Historical Events
- Sep 1 Jerome Travers establishes a US Amateur Golf Championship record by downing George Crump, 14 & 13, in a 1st-round match at the Country Club of Detroit in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan
- Sep 1 The German ambassador to the US pledges again that German submarines will no longer sink liners without warning and providing safety of passengers and crew following the sinking of the British liner "Arabic"
- Sep 5 Anti-war conference in Zimmerwald, Switzerland
Nicholas II Takes Command
Sep 5 Tsar Nicholas II, distressed by increasing Russian losses, assumes personal command of his nation's military forces; clearly a symbolic act and devastating for his leadership
US Men's Tennis Open
Sep 8 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: William Johnston beats Maurice McLoughlin 1-6, 6-0, 7-5, 10-8 in first US event held at West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, New York
- Sep 9 Association for the Study of Negro Life and History formed in Chicago by Carter G. Woodson and others. Now the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
- Sep 16 Tsar Nicholas II of Russia adjourns 4th Duma
- Sep 16 US takes control of customs & finances of Haiti for 10 years
Extricating Young Gussie
Sep 18 Jeeves and Bertie Wooster make their first appearance in P. G. Wodehouse short story "Extricating Young Gussie" published in "The Saturday Evening Post" in the US
Stonehenge
Sep 21 Cecil Chubb buys English prehistoric monument Stonehenge for £6,600
- Sep 21 Emanuel Querido ("Kerido") begins publishing Querido
- Sep 22 Boston Red Sox ask Boston Braves for use of Braves Field (10,000+ capacity) for Baseball World Series against Philadelphia Phillies
- Sep 22 Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, holds its 1st class
- Sep 22 Xavier University, 1st Black Catholic College in US, opens in NO LA
- Sep 25 Battle of Loos commenced, lasted until 14th October. Chlorine gas deployed by the British was blown back into their own trenches: 59,000 British & 26,000 German casualties
- Sep 25 The Second Battle of Champagne begins with French offensive against German army (ends with French retreat 6 Nov)
- Sep 28 Battle of Kut-el-Amara: British defeat Turks in Mesopotamia
- Sep 29 1st transcontinental radio telephone message sent by U.S. naval radio station at Arlington, Virginia. to naval radio station at Mare Island, San Francisco
- Sep 29 British army conquers Chilly al Imara, Mesopotamia
- Sep 29 Dutch Opera's 1st performance
- Sep 29 Herbert/Blossoms musical "Princess Pat" premieres in NYC
- Sep 29 Hurricane claims 275 in Mississippi Delta
- Sep 29 Philadelphia Phillies clinch their 1st pennant
- Sep 30 Red Sox clinch AL pennant by beating Detroit
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 2 Benjamin Aaron, American labor law expert (d. 2007)
- Sep 2 Dai-Keong Lee, Hawaiian-American classical and theater composer, born in Honolulu, Territory of Hawai'i (d. 2005)
- Sep 2 Hans Joachim Koellreutter, German Brazilian composer, teacher and musicologist, born in Freiburg, Germany (d. 2005)
- Sep 2 Meinhardt Raabe, American actor (The Wizard of Oz), born in Watertown, Wisconsin (d. 2010)
- Sep 3 Abel Ehrlich, Israeli composer, born in Cranz, East Prussia (now Zelenogradsk, Russia) (d. 2003)
- Sep 3 Knut Nystedt, Norwegian organist, choral composer, and conductor, born in Kristiania, Norway (d. 2014)
- Sep 3 Memphis Slim [John Len Chatman], American blues musician ("Every Day I Have the Blues"), born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 1988)
- Sep 4 Dick Thomas, American singing cowboy and TV host (Village Barn), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2003)
- Sep 4 Rudolf Schock, German opera tenor, born in Duisburg, Germany (d. 1986)
- Sep 6 Franz Josef Strauss, German politician, Minister of Defense (1956-62), born in Munich, Germany (d. 1988)
- Sep 8 Frank Cady, American actor (The Beverly Hillbillies; Petticoat Junction; Green Acres - all as "Sam Drucker"), born in Susanville, California (d. 2012)
- Sep 8 Frank Pullen, English businessman and racehorse owner, born in London (d. 1992)
- Sep 8 N. V. M. González, Filipino novelist, short story writer, and, poet, born in Romblon, Philippines (d. 1999)
- Sep 9 Guus Oster, Dutch stage and screen actor and director (Voorbij, Voorbij; Kiss Me Kate), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1984)
- Sep 9 Richard Webb, American actor (Captain Midnight, Out of the Past), born in Bloomington, Illinois (d. 1993)
