- Sep 3 Edward A. Filene, American entrepreneur and philanthropist, born in Salem, Massachusetts (d. 1937)
Jane Addams (1860-1935)
Sep 6 American pacifist, social activist, feminist, author, co-founder of ACLU (Nobel Prize for Peace, 1931), born in Cedarville, Illinois [1]
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Sep 7 American primitive painter (Old Oaken Bucket), born in Greenwich, New York
- Sep 7 Willem Hubert Nolens, Dutch Catholic priest, politician (MP, 1896-1931) and law professor (University of Amsterdam, 1909-26), born in Venlo, Netherlands (d. 1931)
- Sep 10 Marianne Von Werefkin, Russian-German-Swiss Expressionist painter, born in Tula, Russia (d. 1938)
- Sep 11 James Allan, New Zealand rugby union player and All Black, born in Taieri, Otago, New Zealand (d. 1934)
John J. Pershing (1860-1948)
Sep 13 American army general and World War I commander known as "Black Jack", born in Laclede, Missouri
- Sep 14 Hamlin Garland, American writer (Middle Border), born in West Salem, Wisconsin (d. 1940)
- Sep 15 M. Visvesvaraya, Indian civil engineer and statesman (19th Diwan of the Mysore Kingdom), born in Muddenahalli, Chikkaballapura, Kingdom of Mysore, born in (d. 1962)
- Sep 18 Alberto Franchetti, Italian composer, born in Turin, Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy) (d. 1942)
- Sep 24 S. R. Crockett, Scottish novelist (The Stickit Minister), born in Duchrae, Balmaghie, Kirkcudbrightshire (d. 1914)
- Sep 28 Paul Ulrich Villard, French chemist and physicist who discovered gamma rays, born in Saint-Germain-au-Mont-d'Or, France (d. 1934)
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