Historical Events
- Sep 1 British New Guinea placed under Australian administration
- Sep 1 Canadian province of Alberta adopts Mountain Standard Time
- Sep 1 New York Highlanders win their 6th consecutive MLB game in 3 days from Washington Senators; sweep AL record 3 straight double headers
- Sep 1 Philadelphia beats the Red Sox 4-1 in 24 innings in Boston in the longest game in AL baseball history; both starters go the distance as A's hurler Jack Coombs overcomes Boston's Joe Harris
- Sep 1 The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI) is established
- Sep 3 After an 8 minute argument over an umpire call the NY Highlanders win on forfeit over Philadelphia A's; Highlanders' MLB record 5th doubleheader sweep on consecutive days
- Sep 3 Philadelphia Giants win Negro Championship Cup in Philadelphia before 10,000 fans; black baseball's largest crowd ever
- Sep 4 New York Highlanders beat Boston Pilgrims, 7 - 0 and 1 - 0 for their MLB record 5th straight doubleheader sweep
- Sep 5 Saint Louis University quarterback Bradbury Robinson throws first legal forward pass in the history of American football for a TD to Jack Schneider at Carroll College, Waukesha, Wisconsin; Saint Louis wins, 22-0
Satyagraha
Sep 11 Mahatma Gandhi coins the term "Satyagraha" to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa
- Sep 12 The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
- Sep 13 1st airplane flight in Europe, Brazilian Alberto Santos-Dumont test flies his hybrid 14-bis plane (attached to a hydrogen balloon for take-off), at Bagatelle, France
- Sep 16 Kaarlo Nieminen wins 1st Finnish marathon
Eddie Collins Debuts
Sep 17 Playing as "Sullivan" Columbia University jr Eddie Collins debuts with A's
- Sep 18 A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong
- Sep 20 Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle, England.
- Sep 21 New York Highlanders 1st baseman Hal Chase has 22 put-outs to tie MLB record in a 6-3 win over Chicago White Sox at South Side Park
- Sep 22 In New Zealand Domestic workers call for a 68-hour working week
- Sep 22 Race riot in Atlanta Georgia, kills 21
- Sep 24 Prince George of Greece, convinced that he can no longer serve the cause of Crete, resigns as High Commissioner
- Sep 24 St Louis Card Stony McGlynn no-hits Dodgers, 1-1 in 7 inning game
- Sep 24 Victor Herbert and Henry Blossom's operetta musical "The Red Mill" opens at the Knickerbocker Theater, NYC
- Sep 25 John Galsworthy's "Silver Box" premieres in London
- Sep 25 Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the Telekino at Bilbao before a great crowd, guiding a boat from the shore, considered the birth of the remote control
- Sep 26 Pitts Lefty Leifield no-hits Phillies, 8-0 in 6 inning game
- Sep 28 US troops reoccupy Cuba, stay until 1909
- Sep 29 US intervenes in Cuba ousts dictator Estrada Palma
- Sep 30 Real Academia Galega, Galician language biggest linguistic authority starts working in Havana
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 1 Eleanor Hibbert (née Burford), British author of historical fiction, romance, and crime novels, born in Canning Town, England (d. 1993)
- Sep 1 Franz Biebl, German composer (Ave Maria), choral director, and music professor, born in Pursruck, Bavaria, Germany (d. 2001)
- Sep 2 Vera Vague [Barbara Jo Allen], American actress (Sleeping Beauty, Follow the Leader), born in New York City (d. 1974)
- Sep 4 Alexander Moyzes, Slovak composer, born in Kláštor pod Znievom, Slovensko (d. 1984)
- Sep 4 Han G. Hoekstra, Dutch poet (Zandloperr; Ongerijmde life), journalist, and editor, born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1988)
- Sep 5 Peter Mieg, Swiss composer, born in Lenzburg (d. 1990)
- Sep 6 Alexander Bodon, Hungarian-Dutch architect (RAI, Dollywood), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1993)
- Sep 6 John Meulenhoff, Dutch publisher, born in Amsterdam (d. 1978)
- Sep 6 Raymond Keane, American actor (Midnight Sun, Love Eagle), born in Denver, Colorado (d. 1973)
- Sep 7 Philip Herschkowitz, Romanian composer, born in Iași, Romania (d. 1989)
