- Sep 2 Thomas Groube, Australian cricket batsman (1 Test; Victoria CA), born in New Plymouth, New Zealand (d. 1927)
- Sep 6 Zelia Nuttall, American Mexican archeologist and historian (Codex Nuttall), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1933) [1]
- Sep 8 Georg Michaelis, Chancellor of German Empire, born in Haynau, Germany (d. 1936)
- Sep 8 Ida Henrietta Hyde, American physiologist who invented the micro-electrode and the first woman allowed to do research at Harvard Medical School and to be elected to the American Physiology Society, born in Davenport, Iowa (d. 1945)
- Sep 10 James Edward Keeler, American astronomer (rings of Saturn), born in La Salle, Illinois (d. 1900)
- Sep 12 George H. Breitner, Dutch impressionist painter, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1923)
- Sep 13 Michał Drzymała, Polish peasant rebel (Drzymała's wagon), born in Province of Posen, Poland (d. 1937)
Milton S. Hershey (1857-1945)
Sep 13 American chocolate tycoon (The Hershey Chocolate Company) and philanthropist, born in Derry Township, Pennsylvania
William Howard Taft (1857-1930)
Sep 15 27th US President (Republican: 1909-13) and Chief Justice, born in Cincinnati, Ohio
- Sep 17 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian pioneer in rocket and space research, born in Izhevskoye, Ryazan Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1935)
- Sep 29 Conrad Theodor van Deventer, Dutch author, lawyer and politician (Ethical Policy Movement), born in Dordrecht, Netherlands (d. 1915)
- Sep 30 Hermann Sudermann, German writer (Honor, That Ehre, Frau Sorge), born in Matziken, East Prussia (d. 1928)
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