- Sep 1 Wakanohana Kanji I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 45th Yokozuna (b. 1928)
- Sep 3 Robert Schimmel, American stand-up comedian, dies after a car accident at 60
- Sep 3 Mike Edwards [Swami Deva Pramada], English musician (ELO), killed by a rolling hay bale at 62
- Sep 3 Cyril Smith, British Liberal Member of Parliament and alleged serial sex offender, dies at 82
- Sep 4 Paul Conrad, American cartoonist (Pulitzer 1964, 71, 84), dies at 86
- Sep 5 Shoya Tomizawa Japanese MotoGP Racer (b. 1990)
- Sep 7 Amar Garibović, Serbian Cross Country Skier (b. 1991)
- Sep 7 Barbara Holland, American writer (b. 1933)
- Sep 7 John Kluge, American television mogul (Metromedia) and at one time the richest person in the United States, dies at 95
- Sep 7 Glenn Shadix, American Actor (b. 1952)
- Sep 8 Rich Cronin, American singer-songwriter (Lyte Funkie Ones) dies of cancer aged 36
- Sep 10 Edwin Charles Tubb, British sci-fi writer (Earth is Heaven, Earthfall), dies at 90
- Sep 11 Kevin McCarthy, American actor (Invasion of Body Snatchers, Death of a Salesman), dies of pneumonia at 96
- Sep 11 Harold Gould, American character actor (The Sting, The Golden Girls, Rhoda, Big Bus), dies at 86
- Sep 12 Claude Chabrol, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1930)
- Sep 12 Giulio Zignoli, Italian footballer (b. 1946)
- Sep 15 Arrow, Montserratian soca musician (b. 1949)
- Sep 20 Kenny McKinley, American football player (b. 1987)
- Sep 20 Leonard Skinner, American high school gym teacher; namesake of rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd (b. 1933)
- Sep 22 Eddie Fisher, American singer (b. 1928)
- Sep 23 Malcolm Douglas, Australian conservationist (b. 1941)
- Sep 23 Teresa Lewis, American murderer (b. 1969)
- Sep 23 Bob Shaw, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox), dies at 77
- Sep 24 Gennady Yanayev, Soviet politician (b. 1937)
- Sep 25 Art Gilmore, American actor (b. 1912)
Gloria Stuart
Sep 26 Gloria Stuart, American actress dies from respiratory failure at 100
Gloria Stuart
Tony Curtis
Sep 29 Tony Curtis [Bernard Schwartz], American actor (Some Like It Hot), dies at 85
Tony Curtis
- Sep 29 Greg Giraldo, American comedian (Comedy Central Roast) (b.1965)
- Sep 29 Georges Charpak, Polish-French physicist who invented and developed subatomic particle detectors (Nobel 1992), dies at 86
- Sep 30 Stephen J. Cannell, American TV producer (The Rockford Files, The A-Team, 21 Jump Street) and writer, dies of melanoma at 69
- Sep 30 Patrick Holmes Sellors, British ophthalmologist, dies at 76