Events in Sport
- Jun 1 SC Heerenveen soccer team forms in Heerenveen, Netherlands
- Jun 1 Dutch soccer club FC Volendam is established (6-time Eerste Divisie champions)
- Jun 3 Baltimore Orioles pull their 6th triple play (9-6-4-6-6 vs KC Royals)
Tennis Open
Jun 4 French Open Women's Tennis: Mima Jaušovec of Yugoslavia wins her lone Grand Slam singles title; beats Florența Mihai of Romania 6-2, 6-7, 6-1
Mima Jausovec
Tennis Open
Jun 5 French Open Men's Tennis: Guillermo Vilas of Argentina wins first career Grand Slam event; outclasses American Brian Gottfried 6-0, 6-3, 6-0
Guillermo Vilas
Baseball Record
Jun 8 Nolan Ryan notches his 4th career 19-strikeout game
Nolan Ryan
LPGA Championship
Jun 12 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Bay Tree Plantation GC: Chako Higuchi of Japan wins her only LPGA major title by 3 from Pat Bradley, Sandra Post & Judy Rankin
Pat Bradley
Event of Interest
Jun 18 Billy Martin & Reggie Jackson get into a dug out altercation
Reggie Jackson
Birthdays in Sport
- Jun 1 Brad Wilkerson, American baseball player
- Jun 1 Richard Williams, British racing driver
- Jun 3 Travis Hafner, American MLB first baseman (tied MLB record 6 grand slams 2006), born in Jamestown, North Dakota
- Jun 3 Cris, Brazilian footballer
- Jun 3 Az-Zahir Hakim, American football player
- Jun 4 Dionisis Chiotis, Greek footballer
- Jun 4 Alex Manninger, Austrian footballer
- Jun 4 Quinten Hann, Australian former snooker player
- Jun 5 Chantal Lefebvre, Ville LaSalle Que, ice dancer (1996 Canadians-2nd)
- Jun 6 David Connolly, Irish footballer
- Jun 7 Marcin Baszczyński, Polish football player
- Jun 7 Odalis Pérez, Dominican baseball player (Atlanta Braves, LA Dodgers), born in Las Matas de Farfán, Dominican Republic
- Jun 8 Yvette Basting, Breda Neth, tennis star (1994 Futures-Flensberg-GER)
- Jun 9 Zephnad Wattimury, Dutch soccer player (FC Groningen)
- Jun 9 Peja Stojakovic, Serbian basketball player
- Jun 10 Mike Rosenthal, American football player, sports radio talk show host
- Jun 11 Geoff Ogilvy, Australian golfer (US Open 2006; 8 PGA Tour titles), born in Adelaide, South Australia
- Jun 13 Alexei Kariozhny, NHL forward (Team Belarus, Olympics 1998)
- Jun 14 Chris McAlister, American football player
- Jun 15 Michael Doleac, American basketball player
- Jun 16 Kerry Wood, American baseball player
- Jun 16 Petros Papadakis, American sportscaster, former USC football player
- Jun 17 Mark Tauscher, American football player
- Jun 19 Peter Warrick, American NFL running back (Tampa Bay Buccaneers), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
- Jun 20 Gordan Giriček, Croatian basketball player
- Jun 23 Hayden Foxe, Australian soccer defender (Olyroos, Olympics 1996)
- Jun 23 Miguel Ángel Angulo, Spanish footballer
- Jun 24 Cliff Bayer, American fencer-foil (Olympics 1996), born in NYC, New York
- Jun 24 Dimosthenis Dikoudis, Greek basketball player
- Jun 27 Arkadiusz Radomski, Polish footballer (Veendam), born in Gniezno, Poland
- Jun 27 Raúl, Spanish footballer (Real Madrid), born in Madrid, Spain
- Jun 28 Lindsay Lee, American tennis star (1995 Futures-Woodlands TX), born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- Jun 28 Chris Spurling, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers), born in Dayton, Ohio
- Jun 29 Sharon Cripps, Australian 100m/200m (Olympics 1996)
Weddings in Sport
Wedding of Interest
Jun 8 Retired NBA player Bill Russell (43) weds 1968 Miss USA Dorothy Anstett
Bill Russell
Deaths in Sport
- Jun 9 Bill Merritt, cricketer (6 Tests of leg-spin for NZ, 12 wkts), dies