- Jun 2 Herman Darewski, Polish-British stage and light music composer (The Better 'Ole), and conductor, dies at 64
- Jun 6 Norman Reid, cricketer (Test S Af v Aust 1921-22, 11 & 6, 2-63), dies
- Jun 8 Tom O'Brien, American actor (Flying Fool), dies at 56
- Jun 9 Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, Polish politician (President of Poland in-exile 1939-47), dies at 62
- Jun 10 Alexander Bethune, Canadian politician (b. 1852)
- Jun 11 David I. Walsh, 46th Governor of Massachusetts, dies at 74
- Jun 12 Jazeps Medins, Latvian composer, dies at 70
- Jun 16 Jean-Francois Capart, Belgian Egyptologist (Memphis), dies at 86
Maxwell Perkins (1884-1947)
Jun 17 American editor and publisher for Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe, dies at 62
Bugsy Siegel (1906-1947)
Jun 20 American gangster who built casinos in Las Vegas, shot dead by a sniper in Beverly Hills at 41
- Jun 24 Emil Seidel, German-American politician (36th Mayor of Milwaukee), dies at 82
Richard Bedford Bennett (1870-1947)
Jun 26 11th Prime Minister of Canada (Conservative: 1930-35), dies of a heart attack at 76
- Jun 28 Stanislav K Neumann, Czech poet (Anti-Guide), dies at 72