- Jun 1 Jack Mulhall, American actor and producer (The Three Musketeers, The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand), dies at 91
- Jun 1 Werner Forssmann, German urologist (Nobel 1956), dies at 74
- Jun 2 Jim Hutton, actor (Ellery Queen), dies of liver cancer at 45
- Jun 3 Arno Schmidt, German writer, dies at 65
- Jun 4 Edward Dawson, cricketer (England batsman in 5 Tests 1927-30), dies
- Jun 4 Herman Shumlin, American Broadway producer, director and actor (Watch on the Rhine), dies at 80
- Jun 5 Pauline Offner, Zen Theravadin nun, dies at 53
Jack Haley
Jun 6 Jack Haley [John Joseph], American actor (The Wizard of Oz, Ford Star Revue), dies of a heart attack at 81
Jack Haley
- Jun 7 Forrest [Asa Earl] Carter, American author and segregationist speech writer, dies at 53
- Jun 8 Herb Polesie, producer/playwright (20 Questions), dies at 79
- Jun 8 Louis Salvador Palange, composer, dies at 61
- Jun 9 Cyclone Taylor, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame rover (Stanley Cup 1909 Ottawa, 1915 Vancouver), dies at 94
- Jun 11 August Maes, Flemish actor and director (Farmer that Dies), dies at 85
John Wayne
Jun 11 John Wayne [Marion Mitchell Morrison], American actor (Green Berets, True Grit), dies of stomach cancer at 72
John Wayne
- Jun 13 Darla Hood, American child actress (Little Rascals, The Bat), dies from acute hepatitis at 47
- Jun 15 Ernst Meister, writer, dies at 67
- Jun 16 Ben Weber, American composer (Thorne Music Award 1965), dies at 62
- Jun 16 Liselotte Welskopf-Heinrich, writer, dies at 77
- Jun 16 Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong, Ghanaian dictator (b. 1931)
- Jun 16 Nicholas Ray, American film director (b. 1911)
- Jun 17 Lou Frizzell, American actor and music director (Dusty Rhoades-Bonanza), dies at 59
- Jun 17 Duffy Lewis, American baseball left fielder (World Series 1912, 15, 16; Boston Red Sox), dies at 91
- Jun 19 Paul Popenoe, American eugenicist (b. 1888)
- Jun 21 Julian Orchard, actor (Perfect Friday, Bless this House), dies at 49
- Jun 21 Angus Maclise, American mystic, shaman, musician, and composer (b. 1938)
- Jun 22 Emory Parnell, St Paul Minn, actor (Life of Riley), dies at 85
- Jun 22 Julius Sommer, dies of heart failure, buried in Dayton Ohio
- Jun 22 Louis Chiron, Monégasque racing driver, dies at 79
- Jun 25 Philippe Halsman, American portrait photographer, dies at 73
- Jun 26 Charles Clore, financier, dies
- Jun 28 Paul Dessau, German composer and conductor (Adventures of Casanova; Never Trust a Woman), dies at 84
- Jun 29 Ben Barnett, Australian cricketer (4 Tests for Australia 1938), dies at 71
- Jun 29 Lowell George, American rock vocalist and guitarist (Mothers of Invention, Little Feat), dies at 34
- Jun 30 Alfons Vranckx, Belgian politician, dies at 72