Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Jun 2 English composer (Coronation Ode, Pomp and Circumstance), born in Lower Broadheath, Worcestershire, England
- Jun 2 Karl Adolph Gjellerup, poet (Poutnici Svetem, Nobel 1917), born in Roholte, Denmark (d. 1919)
- Jun 6 Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician (Lyapunov exponent), born in Yaroslavl, Russian Empire (d. 1918)
- Jun 12 Achille Simonetti, Italian violinist and composer, born in Turin, Italy (d. 1928)
- Jun 18 Henry Clay Folger, American CEO of Standard Oil and founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library, born in New York City (d. 1930)
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