Historical Events
- Sep 1 France creates Greater Lebanon
- Sep 1 New town hall of Rotterdam opens
- Sep 2 W Somerset Maugham's "East of Suez" premieres in London
- Sep 4 Last day of Julian civil calendar (in parts of Bulgaria)
- Sep 4 Man o' War wins the 1 5/8-mile Lawrence Realization Stakes at Belmont Park by 100 lengths, the largest winning margin in modern thoroughbred racing history; world record time 2.40.8
- Sep 5 Iron monument unveiled at Stone churches, Flanders
Dempsey KOs Miske
Sep 6 Jack Dempsey KOs Billy Miske in 3 for heavyweight boxing title 1st radio broadcast of a prizefight
US Men's Tennis Open
Sep 6 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills NY: Bill Tilden wins first of 6 straight US singles titles; beats Bill Johnston 6-1, 1-6, 7-5, 5-7, 6-3
Wall Street Bombing
Sep 16 The "Wall Street bombing" occurs at 12:01 when a horse-drawn wagon explodes on Wall Street, New York, killing 38 and injuring 143
Enrico Caruso's Final Recording Session
Sep 20 Italian tenor Enrico Caruso finishes what becomes his final recording session, singing the "Domine Deus" and "Crucifixus" from Gioachino Rossini's "Petite messe solennelle", at Victor's Trinity Church studio in Camden, New Jersey
- Sep 25 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Philadelphia CC: Molla Bjurstedt Mallory beats Marion Zinderstein 6-3, 6-1 for her 5th US singles crown
- Sep 25 Vern Bradburn of Winnipeg Victorias kicks 9 singles in a game
- Sep 28 8 Chicago White Sox baseball players are indicted by a grand jury, charged with fixing 1919 World Series; infamous "Black Sox scandal"
- Sep 28 Dirk Fock appointed as governor-general of Dutch East Indies
- Sep 29 Belgium annexes Eupen/Malmö dy
- Sep 29 Joseph Horne Company in Pittsburgh sells radios for $10
- Sep 29 Yankees slugger Babe Ruth sets then-MLB home run season record at 54 with a 9th inning shot off Dave Keefe in New York's 7-3 win at the Philadelphia A's
- Sep 30 Time Square Theater opens at 217 W 42nd St NYC
Famous Birthdays
- Sep 1 Hubert Lampo, Flemish writer and essayist (Coming of Joachim Stiller), born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 2006)
- Sep 1 Richard Farnsworth, American actor (Misery, Havana, Sylvester), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2000)
- Sep 4 Craig Claiborne, American food columnist (NY Times Cookbook), born in Sunflower, Mississippi (d. 2000)
- Sep 4 Harold "Shot" Jackson, American country dobro player, and pedal steel guitarist (Roy Acuff), and guitar designer and builder (Sho-Bud), born in Wilmington, North Carolina (d. 1991)
- Sep 4 Teddy Johnson, British singer (Pearl Carr & Teddy Johnson), born in Surbiton, Surrey (d. 2018)
- Sep 5 Fons Rademakers, Dutch director (Assault) and actor (Daughter of Darkness), born in Roosendaal, Netherlands (d. 2007)
- Sep 5 Margaretha D. Ferguson-Wigerink, Dutch author (Anna & her Father), born in Arnhem, Netherlands (d. 1992)
- Sep 5 Peter Racine Fricker, British composer, born in London (d. 1990)
- Sep 7 Al Caiola, American guitarist (Bonzanza theme), born in Jersey City (d. 2016)
- Sep 7 Harri Webb, Welsh poet and nationalist, born in Swansea, Wales (d. 1994)
- Sep 9 Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician (d. 1993)
- Sep 9 Michael Aldridge, British actor (Last of the Summer Wine; Murder in Cathedral), born in Glastonbury, England (d. 1994)
- Sep 9 Robert Wood Johnson III, American philanthropist (d. 1970)
- Sep 10 Egbert van Paridon, Dutch actor and director (Flodder, The Assault), born in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (d. 2011)
- Sep 10 Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle engineer (Ducati), born in Lugo, Italy (d. 2001)
- Sep 12 Irene Dailey, American actress (Another World, Grissom Gang), born in New York City (d. 2008)
- Sep 12 Jan W. Schulte Nordholt, Dutch poet and historian (Blossoming Stone), born in Zwolle, Netherlands (d. 1995)
- Sep 13 Carole Mathews [Jean Deifel], American actress (The Californians, Swamp Women), born in Montgomery, Illinois (d. 2014)
- Sep 14 Alberto Calderón, Argentine mathematician, born in Mendoza, Argentina (d. 1998)
- Sep 14 Bud Palmer, American basketball player (NY Knicks) and sportscaster, born in Hollywood, California (d. 2013)
- Sep 14 Lawrence Klein, American economist who created computer models to forecast economic trends (1980 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences), born in Omaha, Nebraska (d. 2013)
- Sep 14 Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan journalist, novelist and poet, born in Paso de los Toros, Uruguay (d. 2009)
