Events in Music
Event of Interest
Jun 5 George Harrison releases "Somewhere in England"
George Harrison
- Jun 8 15th Music City News Country Awards: Mandrell Sisters
Event of Interest
Jun 21 Donald Fagen and Walter Becker disband their rock group Steely Dan
Walter Becker
Donald Fagen
Event of Interest
Jun 22 Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon
John Lennon
Birthdays in Music
- Jun 1 Brandi Carlile, American singer and songwriter
- Jun 5 Sebastien Lefebvre, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
- Jun 8 Alex Band, American singer (The Calling)
- Jun 9 Vic Zhou, JVKV band member, Taiwanese actor, singer and model.
- Jun 9 Anoushka Shankar, British-Indian sitar player, composer, and daughter of Ravi Shankar, born in London, England
- Jun 10 Hoku, American singer and actress
- Jun 12 John Gourley, American musician, singer, and songwriter (Portugal. The Man), born in Wasilla, Alaska
- Jun 15 William Dean Martin, American musician (Good Charlotte)
- Jun 16 Ben Kweller, American singer/songwriter
- Jun 21 Brandon Flowers, American singer and keyboardist (The Killers), born in Henderson, Nevada
- Jun 22 Chris Urbanowicz, guitarist of British rock band Editors
- Jun 28 Michael Crafter, Australian musician (I Killed The Prom Queen), born in Perth, Australia
Deaths in Music
- Jun 11 Albert Markos, Romanian composer (Torso I), dies at 66
- Jun 21 Gunnar Ek, Swedish composer, dies on his 81st birthday
- Jun 23 Zarah Leander, Swedish/German singer/actress (Gabriela), dies at 79
- Jun 26 Peter Kreuder, German composer, dies
- Jun 28 Peter Paul Kreuder, German-Austrian pianist and film score composer, dies at 75