- Sep 1 Ethel Waters, American actress (Beulah), singer ("Stormy Weather"), dies at 80
- Sep 4 Gabriel Mekler, Israeli-American songwriter and record producer (Steppenwolf, Three Dog Night, Janis Joplin, Etta James), dies in a motorcycle crash at 32
- Sep 4 Stelios Perpiniadis, Greek folk singer, songwriter and guitarist, dies at 78
- Sep 5 George Barnes, American swing-jazz and session guitarist, and electric guitar pioneer, dies of a heart attack at 56
- Sep 6 Guido Pannain, Italian composer and musicologist, dies at 85
- Sep 6 Paul Burkhard, Swiss composer, dies at 65
- Sep 7 Gustave Reese, American musicologist (Music in the Middle Ages; Music in the Renaissance), and teacher, dies at 77
- Sep 13 Leopold Stokowski, British conductor (Philadelphia Orchestra, 1912-39; Disney's Fantasia), dies of a heart attack at 95
- Sep 16 Marc Bolan, English rock vocalist and guitarist (T-Rex - "Bang a Gong (Get It On)"), dies in a car crash at 29
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