Historical Events
US National Men's Championship
Sep 2 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills NY: Bill Tilden wins 5th straight US singles title; beats Bill Johnston for 3rd consecutive year 6-1, 9-7, 6-2
- Sep 3 Civil war breaks out in China (Gen Tsi moves to Shanghai)
- Sep 3 L Stallings & M Anderson's "What Price Glory?" premieres in NYC
Assassination Attempt on Mussolini
Sep 6 Assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini fails
- Sep 6 Charles Paddock captures 100 & 200 yd AAU national senior outdoor track & field championships
- Sep 8 Alexandra Kollontai of Russia becomes 1st woman ambassador
- Sep 9 Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii
- Sep 10 Leopold and Loeb found guilty of the murder of Robert Franks in Chicago in the "the crime of the century"
Giants Destroy Braves 22-1
Sep 10 New York Giants rip Boston Braves, 22-1 at the Polo Grounds; future Baseball HOF infielder Frankie Frisch goes 6-for-6 before grounding out
- Sep 12 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Philadelphia, PA: Bill Johnston & Bill Tilden clinch US 5th straight title beating Australians Pat O'Hara Wood & Gerald Patterson 5-7, 6-3, 6-4, 6-1 for 3-0 lead; ends 5-0
- Sep 13 19th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Philadelphia (5-0)
American League MVP
Sep 14 Walter Johnson selected as the American League MVP
Baseball Record
Sep 16 St. Cardinals future Baseball HOF first baseman Jim Bottomley sets MLB all-time single game RBI record of 12 in a 17-3 rout of Brooklyn Robins at Ebbets Field
PGA Championship
Sep 20 PGA Championship Men's Golf, French Lick CC: 1921 champion Walter Hagen beats Englishman Jim Barnes 2-up in the final
- Sep 24 Boston, Massachusetts, opens its airport
World Auto Speed Record
Sep 25 Malcolm Campbell sets world auto speed record at 146.16 miles per hour
- Sep 27 Giants clinch their 4th straight pennant, beating Phils 5-1
- Sep 28 2 US Army planes end around-world flight, Seattle to Seattle, 57 stops
- Sep 28 French government names General Serrail governor-general of Syria
- Sep 28 General Plutarco Calles elected President of Mexico
- Sep 29 Santo Domingo joins League of Nations
- Sep 29 Senators clinch pennant, finishing 2 games in front of Yankees
- Sep 30 Allies stop checking on German navy
Famous Birthdays
Daniel arap Moi (1924-2020)
Sep 2 Kenya's longest serving President (1978-2002), born in Kurieng'wo, Kenya
- Sep 2 Ramón Valdés, Mexican actor and comedian (Don Ramón-El Chavo del Ocho), born in Mexico City (d. 1988)
- Sep 4 Joan Aiken, English writer of children's books (The Whispering Mountain), born in Rye, Sussex, England (d. 2004)
- Sep 5 Krystyna Moszumanska-Nazar, Polish composer, born in Lviv, Ukraine (d. 2009)
- Sep 6 John Melcher, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Montana), born in Sioux City, Iowa (d. 2018)
- Sep 7 Bridie Gallagher, Irish singer (A Mother's Love's A Blessing, The Boys from County Armagh), born in Donegal, Ireland (d. 2012)
- Sep 7 Charles Braswell, American actor (Only Game in Town), born in McKinney, Texas (d. 1974)
- Sep 7 Daniel K. Inouye, American lawyer, politician (US Senator from Hawaii, 1963-2012; US Representative, 1959-63), and decorated WWII army veteran, born in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii (d. 2012) [1]
- Sep 7 Hugh Aitken, American composer, born in New York City (d. 2012)
- Sep 7 Leonard Rosenman, American Academy and Emmy Award-winning film and television composer (Rebel Without A Cause; Star Trek IV; Bound for Glory; Sybill), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2008)
- Sep 8 Gracie Cole, British jazz trumpeter (Ivy Benson's All-Girl Band), and bandleader, born in Rowlands Gill, Durham, England (d. 2006)
- Sep 8 Marie-Claire Kirkland, Quebec lawyer and politician, born in Palmer, Massachusetts (d. 2016)
- Sep 8 Mimi Parent, Canadian painter, born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 2005)
