- Sep 1 Eugen Malmstén, Finnish jazz trumpeter, singer, bandleader, and songwriter, dies at 86
- Sep 1 Gerben Wagenaar, Dutch resistance fighter and communist, dies at 80
- Sep 1 Hew Lorimer, British sculptor, dies at 86
- Sep 1 Jacqueline Wijchers, film publicist (Havenloods, Sextant), dies at 89
- Sep 1 Neon Park [Martin Muller], American illustrator of album covers (Little Feat; Frank Zappa), dies of ALS at 52
- Sep 2 Eric Berry, English/American actor (Pippin, 49th Parallel), dies at 80
- Sep 2 John [Eoin] Higgins, Northern Ireland supreme court justice (1984-93), dies at 66
- Sep 3 David Brown, English industrialist (owned and developed David Brown Tractors, Aston Martin and Lagonda), dies at 89
- Sep 3 Leon Liebgold, Polish American actor/chairman (Hebrew Actors Union), dies at 83
- Sep 4 Clyde Adler, American writer and voice actor (Soupy Sales Show - "White Fang"; "Black Tooth"), dies at 67
- Sep 4 Hervé Villechaize, French-American actor (Fantasy Island - Ze plane! Ze plane!), shoots self to death at 50
- Sep 4 Mehmet Sincar, Turkish/Kurd MP, murdered
- Sep 5 Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (Spy Who Loved Me), dies at 78
- Sep 5 John Truscott, Australian set designer (Camelot), dies at 57
- Sep 5 Mohamed Tabet, Moroccan police commissar of Casablanca, convicted of sexually abusing over 1,500 women, executed at 54
- Sep 5 René Klijn, Dutch singer (Mr Blue), dies of AIDS at 30)
- Sep 5 Willem Wagter, actor (Ghetto, Medic Center West), dies at 60
- Sep 6 Josephine Rich Corday, American vaudevillian, dies of kidney failure at 79
- Sep 7 Guy Overton, New Zealand cricket fast bowler (3 Tests, 9 wickets), dies at 74
- Sep 7 Lefty Dizz [Walter Williams], American Chicago-style blues guitarist and singer, dies of esophageal cancer at 56
- Sep 8 Hall Bartlett, American director (Jonathan Livingston Seagull), dies at 70
- Sep 8 Lorrin "Whitey" Harrison, American surfer, dies of a heart attack at 80
- Sep 8 Zaki Naguib Mahmoud, Egyptian philosopher, author and diplomat, dies at 88
- Sep 9 David Tendlar, American animator (Betty Boop), dies at 84
- Sep 9 Helen O'Connell, American big-band singer (Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra - "Green Eyes"; "Anapola"), and TV host (Today Show, 1956-58), dies of cancer at 74
- Sep 10 Janice Carroll, American actress (End, April Fools), dies of cancer at 61
- Sep 10 Rita Karin, Polish-Latvia/American actress (Sophie's Choice), dies at 73
- Sep 10 Stuart Rose, British designer (British Post Office), dies at 81
- Sep 11 Antoine Izmery, Haitian businessman and advisor to President Aristide, murdered by paramilitaries
- Sep 11 Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian-born American conductor, dies at 81
- Sep 11 Luis Antonio Escobar, Colombian composer and musicologist, dies at 68
- Sep 12 Charles Lamont, American actor and director (Abbott & Costello films), dies at 95
- Sep 12 Harold Innocent, English actor (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves), dies at 60
- Sep 12 Herman Nieland, Dutch organist, pianist, composer (Te Deum Laudamus; Blätterlos), and educator, dies at 82
- Sep 12 Raymond Burr, Canadian-American actor (Perry Mason, Ironsides, Godzilla), dies of liver cancer at 76
- Sep 14 Peter Tranchell, British composer, dies at 71
- Sep 15 (Nii Moi) "Speedy" Acquaye, Ghanaian drummer, percussionist and fire-eater (Tubby Hayes; Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames; Ginger Baker's Airforce), dies of cancer at 62
