- Sep 1 Lennox Brown, South African cricket leg spinner (3 wickets at 63 for South Africa), dies at 72
- Sep 7 Henry Promnitz, South African cricketer (5-58 on debut for South Africa 1927-28), dies at 79
- Sep 8 Antonin Magne, French cyclist (won Tour de France 1931, 34), dies at 79
- Sep 12 Sabin Carr, American athlete (Olympic gold pole vault 1928; WR 4.27m 1927), dies at 79
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