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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 2nd of June 0455 | EVENT | Sack of Rome: The Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks |
| 2nd of June 1098 | EVENT | First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city. The second siege would later start on June 7. |
| 2nd of June 1615 | EVENT | First Recollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France. |
| 2nd of June 1692 | EVENT | Bridget Bishop is the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. Found guilty, she is hanged on June 10. |
| 2nd of June 1763 | EVENT | Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort. |
| 2nd of June 1774 | EVENT | Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided. |
| 2nd of June 1793 | EVENT | Jean-Paul Marat recites the names of 29 people to the French National Convention. Almost all of these people are guillotined, followed by 17,000 more over the course of the next year during the Reign of Terror. |
| 2nd of June 1835 | EVENT | P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States. |
| 2nd of June 1848 | EVENT | The Slavic congress in Prague begins. |
| 2nd of June 1855 | EVENT | The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine. |
| 2nd of June 1876 | EVENT | Hristo Botev, a national revolutionary of Bulgaria, is killed in Stara Planina |
| 2nd of June 1886 | EVENT | U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion. |
| 2nd of June 1896 | EVENT | Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his newest invention: the radio. |
| 2nd of June 1909 | EVENT | Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time. |
| 2nd of June 1924 | EVENT | U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States. |
| 2nd of June 1925 | EVENT | Because of a lineup revision by Miller Huggins, Wally Pipp is replaced by Lou Gehrig at first base for the New York Yankees, beginning a streak of 2,130 consecutive games played, topped only by Cal Ripken, Jr. in 1995. Exactly 16 years later to the day, in 1941, Gehrig dies from Amyotropic lateral sclerosis (ALS). |
| 2nd of June 1941 | EVENT | World War II: German paratoopers murder Greek civilians in the village of Kondomari. |
| 2nd of June 1946 | EVENT | Birth of the Italian Republic: In a referendum, Italians vote to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After the referendum the king of Italy Umberto II di Savoia is exiled. |
| 2nd of June 1953 | EVENT | The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised. |
| 2nd of June 1955 | EVENT | The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948. |
| 2nd of June 1966 | EVENT | Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft land on another world. |
| 2nd of June 1967 | EVENT | Luis Monge is executed in Colorado's gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States. |
| 2nd of June 1967 | EVENT | Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into riots, during which Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June. |
| 2nd of June 1979 | EVENT | Pope John Paul II first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country. |
| 2nd of June 1984 | EVENT | Operation Bluestar, a military offensive, is launched by the Indian government at Harmandir Sahib, also known as Golden Temple, the holiest shrine for the Sikhs, in Amritsar. The operation continues until June 6 with casualties, most of them civilians, in excess of 5,000. |
| 2nd of June 1990 | EVENT | The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12. Petersburg, Indiana, is the hardest-hit town in the outbreak, with 6 deaths. |
| 2nd of June 1995 | EVENT | United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady's F-16 is shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone. |
| 2nd of June 1997 | EVENT | In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. |
| 2nd of June 1999 | EVENT | The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time. |
| 2nd of June 2003 | EVENT | Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan. |
| 2nd of June 2004 | EVENT | Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy! |
| 2nd of June 0926 | BIRTHDAY | Murakami, Emperor of Japan (d. 967) |
| 2nd of June 1535 | BIRTHDAY | Pope Leo XI (d. 1605) |
| 2nd of June 1731 | BIRTHDAY | Martha Washington, First American first lady (d. 1802) |
| 2nd of June 1740 | BIRTHDAY | Marquis de Sade, French author (d. 1814) |
| 2nd of June 1743 | BIRTHDAY | Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, Sicilian Occultist (d. 1795) |
| 2nd of June 1773 | BIRTHDAY | John Randolph, U.S. Senator from Virginia (d. 1833) |
| 2nd of June 1774 | BIRTHDAY | William Lawson, explorer of New South Wales, Australia (d. 1850) |
| 2nd of June 1815 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Kearny, American general (d. 1862) |
| 2nd of June 1823 | BIRTHDAY | Gedeon Ouimet, French Canadian politician (d. 1905) |
| 2nd of June 1835 | BIRTHDAY | Pope Pius X (d. 1914) |
| 2nd of June 1838 | BIRTHDAY | Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna (d. 1900) |
| 2nd of June 1840 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Hardy, English writer (d. 1928) |
| 2nd of June 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Elgar, English composer (d. 1934) |
| 2nd of June 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919) |
