- Sep 15 William Huskisson, Briton and the first rail fatality (b. 1770)
- Sep 18 William Hazlitt, English critic and essayist, dies at 52
- Sep 19 Stanislas Champein, French composer, dies at 76
- Sep 23 Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, First Lady of the United States (1817-25) as the wife of the fifth President James Monroe, dies at 62