- Jun 3 Johan Jongkind, Dutch-French painter and printer (Marine Scenes), born in Lattrop, Netherlands (d. 1891)
- Jun 3 Thomas Ball, American sculptor, painter and musician, born in Charlestown, Massachusetts (d. 1911)
- Jun 5 John Couch Adams, English astronomer (co-discoverer of Neptune), born in Laneast, Launceston, Cornwall (d. 1892)
- Jun 6 William Howard Glover, English composer, born in London, England (d. 1875)
- Jun 10 Gustave Courbet, French realist painter (Demoiselles the la Seine), born in Ornans, Doubs, Kingdom of France (d. 1877)
- Jun 12 Charles Kingsley [Parson Lot], English vicar and historian (Westward Ho!), born in Holne Vicarage, England (d. 1875)
- Jun 14 Henry Gardner, 23rd Governor of Massachusetts (1855-58), born in Dorchester, Massachusetts (d. 1892)
- Jun 20 Jacques Offenbach, German-French composer (Tales of Hoffmann), born in Cologne, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1880)
- Jun 26 Abner Doubleday, American Union Army General-Major, and inventor (San Francisco cable cars), born in Ballston Spa, New York (d. 1893)
- Jun 27 Carl Albert Löschhorn, German composer, born in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1905)
- Jun 30 William A. Wheeler, American politician (19th Vice President of the United States), born in Malone, New York (d. 1887)
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