Historical Events
First Moving Images
Jun 15 World's first moving pictures caught on camera (used 12 cameras, each taking 1 picture) done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground
- Jun 22 Swedish ship SS Vega with explorer Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld sets out to find the Northeast Passage (succeeds 1879)
Famous Birthdays
- Jun 1 John Masefield, British writer and poet (Salt-Water Ballads), Poet Laureate (1930-67), born in Ledbury, Herefordshire (d. 1967)
- Jun 4 Frank Buchman, American theologist (Moral Re-Armament), born in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania (d. 1961)
- Jun 5 Pancho Villa [José Doroteo Arango Arámbula], Mexican revolutionary general and guerrilla leader, born in La Coyotada, San Juan del Río, Durango, Mexico (d. 1923)
- Jun 5 William Franklin "Frank" Smith, American actor (Cowboy & Bandit, Scarlet Car, Frontier Days), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1961)
- Jun 6 Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, French criminal attorney, born in Paris (d. 1956)
- Jun 12 James Oliver Curwood, American journalist and writer (Kazan the wolfdog), born in Owosso, Michigan (d. 1927)
- Jun 12 Myrtle McAteer, American tennis player (US Nat C'ship 1900), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1952)
- Jun 15 Margaret Abbott, American golfer (1st American woman to win Olympic event, golf 1900), born in Calcutta, India (d. 1955)
- Jun 17 Albert Thomas, French socialist politician (Minister of Armament WW1), born in Champigny-sur-Marne (d. 1932)
- Jun 25 Jean Gallon, French composer, born in Paris (d. 1959)
- Jun 26 Albert Siklós, Hungarian composer, born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1942)
- Jun 26 Ernest Torrence, Scottish actor (I Cover the Waterfront, Hunchback of Notre Dame), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1933)
- Jun 27 Jean François van Royen, Dutch graphic designer, bibliophile, and Secretary-General of Dutch PTT (Post, Telephone & Telegraph), born in Arnhem, Netherlands (d. 1942)
Famous Deaths
- Jun 6 Gottfried Herrmann, German violinist, organist, Kapellmeister, and composer, dies at 70
- Jun 6 Robert Stirling, Scottish inventor (Stirling cycle engine) (b. 1790)
- Jun 12 Hendrik Jut, Dutch murderer (Head of Jut), dies at 26
- Jun 12 William Cullen Bryant, American poet (Thanatopsis), dies at 83
- Jun 16 Crawford Williamson Long, American surgeon and pioneer (use of ether as an anesthetic in surgery), dies at 62
- Jun 23 George Back, English sea officer and explorer (Back River), dies at 81
- Jun 26 Mercedes of Orléans, Queen of Spain, dies at 18
