- Sep 3 Robert Hernried, Austrian born American composer and conductor, dies at 67
- Sep 9 Cecil Gray, Scottish composer and music critic, dies at 56
- Sep 9 Gibson Gowland, British actor (Greed, Blind Husbands, The Phantom of the Opera), dies at 74
- Sep 10 Giuseppe Mulè, Italian composer, dies at 66
- Sep 14 Fritz Busch, German conductor, dies at 61
- Sep 15 Jacinto Guerrero, Spanish musician and composer, dies at 56
- Sep 17 Jimmy Yancey, American boogie-woogie jazz and blues pianist, dies somewhere between age 50 and 57 - (birth year documentation uncertain)
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