Chief Joseph (1840-1904)
Sep 21 Nez Perce leader who tried to led his people to Canada (Nez Perce War), dies of a supposed broken heart on an Indian reservation unable to return to his native Wallowa Valley at 64 [1]
- Sep 24 Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician and phototherapist (Nobel 1903), dies at 43
- Sep 26 John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman and statesman (b. 1848)
- Sep 26 Lafcadio Hearn, American author (Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan), dies at 54
- Sep 30 Sigurd Lie, Norwegian composer and conductor, dies of tuberculosis at 33
Assassination
Car Crash
Hanging
Killed in Action
Plane Crash
Poisoning