- Sep 2 Conway Savage, Australian piano and organ player (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds), dies from a brain tumor at 58 [1]
- Sep 6 Claudio Scimone, Italian conductor (I Solisti Veneti), dies at 83
- Sep 7 Mac Miller [Malcolm McCormick], American rapper and music producer (Best Day Ever), dies of a drug overdose at 26
- Sep 13 Ivo Petric, Slovenian composer, dies at 86
- Sep 16 Big Jay [Cecil James] McNeely, American R&B saxophonist, dies of prostate cancer at 91
- Sep 19 Arthur Mitchell, African-American ballet dancer (New York City Ballet, 1955-66), choreographer, and founder of Dance Theater of Harlem (1968), dies of renal failure at 84
- Sep 21 José Luis de Delás, Spanish composer and conductor, dies at 90
- Sep 21 Katherine Hoover, American flautist, composer (Eleni: A Greek Tragedy), teacher, and conductor, dies at 80
- Sep 22 Charles "Chas" Hodges, English musician (Chas & Dave), dies at 74
- Sep 27 Marty Balin [Buchwald], American singer (Jefferson Airplane/Starship), dies at 76
- Sep 28 Koos Alberts [Jacobus Krommenhoek], Dutch folk and pop singer (Many More Years; Life Goes On), dies of bladder cancer at 71
- Sep 29 James "Big Jim" Wright, American Grammy and Dove Award-winning keyboardist, composer, arranger, and record producer (Sound of Blackness; Mariah Carey), dies at 52
- Sep 29 Otis Rush, American blues musician (Right Place, Wrong Time), dies from complications from an earlier stroke at 83
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