- Sep 6 Pier Pander, Dutch sculptor, dies at 55
- Sep 12 Leonid Andreyev, Russian journalist and writer (Red Laugh, Seven Hangs), dies at 48
- Sep 24 Frank Laver, Australian cricket medium pace bowler (15 Tests, 37 wickets, BB 8/31) and baseball player (first Australian national team), dies of a cerebral haemorrhage at 49
- Sep 25 Charles Lang Freer, American industrialist and art collector; endowed Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art, dies at 65
- Sep 27 Adelina Patti, Italian soprano (Lucio), dies at 76