- Jun 7 Georg von Pasterwiz, Austrian composer, born in Passau, Germany (d. 1803)
- Jun 14 Antonio Sacchini, Italian opera composer, born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (now Italy) (d. 1786)
- Jun 20 Nonnosus Madlseder, German composer and Benedictine monk, born in Merano, County of Tyrol, Austria (now Italy) (d. 1797)
- Jun 21 Motoori Norinaga, Japanese physician, scholar, and writer (Kojiki-den (Commentaries on the Kojiki)), born in Matsuzaka, Japan (d. 1801)
Charles Messier (1730-1817)
Jun 26 French astronomer, comet hunter and cataloguer of nebulae and star clusters, now referred to as "M objects", born in Badonviller, Lorraine, France
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