- Jun 2 Arthur MacArthur, Jr, American career military officer (US Army - Civil War, American Indian Wars, Spanish-American War, Philippine–American War), born in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts (d. 1912)
- Jun 7 Leopold von Auer, Hungarian-American violinist, born in Veszprém, Hungary (d. 1930)
- Jun 9 Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, Governor General of Canada and India, born in London (d. 1914)
- Jun 17 Hendrik Peter Staal, Dutch military officer, administrator (Minister of War, 1905-07), and politician (Member of the Senate, 1907-20), born in Zwolle, Netherlands (d. 1920)
- Jun 18 Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1922)
- Jun 22 Richard Seddon, New Zealand politician (longest serving Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1893-1906), born in Eccleston, England (d. 1906)
- Jun 22 Tom Dula, American folk character controversially executed for murder (subject of folk song Tom Dooley), born in Wilkes County, North Carolina (d. 1868)
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