| 2nd of June 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Felix Weingartner, Yugoslavian conductor (d. 1942) |
| 2nd of June 1865 | BIRTHDAY | George Lohmann, English cricketer (d. 1901) |
| 2nd of June 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Jack O'Connor, American baseball player (d. 1937) |
| 2nd of June 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Stewart Mott, automotive industrialist and mayor (d. 1973) |
| 2nd of June 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Johnson, American songwriter (d. 1941) |
| 2nd of June 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Takijiro Onishi, Japanese WWII figure (d. 1945) |
| 2nd of June 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Thurman Arnold, American attorney and jurist (d. 1969) |
| 2nd of June 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Lotte Reiniger, German film director (d. 1981) |
| 2nd of June 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Runacres, English artist (d. 1974) |
| 2nd of June 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (d. 1984) |
| 2nd of June 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Dorothy West, American writer (d. 1998) |
| 2nd of June 1907 | BIRTHDAY | John Lehmann, English poet, editor, and publisher (d. 1987) |
| 2nd of June 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Andreas Schwarz, German singer and author (d. 1992) |
| 2nd of June 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Pym, English novelist (d. 1980) |
| 2nd of June 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Tetley, American voice actor (d. 1975) |
| 2nd of June 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandru Nicolschi, Romanian communist (d. 1992) |
| 2nd of June 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Heinz Sielmann, German photographer and filmmaker (d. 2006) |
| 2nd of June 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Kathryn Tucker Windham, American writer and storyteller |
| 2nd of June 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Ruth Atkinson, American cartoonist (d. 1997) |
| 2nd of June 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Nat Mayer Shapiro, American painter (d. 2005) |
| 2nd of June 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Frank G. Clement, Governor of Tennessee (d. 1969) |
| 2nd of June 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Tex Schramm, American football team president and general manager (d. 2003) |
| 2nd of June 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish-born critic |
| 2nd of June 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Speight, British television writer (d. 1998) |
| 2nd of June 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Betty Freeman, American philanthropist and photographer (d. 2009) |
| 2nd of June 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Sifford, American golfer |
| 2nd of June 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (d. 2002) |
| 2nd of June 1924 | BIRTHDAY | June Callwood, Canadian journalist and activist (d. 2007) |
| 2nd of June 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Milo O'Shea, Irish actor |
| 2nd of June 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Chiyonoyama Masanobu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 41st Yokozuna (d. 1977) |
| 2nd of June 1927 | BIRTHDAY | W. Watts Biggers, American novelist and animator |
| 2nd of June 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Norton Juster, American author and architect |
| 2nd of June 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player (d. 2007) |
| 2nd of June 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Conrad, American astronaut (d. 1999) |
| 2nd of June 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Lillis, baseball player |
| 2nd of June 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Jackson, baseball player (d. 1990) |
| 2nd of June 1931 | BIRTHDAY | William Donaldson, American businessman and politician |
| 2nd of June 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Sammy Turner, American singer |
| 2nd of June 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Carter, American doo wop singer (d. 2009) |
| 2nd of June 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Carol Shields, American-born novelist (d. 2003) |
| 2nd of June 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Dimitri Kitsikis, Greek turkologist |
| 2nd of June 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Brierley, English actor (d. 2005) |
| 2nd of June 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Sally Kellerman, American actress |
| 2nd of June 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Jones, American singer and songwriter |
| 2nd of June 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Paul, Canadian figure skater |
| 2nd of June 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Brownlow, English film historian and author |
| 2nd of June 1940 | BIRTHDAY | King Constantine II of Greece |
| 2nd of June 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Stacy Keach, American actor |
| 2nd of June 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Watts, English musician (The Rolling Stones) |
| 2nd of June 1941 | BIRTHDAY | William Guest, American singer (Gladys Knight & the Pips) |
| 2nd of June 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Winkless, American voice actor (d. 2006) |
