- Sep 3 Eduard van Beinum, Dutch musician and conductor, born in Arnhem, Netherlands (d. 1959)
- Sep 5 Mieczyslaw Kolinski, Polish composer, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1981)
- Sep 12 Ernst Pepping, German composer, born in Duisburg, Germany (d. 1981)
- Sep 20 Leo Justinus Kauffmann, Alsatian composer, born in Dannemarie, France (d. 1944)
About September 1901
How Old? 119 years old
Generation: Greatest Generation
Leap Year: No