Historical Events
South Africa Act
Sep 2 King Edward VII signs South Africa Act
Robert Peary's Arctic Expedition
Sep 6 New York Times headline announces American explorer Robert Peary had discovered the North Pole 5 months earlier
Johnson vs. Kaufman
Sep 9 Jack Johnson retains his heavyweight boxing title when he fights Al Kaufman to a no decision in 10 rounds at Coffroth's Arena, San Francisco, California
- Sep 17 Denis Peyrony and Louis Capitan discover the skull of an adult male Neanderthal (La Ferrassie 1) during excavations in a rock shelter near La Ferrassie, France
- Sep 18 Largest paid baseball attendance (35,409), A's beat Tigers, 2-0 in Det
- Sep 20 The British Parliament passes the South Africa Act; it calls for union of Cape Colony, Natal, Orange River Colony, and Transvaal; and both English and Dutch as official languages
- Sep 25 Hudson-Fulton Celebration opens in NY
Naval Oil Reserves
Sep 27 US President William Howard Taft sets aside some 3 million acres of oil-rich public land (including Teapot Dome, Wyoming) for conservation purposes
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 1 E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat (d. 1957)
Eduard Wirths (1909-1945)
Sep 4 Nazi physician at Auschwitz, born in Würzburg, Germany
- Sep 4 Karel Horky, Czech composer, born in Stemechy (d. 1988)
- Sep 5 Archie Jackson, Australian cricket batsman (8 Tests, 1 x 100, HS 164; NSWCA), born in Rutherglen, Scotland (d. 1933)
- Sep 6 John Ridgely, American actor (Northern Pursuit, They Died with Their Boots On, Air Force), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1968)
Elia Kazan (1909-2003)
Sep 7 Greek-American Tony and Academy Award-winning stage and screen director (A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront; East of Eden), born in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (now Istanbul, Turkey)
- Sep 7 Jo Juda, Dutch musician (1st concertmaster of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra), born in Amsterdam (d. 1985)
- Sep 7 Natalia Dmitrevna Shpiller, Czech-Russian lyric soprano, born in Kyiv, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) (d. 1995)
- Sep 9 Jane Baxter [Fedora Kathleen Alice Forde], German actress (We Live Again), born in Bremen, Germany (d. 1996)
- Sep 11 Anne Seymour, American actress (Gemini Affair; Empire; Tim Conway Show), born in New York City (d. 1988)
- Sep 11 William Natcher, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kentucky 1953-94), born in Bowling Green, Kentucky (d. 1994)
- Sep 12 Donald MacDonald, Canadian politician and former president of the Canadian Labour Congress (1967-74), born in Halifax, Nova Scotia (d. 1986)
- Sep 12 Lawrence Brooks, American US Army soldier, 1940-45 (91st Engineer Battalion - New Guinea, The Philippines), and longest-living American World War II veteran, born in Norwood, Louisiana (d. 2022)
- Sep 12 Spud Chandler, American baseball player (AL MVP 1943), born in Commerce, Georgia (d. 1990)
- Sep 13 Herbert Berghof, Austrian actor (Belarus File, Harry and Tonto, Target), born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1990)
- Sep 13 Leith Stevens, American pianist, composer and conductor of scores for radio (Suspense), film (The Wild Ones; War of the Worlds), and television (Climax!), born in Mount Moriah, Missouri (d. 1970)
- Sep 14 Peter Scott, British naturalist and explorer, born in London (d. 1989)
- Sep 15 C. N. Annadurai, Indian politician and 1st Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, born in Kancheepuram, Madras, British India (d. 1969)
- Sep 15 Carlos Estrada, Uruguayan composer and conductor, born in Montevideo, Uruguay (d. 1970)
Jean Batten (1909-1982)
Sep 15 New Zealand aviator (first-ever solo flight from England to New Zealand in 1936), born in Rotorua, New Zealand
- Sep 15 Phil Arnold, American actor (Errand Boy, Stud Lonigan, Damn Yankees), born in Hackensack, New Jersey (d. 1968)
- Sep 16 Fernand Lodewick, literature historian (d. 1995)
- Sep 16 John Megaw, British Lord Justice of Appeal, born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1997)
- Sep 17 Elizabeth Wilkinson, English professor of German (University College London), born in Keighley (d. 2001)
- Sep 17 Kenneth Darling, British Army Commander-in-chief Allied Forces, born in Bengal Presidency, British India (d. 1998)
- Sep 19 Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile pioneer (Porsche AG), born in Wiener Neustadt, Austria-Hungary (d. 1998)
Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972)
Sep 21 1st Prime Minister of Ghana (1957-60) and 1st President of Ghana (1960-66), born in Nkroful, Gold Coast (Ghana) [1]
- Sep 22 Allan "Rocky" Lane, American western cowboy actor (voice of Mr Ed, Red Ryder), born in Mishawaka, Indiana (d. 1973)
- Sep 22 David Riesman, American sociologist (Lonely Crowd), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2002)
- Sep 22 Harry Ray, American film make-up artist, costume designer and actor (Avanti!), born in West Virginia (d. 1974)
- Sep 23 Marianne Straub, Swiss-born English textile designer and weaver (Festival of Britain, Piccadilly line seat pattern), born in Amriswil, Switzerland (d. 1994)
- Sep 23 Susan Travers, English-French Foreign Legion soldier, born in London, England (d. 2003)
- Sep 24 Gerard Ciołek, Polish architect, born in Wyżnica, Austria-Hungary (d. 1966)
- Sep 25 Florizel Glasspole, 3rd Governor-General of Jamaica (1973-91), born in Kingston, Jamaica (d. 2000)
- Sep 26 Bill France, Sr., American auto racer (co-founder of NASCAR), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 1992)
- Sep 26 Helen Giuliani, Mother of Rudy Giulani (107th Mayor of New York City), born in New York City (d. 2002)
- Sep 26 Leonard Sachs, British actor (The Good Old Days; John Wesley), born in Roodepoort, Transvaal Colony (now South Africa) (d. 1990)
- Sep 27 Jean Berger [Arthur Schloßberg], German-American pianist, choral composer (A Rose Touched by the Sun's Warm Rays; Hope for Tomorrow), and educator, born in Hamm, Germany (d. 2002)
- Sep 28 Al Capp [Alfred Gerald Caplin], American cartoonist (Li'l Abner), born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 1979)
- Sep 28 Stephen Spender, English poet (Oxford Poets), born in London, England (d. 1995)
- Sep 28 Wiesje Bouwmeester, Dutch actress (Doodzonde), born in Watergraafsmeer, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (d. 1979)
- Sep 29 Sashadhar Mukherjee, Indian film producer (Jagrit), born in Jhansi, India (d. 1990)
Famous Deaths
Clyde Fitch (1865-1909)
Sep 4 American playwright (Nathan Hale, The Girl with the Green Eyes), dies of blood poisoning after an appendectomy at 44 [1]
- Sep 7 Eugene Lefebvre, French aviator pioneer (1st stunt pilot and 1st pilot to die flying a plane), dies test piloting a Wright A aircraft at 30
- Sep 8 Frank Crawford Armstrong, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 73
- Sep 9 Edward Henry Harriman, American leading railroad builder (Union Pacific Railroad Company), dies at 61
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