- Sep 1 Chick Harbert, American golfer (PGA C'ship 1954, Ryder Cup 1949, 55), dies of a cerebral haemorrhage at 77
- Sep 1 Morris Carnovsky, American actor (Dead Reckoning), dies at 94
- Sep 1 Piotr Jaroszewicz, Polish politician (Prime Minister, 1970-80), brutally murdered along with his wife, in a home invasion-burglary at 82
- Sep 2 Barbara McClintock, American cytogeneticist (1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovery of genetic transposition), dies at 90
- Sep 3 Johannes van Capel, oldest man in the Netherlands (Born 4/22/1884), dies
- Sep 4 John van Dreelen [Jacques T van Drielen Gimberg], actor (Topaz), dies
- Sep 5 Armen Carapetyan, Americn musicologist and composer, dies at 83
- Sep 5 Billy Herman, American Baseball HOF second baseman (10 x MLB All Star; Brooklyn Dodgers, Chicago Cubs), dies from cancer at 83
- Sep 5 Dorothy MacKaye, marital advisor (Ladies Home Journal), dies at 88
- Sep 5 Irving Allen Lee, American actor (Newspaper Boys), dies of AIDS at 43
- Sep 6 Pat Harder, American NFL fullback (Cardinals, Lions), dies at 70
- Sep 7 Henry Ephron, American screenwriter (Daddy Long Legs), dies at 81
- Sep 7 Indra Kamadjojo [Broekveld], Indon/Dutch dancer (Stille Kracht), dies
- Sep 7 Leo van der Kar, Dutch businessman (founder of Sports Fund), dies at 79
- Sep 8 Quentin Burdick, American politician (Senator-D-North Dakota 1960-91), dies at 84
- Sep 11 Erik Terpstra, Dutch director (Versier de leegte, De ander, Daniel), dies at 55
- Sep 11 Frank McKinney, American swimmer (Olympic gold 4x100m medley), dies in a mid-air collision between 2 aircraft at 53
- Sep 11 Frank Singuineau, Trinidadian actor (Firepower, Pressure, Mummy), dies at 79
- Sep 12 Ed Peck, American character actor (Zoot Suit; Bullitt; Happy Days - "Officer Kirk"), dies of a heart attack at 75
- Sep 12 Ruth Nelson, American stage and screen actress (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; 3 Women; Awakenings), dies at 87
- Sep 13 Lou Jacobs, US clown (1966 US postage stamp), dies at 89
- Sep 14 David Jones, actor, commits suicide (had terminal cancer) at 76
- Sep 14 Paul Joseph James Martin, Canadian politician, often called the 'Father of Medicare' as Minister of National Health and Welfare, dies at 89
- Sep 14 S A Banerjee, cricketer (1 Test for India 1948, no runs, 5 wkts), dies
- Sep 14 Theodore S. Weiss, American politician (Rep-D-NY, 1977-92), dies at 64
- Sep 15 Walter B Jones, American politician (Rep-D-NC, 1966-92), dies at 79
- Sep 16 Duke Robbins, entertainer, dies of pneumonia at 71
- Sep 16 Lee Tully, entertainer, dies
- Sep 16 Millicent Fenwick, American politician (Rep-R-NJ 1975-82), dies at 82
- Sep 17 Feodor Chaliapin Jr, actor (King's Whore), dies after illness at 87
- Sep 17 William A Swanberg, biographer (Henry Luce, Pulitzer 1973), dies at 84
- Sep 18 Earl Van Dyke, American jazz and session piano, Hammond B-3, and harpsichord player (Motown Records' Funk Brothers, 1964-72), dies of prostate cancer at 62
- Sep 18 Franz Schmid, German climber (1st to ascend northside of Matterhorn 1931), dies at 87
- Sep 18 Lona Andre [Launa Anderson], American actress (Death in the Air, Case of Baby Sitter), dies at 77
- Sep 19 Frederick Combs, American stage and screen actor (The Boys In The Band), playwright, and director, dies of AIDS at 56
- Sep 19 Jacques Pic, French restaurant owner (Maison Pic), dies of a heart attack at 59
- Sep 21 (Johan) "Hans" Rosenberg, Dutch astrophysicist, politician (Alderman of Utrecht, 1974-82), and administrator (University of Utrecht, 1984-91), dies of AIDS at 48
- Sep 21 Bill Williams [Herman Wilhelm Katt], American actor (The Adventures of Kit Carson; Date With the Angels), dies of a brain tumor at 77
- Sep 22 Aurelio López, Mexican baseball player (b. 1948)
- Sep 23 Bernice Gera, American 1st female baseball umpire (1969 NY-Penn League), dies of cancer at 61
- Sep 23 Glendon Swarthout, American novelist (Where The Boys Are; The Shootist), dies of emphysema at 74
- Sep 23 James Van Fleet, American US Army General (served during WWI, WWII, and Korean War), dies at 100
- Sep 23 Martin Arsenault, actor (Guilty by Suspicion), dies of an ulcer
- Sep 23 Paul E Garber, American founder/1st curator of National Air & Space Museum, dies at 93
- Sep 26 Ralph Manheim, Jewish-American translator (Mein Kampf), dies at 85
- Sep 27 Keith Prentice, American actor (Boys in the Band), dies of cancer at 52
- Sep 27 Ray Gill, American actor (Prelude to a Kiss), dies of AIDS at 42
- Sep 27 Wim Van Exter, founder Unity Profession Central (1944), dies
- Sep 28 John Leech, British mathematician, dies at 66
- Sep 28 William Douglas-Home, British playwright (Now .. Barabbas), dies at 80
- Sep 29 Paul Jabara, American singer-songwriter and actor (Last Dance), dies of AIDS at 44
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