- Jun 1 Harvey S. Firestone Jr, American tire manufacturer, dies at 75
- Jun 1 Helen Parkhurst, American educator (The Dalton Plan), dies at 86
- Jun 1 Mary Kornman, American actress ("Our Gang" shorts; The Desert Trail; Queen of the Jungle; Swing It, Professor), dies at 57
- Jun 1 Walter Greaza, American actor (Treasury Man; Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 76
- Jun 3 Dory Funk, professional wrestler (b. 1919)
Arna Bontemps (1902-1973)
Jun 4 American poet and novelist who was part of the Harlem Renaissance, dies of a heart attack at 72
- Jun 4 Emma "Grandma" Gatewood, American ultra-light hiking pioneer and 1st woman to hike the Appalachian Trail alone, dies of an apparent heart attack at 85
- Jun 4 Murray Wilson, father of beachboys Brian, Carl & Dennis, dies at 55
- Jun 5 Max Terhune, American actor (Range Justice, Night Riders), dies at 82
- Jun 7 Christine Lavant, Austrian poet and writer (Das Kind), dies at 57
- Jun 7 Lane Bradford, actor (Dead Man's Gold, Gun Hawk), dies at 50
- Jun 8 Christine Bakker-van Bosse, Dutch feminist and pacifist, dies at 88
- Jun 8 Eino Linnala, Finnish composer, pedagogue (university of Helsinki, 1927-66), and musicologist dies at 76
- Jun 8 Gerald F. Bogan, U.S. Navy aviator and vice admiral who served in World War I & II, dies at 78
- Jun 9 Erich von Manstein, German military commander (b. 1887)
- Jun 10 William Inge, American playwright (Come Back ,Little Sheba), dies at 60
- Jun 13 Alvin Derold Etler, American oboist, and composer, dies at 60
- Jun 13 Frantisek Suchy, Czech composer and folk song collector, dies at 82
- Jun 17 Luis Van Rooten, Mexican-born, American actor, author and translator (One Man's Family), dies at 66
- Jun 18 Fritz Mahler, Austrian composer, dies at 71
- Jun 18 Roger Delgado, English actor (Doctor Who, Agent 8 3/4, Hot Enough for June), dies in a road accident at 55
- Jun 18 Willem Vogt, Dutch radio pioneer (1st major Dutch radio broadcaster AVRO), dies at 84
- Jun 21 Frank Leahy, American football coach (Notre Dame), dies at 64
- Jun 22 Jacques Wolfe, Romanian-American composer, dies at 77
- Jun 23 Fay Holden, actress (Mother-Andy Hardy films), dies at 77
- Jun 24 George "Bud" Hamilton Westmore, American film make-up artist (Westmore family), dies after a heart attack at 55
- Jun 24 Mary Carr, American actress (Forbidden Trail, 2nd Wife), dies at 99
- Jun 26 Arnold Richardson, composer, dies at 59
- Jun 26 Ernest Truex, American actor (Fluffy, Scared, His Girl Friday, Pete & Gladys, Mr Peepers), dies at 83
- Jun 27 Earl Browder, leader US Communist Party (1930-45), dies at 82
- Jun 29 Tin-Tan [Germán Valdés], Mexican actor, singer and comedian (Spanish dubbing of The Jungle Book, The Aristocats), dies from cancer at 57
- Jun 30 Elmer Layden, College Football Hall of Fame fullback (Notre Dame legendary 4-horsemen, 1st NFL Commissioner), dies at 70
- Jun 30 Nancy Mitford, English author (Love in a Cold Climate), one of the Mitford sisters, dies of cancer at 68
- Jun 30 Vasyl Velychkovsky, Ukrainian Bishop and Catholic Martyr, dies under Soviet imprisonment at 70
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