| 2nd of June 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Maree Cheatham, American actress |
| 2nd of June 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Haid, American actor |
| 2nd of June 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Ilaiyaraaja, Indian composer |
| 2nd of June 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and musician |
| 2nd of June 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Bonnie Newman, American politician |
| 2nd of June 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Peters, American film producer and hairdresser |
| 2nd of June 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Sutcliffe, English serial killer |
| 2nd of June 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Lasse Hallstrom, Swedish film director |
| 2nd of June 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Song Dae Kwan, Korean singer |
| 2nd of June 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Elder, British opera and symphony conductor |
| 2nd of June 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Mathers, American actor |
| 2nd of June 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Heather Couper, British astronomer |
| 2nd of June 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Rich, American theater critic and columnist |
| 2nd of June 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Joanna Gleason, Canadian actress and singer |
| 2nd of June 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Robinson, Canadian hockey player |
| 2nd of June 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Bettman, American National Hockey League commissioner |
| 2nd of June 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Allen, Welsh comedian, actor, singer and writer |
| 2nd of June 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Cornel West, American civil rights activist |
| 2nd of June 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Stadler, American golfer |
| 2nd of June 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Haysbert, American actor |
| 2nd of June 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Steele, American musician (The Bangles) |
| 2nd of June 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Dana Carvey, American actor |
| 2nd of June 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Chantal Hochuli, Swiss-born socialite |
| 2nd of June 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Malcolm Garrett, English graphic designer |
| 2nd of June 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Mani Ratnam, Indian director |
| 2nd of June 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Lawrenson, English football commentator |
| 2nd of June 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Stack, American documentary filmmaker |
| 2nd of June 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Lawrence Pfohl, American professional wrestler |
| 2nd of June 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Huddy, Canadian hockey player |
| 2nd of June 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Lydia Lunch, American singer |
| 2nd of June 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Hadley, English singer (Spandau Ballet) |
| 2nd of June 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Kyle Petty, American race car driver |
| 2nd of June 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Dez Cadena, American musician (Black Flag) |
| 2nd of June 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Burns, American entrepreneur |
| 2nd of June 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Caroline Link, German film director and screenwriter |
| 2nd of June 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Waugh Australian cricketer |
| 2nd of June 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Knipfel, American autobiographer and journalist |
| 2nd of June 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Waugh, Australian cricketer |
| 2nd of June 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Pedro Guerra, Spanish songwriter and singer |
| 2nd of June 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Stanton, American baseball player |
| 2nd of June 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Beetlejuice, American radio personality |
| 2nd of June 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Culshaw, British comedian |
| 2nd of June 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Cy Chadwick, English actor |
| 2nd of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Andy McCollum, American football player |
| 2nd of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | B-Real, American rapper (Cypress Hill) |
| 2nd of June 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Montgomery, American actor |
| 2nd of June 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Katerina Jacques, Czech politician |
| 2nd of June 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Jo Koy, Filipino-American comedian |
| 2nd of June 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Wayne Brady, American actor and comedian |
| 2nd of June 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Staho, Danish film director |
| 2nd of June 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Raul Ibanez, American baseball player |