- Sep 15 Ethan Allen, American baseball center fielder (inventor Cadaco-Ellis board game All Star Baseball; Yale University), dies at 89
- Sep 15 Frits Noske, Dutch musicologist (Tie Musikwerk), dies at 72
- Sep 15 Herman Meyer, Germanist (Deutsche Dichtung), dies at 82
- Sep 16 Johanna Zandstra-Giezen, Dutch supercentenarian (oldest person in Netherland), dies at 111 years and 9 days
- Sep 16 Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australian Aboriginal political activist and writer (We Are Going), dies at 72
- Sep 16 Willie Mosconi, American pool player (World C'ship pocket billiards 1941-57), dies of a heart attack at 80
- Sep 17 Christian Nyby, American director (Big Sleep, Thing), dies at 80
- Sep 17 James Griffith, American actor (Sheriff of Cochise), dies at 77
- Sep 19 András Mihály, Hungarian composer, dies at 75
- Sep 19 Bruce Ferden, American conductor (NY, Washington, Amsterdam), dies at 44
- Sep 19 Richard Landau, American screenwriter (Back to Bataan), dies at 79
- Sep 20 Erich Hartmann, German WW II pilot (downed 352 Russian aircraft), dies at 71
- Sep 20 Leonard Parkin, British TV host (ITN), dies at 64
- Sep 20 Loan Volkerijk, Dutch baseball coach (ADO), dies at 65
- Sep 21 Fernand Ledoux, Belgian-French actor (L'Homme de Londres), dies at 96
- Sep 21 Kamaran Abdalla, Iraqi-English-Dutch actor (Best Thing in Life), dies at 34
- Sep 22 Margaret MacDonald 'Bobo', Scot-born maid to Queen Elizabeth II, dies at 89
- Sep 23 William Cort, actor/producer (Ghost, Dear Heart), dies of cancer at 53
- Sep 24 Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian nuclear physicist, dies at 80
- Sep 24 Ian Stuart Donaldson, British punk rocker (Screwdriver), dies in a car crash at 36
- Sep 24 Margot Turner, British nurse and nursing administrator (whose account as a prisoner-of-war in Japanese camp inspired TV series "Tenko"), dies at 83
- Sep 24 Zita Johann, Hungarian/American actress (Mummy), dies at 89
- Sep 26 James Boyden, British Labour MP (1959-79), dies at 82
- Sep 26 John Pennel, American athlete (pole vault WR 5.13m, 5.20m 1963; 5.34m 1966; 5.44m 1969), dies from stomach and liver cancer at 53
- Sep 26 Owen Aisher, English businessman and president (Royal Yachting Association 1970-75), dies at 93
- Sep 27 Andrei Solovyiov, Russian photographer, dies in battle at 38
Jimmy Doolittle (1896-1993)
Sep 27 American air force general who conducted the raid on Tokyo in 1942, dies at 96
- Sep 28 Alexander A. Drabik, American soldier (b. 1910)
- Sep 28 Fraser MacPherson, Canadian jazz saxophonist (b. 1928)
- Sep 28 Gustavo Brillembourg, Venezuelan-American tax corporate lawyer, dies in a climbing accident at 35
- Sep 28 Peter De Vries, American author (Reuben, Reuben; The Prick of Noon) and editor (New Yorker), dies at 83
- Sep 29 Ghuslam Wyne, Pakistani politician, Chief Minister of Punjab, murdered at 60
- Sep 29 Gordon Douglas [Brickner], American film director (Our Gang; Laurel and Hardy; Young At Heart; Way...Way Out; Tony Rome; They Call Me Mister Tibbs!), dies of cancer at 85
- Sep 30 Alex Lyon, British politician (Labor Lower house leader, 1966-83), dies at 61
- Sep 30 Paul Nowee, Dutch writer of children's and youth books. (Arendsoog.. premiejager), dies at 57
- Sep 30 Ronnie Aldrich, British easy listening and jazz pianist, arranger, and composer, dies of prostate cancer at 77
- Sep 30 Tony Brafa, American actor (The Naked Gun - "Enrico Pallazzo"), dies at 72
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