- Sep 1 Il Mattatore [Vittorio Gassman], Italian actor, director and screenwriter (Scent of a Woman, War & Peace), born in Genoa, Italy (d. 2000)
- Sep 1 Melvin Laird, American politician (Rep-R-Mich), US Secretary of Defense (1969-73), born in Omaha, Nebraska (d. 2016)
- Sep 1 Yvonne De Carlo [Middleton], Canadian-American actress (10 Commandments; The Munsters-Lily), born in Vancouver, British Columbia (d. 2007)
- Sep 2 Arthur Ashkin, American scientist (Nobel Prize for Physics 2018 Optical Tweezers), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2020) [1]
- Sep 3 Morrie Martin, American MLB baseball pitcher, 1949-59 (Brooklyn Dodgers, Philadelphia Athletics, and 5 other teams), and double Purple Heart Army veteran, born in Dixon, Missouri (d. 2010)
- Sep 3 Rosendo Ejercito Santos, Filipino composer, born in Caridad, Cavite City, Philippines (d. 1994)
- Sep 3 Salli Terri [Stella Tirri], Canadian-American Grammy Award-winning pop-classical-folk-exotica singer, arranger, composer (Duets with the Spanish Guitar), musicologist, and educator, born in London, Ontario (d. 1996)
- Sep 3 Steffan Danielsen, Faroese painter, mostly of local landscapes, born in Nólsoy, Faroe Islands (d. 1976)
- Sep 4 Per Olof Sundman, Swedish writer and politician, born in Vaxholm, Sweden (d. 1992)
- Sep 7 Kirill Molchanov, Russian-Soviet composer, born in Moscow (d. 1982)
- Sep 7 Lucien Jarraud, Canadian radio host, born in Paris (d. 2007)
- Sep 8 Isaac Sidney "Sid" Caesar, American comic actor and writer (Your Show of Shows), born in Yonkers, New York (d. 2014)
- Sep 8 Lyndon LaRouche, American political activist (National Caucus of Labor Committees), born in Rochester, New Hampshire (d. 2019)
- Sep 9 Anthony Parsons, British diplomat (British Ambassador to Iran during Iranian Revolution) (d. 1996)
- Sep 9 Hans Dehmelt, German-born American physicist (Nobel Prize 1989), born in Gorlitz (d. 2017)
- Sep 9 Hoyt Curtin, American composer (Hanna-Barbera cartoon themes, including "The Flintstones", and "The Jetsons"), born in Downey, California (d. 2000)
- Sep 9 Manolis Glezos, Greek politician, writer and resistance hero (took down Nazi flag from Acropolis), born in Apiranthos, Naxos, Greece (d. 2020)
- Sep 11 Charles Evers, American civil rights leader (1st Black mayor in Mississippi since Reconstruction), born in Decatur, Mississippi (d. 2020)
- Sep 12 Ellen Demming, American actress (Guiding Light), born in Schenectady, New York (d. 2002)
- Sep 12 Jackson Mac Low, American poet and composer, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2004)
- Sep 13 Antonia Pantoja, Puerto Rican-American educator and civil rights activist, 1st Puerto Rican woman awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, born in San Juan, Puerto Rico (d. 2002) [1]
- Sep 13 Charles Brown, American blues singer and pianist ("Merry Christmas, Baby"), born in Texas City, Texas (d. 1999)
- Sep 13 Yma Sumac [Chavarri], Peruvian-American 5 octave soprano (Omar Khayyam), born in Ichocan, Cajamarca, Peru (d. 2008)
- Sep 14 Michel Auclair [Vladimir Vujović], German actor (Funny Face, Day of the Jackal), born in Koblenz, Weimar Republic (d. 1988)
- Sep 15 Bob Anderson, English Olympic Fencer, renowned film fight choreographer (Star Wars, Lord of the Rings) (d. 2012)
- Sep 15 Jackie Cooper, American actor and director (Skippy, Superman), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2011)
- Sep 16 Guy Hamilton, British director (Goldfinger), born in Paris (d. 2016)
- Sep 16 Janis Paige [Donna Mae Tjaden], American stage and screen actress (The Pajama Game; Silk Stockings; Trapper John, M.D.), born in Tacoma, Washington (d. 2024)
- Sep 16 Marcel Mouloudji, French singer, born in Paris (d. 1994)
