- Jun 2 Thomas Hardy, poet and novelist (Far from the Madding Crowd), born in Higher Bockhampton, Dorset (d. 1928)
- Jun 3 Eugeen van Oye, Flemish writer and poet (Morning Twilight), born in Torhout, Flanders (d. 1926)
- Jun 6 John Stainer, English organist, composer (The Crucifixion), musicologist, and educator, born in Southwark, London (d. 1901)
- Jun 6 William Francis Bartlett, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Haverhill, Massachusetts (d. 1876)
- Jun 7 Carlota of Mexico, princess of Belgium and empress consort of Mexico (1864-67), born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1927)
- Jun 10 Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter, born in Copenhagen (d. 1920)
- Jun 10 Thomas F. Toon, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Columbus County, North Carolina (d. 1902)
- Jun 11 Henri Braekeleer, Flemish painter, born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1888)
- Jun 16 Ernst Otto Schlick, German engineer (d. 1913)
- Jun 22 Ernst Debes, German cartographer (Baedeker), and namesake of a lunar crater, born in Neukirchen, Saxony, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1923)
- Jun 24 Louis Brassin, Belgian composer and pianist, born in Aix-la-Chapelle (d. 1884)
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