- 195 BC Gaozu of Han, Emperor of China (202-195 BC), founder of Han Dynasty
- 193 Didius Julianus [Marcus Severus Didius Julianus], Roman Emperor, murdered at 61
- 1191 Philips van de Elzas, count of Vlanderen, dies
- 1340 Jan III van Diest, bishop of Utrecht (1322-40), dies
- 1434 Władysław II Jagiełło, King of Lithuania and later also Poland, dies (b.1351)
- 1568 18 nobles beheaded in Brussels for treason and heresy by Duke of Alva and authority of Council of Troubles
- 1568 Gijsbert van Bronkhorst-Batenburg, calvinist leader, beheaded
- 1571 John Story, English Catholic martyr, executed at Tyburn by being hung, drawn and quartered
Tokugawa Ieyasu
1616 Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese Shogun who founded the first Tokugawa Shogunate and united Japan, dies from natural causes
Tokugawa Ieyasu
- 1625 Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (b. 1568)
- 1660 Mary Dyer, English Quaker (martyred) - hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony
- 1676 Creutz, Swedish admiral (Öland), dies in battle
- 1676 Uggla, Swedish admiral (Öland), dies in battle
- 1710 David Mitchell, Scottish admiral in the British Royal navy (b. 1642)
- 1713 Johan Runius, Swedish poet (Dudaim), dies at 34
- 1729 Matthaeus de Cock, governor general of Dutch Indies (1725-29), dies at about 65
- 1740 Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (b. 1657)
- 1769 Edward Holyoke, American academic and 9th President of Harvard University, dies at 79
- 1795 Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist (b. 1744)
- 1815 Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (b. 1853)
- 1823 Louis Nicholas Davout, French fieldmarshal, dies at 53
- 1826 Jean Frédéric Oberlin, Alsatian pastor (b. 1740)
- 1830 Sahajanand Swami, believed to be an incarnation of god by his followers, leaves his mortal body. (b. 1781)
- 1841 David Wilkie, Scottish artist (b. 1785)
- 1846 Gregory XVI [Bartolomeo Alberto Mauro Cappellari], Pope (1831-1846), dies at 80
- 1861 John Q Marr, US Confederate captain, dies in battle at Fairfax Courthouse, the first Confederate death of the war
- 1864 Solomon George Washington Dill, poor white ally of African Americans, assassinated in his home by white terrorists in SC
- 1864 Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel (b. 1812)
James Buchanan
1868 James Buchanan, 15th US President (1857-61), dies at 77
James Buchanan
James Gordon Bennett
1872 James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American newspaper publisher (New York Herald), dies at 76
James Gordon Bennett
Lizzie Borden
1927 Lizzie Borden, American woman acquitted of the murder of her parents, dies at 66
Lizzie Borden
- 1927 J. B. Bury, Irish historian (b. 1861)
- 1938 Ödön von Horváth, Hungarian writer (A Child of Our Time), dies at 36
- 1941 Hugh S Walpole, British novelist and playwright (Jeremy, Maradick at 40), dies at 57
- 1942 Vladislav Vančura, Czech writer (Rozmarné léto), dies at 50
- 1943 Wilfrid B. Israel, Jewish activist
- 1946 Ion Antonescu, Romanian soldier and authoritarian politician, is executed after having been convicted of war crimes
- 1948 Alex Gard, Russian-born caricaturist (b. 1900)
- 1951 Rafael Altamira Crevea, Spanish lawyer/historian, dies at 85
John Dewey
1952 John Dewey, US philosopher (Common Faith), dies at 92
John Dewey
Adolf Eichmann
1962 Adolf Eichmann, German Nazi officer (SS-Obersturmbannführer, Holocaust organizer), hanged in Israel at 56
Adolf Eichmann
Helen Keller
1968 Helen Keller, American political activist, author (The Story of My Life) and lecturer, who was the 1st deaf-blind person to earn a BA, dies at 87
Helen Keller
Reinhold Niebuhr
1971 Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologist (Nature & Destiny of Man), dies at 78
Reinhold Niebuhr
- 1973 Harvey S Firestone Jr, US tire manufacturer, dies at 75
- 1979 Werner Forssmann, German urologist (Nobel 1956), dies at 74
- 1980 Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst (b. 1897)
- 1981 Carl Vinson, (Rep-D-Ga, 1914-64), dies at 97
- 1981 Naim Chadir, PLO-representative in Brussels, murdered
- 1982 Hendrik Algra, Dutch teacher, journalist, and politician (ARP), dies
- 1983 Anna Seghers, writer, dies at 82
- 1983 Charles Tham, of Saxon-Coburg-Gotha, count of Flanders/Prince, dies
- 1987 Errol W Barrow, PM of Barbados (1961-76), dies at 67
- 1987 Rashid Karami, 10 time premier of Lebanon, dies in bomb attack at 65
- 1992 Louise Hoff, entertainer, dies at 69
- 1994 Juan J H Rovira, Spanish general, murdered
- 1994 Wim van der Grinten, Dutch lawyer and KVP politician (State Secretary of Economic Affairs), dies at 80
- 1995 Ronald Anthony "Tony" Clegg, property trader, dies at 58
- 1996 Sanjiva Reddy, Indian politician, sixth President of India (1977-82), dies at 83
- 1996 Fernand Schokweiler, judge, dies at 60
- 1996 Robert Arthur Hughes, missionary/surgeon, dies at 85
- 1996 Stephen Jones, art historian, dies at 41
- 1997 Nikolai Tikhonov, Soviet PM (1980-85), dies at 92
- 1999 Christopher Cockerell, English engineer and inventor (Hovercraft), dies at 88
- 2001 Queen Aiswarya of Nepal (b. 1949)
- 2001 King Birendra of Nepal (b. 1945)
- 2001 Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
- 2004 William Manchester, American writer (b. 1922)
- 2008 Tommy Lapid, Israeli journalist and politician (b. 1931)
- 2008 Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer, dies at 71
- 2010 Lt. Gen. William H. Ginn, Jr., U.S. Air Force officer (b.1928)
- 2014 Ann B. Davis, American actress, dies from a subdural hematoma from a fall at 88
- 2015 Charles Kennedy, British politician (Liberal Democrat leader 1999-2006), dies at 55
- 2018 Jill Ker Conway, Australian-American author, first female president of Smith College, dies at 83
June in History
Testing Time for Drivers
Deaths caused by accidents on UK roads fell by 1,000 within a year of the official driving test being introduced. But was the half-hour test enough?
June 1, 1935
The King is Dead; Long Live the Queen
Princess Elizabeth was in Africa when her father died and she became Queen. Her coronation, on this day in history, could be described as a magnificent washout.
June 2, 1953
The Fire and Fury of Jonathan Martin
Jonathan Martin was a religious extremist who described the clergy as 'vipers from hell' and tried to burn down one of England’s most treasured cathedrals.
June 3, 1838
Dunkirk: Military Retreat They Called a Miracle
Trapped on beaches and a sitting target for German fighter planes and bombers, 330,000 Allied troops looked doomed. Then came the "miracle" of Dunkirk.
June 4, 1940