Historical Events
- Sep 1 First forestry school in America opens at Biltmore Estate, North Carolina
Kitchener Attacks Omdurman
Sep 1 Lord Kitchener's troops attack Omdurman, Sudan
- Sep 2 Battle of Omdurman: Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain
- Sep 2 Machine gun 1st used in battle
- Sep 6 Lord Kitchener destroys Mahdi's tomb in Omdurman
- Sep 9 Ottawa Football Club re-organizes into the Rough Riders
- Sep 10 Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by anarchists Luigi Lucheni
- Sep 10 Lord Kitchener's ships sails from Khartoum to Fashoda in Sudan
- Sep 13 20,000 Paris construction workers go on strike
- Sep 15 National Afro-American Council forms in Rochester NY
- Sep 18 Lord Kitchener's ships reach Fashoda, Sudan
- Sep 21 Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China, imprisoning the Guangxu Emperor
- Sep 26 Victor Herbert and Harry Smith's operetta "The Fortune Teller" premieres at Wallack's Theater, New York City
- Sep 29 Wassoulou Empire leader Samori Ture captured by French troops in West Africa ending his 20 year rule
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 1 Marilyn Miller [Renolds], American actress (Sunny) and wife of Jack Pickford, born in Evansville, Indiana (d. 1936)
- Sep 4 Charlie Cantor, American radio and television actor (The Fred Allen Show - "Socrates Mulligan"; The Jack Benny Program -"Logan Jerkfinkel"), born in Worcester, Massachusetts (d. 1966)
- Sep 5 Ebbe Hamerik, Danish opera composer (Stepan; Marie Grubbe), born in Frederiksberg, Denmark (d. 1951)
- Sep 8 Queenie Smith, American character actress and dancer (Funny Side; Little House On The Prairie), born in Texas (d. 1978)
Frankie Frisch (1898-1973)
Sep 9 American Baseball HOF infielder (3 x MLB All-Star; 4 x World Series; NL MVP 1931; NY Giants, St.L Cardinals) and manager (St.L Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs), born in New York City
- Sep 10 Bessie Love, American actress (Broadway Melody; Children of Damned), born in Midland, Texas (d. 1986)
- Sep 10 Waldo Semon, American inventor (polyvinyl chloride), born in Demopolis, Alabama (d. 1999)
- Sep 12 Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-American painter (1964 Arts & Letters), born in Kaunas, Lithuania (d. 1969)
- Sep 12 Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer, born in Madrid, Spain (d. 1963)
- Sep 14 Ernest Nash, German-American photographer and archaeologist, born in Nowawes, Germany (d. 1974)
- Sep 15 J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet, writer and ship's doctor (El Dorado), born in Leeuwarden, Netherlands (d. 1936)
- Sep 16 (Charles) "Chick" Bullock, American jazz and dance band vocalist (Chick Bullock and His Levee Loungers), born in Butte, Montana (d. 1981)
- Sep 16 H. A. Rey, American children's author and creator of "Curious George", born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1977)
- Sep 19 Giuseppe Saragat, 5th President of Italy (1964-71), born in Turin, Italy (d. 1988)
- Sep 21 Tushar Kanti Ghosh, Indian journalist, world's oldest and longest serving newspaper editor (Amrita Bazar Patrika), born in Calcutta, British India (d. 1994)
- Sep 22 Katherine Alexander, American actress, born in Fort Smith, Arkansas (d. 1977)
- Sep 24 Charlotte van Pallandt, Dutch sculptress, born in Arnhem, Netherlands (d. 1997)
Howard Florey (1898-1968)
Sep 24 Australian pathologist and pharmacologist who purified penicillin (Nobel 1945), born in Adelaide, South Australia
- Sep 25 Robert Brackman, American artist, born in Odes'ka Oblast, Ukraine (d. 1980)
George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Sep 26 American composer (An American in Paris, Porgy And Bess, Summertime), born in Brooklyn, New York
- Sep 27 Vincent Youmans, American composer and songwriter (Tea for Two), born in New York City (d. 1946)
- Sep 28 Carl Clauberg, German Nazi doctor (gynecologist, specializing in mass sterilization and other experiments on humans at Auschwitz concentration camp), born in Wupperhof, Germany (d. 1957)
- Sep 29 Trofim Lysenko, Soviet biologist and agronomist, born in Karlovka, Ukraine, Russian Empire (d. 1976)
- Sep 30 Felix Kersten, Baltic-German Finnish masseuse physical therapist and personal trainer to Heinrich Himmler who helped save people from Finns from Nazi persecution, born in Tartu, Imperial Russia (d. 1960)
- Sep 30 Princess Charlotte of Monaco, illegitimate daughter of Louis II and mother of Prince Rainier III, born in Constantine, French Algeria (d. 1977)
- Sep 30 Renée Adorée [Jeanne de la Fontein], French actress (The Big Parade), born in Lille, Nord, France (d. 1933)
- Sep 30 [Julius] Johannes Rontgen, German Dutch composer, born in Leipzig, Germany (d. 1932)
Famous Deaths
- Sep 2 Hubert Howard, British journalist (The Times), dies through friendly fire
- Sep 2 Wilford Woodruff, fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1807)
- Sep 5 Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds, disguised as man fought for union, dies
- Sep 9 Stéphane Mallarmé [pen name of Étienne Mallarmé], French symbolist poet, dies at 56
- Sep 10 Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, and wife of Franz Joseph I, dies from a stab wound at 60
- Sep 11 Adolphe-Abraham Samuel, Belgian composer, dies at 74
- Sep 14 Paulus Adrianus Daum, Dutch writer, founder and editor (Batavian Newspaper), dies at 48
- Sep 14 William Seward Burroughs, American inventor of the adding machine, dies at 43
- Sep 16 Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat, dies at 71
- Sep 20 Theodor Fontane, German writer (Der Stechlin), dies at 78
- Sep 25 Hieronymus Theodor Richter, German mineralogist and co-discoverer of the element indium, dies at 73
- Sep 25 Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet, French anthropologist who was the first to organize and classify Stone Age cultures into a chronological sequence of epochs, dies at 77