- Sep 8 Wendell Ford, American politician (Sen-D-Kentucky, 1974-1999), Governor of Kentucky (1971-74), born in Owensboro, Kentucky (d. 2015)
- Sep 9 Bettejane "Jane" Greer, American actress (Out of the Past, Prisoner of Zenda, Clown), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 2001)
- Sep 9 Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (d. 2003)
- Sep 9 Sylvia Miles, American actress (Midnight Cowboy, Farewell My Lovely), born in New York City (d. 2019)
- Sep 10 Boyd K. Packer, LDS church apostle, born in Brigham City, Utah (d. 2015)
- Sep 10 Hans Olof “Putte” Wickman, Swedish jazz clarinetist, born in Falun, Sweden (d. 2006)
- Sep 10 Ted Kluszewski, American baseball 1st baseman (MLB All Star 1953-56; NL HR & RBI leader 1954; Cincinnati Reds), born in Argo, Illinois (d. 1988)
- Sep 11 Daniel Akaka, American educator and politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Hawaii), born in Honolulu, Hawaii (d. 2018)
- Sep 11 Rudolf Vrba, Slovak-Jewish biochemist and Holocaust survivor, born in Topoľčany, Czechoslovakia (d. 2006)
Tom Landry (1924-2000)
Sep 11 American NFL player, 1949-55 (NY Giants) and coach, 1960-88 (Dallas Cowboys), born in Mission, Texas
- Sep 12 Howard Curtis Nielson, American politician (Rep-R-UT, 1983-91), born in Richfield, Utah (d. 2020)
- Sep 12 Jean Le Poulain, French actor (Divine), born in Marseille, France (d. 1988)
- Sep 13 Harold Blair, Australian tenor and Aboriginal activist, born in Cherbourg Aboriginal Reserve, Queensland, Australia (d. 1976)
- Sep 13 Maurice Jarre, French Academy and Grammy Award-winning film composer (Lawrence Of Arabia; Doctor Zhivago; Witness; Fatal Attraction), born in Lyon, France (d. 2009)
- Sep 13 Norman Alden, American character actor (I Never Promised You a Rose Garden), born in Fort Worth, Texas (d. 2012)
- Sep 13 Scott Brady [Gerald Tierney], American actor (Shotgun Slade, China Syndrome, Gremlins, Johnny Guitar), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1985)
- Sep 14 Davidson Nicol, Sierra Leonean diplomat and author, born in Freetown, Sierra Leone (d. 1994)
- Sep 14 Jerry Coleman, American MLB 2nd baseman, born in San Jose, California (d. 2014)
- Sep 14 Jitka Snížková, Czech composer, music educator and musicologist, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (d. 1989)
- Sep 14 John Michael Grimes, British set designer (Philby, Burgess and MacLean) (d. 1994)
- Sep 15 Bobby Short, American cabaret singer and pianist (Carlisle Hotel), born in Danville, Illinois (d. 2005)
- Sep 15 Lucebert [Jacobus Swaanswijk], Dutch poet, painter and cartoonist (Boozz, PC Hooft prize 1967), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1994)
Lauren Bacall (1924-2014)
Sep 16 American actress and singer named the 20th greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema (Dark Passage, Key Largo), born in Staten Island, New York
- Sep 16 Paddy Stone, Canadian choreographer (Piccadilly Palace), born in Winnipeg, Manitoba (d. 1986)
- Sep 18 J. D. Tippit, American police officer murdered by Lee Harvey Oswald shortly after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, born in Texas (d. 1963)
- Sep 18 Zelda Fichandler, American theater director and producer (Raisin, K2), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2016)
- Sep 19 Ernest Tomlinson, English composer (Light music), born in Rawtenstall, Lancashire (d. 2015)
- Sep 19 Jacques Lusseyran, French author and resistance leader who was blind from age 7, born in Paris, France (d. 1971)
- Sep 20 Gogi Grant [Myrtle Audrey Arinsberg], American singer ("The Wayward Wind"), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2016)
- Sep 20 Jackie Paris, American jazz singer and guitarist ("Skylark"), born in Nutley, New Jersey (d. 2004)
- Sep 20 James Galanos, American fashion designer (Coty Hall of Fame 1959), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2016)
- Sep 20 John Vassall, British spy and civil servant (spied for Soviet Union), born in London (d. 1996)
