- 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 explorer (Curacao)
- Sep 23 Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ivanov, composer
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)
Ivan Pavlov