- Jun 2 Thomas Hardy, poet and novelist (Far from the Madding Crowd), born in Higher Bockhampton, Dorset (d. 1928)
- Jun 3 Eugeen van Oye, Flemish writer/poet (Morning Twilight)
- Jun 6 John Stainer, English composer (The Crucifixion), born in Southwark, London (d. 1901)
- Jun 6 William Francis Bartlett, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Haverhill, Massachusetts (d. 1876)
- Jun 7 Carlota of Mexico, princess of Belgium and empress consort of Mexico (1864-67), born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1927)
- Jun 10 Thomas Fentress Toon, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1902)
- Jun 10 Theodor Philipsen Danish painter (d. 1920)
- Jun 11 Henri Braekeleer, Flemish painter, born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1888)
- Jun 16 Ernst Otto Schlick, German engineer (d. 1913)
- Jun 22 Ernest Debes, German cartographer (Baedeker)
- Jun 24 Louis Brassin, composer