Historical Events
- Sep 3 For the only time in Olympic Games history, there is a throw-off in the discus final after Americans Martin Sheridan & Ralph Rose tie with a best throw of 128' 10½" in St. Louis; Sheridan wins with 127' 10¼"
- Sep 4 Dalai Lama signs treaty allowing British commerce in Tibet
- Sep 6 Soccer team Rheden forms
- Sep 7 British forces in Tibet force the 13th Dalai Lama to sign a treaty granting Britain trading posts in Tibet and a guarantee that Tibet will not concede territory to foreign powers
- Sep 9 Boston Herald again refers to NY baseball club as Yankees, when it reports "Yankees take 2," Yankee name not official till 1913
- Sep 9 Mounted police first appear in NYC
- Sep 19 Gen Nogi's assault on Port Arthur: 16,000 Japanese casualties
- Sep 20 George Ade's "College Widow," premieres in NYC
Wright Brothers Fly a Circle
Sep 20 Orville and Wilbur Wright fly a circle in their Flyer II
- Sep 21 The general strike called by the Socialist Party that spread throughout Italy ends
- Sep 23 British Colonel Francis Younghusband and his expedition with accompanying military force leave Lhasa, Tibet
- Sep 25 Charles Follis becomes first American black man contracted to play pro football on an integrated team when he signs with Shelby Blues of the "Ohio League"
- Sep 26 Charles Kleins "Music Master" premieres in NYC
- Sep 26 Earl Grey is named British governor-general of Canada
- Sep 26 GB Shaw's "How He Lied to Her Husband" premieres in NYC
- Sep 28 Woman arrested for smoking a cigarette in a car on 5th Avenue, NYC
- Sep 29 1st monument honoring Spanish–American War erected, in Monroeville, Ohio
- Sep 30 White Sox lefty Doc White, pitches his 5th shutout in 18 days
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 1 Johnny Mack Brown, American actor (Lawman is Born, Back Trail), born in Dothan, Alabama (d. 1974)
- Sep 1 Ray Flaherty, American Pro Football Hall of Fame end (NFL C'ship 1934 NY Giants; First-team All-Pro 1928, 29, 32) and coach (NFL C'ship 1937, 42 Washington Redskins), born in Lamont, Washington (d. 1994)
- Sep 4 Christian-Jaque [Christian Maudet], French film director (Fearless Little Soldier, Race for Life, The Pearls of the Crown), born in Paris (d. 1994)
- Sep 4 Julian W. Hill, American research chemist (developed nylon), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1996)
- Sep 4 Max Delbrück, German-American biologist and molecular geneticist (bacteriophage, Nobel Prize 1969), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1981)
- Sep 4 Sabin Carr, American athlete (Olympic gold pole vault 1928; WR 4.27m 1927), born in Santa Barbara, California (d. 1983)
- Sep 6 Arvi Kivimaa, Finnish writer (Groenende Cross), born in Hartola, Finland (d. 1984)
- Sep 6 Lyubomir Pipkov, Bulgarian pianist, composer, music educator, and (with his father) Antarctic glacier namesake, born in Lovech, Bulgaria (d. 1974)
- Sep 8 Carlos Sánchez Málaga, Peruvian composer, born in Arequipa, Perú (d. 1995)
- Sep 9 Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player (d. 2005)
- Sep 10 Max Shachtman, American politician (d. 1972)
- Sep 12 Gavriil Popov, Soviet Russian composer, born in Novocherkassk, Russia (d. 1972)
- Sep 14 Anton Zischka, Austrian writer (Lebendiges Europa), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1997)
- Sep 14 Gaston Vandermeulen, Flemish actor (Heilig Experiment, The Arrival of Joachim Stiller), born in Mechelen, Belgium (d. 1984)
- Sep 14 Karel Šrom, Czech composer, musicologist, critic, and broadcaster, born in Pilsen, Kingdom of Bohemia (now Czech Republic) (d. 1981)
- Sep 14 Kunihiko Hashimoto, Japanese composer, violinist, conductor, and musical educator, born in the Hongo district of Tokyo (d. 1949)
- Sep 14 Richard Mohaupt, German composer (Bucolica), born in Wrocław, Poland (d. 1957)
- Sep 15 Philip Lee, Australian cricket all-rounder (2 Tests, 5 wickets; South Australia), born in Gladstone, Australia (d. 1980)
- Sep 15 Tom Conway, Russian actor (Mark Saber, Betty Hutton Show), born in St Petersburg, Russian Empire (d. 1967)
- Sep 15 Umberto II, of Italy, the last King of Italy (ruled for 24 days in 1946), born in the Castle of Racconigi in Piedmont, Italy (d. 1983)
Frederick Ashton (1904-1988)
Sep 17 British choreographer (Cinderella), born in Guayaquil, Ecuador
- Sep 17 Jerry Colonna, American actor (Jerry Colonna Show, Alice in Wonderland, Road to Singapore), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1986)
- Sep 19 Bergen Evans, American professor of English ($64,000 Question), born in Franklin, Ohio (d. 1978)
- Sep 19 Else-Marie Hansen, Danish actress (Hvor går Karl hen?), born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 2003)
- Sep 19 Karen Aabye, Danish author (Less bedstemor there jomfru), born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1982)
- Sep 21 Hans Hartung, German-French painter, born in Leipzig, German Empire (d. 1989)
- Sep 22 Ellen Church, American 1st female airline stewardess (United flight in 1930 from San Francisco to Cheyenne), born in Cresco, Iowa (d. 1965)
- Sep 23 Meyer Schapiro, Lithuanian-born American art historian, born in Šiauliai, Lithuania, Russian Empire (d. 1996)
- Sep 24 (John) "Jackie Wright, Northern Irish comedian (The Benny Hill Show, 1968-83), born in Belfast, Ireland (d. 1989)
- Sep 24 Cemal Reşit Rey, Turkish composer, born in Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (d. 1985)
- Sep 24 Jan August [Augustoff], American pianist and xylophonist ("Misirlou"), born in New York City (d. 1976)
- Sep 24 Owen Saunders, English mathematician and mechanical engineer, born in Streatham, London (d. 1993)
- Sep 25 Columbus O'Donnell Iselin, American oceanographer, born in New Rochelle, New York (d. 1971)
- Sep 29 Dorothy Emmet, English philosopher, born in London, England (d. 2000)
Greer Garson (1904-1996)
Sep 29 British actress (Mrs Miniver), born in East Ham, Essex
- Sep 30 Frank Lawton, British actor (Devil Doll, Invisible Ray), born in London, England (d. 1969)
- Sep 30 Ralph Forbes [Taylor], British screen and stage actor (Romeo and Juliet; Piccadilly Jim; Daniel Boone), born in Wandsworth, London, England (d. 1951)
Famous Deaths
Chief Joseph (1840-1904)
Sep 21 Nez Perce leader who tried to led his people to Canada (Nez Perce War), dies of a supposed broken heart on an Indian reservation unable to return to his native Wallowa Valley at 64 [1]
- Sep 24 Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician and phototherapist (Nobel 1903), dies at 43
- Sep 26 John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman and statesman (b. 1848)
- Sep 26 Lafcadio Hearn, American author (Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan), dies at 54
- Sep 30 Sigurd Lie, Norwegian composer and conductor, dies of tuberculosis at 33
