Historical Events
- Sep 1 1st female telephone operator starts work, Emma Nutt for the Edwin Holmes Telephone Despatch Company in Boston
- Sep 2 Surrey left-arm slow round-arm bowler Ted Barratt takes 10-43 for the Players in Australia's 1st innings in a cricket tour match on his home ground at The Oval; all ten are caught or stumped; Australia wins by 8 runs
- Sep 3 British passenger paddle steamer Princess Alice sunk in a collision on the River Thames with the collier Bywell Castle; 645 die
- Sep 12 Cleopatra Needle installed in London
- Sep 25 British physician Dr. Charles Drysdale warns against the use of tobacco in a letter to The Times newspaper in one of the earliest public health announcements on the dangers of smoking
- Sep 30 1st Portuguese immigrants arrive in Hawaii
- Sep 30 Great Flood hits New Zealand's South Island
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 1 Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1942)
- Sep 2 Werner von Blomberg, German politician and general (Commander-in-Chief German Armed Forces 1935-38), born in Stargard, Prussia (d. 1946)
- Sep 3 Dorothea Lambert Chambers, British tennis player (Wimbledon 1903-04, 06, 10-11, 13-14), born in Ealing, England (d. 1960)
- Sep 5 Ben Simpson, Canadian Football HOF running back, placekicker (Queen's University, Hamilton Tigers), born in Peterborough, Ontario (d. 1964)
- Sep 9 Adelaide Crapsey, American poet (d. 1914)
- Sep 9 Sergio Osmeña, 4th President of the Philippines (d. 1961)
- Sep 16 Karl Albiker, German sculptor (German Art, female nudes), born in Ühlingen-Birkendorf, Germany (d. 1961)
- Sep 17 Vincenzo Tommasini, Italian composer (Le donne de buon umore), born in Rome, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1950)
Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)
Sep 20 American author (The Jungle), born in Baltimore, Maryland
Famous Weddings
Friedrich Engels
Sep 11 German philosopher Friedrich Engels (57) marries Lizzie Burns (51), hours before her death in London
