- Sep 1 Elise Hoomans, Dutch director and actress (Jane Eyre, Barocco), dies at 76
- Sep 1 Mark Robinson, British actor (The Girl), dies at 30
- Sep 1 Steve Kemp, British light enterpeneur, dies
- Sep 2 Alfonso Garcia Robles, Mexican foreign minister (Nobel 1982), dies
- Sep 2 Concetto Lo Bello, Italian intl soccer judge, dies
Frank Capra (1897-1991)
Sep 3 Italian-AmericanAcademy Award-winning film director (It's a Wonderful Life; It Happened One Nigh; Mr. Smith Goes to Washington), dies at 94
- Sep 4 Charlie Barnet, saxophonist (Cherokee), dies of pneumonia at 77
- Sep 4 Dottie West [Dorothy Marsh], American country singer ("Here Comes My Baby"; with Kenny Rogers - "What Are We Doin' in Love"), dies from internal injuries sustained in a car crash at 58
- Sep 4 Henri de Lubac, French Jesuit cardinal and theologist of the "new theology” movement that influenced the Second Vatican Council, dies at 95
- Sep 4 Margaret Ramsay, vocalist, dies
- Sep 4 Tom Tryon, American actor (The Cardinal, All That Glitters, The Longest Day) and novelist (The Other), dies of stomach cancer at 65
- Sep 6 Bob Goldham, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1922)
- Sep 6 Donald Henry "Pee Wee" Gaskins, American serial killer (claimed to have murdered over 100 people), executed in the electric chair at 58
- Sep 7 Archie Menzies, English playwright and composer (Under Your Hat), dies at 87
- Sep 7 Ben Piazza, American actor (Santa Barbara; The Blues Brothers; Dallas), dies of cancer at 58
- Sep 7 John Crosby, American columnist and detective writer dies at 79
- Sep 7 John H. Lawrence, American physician (nuclear medicine pioneer), dies at 87
- Sep 8 Alex North [Isadore Soifer], American composer (Spartacus, Viva Zapata), dies of cancer at 80 [1]
- Sep 8 Brad Davis, American actor (Midnight Express, Chariots of Fire), dies at 41
- Sep 8 Jan Józef Lipski, Polish historian and anti-communist dissident (Polish Socialist Party), dies at 65
- Sep 9 Edwin M. McMillan, American physicist and discoverer of plutonium (Nobel 1951), dies at 83
- Sep 9 Joop Zwart, Dutch political activist and resistance fighter, dies at 78
- Sep 9 Paul Michael Lombardi, American actor (The Fisher King), dies of AIDS at 31
- Sep 10 Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (6 Grand Slam singles titles), dies at 83
- Sep 11 Ernst Herbeck, German Poet, dies at 70
- Sep 12 Regis Toomey, American actor (Burke's Law, Petticoat Junction), dies at 93
- Sep 13 Ferry Barendse, Dutch trumpeter, composer, and singer (Ramblers), dies at 80
- Sep 13 Joe Pasternak, Hungarian-American film producer (Spinout, Big City), dies of Parkinson's at 73
- Sep 13 Metin Oktay, Turkish football player (b. 1936)
- Sep 13 Paul Thompson, Canadian ice hockey forward (1926-39), won 3 Stanley Cups (1928 with NY Rangers, 1934 and 1938 with Chicago Black Hawks), and Black Hawks coach (1938-45), dies at 84
- Sep 14 Julie Bovasso, American actress (Willie & Phil, Just Me & You), dies of cancer at 61
- Sep 14 Russell Lynes, American art historian and magazine editor (b. 1910)
- Sep 15 Andre Baruch, Radio/TV announcer dies at 83
- Sep 15 John Hoyt [Hoysradt], American stage and screen actor (Mercury theatre; Gimme a Break!; Tom, Dick & Mary), and comedian, dies of lung cancer at 85
- Sep 15 Sulkhan Tsintsadze, Georgian composer, dies at 66
- Sep 16 Carol White, actress (Prehistoric Women, Dulcima), dies at 47
- Sep 17 John Thomas, American co-inventor of fiberglass, dies at 83 [1]
- Sep 17 René-Charles "Zino" Francescatti, French concert violinist (NY Philharmonic-1939), dies at 89
- Sep 18 Rob Tyner [Robert Derminer], American hard rock singer (MC5 - Kick Out The Jams), dies of a heart attack at 46
- Sep 21 Angelo Rossitto, American dwarf actor (known as "Little Moe", Carousel), dies at 83
- Sep 22 Pandit Rambharos Gangaram Panday, Suriname religious leader, dies at 91
- Sep 22 Reynold Abel Dorris, American Sioux Indian (subject of book "Broken Cord"), dies at 23 after being struck by a car
- Sep 23 Ernestine McClendon, director/actress (Homer & Eddie), dies
- Sep 23 Patrick Hamilton, English author and playwright (Gas Light, Rope, Angel Street), dies at 58
Dr. Seuss (1904-1991)
Sep 24 American children's author (The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham), dies of cancer at 87
- Sep 24 Mary Lawrence, actress (Best Man), dies of respiratory failure at 73
- Sep 24 Peter Bellamy, English folk singer, commits suicide at 47
Klaus Barbie (1913-1991)
Sep 25 German Gestapo chief (Butcher of Lyon), dies of cancer at 77
- Sep 25 Lydia Cabrera, Cuban anthropologist and ethnographer of Cuban folklore and Afro-Cuban culture, dies at 92 [1]
- Sep 25 Max Koot, Dutch royal photographer, dies at 74
- Sep 25 Viviane Romance [Pauline Ronacher Ortmanns], French actress (Panic, Queen's Necklace), dies at 79
- Sep 26 Billy Vaughn, American singer, saxophonist, and bandleader ("Sail Along Sil'vry Moon"), dies of stomach cancer at 72
- Sep 27 Huib Orizand, Dutch actor (Paul Vlanderen), dies
- Sep 27 Jan Hart, director (Friends of Curacao), dies
- Sep 27 Oona Chaplin, daughter of Eugene O'Neill and wife of Charlie Chaplin, dies at 66
- Sep 27 Roy Fuller, English poet and novelist (Lost Season), dies at 79
Miles Davis (1926-1991)
Sep 28 American jazz musician, trumpeter and composer (Kinda Blue; Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet; Sketches of Spain), dies of pneumonia at 65
- Sep 29 Sam Ntuli, South African trade unionist and anti-apartheid activist, assassinated
- Sep 29 Zapata Jaw [Nelson Renfrum], Surinamese jazz musician, dies
- Sep 30 Frank Ervin, American harness racer (Hambletonian 1959, 66), dies at 87
- Sep 30 Nancy Welford, British-born American actress (Gold Diggers of Broadway), dies at 87
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