Events in Music
- Sep 11 Stravinsky's opera "Rake's Progress," premieres in Venice
- Sep 15 "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" closes at Ziegfeld NYC after 740 performances
- Sep 17 "Borscht Capades" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 90 performances
Birthdays in Music
Chrissie Hynde
Sep 7 Chrissie Hynde, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Pretenders - "Brass In Pocket"), born in Akron, Ohio
Chrissie Hynde
- Sep 7 Morris Albert [Maurício Alberto Kaisermann], Brazilian singer (Feelings), born in São Paulo, Brazil
- Sep 7 Mark Isham, American musician and film composer (The Hitcher), born in NYC, New York
- Sep 8 Nikos Karvelas, Greek composer and songwriter, born in Piraeus, Attica, Greece
- Sep 9 Corry Konings, Dutch singer (Crying Is Too Late For You) and actress, born in Breda, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
- Sep 9 Tom Wopat, American actor (The Dukes of Hazzard; One Life to Live) and singer (Consider It Swung), born in Lodi, Wisconsin,
- Sep 10 Peter Tolson, English rock guitarist (Pretty Things), born in Bishop Stortford, Hertfordshire (d. 2016)
- Sep 18 Dee Dee Ramone [Douglas Colvin], rock bassist (Ramones), born in Fort Lee, Virginia (d. 2002)
- Sep 19 Daniel Lanois, Canadian record producer, born in Hull, Quebec, Canada
- Sep 21 Henk Hofstede, Dutch singer-songwriter, guitarist, and keyboardist (Nits), born in Amsterdam, Holland
- Sep 25 Burleigh Drummond, American rocker (Ambrosia), born in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
- Sep 26 Stuart Tosh, Scottish musician (The Alan Parsons Project), born in Aberdeen, Scotland
- Sep 27 Michel Rivard, Québécois singer and composer (Beau Dommage)
Deaths in Music
- Sep 3 Robert Hernried, Austrian born American composer and conductor, dies at 67
- Sep 9 Cecil Gray, Scottish composer and music critic, dies at 56
- Sep 9 Gibson Gowland, British actor (Greed, Blind Husbands, The Phantom of the Opera), dies at 74
- Sep 10 Giuseppe Mulè, Italian composer, dies at 66
- Sep 14 Fritz Busch, German conductor, dies at 61
- Sep 15 Jacinto Guerrero, Spanish musician and composer, dies at 56
- Sep 17 Jimmy Yancey, American pianist (b. 1898)