- Jun 1 Amanullah Khan, Emir and King of Afghanistan (1919-28), born in Paghman, Afghanistan (d. 1960)
- Jun 1 Samuel L M Barlow II, American composer (Mon Ami Pierrot), born in New York City (d. 1982)
- Jun 5 Alexander Loudon, Dutch diplomat (Ambassador to Washington) (d. 1953)
- Jun 6 Donald F. Duncan Sr., American entrepreneur (Duncan Toys Company), born in Kansas City, Missouri (d. 1971)
- Jun 11 Edward Shanks, British poet and critic, born in London, England (d. 1953)
- Jun 12 Djuna Barnes, American author (Nightwood), born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York (d. 1982)
- Jun 12 Ferdinand Schörner, German field marshal, born in Munich, Germany (d. 1973)
- Jun 12 John Donald Robb, American composer, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (d. 1989)
Basil Rathbone (1892-1967)
Jun 13 South African born British actor (Sherlock Holmes), born in Johannesburg, South Africa
- Jun 13 Richard M. Jones, American jazz pianist, accompanist, songwriter ("Trouble In Mind"), record producer (Louis Armstrong) and label manager (Okeh; Decca; Mercury), born in Donaldsonville, Louisiana (d. 1945)
- Jun 16 Lupino Lane [Henry Lupino], British stage, silent and sound screen actor (Love Parade; Me And My Gal: The Deputy Drummer), born in Hackney, London, England (d. 1959)
- Jun 18 Edward Steuermann, Austrian-American pianist and composer, born in Sambor, Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1964)
- Jun 20 Sergei Tretyakov, Russian constructivist writer, playwright and special correspondent for Pravda, born in Kuldīga, Latvia (d. 1937)
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)
Jun 21 American theologian (Nature & Destiny of Man), born in Wright City, Missouri
- Jun 22 N. Howell Furman, American Chemist whose work on separating uranium contributed to the development of the atomic bomb, born in Lawrence Township, New Jersey (d. 1965)
- Jun 22 Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal and WWI flying ace, born in Bayreuth, German Empire, (d. 1945)
- Jun 23 Abel Kiviat, American athlete (Olympic gold 3000m team race, silver 1500m 1912), born in New York City (d. 1991)
- Jun 23 Edmund Cobb, American silent and sound screen actor, specializing in western film (A Final Reckoning; Motorcycle Gang; Comanche Territory), born in Albuquerque, New Mexico Territory (d. 1974)
- Jun 23 Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Polish-American pianist, born in Lviv, Ukraine (d. 1993)
Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)
Jun 26 American author (The Good Earth - Nobel Prize for Literature, 1938), and humanitarian, born in Hillsboro, West Virginia
- Jun 27 Paul Colin, French poster designer, born in Nancy, France (d. 1985)
- Jun 28 E. H. Carr, English historian (History of Soviet Russia), born in London (d. 1982)
- Jun 30 László Lajtha, Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist and conductor, born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1963)
- Jun 30 Oswald Pohl, German head administrator of the Nazi concentration camps, born in Duisburg-Ruhrort, Prussia, German Empire (d. 1951)
- Jun 30 Pierre Blanchar, Algerian actor and director (Magnificent Sinner, Wooden Crosses, Pastoral Symphony), born in Philippeville, Constantine, France (d. 1963)
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