Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Jun 5 Mary Ann Shadd Cary, American-Canadian publisher and anti-slavery campaigner, 1st African American newspaper publisher, dies of stomach cancer at 69

Mary Ann Shadd Cary
- Jun 7 Johann Schrammel, Austrian composer, dies at 43
Edwin Booth
Jun 7 Edwin Booth, American Shakespearean actor (Hamlet), dies at 59

Edwin Booth
Leland Stanford
Jun 21 Leland Stanford, American business tycoon (Southern Pacific Railroad), 8th Governor of California and founder of Stanford University, dies of heart failure at 69

Leland Stanford
- Jun 23 Sir Theophilus Shepstone, British-born South African statesman (b. 1817)