* June 5 – Carmine Crocco, Italian brigand ( d. 1905 )

Carmine Crocco from Rionero in Vulture was the most important chief in the region and the most impressive leader in south Italy.

During the brigand age of southern Italy, the castle was captured by Carmine Crocco ( 1861 ) and used as his base.

Here brigand Carmine Crocco was imprisoned until his death for his revolution against the reign of Victor Emmanuel II and the anarchist Giovanni Passannante who attempted to kill king Umberto I.

* Carmine Crocco ( 1830-1905 ), also known as Donatello, an Italian brigand

Placido was born at Ascoli Satriano into a poor family from Rionero in Vulture, Basilicata ; he is a descendant of the known brigand Carmine Crocco.

People imprisoned included Carmine Crocco, the most important brigand during the Italian unification, and the anarchist Gaetano Bresci, who killed King Umberto I in 1900.

After the Italian unification, Rionero gave the birth to Carmine Crocco, the most well-known brigand of that period.

In April 1861, sided with the robbers led by Carmine Crocco, on this occasion there was the first victim: the National Guard captain Michael Anastasia.

In 1861 it was occupied by the Briganti under the command of Carmine Crocco.

In 1861 the country became an integral part of brigandage Lucan, Having as leading figures Michael Volonnino, Corporal Theodore and Michael Barbaro, Men loyal to Carmine Crocco who opposed the government of Savoy Vittorio Emanuele II that was recently installed.