- Sep 4 Gerald Wilson, American jazz trumpeter, arranger (Jimmie Lunceford; Duke Ellington), orchestra leader, and teacher, born in Shelby, Mississippi (d. 2014)
- Sep 13 Ray Charles, American orchestra leader (Perry Como), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2015)
- Sep 14 Cachao [Israel López], Cuban double-bassist, and composer (co-inventor of 'mambo' with his brother, Orestes López), born in Havana, Cuba (d. 2008)
- Sep 22 (Archibald James) "A.J." Potter, Irish composer (Finnegan's Wake), born in Belfast, Ireland (d. 1980)
- Sep 22 Henryk Szeryng, Polish-Mexican violinist (Brahms Concerto), born in Zelazowa Wola, Poland (d. 1988)
- Sep 29 Harold Laurence Walters, American composer, born in Gurdon, Arkansas (d. 1984)
About September 1918
How Old? 105 years old
Generation: Greatest Generation
Leap Year: No
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