- Sep 10 Redmond "Edmond" O'Brien, American actor (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Sam Benedict, Johnny Midnight), born in New York City (d. 1985)
- Sep 11 Athena Lorde, American actress (Fuzz, Skin Game, Firecreek), born in New York City (d. 1973)
- Sep 11 Jack Fascinato, American pianist and orchestra leader (Kukla, Fran & Ollie), born in Bevier, Missouri (d. 1994)
- Sep 12 Billy Daniels, African-American jazz singer ("That Old Black Magic") and television pioneer (The Billy Daniels Show), born in Jacksonville, Florida (d. 1988)
- Sep 13 Clint Frank, American College Football Hall of Fame halfback (Heisman Trophy 1937; Yale), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1992)
- Sep 13 Peter Wykeham, Royal Air Force fighter pilot, born in Kotra, Sandhurst, Berkshire (d. 1995)
- Sep 14 Douglas Kennedy, American actor (Dark Passage, The Lone Ranger & the Lost City of Gold), born in New York City (d. 1973)
- Sep 15 Helmut Schoen, football coach (manager of West Germany (1964-1978, 1974 World Cup), born in Dresden, German Empire (d. 1996)
- Sep 15 John Conte, American actor (The Man with the Golden Arm, Lost in a Harem, Mantovani), born in Palmer, Massachusetts (d. 2006)
- Sep 16 Cy Walter, American jazz pianist (Three's Company), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (d. 1968)
- Sep 18 Hetta Empson, South African-British artist, born in Orange Free State, South Africa (d. 1996)
- Sep 19 Tin-Tan [Germán Valdés], Mexican actor, singer and comedian (Spanish dubbing of The Jungle Book, The Aristocats), born in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico (d. 1973)
- Sep 22 Arthur Lowe, British actor (Dad's Army, Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Ruling Class), born in Hayfield, Derbyshire (d. 1982)
- Sep 23 Finn Arnestad, Norwegian contemporary classical composer (Ritagliata), born in Oslo, Norway (d. 1994)
- Sep 23 Ian Dawson-Shepherd, British campaigner for cerebrally palsied people, born in Port Said, Egypt (d. 1996)
- Sep 24 Larry Gates, American actor (Guiding Light, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Body Snatchers), born in Saint Paul, Minnesota (d. 1996)
- Sep 24 Margarita Aliger, Russian poet (Zoja), born in Odessa, Ukraine (d. 1992) [OS]
Ethel Rosenberg (1915-1953)
Sep 25 American communist, born in New York City
- Sep 29 Ann Nagel [Anna Marie Dolan], American actress (Don Winslow of the Navy, The Green Hornet), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1966)
- Sep 29 Brenda Marshall [Ardis Ankerson], American actress (The Sea Hawk, Paris After Dark), born in Island of Negros, Philippines (d. 1992)
- Sep 29 Vincent DeDomenico, American entrepreneur (Rice-A-Roni), born in San Francisco, California (d. 2007)
- Sep 30 Lester Maddox, American politician (Governor-D-Georgia 1967-71) and restaurant owner, born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 2003)
- Sep 30 Robert Morris, American lawyer, born in Jersey City (d. 1996)
Famous Divorces
Samuel Goldwyn
Sep 23 Film producer Samuel Goldwyn (33) divorces first wife Blanche Lasky after 5 years of marriage
Famous Deaths
- Sep 2 August Stramm, German poet and playwright dies in battle during WWI at 41
- Sep 9 A. G. Spalding, American Baseball HOF pitcher, manager and executive (NL wins leader 1871–76; President, co-owner Chicago White Stockings; co-founder of Spalding sporting goods company), dies at 66
- Sep 10 Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Premier of Quebec, dies at 93
- Sep 11 William Cornelius Van Horne, American-Canadian railway executive (Canadian Pacific Railway), dies at 72
- Sep 11 William Sprague IV, American politician and Governor of Rhode Island (1859-63), dies at 84
- Sep 13 Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (b. 1835)
- Sep 18 Susan La Flesche Picotte, American physician (first Native American woman to receive a medical degree), dies of cancer at 50 [1]
- Sep 21 Anthony Comstock, American anti-vice crusader, special agent to the U.S. Post Office, dies at 71
- Sep 27 Conrad T van Deventer, Dutch jurist/MP (liberal), dies at 57
- Sep 27 Kaspar C E Ritter von Zumbusch, German/Austrian sculptor, dies at 84
- Sep 27 Remy de Gourmont, French poet, dies at 57
- Sep 28 Saitou Hajime, 3rd squad leader of the Shinsengumi died under name of Goro Fujita (b. 1844)
- Sep 29 Luther Orlando Emerson, American composer, dies at 95
- Sep 29 Rudi Stephan, German composer (Die ersten Menschen), dies fighting in World War I at 28
