- Sep 19 Hartley Coleridge, English poet, born in Kingsdown, Bristol, England (d. 1849)
- Sep 20 Franz Wilhelm Ferling, German oboist and composer (48 études for oboe), born in Halberstadt, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1874)
- Sep 22 Cornelius Stribling, American Naval Commander (Mexican war, Civil War), born in Pendleton, South Carolina (d. 1880)
- Sep 25 Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor, born in Paris (d. 1875)
- Sep 28 David Walker, African-American abolitionist (Appeal to Colored Citizens), born in Wilmington, North Carolina (d. 1830)