- Sep 11 Daniel S. Dickinson, New York senator, born in Goshen, Connecticut (d. 1866)
- Sep 16 Józef Nowakowski, Polish pianist and composer, born in Koryciska, Przysucha County, Poland (d. 1865)
- Sep 17 Franklin Buchanan, American first superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1874)
- Sep 19 William McKean, American naval officer (Union Navy), born in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania (d. 1865)
- Sep 23 William Holmes McGuffey, American professor (wrote elementary school McGuffey Readers - 120 million copies sold), born in Claysville, Pennsylvania (d. 1873)
- Sep 30 Decimus Burton, British architect (Hyde Park, Palm House Kew Gardens), born in London, England (d. 1881)
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