- Sep 21 Bernard Silver, American co-inventor of the barcode, born in Pennsylvania (d. 1963) [1]
- Sep 21 Gail Russell, American actress (The Uninvited, Moonrise, Unseen), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1961) [1]
- Sep 22 Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu, revolutionary, politician and pan-Africanist (Zanzibar revolution), born in Zanzibar, Sultanate of Zanzibar (d. 1996)
- Sep 22 Charles Keeping, British illustrator (The Highwayman), born in London, England (d. 1988)
- Sep 22 Norvel Lee, American boxer (Olympic gold 1952), born in Eagle Rock, Virginia (d. 1992)
- Sep 22 Rosamunde Pilcher, English novelist (The Shell Seekers), born in Lelant, England (d. 2019)
- Sep 24 Jean-Pierre Warner, British high court judge (d. 2005)
- Sep 24 Nina Bocharova, Soviet-Ukrainian gymnast (Olympic gold balance beam, team 1952), born in Suprunivka, Ukraine (d. 2020)
- Sep 24 Sammy Guillen, West Indian cricket wicket-keeper (5 Tests West Indies & 3 Tests New Zealand), born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago (d. 2013)
- Sep 24 Sheila MacRae, British-born actress (Jackie Gleason Show), born in London, England (d. 2014)
- Sep 25 Norman Ayrton, British actor and opera director (Royal Shakespearean Academy, born in London (d. 2017)
- Sep 27 (Earl) "Bud" Powell, American jazz pianist and composer, born in Harlem, New York (d. 1966)
- Sep 27 Bernard Waber, American children's book author ("The House on East 88th Street"; "Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile"), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2013)
- Sep 27 Fred Singer, Austrian-American physicist and climate change doubter, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2020) [1]
- Sep 27 Josef Skvorecky, Czechoslovakia, writer and publisher (End of the Nylon Age, The Cowards) (d. 2012)
- Sep 28 Antonio Jacinto, Angolan poet, born in Paulo de Luanda, Portuguese West Africa (d. 1991)
- Sep 28 Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (8½, La Dolce Vita; Dark Eyes, The Pizza Triangle), born in Fontana Liri, Lazio, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1996)
- Sep 29 David Atkinson, British air marshal, honorary physician to the Queen (d. 2013)
- Sep 30 Charles Quinlivan, American actor (Seven Guns to Mesa, Mr. Garlund), born in Jersey City, New Jersey (d. 1974)
Truman Capote (1924-1984)
Sep 30 American author (Breakfast At Tiffany's; In Cold Blood), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
Famous Deaths
- Sep 3 Dario Resta, Italian-British auto racer (Indianapolis 500 1916; Vanderbilt Cup 1915, 16; AAA National C'ship 1916), dies in a land-speed record attempt at 42
- Sep 5 Karel Komzák III, Austrian conductor and composer, dies at 46 [1]
- Sep 6 Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria, 4th and last child of Franz Joseph I of Austria and Elisabeth of Bavaria, dies at 56
- Sep 10 Walter Lees, English cricket fast bowler (5 Tests, 26 wickets), dies at 48
- Sep 11 Mieczyslaw Surzynski, Polish organ virtuoso and composer (1904 Organ Concerto), dies at 57
- Sep 13 P. J. Hannikainen, Finnish composer, dies at 69
- Sep 15 Anthony Johnson Showalter, American gospel composer, dies at 66
Frank Chance (1877-1924)
Sep 15 American Baseball HOF first baseman (World Series 1907, 08; 2 x NL stolen base leader; NL runs leader 1906 Chicago Orphans/Cubs) and manager (Chicago Cubs, NY Yankees, Boston RS), dies at 47
- Sep 18 Francis H. Bradley, British idealist philosopher (Appearance and Reality), dies at 78
- Sep 19 Alick Bannerman, Australian cricket batsman (28 Tests, 8 x 50s; NSW 1876–94), dies at 70
- Sep 24 Manuel Estrada Cabrera, 13th President of Guatemala (1898-1920), dies in prison at 66
- Sep 25 (Charlotte) "Lotta" Crabtree, American stage actress, comedian (Little Nell and the Marchioness), and philanthropist, dies at 76
- Sep 25 Karel Burian (also Carl Burrian), Czech operatic tenor, dies at 54
