- Jun 1 Darwin Joston, American actor (Assault on Precinct 13), dies at 60
- Jun 2 Sylvester Ritter (Junkyard Dog), American professional wrestler, dies at 45
- Jun 3 Joseph C. Harsch, American newscaster (Background), dies at 93
- Jun 3 Poul Bundgaard, Danish comic actor (Olsen-banden films) and operetta singer (Royal Danish Theatre, 1958-73), dies at 75
- Jun 5 Alfred Kazin, American writer and literature critic (The Inmost Leaf), dies at 83
- Jun 5 Jeanette Nolan, American actress (Richard Boone Show, Virginian), dies following a stroke at 86
- Jun 5 Sam Yorty, American politician, Mayor of Los Angeles (1961-73), dies at 88
- Jun 6 Jan Seidel, Czech composer, dies at 89
- Jun 6 Svend Simon Schultz, Danish composer, dies at 84
- Jun 7 Thomas Narcejac, French writer (Vertigo), dies at 89
- Jun 8 Maria Reiche, German-born mathematician and archaeologist (b. 1903)
Sani Abacha (1943-1998)
Jun 8 de facto President of Nigeria (1993-98), dies at 54
- Jun 9 Jackie McGlew, South African cricket batsman (34 Tests, 7 x 100, HS 255no; Natal), dies at 69
- Jun 9 Lois Mailou Jones, American painter (Peasants on Parade), dies at 92
- Jun 10 Hammond Innes, English author (The Wreck of the Mary Deare), dies at 84
- Jun 10 Jim Hearn, American baseball pitcher (World Series 1954 NY Giants; MLB All Star 1952), dies at 77
- Jun 10 Steve Sanders, American country baritone singer (Oak Ridge Boys, 1987-95), dies of a self-inflicted gunshot at 45
- Jun 11 Catherine Cookson, English novelist (Bannaman Legacy), dies at 91
- Jun 12 Éric Tabarly, French Navy officer and yachtsman (Ostar 1964, 76; Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race 1964), dies from drowning at 66
- Jun 12 Leo Buscaglia, American psychologist known as "Dr Love" (Love), dies of a heart attack at 74
- Jun 12 Theresa Merritt [Hines], American singer and actress (The Wiz; That's My Mama), dies of skin cancer at 75
- Jun 13 Birger Ruud, Norwegian ski jumper (Olympic gold 1932, 36; World C'ship gold 1931, 35, 37), dies at 86
- Jun 13 Reg Smythe, English cartoonist (Andy Capp), dies at 80
- Jun 18 Charles Korvin [Geza Korvin Karpathi], Austrian actor (Berlin Express, Ship of Fools), dies at 90
- Jun 20 Conrad Schumann, East German border guard, committed suicide at 56
- Jun 21 Al Campanis, Greek baseball second baseman and executive (first Greek player in MLB history; GM LA Dodgers 1968-87), dies from coronary artery disease at 81
- Jun 23 Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish actress (Tarzan, Pride & Prejudice, Hannah and Her Sisters), dies at 87
- Jun 23 Paul O'Dwyer, Irish-American politician and President of City Council (D-NYC), dies at 90
- Jun 25 Lounès Matoub, Kabylian singer-songwriter, guitar and mandole player, and Berber rights activist,, assassinated by the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) at 42
- Jun 25 Richard Bales, American composer (National Gallery of Art orchestra), dies at 83
- Jun 27 Boris Nikolayevich Belousov, Soviet cosmonaut, dies at 67
- Jun 27 Desmond Heap, British lawyer and authority on British planning law, dies at 90
- Jun 27 Gilles Rocheleau, French Canadian politician, dies at 62
- Jun 27 Joyce Wieland, Canadian experimental filmmaker and conceptual artist (1st women to have a retrospective at the Canadian National Gallery), dies at 67 [1]
- Jun 28 Ralph Perring, British businessman (Lord Mayor of London 1962-63), dies at 95
- Jun 29 Horst Jankowski, German jazz and easy listening pianist ("A Walk In The Black Forest"), dies of lung cancer at 62
- Jun 29 Louis Hostin, French weightlifter (Olympic gold 1932, 36), dies at 90
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