| 2nd of June 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Wentworth Miller, American actor |
| 2nd of June 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Neifi Perez, Dominican baseball player |
| 2nd of June 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Serra, American mixed martial artist |
| 2nd of June 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Gata Kamsky, American chess player |
| 2nd of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Earl Boykins, American basketball player |
| 2nd of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Rice-Oxley, English musician (Keane) |
| 2nd of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso of Lesotho |
| 2nd of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Cech, Czech ice hockey player (d. 2007) |
| 2nd of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Brazilian mixed martial artist |
| 2nd of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Zachary Quinto, American actor |
| 2nd of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Nikki Cox, American actress |
| 2nd of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Dominic Cooper, English actor |
| 2nd of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Long, American actor |
| 2nd of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | A.J. Styles, American professional wrestler |
| 2nd of June 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Morena Baccarin, Brazilian-born American actress |
| 2nd of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Fabrizio Moretti, Brazilian-born rock drummer (The Strokes) |
| 2nd of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Abby Wambach, American soccer player |
| 2nd of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Simmons, American basketball player |
| 2nd of June 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Chin-hui Tsao, Taiwanese baseball player |
| 2nd of June 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolay Davydenko, Russian professional tennis player |
| 2nd of June 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jewel Staite, Canadian actress |
| 2nd of June 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Abdulkadir Kocak, Turkish boxer |
| 2nd of June 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Higgins, American ice hockey player |
| 2nd of June 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Brooke White, American singer |
| 2nd of June 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Leela James, American singer-songwriter |
| 2nd of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Max Boyer, Canadian professional wrestler |
| 2nd of June 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Ana Cristina, American singer, composer, and actress |
| 2nd of June 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Darin Zanyar, Swedish singer |
| 2nd of June 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Sergio Aguero, Argentinian footballer |
| 2nd of June 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Patrik Berglund, Swedish ice hockey player |
| 2nd of June 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Freddy Adu, Ghanaian-American footballer |
| 2nd of June 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Smith, Australian international cricketer |
| 2nd of June 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Brittany Curran, American actress |
| 2nd of June 1994 | BIRTHDAY | Jemma McKenzie-Brown, British actress |
| 2nd of June 0829 | DEATH | Saint Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople (Born 758) |
| 2nd of June 0910 | DEATH | Richilde of Provence, Queen of Western Francia (Born 845) |
| 2nd of June 1418 | DEATH | Katherine of Lancaster, wife of Henry III of Castile (Born 1373) |
| 2nd of June 1567 | DEATH | Shane O'Neill, Irish chieftain (Born 1530) |
| 2nd of June 1581 | DEATH | James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, regent of Scotland (Born 1525) |
| 2nd of June 1693 | DEATH | John Wildman, English soldier and politician (Born 1621) |
| 2nd of June 1701 | DEATH | Madeleine de Scudery, French writer (Born 1607) |
| 2nd of June 1716 | DEATH | Ogata Korin, Japanese painter (Born 1658) |
| 2nd of June 1720 | DEATH | Jeremiah Shepard, American minister (Born 1648) |
| 2nd of June 1754 | DEATH | Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (Born 1680) |
| 2nd of June 1761 | DEATH | Jonas Alstromer, Swedish industrialist (Born 1685) |
| 2nd of June 1785 | DEATH | Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician (Born 1713) |
| 2nd of June 1806 | DEATH | William Tate, English painter (Born 1747) |
| 2nd of June 1833 | DEATH | Simon Byrne, Irish bare-knuckle prize fighter (Born 1806) |
| 2nd of June 1853 | DEATH | Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, British peer and soldier (Born 1777) |
| 2nd of June 1865 | DEATH | Ner Alexander Middleswarth, American politician (Born 1783) |
| 2nd of June 1875 | DEATH | Jozef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (Born 1806) |
| 2nd of June 1876 | DEATH | Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary (Born 1848) |
| 2nd of June 1881 | DEATH | Emile Littre, French lexicographer (Born 1801) |
| 2nd of June 1882 | DEATH | Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian revolutionarist (Born 1807) |
| 2nd of June 1901 | DEATH | George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary (Born 1844) |
