September 2: '50s teen idol Jimmy Clanton (1940),
Toto's Steve Pocaro (1957)

September 3: Beachboy Al Jardine (1942), Don Brewer of Grand Funk Railroad (1948)

September 4: Danny Gatton (1945)

September 5: John Stewart (1939), Al Stewart (1945), Queen's Freddie Mercury (1946),
and Buddy Miles (1946)

September 6: Roger Waters of Pink Floyd (1944)

September 7: Buddy Holly (1936), disco diva Gloria Gaynor (1949)

September 8:Patsy Cline (1932), Queen's Freddie Mercury (1946),
The Fine Young Cannibals' David Steele (1960)

September 9: Otis Redding (1941), Doug Ingle of Iron Butterfly (1946),
Billy Preston (1946)

September 10: Jose Feliciano (1945), Danny Hutton of Three Dog Night (1946),
Aerosmith's Joe Perry (1950)

September 11: - Harry Connick Jr. (1967)

September 12: - Maria Muldaur (1943), Barry White (1944)

September 15: - Roy Acuff (1903)

September 16: - The Fleshtones' Peter Zaremba (1656), B.B. King (1925)

September 17: - Hank Williams (1923)

September 18 :- Frankie Avalon (1939)

September 19: - Brook Benton (1939), Righteous Brother Bill Medley (1940),
Mama Cass Elliot (1941) producer Daniel Lanois (1951)

September 20: - Styx drummer John Panozzo (1947), Soundgarden's Ben Shepherd           (1968)

September 21: Leonard Cohen (1934), The Eagles' Don Felder (1947),
Trugoy the Dove of De La Soul (1968)

September 22: David Coverdale of Whitesnake (1951), Joan Jett (1960)

September 23: Brother Ray Charles (1930), Ben E. "Stand By Me" King
                                     (1938), Bruce Springsteen (1959), Ani DiFranco (1970)

September 24: Gerry Marsden of Gerry and The Pacemakers (1942)

September 26: Roxy Music's Bryan Ferry (1945)
 

September 29: Jerry Lee Lewis (1935), jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty (1942)

September 30: Marc Bolan of T. Rex (1947),
schmaltzmeister  JohnnyMathis(1935)  The Fifth Dimension's Marilyn McCoo (1943)

September 3: Songwriter ("Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" and countless Tin Pan Alley tunes) Johnny Marks died in 1985.

September 4: C&W chanteuse Dottie West died in a 1990 car wreck.
 Tom Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival succumbed to respiratory illness in 1990.

September 7: - Derek Taylor, publicist for the Beatles (1997)

September 10:  Zydeco squeezebox player and bandleader Beau Jocque (1999)

September 11: Peter Tosh, formerly of the Wailers, murdered during a robbery (1987)

September 13:  Tupac Shakur after being shot 4 times in a drive-by 6 days earlier.
 
September 14: - R&B crooner Johnny Adams of cancer (1997)

September 16: - Marc Bolan of T Rex in an auto wreck (1977)

September 17: - MC5's singer Rob Tyner of a heart attack (1991)

September 18: - Jimi Hendrix of a barbiturate OD (1970)

September 19: - Byrds' guitarist Gram Parsons (1973)

September 22: Irving Berlin (1989)

September 23: Robbie McIntosh of Average White Band (1974), boogie-
                                      woogie pianist Lawrence "Booker T." Laury (1995)

September 25: Led Zep's drummer John Bonham (1980)

September 27: Metallica bassist Cliff Burton (1986)

September 28: Miles Davis (1991)