Historical Events
- Sep 3 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Defending champion Henry Slocum defeats Quincy Shaw 6-3, 6-1, 4-6, 6-2
- Sep 5 German Christine Hardt patents the first modern brassiere
- Sep 6 King Kabaka Mwanga of Buganda resigns
- Sep 23 Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda
- Sep 24 Alexander Dey patents dial time recorder
- Sep 28 The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 3 Cecil Weston, South African actress (Dude Ranch, Huckleberry Finn), born in Capetown (d. 1976)
- Sep 6 Sarat Chandra Bose, Indian activist for independence, born in Howrah, British India (d. 1950)
- Sep 7 Albert Plesman, Dutch aviation pioneer and founder (KLM), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1953)
- Sep 7 Bruce Frederick Cummings, English author (Journal of a Disappointed Man), born in barnstaple, England (d. 1919)
- Sep 8 Robert A. Taft, American politician (U.S. Senator from Ohio), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1953)
- Sep 10 Vilém Petrželka, Czech composer, born in Brno, Movravia (d. 1967)
- Sep 13 Pierre Reverdy, French poet (Nord-Sud), born in Occitanie (d. 1960)
- Sep 15 Robert Benchley, American humorist (My 10 Years in a Quandary), born in Worcester, Massachusetts (d. 1945)
- Sep 16 Claude Albert Barnett, American journalist and founder (Associated Negro Press), born in Sanford, Florida (d. 1967)
- Sep 18 Doris Blackburn, Australian politician (Member of the Australian Parliament for Bourke), born in Hawthorn, Melbourne, Australia (d. 1970)
- Sep 19 Ernest Truex, American actor (Fluffy, Scared, His Girl Friday, Pete & Gladys, Mr Peepers), born in Kansas City, Missouri (d. 1973)
- Sep 19 Sarah Louise "Sadie" Delany, American author and teacher, born in Lynch's Station, Campbell County, Virginia (d. 1999)
- Sep 20 Charles Reidpath, American athlete (Olympic gold 400m, 4×400m relay 1912), born in Buffalo, New York (d. 1975)
- Sep 22 George "Hooks" Dauss, American MLB baseball pitcher, 1912-26 (Detroit Tigers), born in Indianapolis, Indiana (d. 1963)
Walter Lippmann (1889-1974)
Sep 23 American journalist and political writer (Public Opinion), born in New York City
- Sep 25 C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Scottish writer and translator, born in Stirlingshire, Scotland (d. 1930)
- Sep 25 G. D. H. Cole, English political theorist and socialist, born in Cambridge, England (d. 1959)
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)
Sep 26 German philosopher (Being & Time), born in Meeskirch, Germany
Famous Weddings
Fridtjof Nansen
Sep 6 Explorer Fridtjof Nansen (27) weds mezzo-soprano singer Eva Nansen (30)
Robert Borden
Sep 25 Future Prime Minister of Canada Robert Borden (34) weds Canadian suffragette Laura Bond (27), until his death
Famous Deaths
- Sep 12 Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, French historian and sociologist, dies at 59
- Sep 23 [William] Wilkie Collins, English writer (The Moonstone), dies at 65
- Sep 24 Daniel Harvey Hill, Confederate General (American Civil War), dies at 68
- Sep 29 Louis Faidherbe, French general and colonel administrator in Senegal, dies at 71