| 2nd of June 1933 | DEATH | Frank Jarvis, American athlete (Born 1878) |
| 2nd of June 1937 | DEATH | Louis Vierne, French organist and composer (Born 1870) |
| 2nd of June 1941 | DEATH | Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (Born 1903) |
| 2nd of June 1942 | DEATH | Bunny Berigan, American jazz musician (Born 1908) |
| 2nd of June 1948 | DEATH | Viktor Brack, German physician (Born 1904) |
| 2nd of June 1948 | DEATH | Karl Brandt, personal physician of Adolf Hitler (Born 1904) |
| 2nd of June 1948 | DEATH | Waldemar Hoven, German physician (Born 1903) |
| 2nd of June 1948 | DEATH | Wolfram Sievers, German SS officer (Born 1905) |
| 2nd of June 1948 | DEATH | Karl Gebhardt, German doctor (Born 1897) |
| 2nd of June 1956 | DEATH | Jean Hersholt, Danish actor and humanitarian (Born 1886) |
| 2nd of June 1961 | DEATH | George S. Kaufman, American playwright (Born 1889) |
| 2nd of June 1962 | DEATH | Vita Sackville-West, English writer, and gardener (Born 1892) |
| 2nd of June 1967 | DEATH | Benno Ohnesorg, German student (Born 1940) |
| 2nd of June 1968 | DEATH | Andre Mathieu, Quebec pianist and composer (Born 1929) |
| 2nd of June 1969 | DEATH | Leo Gorcey, American actor (Born 1917) |
| 2nd of June 1970 | DEATH | Albert Lamorisse, French film director and screenwriter (Born 1922) |
| 2nd of June 1970 | DEATH | Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet (Born 1888) |
| 2nd of June 1970 | DEATH | Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer and designer (Born 1937) |
| 2nd of June 1974 | DEATH | Hiroshi Kazato, Japanese racing driver (Born 1949) |
| 2nd of June 1976 | DEATH | Kenneth Mason, British geographer (Born 1887) |
| 2nd of June 1976 | DEATH | Juan Jose Torres, former President of Bolivia (Born 1920) |
| 2nd of June 1977 | DEATH | Albert Bittlmayer, German footballer (Born 1952) |
| 2nd of June 1977 | DEATH | Stephen Boyd, Northern Irish actor (Born 1931) |
| 2nd of June 1979 | DEATH | Jim Hutton, American actor (Born 1934) |
| 2nd of June 1982 | DEATH | Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (Born 1904) |
| 2nd of June 1983 | DEATH | Stan Rogers, Canadian musician (Born 1949) |
| 2nd of June 1984 | DEATH | Georgios Kasassoglou, Greek musician (Born 1908) |
| 2nd of June 1986 | DEATH | Aurele Joliat, Canadian hockey player (Born 1901) |
| 2nd of June 1987 | DEATH | Andres Segovia, Spanish guitarist (Born 1893) |
| 2nd of June 1987 | DEATH | Anthony de Mello, Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist (Born 1931) |
| 2nd of June 1987 | DEATH | Sammy Kaye, American bandleader (Born 1910) |
| 2nd of June 1988 | DEATH | Raj Kapoor, Indian film actor, producer and director (Born 1924) |
| 2nd of June 1989 | DEATH | Ted a'Beckett, Australian cricketer (Born 1907) |
| 2nd of June 1990 | DEATH | Stiv Bators, American singer (The Dead Boys, The Lords of the New Church) (Born 1949) |
| 2nd of June 1990 | DEATH | Rex Harrison, English actor (Born 1908) |
| 2nd of June 1990 | DEATH | Jack Gilford, American actor (Born 1908) |
| 2nd of June 1992 | DEATH | Phillip Dunne, American film director (Born 1908) |
| 2nd of June 1993 | DEATH | Johnny Mize, American baseball player (Born 1913) |
| 2nd of June 1994 | DEATH | David Stove, Australian philosopher (Born 1927) |
| 2nd of June 1996 | DEATH | John Alton, American cinematographer (Born 1901) |
| 2nd of June 1996 | DEATH | Amos Tversky, Israeli psychologist (Born 1937) |
| 2nd of June 1996 | DEATH | Ray Combs, American game show host and comedian (Born 1956) |
| 2nd of June 1996 | DEATH | Leon Garfield, English children's author (Born 1921) |
| 2nd of June 1997 | DEATH | Doc Cheatham, American jazz trumpeter (Born 1905) |
| 2nd of June 1998 | DEATH | Sylvester Ritter, American wrestler (Born 1952) |
| 2nd of June 1999 | DEATH | Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican musician (The Wailers) (Born 1949) |
| 2nd of June 2000 | DEATH | Svyatoslav Fyodorov, Russian ophthalmologist (Born 1927) |
| 2nd of June 2000 | DEATH | Gerald Whitrow, British mathematician (Born 1912) |
| 2nd of June 2001 | DEATH | Imogene Coca, American actress (Born 1908) |
| 2nd of June 2001 | DEATH | Frank Stagg, Baptist theologian (Born 1911) |
| 2nd of June 2001 | DEATH | Joey Maxim, American boxer (Born 1922) |
| 2nd of June 2003 | DEATH | Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler (Born 1918) |
| 2nd of June 2004 | DEATH | Loyd Sigmon, American amateur radio broadcaster (Born 1909) |
| 2nd of June 2005 | DEATH | Gunder Gundersen, Norwegian skier and sports official (Born 1930) |
| 2nd of June 2005 | DEATH | Samir Kassir, Lebanese journalist and teacher (Born 1950) |
| 2nd of June 2005 | DEATH | Chloe Jones, Model and pornographic actress (Born 1975) |
| 2nd of June 2005 | DEATH | Melita Norwood, British spy (Born 1912) |
| 2nd of June 2006 | DEATH | Vince Welnick, musician, keyboardist (The Grateful Dead) (Born 1951) |
| 2nd of June 2006 | DEATH | Keith Smith, English rugby player (Born 1952) |
| 2nd of June 2007 | DEATH | Huang Ju, Chinese Vice-Premier (Born 1938) |
| 2nd of June 2007 | DEATH | Kentaro Haneda, Japanese composer (Born 1949) |
| 2nd of June 2008 | DEATH | Bo Diddley, American musician (Born 1928) |
| 2nd of June 2008 | DEATH | Mel Ferrer, American actor, film director and film producer (Born 1917) |
| 2nd of June 2009 | DEATH | David Eddings, American fantasy writer (Born 1931) |