Lillian Wald
Sep 1 Lillian Wald, American pioneering nurse and social activist who started American community nursing with the Henry Street Settlement in NYC, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 73
- Sep 3 Vilhelm Ekelund, Swedish poet and writer (Hafvets Stjorna), dies at 59
- Sep 7 Edmund Rumpler, Austria auto/airplane builder, dies
- Sep 10 Edward LeSaint, American actor and director (Modern Times, The Dumb Messenger), dies at 69
- Sep 15 Dick Ket, Dutch painter and cartoonist, dies at 37
- Sep 25 Marguerite Clark, American silent film actress (Snow White), dies at 57
- Sep 26 Walter Benjamin, writer, dies at 48
- Sep 26 William Henry Davies, Welsh poet (Autobiography of a Super Tramp), dies at 69
- Sep 27 Walter Benjamin, German/French literature critic/writer, dies at 48
- Sep 27 Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1857)
- Sep 30 Walter Kollo, German operetta and popular song composer, dies at 62