Historical Events
- Sep 5 American Arctic explorer George Washington De Long on board the Jeannette, becomes trapped with his crew in pack ice during attempt to reach the North Pole
- Sep 15 Pim Mulier forms Royal Haarlemsche Football Club based in Haarlem, Netherlands; oldest existing club in Dutch football
- Sep 19 The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.
- Sep 19 Thomas Ray becomes youngest to break a world track & field record pole-vaulting 11' 2½" at age 17 years & 198 days
Grant Visits SF
Sep 20 Ulysses S. Grant and family go to San Francisco for elaborate extended visit
- Sep 23 Baldwin steam motors tram 1st tried in Sydney Australia
- Sep 23 Richard Rhodes invented a hearing aid called the Audiophone
British Golf Open
Sep 27 British Open Men's Golf, St Andrews: Scotsman Jamie Anderson wins by 3 shots from countrymen Jamie Allen & Andrew Kirkaldy; 3rd consecutive title
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 2 An Jung-geun, Korean independence activist and assassin of Japanese Prime Minister Ito Hirobumi, born in Haeju-bu, Hwanghaedo, Korea (d. 1910)
- Sep 6 Max Schreck, German stage, silent and sound screen actor (Nosferatu - "Count Orlock"), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1936)
- Sep 6 Neal Rev Dodd, American actor (You Belong to Me), born in Fort Madison, Iowa (d. 1966)
- Sep 12 Fausto Agnelli, Swiss painter, born in Lugano, Switzerland (d. 1944)
Margaret Sanger (1879-1966)
Sep 14 American nurse, birth control proponent and feminist, born in Corning, New York
- Sep 15 Alec Ross, Scottish golfer (US Open 1907), born in Dornoch, Scotland (d. 1952)
- Sep 15 Joseph Lyons, 10th Prime Minister of Australia (1932-39), born in Stanley, Tasmania (d. 1939)
- Sep 17 Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Indian Social social activist and reformer, born in Erode, Madras Presidency, British India (d. 1973)
- Sep 17 Rube Foster, American Baseball HOF manager and executive (Negro National League pennant 1920–22, 26; Chicago American Giants), born in Calvert, Texas (d. 1930)
- Sep 20 Victor Sjöström, Swedish director (Wind, Under the Red Robe), born in Årjäng, Värmland, Sweden (d. 1960)
- Sep 25 Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer and Father of the Philippine National Language and Grammar, born in Pasig, Philippines (d. 1963)
- Sep 25 Luiz Costa, Portuguese pianist, and composer, born in Monte de Fralães, Barcelos, Portugal (d. 1960)
- Sep 26 Petko Todorov, Bulgarian writer (Fairy, Samodiva Fee), born in Elena, Bulgaria (d. 1916)
- Sep 27 Cyril Scott, British composer and author (Heroic Suite), born in Oxton, Cheshire, England (d. 1970)
- Sep 27 Hans Hahn, Austrian mathematician, born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1934)
- Sep 28 Benjamin Christensen, Danish actor (Barnet, Mockery) and film director (Häxan), born in Viborg Denmark (d. 1959)
- Sep 29 Joaquín Nin, Cuban composer and pianist, father of Anaïs Nin, born in Havana, Cuba (d. 1949)
- Sep 30 Ernst Isler, Swiss organist and critic, born in Zurich (d. 1944)
- Sep 30 Henri Casadesus, French violist and composer (Preludes for Viola d'amour), born in Paris, France (d. 1947)
Famous Deaths
- Sep 8 Nikolay Ivanovich Zaremba, Russian musical teacher to Tchaikovsky and composer, dies at 58
- Sep 12 Peter Arnold Heise, Danish organist, composer (Drot og Marsk (King and Marshal); Jylland mellem tvende), and teacher, dies at 49
- Sep 14 Bernhard von Cotta, German geologist, dies at 70
- Sep 17 Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (restored medieval monuments including city of Carcassonne), dies at 65
- Sep 28 Nathan Cook Meeker, American journalist and social reformer, murdered by Ute Indians at 62
