Historical Events
- Jun 16 Dutch King Willem I opens shipyard at Rotterdam-Antwerp
Famous Birthdays
- Jun 2 Gédéon Ouimet, French Canadian politician (d. 1905)
- Jun 5 George Thorndike Angell, American lawyer and advocate for the humane treatment of animals (ASPCA), born in Southbridge, Massachusetts (d. 1909)
- Jun 8 Robert Morris, 1st successful African American lawyer in the US and Abolitionist, born in Salem, Massachusetts (d. 1882)
- Jun 11 James Lawson Kemper, Major General (Confederate Army), born in Madison County, Virginia (d. 1895)
- Jun 13 Gustave Paul Cluseret, French Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Suresnes, France (d. 1900)
- Jun 17 John Henry Hobart Ward, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in New York City (d. 1903)
- Jun 20 Jesse Lee Reno, American Major General (Union Army), born in Wheeling, West Virginia (d. 1862)
- Jun 21 Edward Elmer Potter, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in New York City (d. 1889)
- Jun 21 Jean Chacornac, French astronomer, born in Lyon, France (d. 1873)
- Jun 25 James Dunwoody Bulloch, Confederacy's chief foreign agent in Great Britain during the American Civil War, born in Savannah, Georgia (d. 1901)
- Jun 26 Frederick Bowen Jewson, Scottish composer, born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1891)
- Jun 30 Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, Parsi entrepreneur and founder of the first textile mills in India, born in Bombay, British India (d. 1901)
- Jun 30 Hendrik Jan Schimmel, Dutch writer and dramatist (2 Tudors), born in 's-Graveland, North Holland (d. 1906)
Famous Deaths
- Jun 1 Louis-Nicholas Davout, French military commander under Napoleon (Marshall of the Empire, defeated Prussians at Battle of Auerstädt), dies at 53