- Sep 1 Clifford Leofric Purdy Bishop, Anglican pastor and bishop, dies at 88
- Sep 1 Pieter C "Piet" Author, sailor/corrector, dies at 71
- Sep 2 Harry Vincent Kemp, poet, dies at 82
- Sep 2 Mildred Mcafee Horton, US 1st head mistress of WAVES, dies
- Sep 2 Richard M Major, US anti-terror specialist (CIA Red Book), dies at 72
- Sep 3 Marijke Vetter, Dutch journalist, dies at 82
- Sep 3 Nikos Ghika, Greek artist, dies at 88
- Sep 3 Roswell Gilbert, who mercy killed his ailing wife, dies at 85
- Sep 4 Laurens van Deenen, Dutch biochemist, dies at 66
- Sep 5 Teddy Millington-Drake, English painter, dies at 62
- Sep 5 John Newman, Australian state politician (Labor), murdered at 47 by local club owner and political opponent Phuong Ngo who had run against Newman as an independent
- Sep 6 Duccio Tessari, Italian director, dies of cancer at 67
- Sep 6 Wolf Donner, Austrian movie historian/festival director, dies at 55
- Sep 7 Eric John Crozier, producer/librettist, dies at 79
- Sep 7 James Clavell, British-American author (The Asian Saga), dies at 69
- Sep 8 Deborah Bear, Engl still photographer (Pasolini/Fellini), dies at 44
- Sep 8 Michael Peters, choreographer, dies
- Sep 9 Keith Davis, voice Tutor/Author, dies at 85
- Sep 10 Amy Clampitt, American poet (Silence Opens), dies at 74
- Sep 11 Frederick R. Weisman, philanthropist, dies at 82
- Sep 11 Sara Taylor, mother of Elizabeth, dies at 62
- Sep 12 Boris Yegorov, Soviet physician and cosmonaut (Voskhod I), dies at 56
- Sep 12 Douglas MacKenzie Davey, psychometrist, dies at 72
- Sep 14 David van Cup, sculptor/painter, dies at 57
- Sep 15 Michael Joyce, Irish stage manager and theatre director, dies at 48
- Sep 16 Alain Bernardin, impresario of the Crazy Horse Saloon, dies at 78
- Sep 16 Albert de Courtray, French archbishop of Lyon/cardinal, dies at 71
- Sep 17 Henk Figee, author/publisher (Shoes of the Sea), dies at 46
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Sep 17 Karl Popper, philosopher (Poverty of Historianism), dies at 92
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- Sep 17 Paul Nicholas Young, architect, dies at 47
- Sep 18 Franco Moschino, Italian fashion designer, dies from AIDS complications at 44
- Sep 19 Sandra Fisher, American painter, dies at 47
- Sep 20 Davidson Nicol, Sierra Leonean diplomat and author, dies at 70
- Sep 21 Arthur Krim, American director (United Artists, Orion Pictures), dies
- Sep 21 Oswald "Ossie" Stevens Nock, railway Writer, dies at 69
- Sep 22 Forest 'Bud' Sagendorf, American cartoonist (Popeye), dies at 79
- Sep 22 Edward Shackleton, English explorer, geographer and Labour Party politician, dies at 83
- Sep 23 Alec Dickson, founder of VSO, dies at 80
- Sep 23 Ali Kouider Benyahia [sheik Boualem], Alg Muslim leader, shot at 26
- Sep 23 Cherif Gousmi [kalief Abu Abdallah Ahmed], Alger Muslim leader, shot
- Sep 23 Georgi, Tsar Nicholas II's brother, buried
- Sep 23 John van Damme, businessman, hanged in Singapore at 59
- Sep 23 Robert Bloch, American sci-fi author (Hugo, Psycho), dies of cancer at 77
- Sep 24 Colin Berry Haycraft, publisher, dies at 65
- Sep 24 David Napley, English solicitor, dies at 79
- Sep 24 Otto F. Walter, Swiss writer and publisher (Walter Verlag), dies of pulmonary cancer at 66
- Sep 25 John Richard Ravensdale, historian, dies at 73
- Sep 25 Ludwig Ferdinand von Hohenzollern, German Prince of Prussia, dies at 86
- Sep 25 Mark Alexander Abrams, English market Researcher, dies at 88
- Sep 25 Thomas Titus Nkobi, South African ANC-leader (Alexandra-bus boycott 1957), dies at 71
- Sep 26 Jessie Kesson, Scottish writer and radio producer, dies at 77
- Sep 26 Maurice Ashley, historian and editor (The Listener), dies at 87
- Sep 26 Miguel Angel Martinez Soto, mariachi, dies at 22
- Sep 27 Guiseppe Martelli, Italian physicist, dies at 71
- Sep 28 Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican PRI-politician, murdered at 48
- Sep 28 Lady Huxley [Marie Juliette Baillot], Swiss sculptor and author, dies at 96
- Sep 28 Warwick Hutton, artist, dies at 55
- Sep 29 Mehmet Topac, Turkish minister of Justice, murdered
- Sep 30 Alex Scott, trainer, Horses, dies at 34
- Sep 30 Andre Michel Lwoff, physiologist, dies at 92
- Sep 30 Roberto Viola, Argentine general/president (1981), dies at 69