- Sep 7 John Greenleaf Whittier, American Quaker poet and advocate for the abolition of slavery, dies at 84
- Sep 11 Charles-Louis-Adolphe Vogel, French composer (Les trois couleurs), dies at 84
- Sep 12 Carl Faust, Prussian military musician and composer (Marsch Glück auf - Lucky March), and conductor, dies at 62