- Sep 1 Elizabeth Harrison, American educator (National Congress of Parents & Teachers)
- Sep 3 Sarah Orne Jewett, American author (Country of the Pointed Firs), born in South Berwick, Maine (d. 1909)
- Sep 17 Vaclav Juda Novotny, Czech composer and music critic, born in Vesce (d. 1922)
- Sep 21 Edmund Gosse, English poet, author (Father & Son) and critic, born in London (d. 1928)
- Sep 21 Maurice Barrymore [Herbert Blythe], Indian-born British actor and patriarch of the Barrymore family, born in Fort Agra, India (d. 1905)
- Sep 22 John Godden, English miner (Klein Curacao)
- Sep 23 Mikhail Ivanov, Russian composer, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1927)
Ivan Pavlov
Sep 26 Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist and pioneer in psychology (Nobel Prize 1904), born in Ryazan, Russia [O.S. September 14] (d. 1936)
