Historical Events
- Jun 12 Possibly the most severe quake in history strikes Assam, India, Shock waves felt over an area size of Europe (low mortality rate given size of earthquake, 1,500 casualties).
- Jun 15 Liberals/social-democrats win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election
- Jun 16 A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later
- Jun 17 US State Department appoints New Jersey educator William Frank Powell as Envoy to Haiti, and Chargé d’Affaires for Dominican Republic
- Jun 19 MLB Baltimore Orioles outfielder Wee Willie Keeler's then-record 44 game hitting streak ends
- Jun 19 US National Championship Women's Tennis: 1895 title holder Juliette Atkinson beats defending champion Elisabeth Moore 6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 3-6, 6-3
- Jun 22 Bombay plague commissioner Walter Charles Rand shot by Chapekar brothers as protest against his extreme measures to combat city's plague epidemic (dies July 3)
- Jun 24 Hail injures 26 in Topeka, Kansas
- Jun 28 Marquis C de Bonchamps' expedition reaches Gore Ethiopia
Bingley-Hillyard Wins Fourth Wimbledon Title
Jun 28 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: England's Blanche Bingley-Hillyard wins her 4th title beating Charlotte Cooper 5-7, 7-5, 6-2
Famous Birthdays
- Jun 3 Memphis Minnie [Lizzie Douglas], American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter ("Bumble Bee"; "Me and My Chauffeur Blues"), born in Algiers, Louisiana (d. 1973)
- Jun 7 George Szell, Hungarian-born American conductor (Cleveland Orchestra, 1946-70), born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1970)
- Jun 8 John G. Bennett, British scientist and author, born in London (d. 1974)
- Jun 10 Tatiana Nikolaevna, 2nd daughter of the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna, born in Peterhof Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1918)
- Jun 11 Bruno Frei [Benedikt Freistadt], Austrian Marxist journalist, born in Bratislava (d. 1988)
- Jun 12 Alexandre Tansman, Polish composer (Dyptique), born in Łódź, Poland (d. 1986)
Anthony Eden (1897-1977)
Jun 12 British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1955-57) and Foreign Secretary, born in Rushyford, England
Paavo Nurmi (1897-1973)
Jun 13 Finnish middle & long distance runner (9 Olympic gold 1920, 24, 28), born in Turku, Finland
- Jun 16 Elaine Hammerstein, American actress (The Midnight Express), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1948)
- Jun 16 Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1987)
- Jun 17 Vivian Duncan, American vaudevillian (Duncan Sisters), and actress (Topsy and Eva), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1986)
- Jun 18 Henry Wadsworth, American actor (The Thin Man, Applause, Fast & Loose), born in Maysville, Kentucky (d. 1974)
Moe Howard (1897-1975)
Jun 19 American actor and comedian (The 3 Stooges), born in Brooklyn, New York
- Jun 20 Cyril Francois, South African cricket all-rounder (5 Tests, 252 runs, 6 wickets), born in Lewisham, England (d. 1944)
- Jun 20 Elisabeth Hauptmann, German writer (co-author of The Threepenny Opera), born in Peckelsheim, Westphalia, German Empire (d. 1973)
- Jun 22 Edmund A. Chester, American broadcaster and journalist (d. 1973)
- Jun 22 Norbert Elias, German-British sociologist and philosopher (Process of Civilization), born in Breslau, German Empire (d. 1990)
- Jun 23 Winifred Wagner, English-German daughter-in-law of Richard Wagner and friend of Adolf Hitler (ran Bayreuth Festival), born in Hastings, England (d. 1980)
- Jun 24 Daniel K. Ludwig, American shipping magnate (d. 1992)
- Jun 25 Basil Radford, British actor (The Lady Vanishes, Whiskey Galore, Night Train), born in Chester England (d. 1952)
- Jun 25 Hans Barth, German-born American composer, born in Leipzig, Germany (d. 1956)
- Jun 26 Viola Dana, American actress (Willow Tree, 40 Winks, Silent Lover), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1987)
- Jun 29 Fulgence Charpentier, French Canadian journalist, born in Sainte-Anne-de-Prescott, Ontario, Canada (d. 2001)
- Jun 29 Ottmar Gerster, German composer (rector of the Liszt Music Academy in Weimar), born in Braunfels, Germany (d. 1969)
Famous Deaths
- Jun 9 Alvan Graham Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer (Sirius B), dies 3 weeks after 1st use of Yerkes 40" lens at 64
- Jun 17 Sebastian Kneipp, Bavarian priest and naturopathist (known for "Kneipp Cure" form of hydrotherapy), dies at 76
- Jun 19 Charles Boycott, Irish estate manager (whose workers refused to work for him amid Irish rent and land issues, origin of the term "boycott"), dies at 65
- Jun 22 Ralph Abercromby, British meteorologist, dies at about 54
- Jun 25 Margaret Oliphant, Scottish novelist and biographer (Beleaguered City), dies at 69
