- Sep 1 Sydney Dawson Bailey, pacifist/campaigner
- Sep 4 Robert [Augustine] W[ard] Lowndes, American sci-fi author (Puzzle Planet)
- Sep 5 Frank Yerby, American novelist (The Foxes of Harrow), born in Augusta, Georgia (d. 1991)
- Sep 6 Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, English landowner
- Sep 10 Niall MacDermott, lawyer/politician
Roald Dahl
Sep 13 Roald Dahl, British author (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG), born in Cardiff, Wales (d. 1990)
Roald Dahl
- Sep 14 Eric Bentley, England, critic/writer (In Search of Theater)
- Sep 16 Lord Ryder of Eaton hastings, CEO (Intl Publishing House)
- Sep 16 Willem Noordhoek, photographer
- Sep 16 Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian labour leader (d. 1999)
- Sep 16 Julius B. Richmond, 12th US Surgeon General (1977-81) created Head Start program, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2008)
- Sep 17 Mary Stewart, British sci-fi author (Crystal Cave), born in Sunderland, England (d. 2014)
- Sep 17 Ove J Abildgaard, Danish poet (Uglegylp)
- Sep 17 Oswald Garrison Villard Jr., American Engineer (electronics) who invented the over-the-horizon radar that could detect objects thousands of miles away and peer around the Earth's curvature, born in Dobbs Ferry, New York
- Sep 18 John J Rhodes, (Rep-R-Az)
- Sep 18 Frank Bell, British educator (d. 1989)
- Sep 21 Jagernath Lachmon, premier Suriname
- Sep 21 Françoise Giroud, French journalist and politician (d. 2003)
