- Sep 2 Iosif Ivanovici, Romanian military bandleader and composer (Waves of the Danube), dies (b. 1845)
Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902)
Sep 5 German politician, anthropologist and pathologist (cell pathology), dies of heart failure at 80
- Sep 6 Frederick Able, English chemist and inventor (cordiet), dies at 75
- Sep 6 Philip James Bailey, English poet (Universal hymn), dies at 86
- Sep 7 Franz Wüllner, German conductor and composer, dies at 70
- Sep 9 Titus van Asch van Wijck, Dutch politician (Governor of Suriname 1891-97), dies at 53
- Sep 14 Reinhold Finsterbusch, German singer, organist, composer, and choral director (Jesu Tod und Begräbnis), dies at 76
- Sep 19 Marie Henriette, Queen of the Belgians, consort to King Leopold II, dies at 66
- Sep 19 Masaoka Shiki, Japanese haiku & tanka poet and diarist (Salt Water Ballads), dies at 34
- Sep 23 John Wesley Powell, American geologist, explorer (Grand Canyon) and ethnologist, dies at 68
Levi Strauss (1829-1902)
Sep 26 German-born American clothing designer who founded the 1st company to manufacture blue jeans (Levi Strauss & Co.), dies at 73
Émile Zola (1840-1902)
Sep 28 French writer and critic (J'accuse), dies at 62
- Sep 29 William McGonagall, Scottish-Irish poet infamous as an extremely bad poet and considered the worst in British history (The Tay Bridge Disaster, The Famous Tay Whale), dies at 77
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