- Sep 8 Andrei Kirilenko, Russian member of Central Committee of Communist Party, born in Alexeyevka, Voronezh Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1990)
- Sep 10 Lambertus "Bertus" van Lyre, Dutch composer (Hooglied -Song of Songs), conductor, and pedagogue, born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 1972)
- Sep 11 Roye England, creator and founder President of the Pendon Museum of Miniature Landscape and Transport, born in Perth, Australia (d. 1995)
- Sep 12 Ruvim Pergament, composer, born in Petrozavodsk, Russia (d. 1965)
- Sep 15 Kathryn Murray, American dancer (Arthur Murray Dance Party), born in Jersey City, New Jersey (d. 1999)
- Sep 16 Jack Churchill, British Army commando, born in Colombo, British Ceylon (d. 1996)
- Sep 16 Johanna Sophia Hermes, Dutch singer, born in Hilversum, Netherlands (d. 1995)
- Sep 17 Edgar Wayburn, American environmentalist awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom 1999, born in Macon, Georgia (d. 2010)
- Sep 17 J. R. [Junius Richard] Jayawardene, 2nd President of Sri Lanka (1978-89) and 7th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (1977-78), born in Colombo, British Ceylon (d. 1996)
- Sep 18 Semjon I. Kirsanov, Ukrainian poet (Semj Dnej Nedeli), born in Odessa, Ukraine (d. 1972) [OS=Sept 5]
- Sep 19 Dalibor Cyril Vačkář, Czech composer, born in Korčula, Croatia (d. 1984)
- Sep 19 Massimo Freccia, Italian-American conductor (New Orleans Symphony, 1944-52: Baltimore Symphony, 1952-59), born in Valdibure, Pistoia, Italy (d. 2004)
- Sep 20 David Sheinfeld, American violinist and composer, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 2001)
- Sep 21 Derrick De Marney, British actor (The Girl Was Young, Inheritance), born in London, England (d. 1978)
- Sep 21 Henry Beachell, American plant breeder, born in Waverly, Nebraska (d. 2006)
- Sep 22 Ilse Koch, Nazi war criminal (commonly known as "The Bitch of Buchenwald"), born in Dresden, German Empire (d. 1967)
- Sep 22 Phyllis Hartnoll, English writer and editor, born in Lyme Regis, England (d. 1997)
- Sep 23 Willard McMurry, American blues record label executive (Trumpet Records), born in Lauderdale, Mississippi (d. 1996)
- Sep 24 Victor Wong, American actor (Mission to Moscow, War Correspondent, King Kong), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1972)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Sep 25 Russian composer (The Gadfly; The Nose), born in St Petersburg, Russia
- Sep 25 Jaroslav Ježek, Czechoslovakian composer, born in Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia (now Czech Republic) (d. 1942)
- Sep 25 Madeleine Bourdouxhe, Belgian writer, born in Liège, Belgium (d. 1996)
- Sep 25 Phyllis Pearsall, British painter and writer (A to Z Map Company), born in London (d. 1996)
- Sep 27 Jim Thompson, American author (The Killer Inside Me), born in Anadarko, Oklahoma (d. 1977)
- Sep 27 William Empson, English poet and critic (Milton's God), born in Hawdon, Yorkshire, England (d. 1984)
- Sep 30 Éamonn Ó Gallchobhair [Eamonn O Gallagher], Irish composer, born in Dundalk, Ireland (d. 1982)
- Sep 30 John I M Stewart [pseudonym Michael Innes], Scottish detective writer (Comedy of Terrors), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1994)
Famous Deaths
- Sep 1 Giuseppe Giacosa, Italian playwright, poet, and librettist (Puccini's "La bohème", "Tosca", and "Madama Butterfly"), dies at 58
- Sep 5 Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (thermodynamics), dies at 62
- Sep 13 Georges Jacobi, German violinist, composer (The Black Crook), and conductor (Alhambra Theatre, London, 1872-98), dies at 66
- Sep 19 Maria Georgina Grey, British writer and founder of the Girls' Day School Trust (b. 1816)
- Sep 20 Robert R. Hitt, American politician (b. 1834)
- Sep 21 Samuel Arnold, American conspirator who plotted to kidnap Abraham Lincoln, dies at 72
- Sep 23 Jan van Rijswijck, Flemish journalist and politician (Mayor of Antwerp, 1892-1906; Member of Parliament, 1900-06), dies at 53
