Famous Birthdays
- Sep 2 Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (Eros), born in Catania, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (d. 1922)
- Sep 3 Jacob Christian Fabricius, Danish composer, born in Aarhus, Denmark (d. 1919)
- Sep 9 Gentil Theodoor Antheunis, Flemish poet and songwriter, born in Oudenaarde, Belgium (d. 1907)
- Sep 14 George Elbridge Whiting, American composer, born in Holliston, Massachusetts (d. 1923)
- Sep 21 Murad V, 33rd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876), born in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire (d. 1904)
- Sep 26 Louis-Olivier Taillon, French Canadian politician, born in Terrebonne, Lower Canada (d. 1923)
- Sep 27 Alfred Thayer Mahan, American naval officer (Influence of Sea Power), born in West Point, New York (d. 1914)
Thomas Nast (1840-1902)
Sep 27 German-American caricaturist and political cartoonist of late 1800s America, born in Landau, Germany
- Sep 28 Rudolf Baumbach, German writer of student drinking songs, born in Kranichfeld, Germany (d. 1905)
- Sep 28 Sandie [Alexander Swift] Pendleton, American Lieutenant Colonel (Confederate Army), born in Alexandria, Virginia (d. 1864)
- Sep 30 Johan Svendsen, Norwegian composer, born in Christiania, Norway (d. 1911)
Famous Weddings
James Gordon Bennett
Sep 6 Publisher James Gordon Bennett (45) weds Henrietta Agnes Crean in NYC, New York
Robert Schumann & Clara Schumann
Sep 12 German pianist and composer Robert Schumann (30) marries German pianist and composer Clara Wieck (20), until his death in 1856
Famous Deaths
- Sep 8 John Hendricus van de Palm, Dutch linguist and theologist, dies at 77
- Sep 11 Johannes Hendricus van der Palm, Dutch theologist and Minister of Education, dies at 77
- Sep 15 Franz Pecháček, Austrian-German composer, dies at 47
- Sep 22 Anne Lister, English diarist 'the 1st modern lesbian', dies of a fever at 49
- Sep 22 Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom, 6th child and second daughter of King George III and Queen Charlotte, dies at 71
- Sep 25 Jacques Macdonald, Duc de Tarente, Scottish-French general under Napoleon, dies at 74
