- Sep 1 Jimi Jamison, American rock singer (Survivor, 1984-89, 2000-06, 2011-14 - "High On You"), dies of a stroke at 63
- Sep 1 Joseph Shivers, American chemist and inventor of Spandex, dies at 93 [1]
- Sep 2 Norman Gordon, South African cricket fast bowler (5 Tests, 20 wickets; Transvaal), dies at 103
- Sep 4 Donatas Banionis, Lithuanian actor (Solaris, Goya or the Hard Way to Enlightenment), dies at 90
- Sep 4 Gustavo Cerati, Argentinian rock singer-songwriter (Soda Stereo), dies of cardiac arrest after 4 years in a coma at 55
Joan Rivers (1933-2014)
Sep 4 American comedian and actress (Late Show, Hollywood Squares), dies at 81 after serious complications from a procedure on her vocal cords
- Sep 4 Wolfhart Pannenberg, German theologist (Gingham Girl), dies at 85
- Sep 4 Włodzimierz Kotoński, Polish composer, dies at 89
- Sep 8 Gerald Wilson, American jazz trumpeter, arranger (Jimmie Lunceford; Duke Ellington), orchestra leader, and teacher dies at 96
- Sep 8 Magda Olivero, Italian soprano (Adriana Lecouvreur; La Voix Humaine), dies at 104
- Sep 8 S. Truett Cathy, American businessman (founder of Chick-fil-A), dies at 93
- Sep 9 Antonín Tučapský, Czech composer, teacher, and choral conductor, dies at 86
- Sep 9 Denny Miller, American actor, dies from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at 80
- Sep 9 Robert 'Trob' Young, Scottish musician (Primal Scream), found dead at 49
- Sep 10 Oldřich František Korte, Czech pianist, composer, and writer, dies at 88
- Sep 10 Richard Kiel, American actor, dies from a heart attack at 74
- Sep 11 Antoine Duhamel, French composer, dies at 89
- Sep 11 Bob Crewe, American songwriter and producer ("Big Girls Don't Cry"), dies at 83
- Sep 12 Donald Sinden, English actor, dies from prostate cancer at 90
Ian Paisley (1926-2014)
Sep 12 First Minister of Northern Ireland (Democratic Unionist Party: 2007-08), loyalist politician and Protestant religious leader, dies at 88
- Sep 12 Joe Sample, American jazz and session keyboardist and composer (The Jazz Crusaders), dies of mesothelioma at 75
- Sep 12 Salah El Mahdi, Tunisian composer, conductor, musicologist, and artistic director, dies at 89
- Sep 15 Nicholas Romanov, French-born pretender to the Russian throne, dies at 91
- Sep 15 Timothy Mace, British cosmonaut, dies of cancer at 58
- Sep 17 China Zorrilla, Uruguayan actress, filmmaker and writer, dies at 92
- Sep 17 George Hamilton IV, American country musician, dies from complications from a heart attack at 77
- Sep 19 Francisco Feliciano, Filipino conductor and composer (Pokpok Alimpako), dies at 73
- Sep 20 Polly Bergen [Nellie Burgin], American actress, singer, television host, and writer (Winds of War - "Rhoda"; The Helen Morgan Story), dies of natural causes at 84
- Sep 20 Rob Bironas, American football placekicker (First-team All-Pro, Pro Bowl, PFW Golden Toe Award 2007; Tennessee Titans), dies in a car crash at 36
- Sep 22 Edward Anson, Australian British Royal Navy pilot (Korean War), officer (Vice Admiral), and ship captain (HMS Ark Royal), dies at 85
- Sep 24 Deborah "Debs" Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire and the Chatsworth estate, one of the Mitford sisters, dies at 94
- Sep 24 Stephen Sykes, Church of England bishop, dies at 75
- Sep 25 Dorothy Tyler-Odam, British athlete (Olympic silver high jump 1936, 48; WR 1.66m 1939), dies at 94
- Sep 27 Anna Davies, Italian philologist and Professor of Comparative Philology (Oxford U), dies at 77
- Sep 27 James A Traficant Jr, American politician, dies at 73
- Sep 28 Dannie Abse, Welsh writer and poet, dies at 91
- Sep 29 Dan Goossen, American boxing promoter (Michael Nunn, Terry Norris, James Toney), dies of liver cancer at 64
- Sep 30 Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist (1995 Nobel Prize for Physics for discovery of the tau lepton particle), dies from a heart attack at 87
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