- Sep 2 Walter Cecil Macfarren, English pianist and composer, dies at 79
- Sep 10 Pete Browning, American baseball player, dies at 44
- Sep 13 René Goblet, French politician (41st Prime Minister of France), dies at 76
- Sep 14 Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Italian-French explorer of the Congo (Brazzaville named after him), dies at 53
- Sep 18 George MacDonald, Scottish poet and sci-fi author (Princess & Curdie), dies at 80
- Sep 19 Thomas John Barnardo, British social worker, dies at 60
- Sep 20 Vjenceslav Novak, Croatian Realist writer (Pavao Šegota), dies at 46
- Sep 21 Rudolf Baumbach, German writer of student drinking songs, dies at 64
- Sep 25 Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (b. 1853)