James J. Corbett (1866-1933)
Sep 1 American boxer (world heavyweight champion 1892-97), born in San Francisco, California
- Sep 2 Hiram Johnson, Progressive politician, US Senator, Governor of California (1911-17), born in Sacramento, California (d. 1945)
- Sep 7 Tristan Bernard, French playwright and novelist, born in Besançon, Doubs, France (d. 1947)
- Sep 10 Jeppe Aakjær, Danish poet and novelist (Bondens Søn), born in Fly, Jutland (d. 1930)
- Sep 10 Tor Aulin, Swedish composer, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1914)
- Sep 13 Adolf Meyer, American psychiatrist and neurologist (pioneered mental hygiene), born in Niederweningen, Switzerland (d. 1950)
- Sep 20 Gustave Doret, Swiss composer, born in Aigle, Switzerland (d. 1943)
- Sep 21 Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist (Nobel Prize in Medicine 1928), born in Rouen, France (d. 1936)
H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
Sep 21 English sci-fi author (War of the Worlds, Kipps), born in Bromley, Kent
- Sep 23 Édouard Combe, Swiss composer, born in Aigle, Switzerland (d. 1942)
- Sep 25 Thomas Hunt Morgan, American evolutionary biologist, geneticist and embryologist (Nobel Prize 1933), born in Lexington, Kentucky (d. 1945)
- Sep 27 Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic (model of holiness in the daily life of a Catholic family), born in Quinto Vicentino, Italy (d. 1932)
- Sep 27 Tryggve Andersen, Norwegian writer (Fra Cancelliraadens Dage), born in Ringsaker, Norway (d. 1920)
- Sep 29 Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian historian and statesman, born in Chełm, Congress Poland (d. 1934)
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