Historical Events
- Sep 5 Southern blacks led by Pap Singleton settle in Kansas
- Sep 11 Rijkslandbouwhoge school opens in Wageningen
- Sep 11 Russo-Turkish War: Third Russian assault on Plevna, Ottoman Empire (now Pleven, Bulgaria), aided by Romanian forces mostly fails, although the Romanians take Grivitsa; up to 20,000 Russian and 6,000 Turk casualties
- Sep 20 Chase National Bank opens in NYC (later merges into Chase Manhattan)
Virchow's Anti-Darwinian Speech
Sep 22 Rudolf Virchow delivers an anti-Darwinian speech to the Congress of German Naturalists and Physicians in Munich, where he speaks against the teaching of the theory of evolution in schools
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 1 Francis William Aston, British chemist and physicist who won a Nobel laureate for his work with isotopes and the whole number rule, born in Birmingham, England (d. 1945)
Frederick Soddy (1877-1956)
Sep 2 English radiochemist and Nobel laureate (radioactive substances, isotopes), born in Eastbourne, Sussex, England
- Sep 5 Albert Roelofs, Dutch painter and etcher, born in Schaarbeek, Brussels, Belgium (d. 1920)
- Sep 6 Charles "Buddy" Bolden, African-American jazz cornetist, born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1931)
- Sep 6 Petar Stojanovic, Serbian composer, born in Budapest (d. 1957)
- Sep 7 Mike O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player, born in Maum, County Galway, Ireland (d. 1959)
Frank Chance (1877-1924)
Sep 9 American Baseball HOF first baseman (World Series 1907, 08; 2 x NL stolen base leader; NL runs leader 1906 Chicago Orphans/Cubs) and manager (Chicago Cubs, NY Yankees, Boston RS), born in Salida, California
- Sep 9 Jesús Castillo, Guatemalan composer (Quiché Vinak), born in San Juan Ostuncalco (d. 1946)
- Sep 10 Georgia Douglas Johnson, African American poet and playwright (Autumn Love Cycle), born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 1966)
- Sep 11 Felix Dzerzhinsky [Iron Felix, Bloody Felix], Polish-born Bolshevik leader established and developed Soviet secret police (Cheka, forerunner to the KGB), born in Ivyanets, Lithuania (d. 1926)
- Sep 11 James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist, mathematician and astronomer (The Mysterious Universe), born in Southport, Lancashire (d. 1946)
- Sep 13 Stanley Lord, Captain of the SS Californian the night of the Titanic disaster, born in Bolton, Lancashire, England (d. 1962)
- Sep 13 Wilhelm Filchner, German explorer who led the German Antarctic expedition of 1911–12, born in Munich, Germany (d. 1957)
- Sep 15 Jakob Ehrlich, Austrian politician and Zionist, born in Bystřice pod Hostýnem, Czech Republic (d. 1938)
- Sep 15 Max Factor, Polish-American make-up artist, inventor and founder of cosmetics manufacturer Max Factor & Company, born in Zduńska Wola, Poland, Russian Empire (d. 1938)
- Sep 16 Willem Huibert Rassers, Dutch cultural anthropologist (Pandji), born in Roosendaal, Netherlands (d. 1973)
- Sep 17 Jean Hure, French composer and organist, born in Gien, Loire, France (d. 1930)
- Sep 18 Jozef de Voght, Flemish priest and songwriter (Under the Snow), born in Broechem, Belgium (d. 1956)
- Sep 20 Armand Marsick, Belgian composer, born in Liège, Belgium (d. 1959)
- Sep 25 Plutarco Elias Calles, Mexican revolutionary and president (1924-28), born in Guaymas, Mexico (d. 1945)
- Sep 26 Alfred Cortot, French-Swiss pianist and teacher, born in Nyon, Vaud, Switzerland (d. 1962)
- Sep 26 Edmund Gwenn, English actor (Miracle on 34th Street), born in London, England (d. 1959)
- Sep 26 Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (discovered the method of electroconvulsive therapy), born in Conegliano, Italy (d. 1963)
- Sep 28 Stanner E.V. Taylor, American director and screenwriter (Lucky Jim, Ramona), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1948)
Famous Deaths
Crazy Horse (1840-1877)
Sep 5 Oglala Sioux chief (Battle of the Little Bighorn), dies at 37
- Sep 12 Julius Reitz, German cellist, composer, teacher, and music editor, dies at 64
William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877)
Sep 17 English photographic pioneer, dies at 77
- Sep 23 Urbain Jean Joseph le Verrier, French astronomer (made calculations that proved existence of Neptune), dies at 66
- Sep 25 Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich, German physician ( established normal temperature as 37 °C (98.6 °F), dies at 62
- Sep 26 Hermann Grassmann, German linguist and mathematician, dies at 68
- Sep 30 Toohoolhoolzote, prophet of Nez Perce indians, dies in battle
