- Sep 10 Pete Browning, American baseball outfielder (AA batting champion 1882, 85 Louisville Eclipse/Colonels; Player's League batting champion 1890 Cleveland Infants), dies of asthenia at 44
- Sep 11 John Ware, American-Canadian black rancher and cowboy, dies after an accident at 55 [1]
- Sep 13 René Goblet, French politician (41st Prime Minister of France), dies at 76
Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (1852-1905)
Sep 14 Italian-French explorer of the Congo (Brazzaville named after him), dies at 53
- Sep 18 George MacDonald, Scottish poet and sci-fi author (Princess & Curdie), dies at 80
- Sep 19 Thomas John Barnardo, Irish-born British social worker, and philanthropist (established Barnardo homes for children), dies at 60
- Sep 20 Vjenceslav Novak, Croatian Realist writer (Pavao Šegota), dies at 46
- Sep 20 Walter Cecil Macfarren, British pianist, teacher (Royal Academy, 1846-1903), conductor, and composer, dies at 79
- Sep 21 Rudolf Baumbach, German writer of student drinking songs, dies at 64
- Sep 25 Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (b. 1853)
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