- Sep 3 William Gaston Lewis, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1901)
- Sep 11 William Wirt Allen, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in New York City (d. 1894)
- Sep 14 Joseph Hayes, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in York County, Maine (d. 1912)
- Sep 14 Y de Smit-Rog, oldest citizen of Netherlands (d. 1940 at 104)
- Sep 25 Harry Wright, English Baseball Hall of Fame center fielder and manager (established baseball's first fully professional team, Cincinnati Red Stockings 1869), born in Sheffield, England (d. 1895)
- Sep 27 John Murray Corse, American politician and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1893 [or 4/27])
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