Historical Events
- Jun 2 Benjamin Adams arrested for playing golf on Sunday (NY)
41st British Open
Jun 6 British Open Men's Golf, Muirfield: Scotsman James Braid wins first of 5 Open titles by 3 strokes from Harry Vardon of Jersey
- Jun 9 NY Giants get record 31 hits to beat Cincinnati Reds 25-13
- Jun 11 Cook Islands annexed and proclaimed part of New Zealand
- Jun 12 In Cuba, the constitutional convention - knowing that the USA will not withdraw its troops until does so - adopts the Platt Amendment as part of its constitution
- Jun 17 The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT
- Jun 17 US Open Men's Golf, Myopia Hunt GC: Willie Anderson of Scotland wins first of his 4 Open titles by 1 stroke in an 18-hole playoff with Alex Smith
Picasso's 1st Exhibition
Jun 24 1st exhibition by Pablo Picasso aged 19, opens in Paris
- Jun 24 Jewish National Fund starts
- Jun 29 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Philadelphia CC: Elisabeth Moore beats defending champion Myrtle McAteer 6-4, 3-6, 7-5, 2-6, 6-2 for her second of 4 US singles titles
Famous Birthdays
John Van Druten (1901-1957)
Jun 1 English playwright (I Remember Mama, I am a Camera), born in London
Sukarno (1901-1970)
Jun 6 1st President of Indonesia (1945-67), born in Surabaya, Java
- Jun 8 Lena Baker, American murderer, convicted of capital murder of her employer, Ernest Knight, born in Cuthbert, Georgia (d. 1945)
- Jun 9 George Price, American cartoonist (The New Yorker), born in Fort Lee, New Jersey (d. 1995)
- Jun 9 Marion Gering, Russian actress (Sarumba, Rumba, Ready for Love, 24 Hours), born in Rostov-on-Don, Russia (d. 1977)
- Jun 10 Frederick Loewe [Friedrich Löwe], Austrian-American musical theater composer (with Alan Jay Lerner: My Fair Lady; Camelot; Brigadoon), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1988)
- Jun 13 Lode Zielens, Flemish author and journalist (Obscure Blood), born in Antwerp (d. 1944)
- Jun 13 Tage Erlander, Swedish politician (25th Prime Minister of Sweden 1946-69), born in Ransäter, Värmland County, Sweden (d. 1985)
- Jun 14 Hap Day, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame defenceman (Stanley Cup 1932 [captain], 42, 45, 47, 48, 1949 [coach], 1951 [assistant manager]; Toronto Maple Leafs), born in Owen Sound, Ontario (d. 1990)
- Jun 15 Peter Shankland, English filmmaker and historian (d. 1995)
- Jun 16 Arthur Pierson, Norwegian-American actor and director (Hat Check Girl), born in Oslo, Norway (d. 1975)
- Jun 16 Conrad Beck, Swiss composer, born in Lohn, Schaffhausen (d. 1989)
Anastasia Nikolaevna (1901-1918)
Jun 18 Russian Grand Duchess, youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna, born in Peterhof Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Jun 18 Llewellyn Rees, British theatre actor (A Fish Called Wanda, Invisible Creature), born in Charmouth, Dorset, England (d. 1994)
- Jun 20 Iri Maruki, Japanese artist (The Hiroshima Panels), born in Hiroshima (d. 1995)
- Jun 22 Jack Whiting, American actor and singer (Marge & Gower Champion Show), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1961)
- Jun 22 Naunton Wayne, Welsh actor (Quartet, Hidden Room, Double Confession), born in Llanwonno, Glamorganshire, Wales (d. 1970)
- Jun 22 Willem Jacobus du Plooy Erlank (Eitemal), South African poet and professor in Afrikaans and Dutch literature at the University of Stellenbosch, born in Wolmaransstad, Transvaal (d. 1984)
- Jun 23 Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Turkish poet, novelist, recognized as one of the most important representatives of modernism in Turkish literature (A Mind at Peace, The Time Regulation Institute), born in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire (d. 1962)
- Jun 23 Mariel-Henri Jaspar, Belgian minister who unsuccessfully attempted to establish a Belgian government in London during World War II, born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1982)
- Jun 23 Paul Verhoeven, German actor and director (Das kleine Hofkonzert), born in Unna, Germany (d. 1975)
- Jun 24 Chuck Taylor, American Basketball Hall of Fame promoter (Converse All Star shoes), born in Azalia, Indiana (d. 1969)
- Jun 24 Harry Partch, American composer (Revelations in the Courthouse Park; Delusion Of The Fury), born in Oakland, California (d. 1974)
- Jun 25 Adolf Brunner, Swiss composer (Markus-Passion), born in Zurich, Switzerland (d. 1992)
- Jun 26 Stuart Symington, U.S. senator from Missouri (1953–76), born in Amherst, Massachusetts (d. 1988)
- Jun 26 William Busch, British composer, born in London (d. 1945)
- Jun 29 Frieda Inescort, Scottish-American stage and screen actress (Hay Fever; Pride and Prejudice (1940)), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1976)
- Jun 29 Hendrik Diels, Flemish conductor, born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1974)
- Jun 29 Nelson Eddy, American baritone (duets with Jeanette MacDonald), born in Providence, Rhode Island (d. 1967)
Willie Sutton (1901-1980)
Jun 30 American bank robber, born in Brooklyn, New York
Famous Deaths
- Jun 2 George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary (b. 1844)
- Jun 2 James A. Herne, American playwright (Hearts of Oak; Margaret Fleming), dies at 62
- Jun 9 Walter Besant, English writer and philanthropist (Rebel Queen), dies at 64
- Jun 10 Robert Williams Buchanan, Scottish, poet, dramatist and novelist, dies at 59
- Jun 16 Herman Grimm, German writer, poet and historian, dies at 75
- Jun 23 Charles Kensington Salaman, British pianist and synagogue music composer, dies at 87
