Famous Birthdays
- Jun 7 James Young Simpson, Scottish obstetrician who popularized chloroform for medicinal use, born in Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland (d. 1870)
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
Jun 14 American author (Uncle Tom's Cabin), born in Litchfield, Connecticut
- Jun 17 Jón Sigurðsson, Icelandic independence fighter and Icelandic historian, born in Hrafnseyri, Arnarfjörður, Iceland (d. 1879)
- Jun 19 Henry Prince, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Eastport, Maine (d. 1892)
- Jun 21 Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist and neurophysiologist (bioelectricity), born in Forlì, Papal States (d. 1868)
- Jun 24 John Archibald Campbell, American jurist and Supreme Court justice (1853–61), born in Washington, Georgia (d. 1889)
