- Jun 4 Georg Kaiser, German playwright (The Burghers of Calais), dies at 66
- Jun 6 Meinoud M Rost van Tonningen, Dutch Nazi collaborator (National Socialist Movement (1937-41), commits suicide at 51
- Jun 7 Nishida Kitaro, Japanese philosopher (Kyoto School), dies at 74
- Jun 7 Rubén M. Campos, Mexican novelist (Claudio Oranos) and musicologist (El folklore y la musica mexicana), dies at 69
- Jun 8 Karl Hanke, Official of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) of Nazi Germany, dies at 41
Emil Hácha (1872-1945)
Jun 12 Czech politician (President of Czechoslovakia, 1938-9, State President of Bohemia and Moravia, 1939-1945), dies in prison in mysterious circumstances at 72
- Jun 16 Aris Velouchiotis, Greek guerrilla resistance leader (b. 1905)
- Jun 18 Florence Bascom, American geologist and 1st woman hired by the US Geological Survey, dies at 82
- Jun 18 Harold C. Roberts, American commandant 22nd regiment marines (3 Navy Crosses), dies in battle during Okinawa campaign at 46
- Jun 18 Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr, American lieutenant general of the 10th Army, killed in action during the Battle of Okinawa at 58
- Jun 20 Bruno Frank, German-born American writer, dies at 58
- Jun 21 Josef Hora, Czech writer and poet (Sinking Shadows), dies at 53
- Jun 22 Isamu Tsjo, Japanese chief-staff 32nd Army, commits harakiri
- Jun 22 Mitsuri Ushijima, Japanese lt-gen/commandant 32nd Army, commits harakiri
- Jun 23 Lt Gen Ushijima, Japanese commander, commits suicide at Okinawa
- Jun 24 José Gutierrez Solana, Spanish painter and author (Madrid Escenas), dies at 59
- Jun 26 Erno Rapee, American conductor and composer (Radio City Music Hall), dies at 54
- Jun 26 Nikolay Tcherepnin, Russian composer of ballets, dies at 72
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