Events in Music
Film Release
Sep 4 "Swing Time", directed by George Stevens, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, is released
Fred Astaire
Ginger Rogers
Birthdays in Music
Buddy Holly
Sep 7 Buddy Holly [Charles Holley], American musician (Peggy Sue, That'll Be the Day), born in Lubbock, Texas (d. 1959)
Buddy Holly
- Sep 7 Romualds Kalsons, Latvian composer, born in Riga, Latvia
- Sep 9 Augustinus Franz Kropfreiter, Austrian organist and composer, born in Hargelsberg, Austria (d. 2003)
- Sep 19 [Charles Eugene] Gene Dinwiddie, American blues saxophonist (Paul Butterfield Blues Band), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 2002)
- Sep 21 Dickey Lee, American singer and songwriter (Patches), born in Memphis, Tennessee
- Sep 21 James "Sunny" Murray, American jazz musician and drummer, born in Idabel, Oklahoma (d. 2017)
- Sep 25 Juliet Prowse, actress and dancer (Who Killed Teddy Bear), born in Mumbai, India (d. 1996)
- Sep 25 Booba [Roosevelt Melvin] Barnes, American blues guitarist, born in Longwood, Washington County, Mississippi (d. 1996)