- Jun 1 Sonny Boy Williamson I [John Lee], American blues musician (Down & Out Blues), dies at 34
- Jun 1 Alex Gard, Russian-born caricaturist (b. 1900)
- Jun 2 Viktor Brack, German Nazi physician and war criminal, dies at 43
- Jun 2 Karl Brandt, German physician of Adolf Hitler, hanged for war crimes at 44
- Jun 2 Karl Gebhardt, Nazi doctor (convicted of war crimes for experimenting on concentration camp inmates), executed and hung for his crimes at 50
- Jun 2 Waldemar Hoven, German physician (b. 1903)
- Jun 2 Wolfram Sievers, Nazi physician, dies at 42
- Jun 6 Louis Lumière, French inventor, with brother Auguste made 1st motion picture in 1895, dies at 83
- Jun 7 Georges Hüe, French composer, dies at 90
- Jun 8 Franz Carl Bornschein, American composer, dies at 69
- Jun 8 Sammy Carter, Australian cricket wicketkeeper (28 Tests, 65 dismissals), dies at 70
- Jun 14 Ernst Henrik Ellberg, Swedish composer, dies at 79
- Jun 14 John Blackwood McEwen, Scottish classical composer, dies at 80
- Jun 18 Edward Brooker, British politician (interim Premier of Tasmania, Dec 1947-Feb 1948), dies of a pulmonary edema at 57
- Jun 20 George Frederick Boyle, Australian-American composer, dies at 61
- Jun 21 D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Scottish zoologist and classicist (On Growth & Form), dies at 88
- Jun 25 William C. Lee, U.S. general 'Father of the US Airboure', dies at 53
- Jun 26 Lilian Velez, Filipino actress (Sa Kabukiran), murdered by former co-star Narding Anzures at 24
- Jun 27 George Templeton Strong, American composer, dies at 92
- Jun 30 Karl Wolfskehl, German Jewish writer, dies at 78