* June 24 – Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist ( d. 1988 )

Giovanni " Tata " Giacobetti ( 24 June 1922-2 December 1988 ) was one of the singers of Quartetto Cetra, a very famous Italian vocal quartet.

Alessandro Algardi ( 31 July 1598 – 10 June 1654 ) was an Italian high-Baroque sculptor active almost exclusively in Rome, where for the latter decades of his life, he was the major rival of Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

Bartolomeo Ammannati ( 18 June 1511 – 13 April 1592 ) was an Italian architect and sculptor, born at Settignano, near Florence.

* Paper on " Corrado Gini and Italian Statistics under Fascism " by Giovanni Favero June 2002

Following the decisive Ethiopian victory at Adwa, Menelik II rapidly negotiated a series of treaties fixing Ethiopia's boundaries — with French Somaliland in March 1897, British Somaliland a few months later in June 1897, with Italian Eritrea in 1900, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in 1902, British East Africa in 1907, and Italian Somaliland in 1908 — which simplified this problem on one level.

In June 1580 he purchased a tenement and seven acres of land near Aldgate in London from the Italian merchant Benedict Spinola for £ 2, 500.

Giulio Alberoni ( 30 May 1664 OS – 26 June NS 1752 ) was an Italian cardinal and

It was not until the fourth attempt that the Winter Line was breached by the Allies, and Alexander's forces moved on to capture Rome in June 1944, thereby achieving one of the strategic goals of the Italian campaign.

Italy has been a democratic republic since 2 June 1946, when the monarchy was abolished by popular referendum ( see birth of the Italian Republic ).

On 26 May 2006, Italian foreign minister Massimo D ' Alema announced that the Italian forces would be reduced to 1, 600 by June ; Italian participation in the military operations in Iraq was concluded by the end of 2006, with full withdrawal of Italian military personnel except for a small group of about 30 soldiers engaged in providing security for the Italian embassy in Baghdad, and about 87 soldiers stationing in bases in the Persian Gulf ( but not in Iraqi territory ).

As of June 2006 32 Italian troops have been killed in Iraq – with the greatest single loss of life coming on November 12, 2003 – a suicide car bombing of the Italian Carabinieri Corps HQ left a dozen Carabinieri, five Army soldiers, two Italian civilians, and eight Iraqi civilians dead.

* Festa della Repubblica Italian Republic Day is celebrated in Italy on the second of June each year.

By decree of the President of the Italian Republic of 2 June 2010, Kabir Bedi was officially knighted.

Marietta Alboni ( 6 March 1826 – 23 June 1894 ) was a renowned Italian contralto opera singer.

After serving almost 20 years of a life sentence in prison in Italy, Ağca was pardoned by the then Italian president Carlo Azeglio Ciampi in June 2000 and deported to Turkey.

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (, 3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527 ) was an Italian historian, diplomat, philosopher, humanist and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance.

The Abbé had even observed eight days of a hunger strike from May 26, 1984 to June 3 in the Cathedral of Turin to protest the conditions suffered by " Brigadists " in Italian prisons and the imprisonment without trial of Vanni Mulinari, who was recognized as innocent some time afterwards.

San Marino in the 1920s, still a largely agrarian society, experienced political turmoil influenced by the events in Fascist Italy, culminating in June 1921 in the murder in Serravalle of Italian doctor and Fascist sympathiser Carlo Bosi by local leftists, which led to condemnation by the surrounding Italian population and threats of retaliation by Italian squadristi.

Jello Biafra ( born Eric Reed Boucher ; June 17, 1958, Boulder, Colorado, United States ) is the former lead singer and songwriter for San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys, and is currently a musician and spoken word artist.

Nancy Sandra Sinatra ( born June 8, 1940 ) is an American singer and actress.

It was prefaced by the Human Be-In event in March and reached its peak at the Monterey Pop Festival in June, the latter helping to make major American stars of Janis Joplin, lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company, Jimi Hendrix and The Who.

Woodley left the group in June 1977 and was replaced by Buddy England, a former 1960s pop singer and member of the Mixtures.

In June 1990, Anthony left and was replaced by Karen Knowles, a former teen pop singer on Young Talent Time.

* June 5 – Nourhanne, Lebanese singer

* June 5 – Mel Torme, American singer ( b. 1925 )

* June 7 – Ari Koivunen, Finnish singer

* June 17 – John Gallagher Jr., American actor, singer and dancer

* June 23 – Duffy, Welsh singer

* June 30 – Fantasia Barrino, American singer

* June 13 – António Variações, Portuguese singer ( b. 1944 )

* June 10 – Patachou, French singer

* June 30 – Lena Horne, American singer and actress ( d. 2010 )

* June 15 – Kanna Arihara, Japanese singer

* June 26 – Ariana Grande, American actress and singer.

* June 28 – Jung Daehyun, South Korean singer

* June 28 – GG Allin, American punk singer ( b. 1956 )

* June 21 – Rebecca Black, American singer

* June 8 – Bonnie Tyler, Welsh singer

* June 7 – Juan Luis Guerra, Dominican singer and songwriter

* June 24 – Sissel Kyrkjebø, Norwegian singer

* June 22 – Judy Garland, American actress and singer ( b. 1922 )

* June 22 – Todd Rundgren, American rock singer and record producer