1991 | DEATH | David Ruffin, American singer (The Temptations) (Born 1941) |
| 1st of June 1994 | DEATH | Frances Heflin, American actress (Born 1923) |
| 1st of June 1996 | DEATH | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Fifth President of India (Born 1913) |
| 1st of June 1998 | DEATH | Darwin Joston, American actor (Born 1937) |
| 1st of June 1999 | DEATH | Christopher Sydney Cockerell, British engineer and inventor (Born 1910) |
| 1st of June 2001 | DEATH | King Birendra of Nepal (Born 1945) |
| 1st of June 2001 | DEATH | Queen Aiswarya of Nepal (Born 1949) |
| 1st of June 2001 | DEATH | Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (Born 1920) |
| 1st of June 2002 | DEATH | Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (Born 1969) |
| 1st of June 2004 | DEATH | William Manchester, American writer (Born 1922) |
| 1st of June 2005 | DEATH | George Mikan, American basketball player (Born 1924) |
| 1st of June 2006 | DEATH | Rocio Jurado, Spanish singer and actress (Born 1944) |
| 1st of June 2007 | DEATH | Arn Shein, American sports writer (Born 1928) |
| 1st of June 2007 | DEATH | Tony Thompson, American R&B singer (Hi-Five) (Born 1975) |
| 1st of June 2008 | DEATH | Tommy Lapid, Israeli journalist and politician (Born 1931) |
| 1st of June 2008 | DEATH | Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (Born 1936) |
| 1st of June 2009 | DEATH | Thomas Berry, American theologian, deep ecologist (Born 1914) |
| 1st of June 2009 | DEATH | Vincent O'Brien, Irish horse trainer (Born1917) |
| 1st of June 2010 | DEATH | William H. Ginn Jr., U.S. Air Force officer (Born 1928) |