- Sep 3 Joseph Lamb, American ragtime pianist and composer ("Bohemia Rag"), dies of a heart attack at 72 [1] [2]
- Sep 4 Alfred E. Green, American film director (Copacabana, The Jolson Story), dies after long illness at 71
- Sep 6 Jimmy Savo, American comedian (Through the Crystal Ball), dies at 65
- Sep 7 Wilhelm Pieck, German politician (co-founder German Communist Party, President of German DR 1949-60), dies at 84
- Sep 9 Armas Maasalo, Finnish composer, organist (St. John's Lutheran Church, 1926-58), and pedagogue (Helsinki Church Music Institute, 1914-51), dies at 75
- Sep 9 Jussi Björling, Swedish operatic tenor, dies from cardiomegaly (enlarged heart) complications at 49
- Sep 10 Fjodor Panfjorov, Russian author (Volga - matushka-reka), dies at 63
Harold Gillies (1882-1960)
Sep 10 New Zealand father of modern plastic surgery who pioneered skin graft techniques on injured soldiers in WWI, dies at 78 of a slight cerebral thrombosis gained while operating on the leg of an 18-year-old girl [1]
- Sep 12 Jules Buffano, American composer and pianist (Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 62
- Sep 13 Leó Weiner, Hungarian composer (Toldi), and music educator (Budapest Academy of Music, 1912-60), dies at 75
- Sep 14 M. Karagatsis, Greek author (b. 1908)
- Sep 16 José Sancho Marraco, Spanish composer, organist and chapel master (Cathedral of Barcelona, 1923-57, dies at 81
- Sep 18 John Evans, English cricket batsman (1 Test) and author ('The Escaping Club'), dies at 71
- Sep 20 Lee Duncan, American owner and trainer film dog Rin Tin Tin, dies of a heart attack at 67
- Sep 20 Michel Brusselmans, Belgian composer, dies at 74
- Sep 22 Melanie Klein, Austrian-British author and child psychoanalyst (object relations theory), dies at 78
- Sep 23 Kathlyn Williams, actress (Single Man), dies of a heart attack at 72
- Sep 24 Mátyás Seiber, Hungarian-British classical and jazz composer (Scherzando), dies at 55
- Sep 25 Emily Post, American authority on social behaviour and writer (Etiquette), dies at 86
- Sep 26 William Ling, South African cricketer (batsman in 6 Tests 1921-23), dies at 68
- Sep 27 Sylvia Pankhurst, English feminist and suffragette, dies at 78
- Sep 29 Franz Arnold, German writer, dies at 82
- Sep 30 St John Philby, British explorer and Arabist, dies at 75
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