- Sep 15 Dave Garcia, American MLB manager (California Angels, Cleveland Indians), born in San Diego, California (d. 2018)
- Sep 16 Hannie Schaft, Dutch communist resistance fighter known as the "Girl with red hair", born in Haarlem, Netherlands (d. 1945)
- Sep 16 John MacKenzie, Scottish-Canadian bagpiper and pipe-major, born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1996) [1]
- Sep 16 Sheila Quinn, British nurse and adviser (British Red Cross), born in Blackpool, England (d. 2016)
- Sep 17 Dinah Sheridan, British actress (Genevieve, The Railway Children, Don't Wait Up), born in Hampstead, London (d. 2012)
- Sep 17 Marjorie Holt, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland), born in Birmingham, Alabama (d. 2018)
- Sep 18 Jack Warden [John Lebzelter Jr], American character actor (Shampoo, Heaven Can Wait, Brian's Song), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 2006)
- Sep 19 Karen Khachaturian, Russian composer, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 2011)
- Sep 19 Roger Angell, American literary editor and baseball journalist (The New Yorker), born in Manhattan, New York (d. 2022)
- Sep 20 Bill DeArango, American jazz guitarist (Charlie Ventura; Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis; "Slam" Stewart), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 2005)
- Sep 20 Frances Heflin, American actress (All My Children, The Skin of Our Teeth), born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (d. 1994)
- Sep 20 Jay Ward, American cartoonist (Rocky & His Friends, Bullwinkle), born in Berkeley, California (d. 1989)
- Sep 22 Anders Lassen, Danish military officer (posthumously awarded Britain's Victoria Cross), born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1945)
- Sep 22 Bob Lemon, American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (MLB All-Star 1948–54; World Series 1948; no-hitter 1948; Cleveland Indians) and manager (KC Royals, Chicago White Sox; World Series NY Yankees 1978), born in San Bernardino, California (d. 2000)
- Sep 23 Alexander Arutiunian [Harut'unyan], Soviet Armenian classical pianist and composer (Trumpet Concerto), born in Yerevan, First Republic of Armenia (d. 2012)
- Sep 23 Gerard W. Taylor, South African-British surgeon, born in Natal, South Africa (d. 1995)
- Sep 23 Jiri Jaroch, Czech composer, born in Smilkov (d. 1986)
Mickey Rooney (1920-2014)
Sep 23 American Emmy award-winning actor (Boys Town, The Black Stallion), born in Brooklyn, New York
- Sep 25 Sergei Bondarchuk, Soviet director (Destiny of a Man, War and Peace), born in Belozerka, Ukraine (d. 1994)
- Sep 27 William Conrad [John Cann], American actor (The Killers, Bullwinkle Show, Cannon), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 1994)
- Sep 29 Peter D. Mitchell, English chemist, (1978 Nobel Prize for Chemistry), born in Mitcham, England (d. 1992)
- Sep 29 Tillman Franks, American country music bassist, songwriter and artist manager (Webb Pierce), born in Stamps, Arkansas (d. 2006)
- Sep 29 Václav Neummann, Czech conductor and musician, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (d. 1995)
- Sep 30 Aldo Parisot, Brazilian-American concert cellist and educator (Yale School of Music, 1958-2018), born in Natal, Brazil (d. 2018)
- Sep 30 Ghazar Saryan, Armenian composer (Symphonic Panels on motifs by Saryan; Day of Peace), and educator (Komitas State Conservatory, 1960-86), born in Rostov-on-Don, Russia (d. 1998)
- Sep 30 Torbjörn Lundquist, Swedish classical and film score composer, conductor, and musicologist, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 2000)
Famous Weddings
Molla Mallory
Sep 18 Tennis player champion Molla Mallory (36) weds stock broker Franklin Mallory
Robert Menzies
Sep 27 Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies (25) weds Pattie Maie Leckie (21) at Kew Presbyterian Church in Melbourne, Australia
Famous Deaths
- Sep 5 Robert Harron, American actor (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance), accidentally shot to death at 27
- Sep 7 Simon-Napoléon Parent, Canadian politician and 12th Premier of Quebec (1900-05), dies at 64
- Sep 15 Raimundo Madrazo y Garreta, Spanish Realistic painter, dies at 79
- Sep 16 Daniel Andersson, Swedish poet and writer (Polar History), dies at 32
- Sep 24 Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian goldsmith and jeweler (famous for Fabergé eggs), dies at 74
- Sep 25 William F. Sudds, American composer, music publisher, and teacher, dies at 77