- Sep 17 Agostinho Neto, 1st President of Angola (1975-79), born in Ícolo e Bengo, Portuguese Angola (d. 1979)
- Sep 17 Naomi Datta, British geneticist and bacteriologist (pioneer in investigating the development of resistance to antibiotics by bacteria), born in London (d. 2008)
- Sep 17 Ursula Howells, British actress (Hard Times, Girly, Murder is Announced), born in London, England (d. 2005)
- Sep 18 David Gahr, American photographer noted for his work with folk, jazz and rock musicians (Time Magazine; Folkways albums), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (d. 2008)
- Sep 18 Grayson Hall [Shirley Grossman], American actress (The Night of the Iguana, Dark Shadows), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1985)
- Sep 18 Ray Steadman-Allen, British choral and brass band composer, born in Salvation Army 'Mother's Hospital', Clapton, England (d. 2014)
- Sep 19 Damon Francis Knight, American sci-fi author (CV, Beyond the Barrier), born in Baker City, Oregon (d. 2002)
- Sep 19 Dana Zátopková, Czech athlete (Olympic gold women's javelin 1952, silver 1960), born in Fryštát, Czechoslovakia (d. 2020)
Emil Zátopek (1922-2000)
Sep 19 Czech distance runner (4 x Olympic gold 1948, 52), born in Kopřivnice, Czech Republic
- Sep 20 David Nicolson, British businessman and politician (Chairman of BTR Industries-1969), born in London (d. 1996)
- Sep 20 Franco Ventriglia, American opera singer, born in Fairfield, Connecticut (d. 2012)
- Sep 20 Frank Comstock, American big band and pop orchestral arranger (Les Brown; Doris Day; Warner Bros; Brian Setzer), film and television composer (Rocky and His Friends; Adam-12), and recording artist (Project: Comstock - Music from Outer Space), born in San Diego, California (d. 2013)
- Sep 20 William Kapell, American pianist and recording artist, born in New York City (d. 1953)
- Sep 21 Lee Hee-ho, Korean activist and first lady for her husband President Kim Dae-jung, born in Seoul, Japanese Korea (d. 2019)
- Sep 21 Lode Backx, Flemish pianist, born in Borgerhout, Belgium (d. 2010)
- Sep 22 Chen Ning Yang, Chinese physicist (disproved parity, Nobel Prize for Physics 1957), born in Hofei, Anwhei, China
- Sep 23 Philip Sherrard, English author and translator of modern Greek, born in Oxford, England (d. 1995)
- Sep 24 David Lane, British Conservative politician and CEO (Commission for Racial Equality), born in London (d. 1998)
- Sep 24 Theresa Merritt [Hines], American singer and actress (The Wiz; That's My Mama), born in Newport News, Virginia (d. 1998)
- Sep 25 Hammer DeRoburt, First President of Nauru, born in Nauru (d. 1992)
- Sep 26 Nicholas Romanov, French-born pretender to the Russian throne, born in Antibes, France (d. 2014)
- Sep 27 Arthur Penn, American film director (Miracle Worker; Bonnie & Clyde), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2010)
- Sep 27 James Wilson, English-Irish classical composer (Grinning At The Devil), born in Islington, London (d. 2005)
- Sep 28 Joseph "Joe" Silver, American actor (Lenny, Mr I Magination), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1989)
- Sep 28 Phyllis Friend, British nurse (Chief Nursing Officer DHSS) (d. 2013)
- Sep 29 Lizabeth Scott [Emma Matzo], American actress (Dark City, Desert Fury), born in Scranton, Pennsylvania (d. 2015)
- Sep 30 Alan Stretton, Australian general who managed the response to Cyclone Tracey in Darwin, born in Melbourne, Australia (d. 2012)
- Sep 30 Allan Rae, Jamaican cricketer (prolific WI opening batsman 1948-53), born in Kingston, Jamaica (d. 2005)
About September 1922
How Old? 101 years old
Generation: Greatest Generation
Leap Year: No
Year of the Rabbit
Year of the Dragon
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