- Sep 8 Patrick Cotter O'Brien, Irish showman, first known eight-foot-tall person (stood 8-feet, 1-inch (246cm), dies from strain of gigantism at 46 [1]
- Sep 9 William Paterson, American jurist and statesman (b. 1745)
- Sep 10 Johann Christoph Adelung, German linguist, librarian, translator and lexicographer, dies at 74