Historical Events
- Sep 5 George Washington Murray elected to Congress from South Carolina
- Sep 9 American Bowling Congress forms (NYC)
- Sep 11 FA Cup stolen in Birmingham
- Sep 12 Annie Londonderry [Annie Kopchovsky] arrives in Chicago to complete first round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle in 15 months and collects her $10,000 prize
- Sep 12 Defender (US) beats Valkyrie III (England) in 10th America's Cup
Atlanta Compromise
Sep 18 Booker T. Washington delivers his famous "Atlanta Compromise" speech to the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia, suggesting blacks focus on vocational education and economic advancement over equality (for the present)
- Sep 18 Daniel David Palmer of Davenport, Iowa, gives the first chiropractic adjustment
- Sep 21 America's first automotive producer, the Duryea Motor Wagon Company, is founded by Charles and J. Frank Duryea
- Sep 23 French labor union CGT (Confederation Generale du Travail) forms
- Sep 26 Italian general Oreste Baratieri lands in Massawa, Eritrea
- Sep 30 France proclaims a protectorate over Madagascar
Event of Interest
Sep 30 Stephen Crane's novel "The Red Badge of Courage" is published to wide acclaim
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 1 Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, Indian musician (d. 1974)
- Sep 1 Edit Angold, German actress (Suspense, Molly, Blue Angel), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1971)
- Sep 8 Sara García, Mexican actress, born in Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico (d. 1980)
- Sep 10 George 'High Pockets' Kelly, American Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman (World Series 1921, 22; NL HR leader 1921; NY Giants), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1984)
- Sep 10 Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Indian Telugu writer (Ramayana Kalpa Vrukshamu, Veyipadagalu), born in Nandamuru, Madras state, British India (d. 1976)
- Sep 11 Harry Tobias, American song lyricist (“Sweet and Lovely”; “It’s a Lonesome Old Town”; “Sail Along, Silv’ry Moon”), born in New York City (d. 1994)
- Sep 12 Alice Lake, American silent screen actress (Glamour, Wicked), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1967)
- Sep 13 Ruth McDevitt, American actress (All in the Family), born in Coldwater, Michigan (d. 1976)
- Sep 15 Charles "Chic" Harley, American football player (d. 1974)
- Sep 15 Magda Lupescu, consort of King Carol II of Romania (d. 1977)
- Sep 16 Charles Bidwill, American Pro Football HOF team owner (Chicago Cardinals 1933-46), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1947)
- Sep 16 Franciszek Żwirko, Polish pilot (co-winner of 'Challenge 1932'), born in Święciany, Poland (d. 1932)
- Sep 16 Karol Rathaus, German-Austrian composer, born in Ternopil, Austria-Hungary (d. 1954)
John Diefenbaker (1895-1979)
Sep 18 13th Prime Minister of Canada (Conservative: 1957-63), born in Neustadt, Ontario
- Sep 18 Tomoji Tanabe, Japanese supercentenarian who dies of old age at 113, born in Miyakonojo, Miyazaki, Japan (d. 2009)
- Sep 21 Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet, born in Konstantinovo, Ryazan Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1925)
- Sep 22 Babette Deutsch, American poet (Animal vegetable mineral), born in New York City (d. 1982)
Paul Muni (1895-1967)
Sep 22 American actor (Angel on My Shoulder, Juarez), born in Lviv, Ukraine
- Sep 23 Johnny Mokan, American baseball player (d. 1985)
- Sep 23 Miron Merzhanov, Soviet architect (d. 1975)
- Sep 24 André F. Cournand, French physician and physiologist (Nobel 1956), born in Paris (d. 1988)
- Sep 26 Fay Holden, British actress (Mother-Andy Hardy films), born in Birmingham, England (d. 1973)
- Sep 26 Jürgen Stroop, SS General during World War II and commander of Nazi forces during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, born in Detmold, Germany (d. 1952)
- Sep 27 Woolf Barnato, British financier and racing driver, born in Spencer House, London (d. 1948)
- Sep 28 Charles Petrie, British historian known for his study of royalism and Jacobitism (If: A Jacobite Fantasy), born in Liverpool, England (d. 1977)
- Sep 28 Dave Franklin, American composer (The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down), born in New York City (d. 1970)
- Sep 28 Wallace Harrison, American architect (Metropolitan Opera House, United Nations complex), born in Worcester, Massachusetts (d. 1981)
- Sep 28 Whitey Witt, American baseball player (NY Yankees, 1922-25), born in Orange, Massachusetts (d. 1988)
- Sep 29 Joseph Banks Rhine, American parapsychologist (Extra-Sensory Perception), born in Waterloo, Pennsylvania (d. 1980)
- Sep 29 Louise Granville, Australian actress (How Green Paid the Rent), born in Sydney, New South Wales (d. 1968)
- Sep 29 Roscoe Turner, American aviator and racer (d. 1970)
- Sep 30 Lewis Milestone [Leib Milstein], Moldovan-American Academy Award-winning film director (d All Quiet on the Western Front; Of Mice and Men; Ocean's 11), born in Kishinev, Russian Empire (now Chișinău, Moldova) (d. 1980)
Famous Deaths
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)
Sep 28 French bacteriologist (invented pasteurization), dies at 72
