| 111871 | September 30 | Birth | 1922 – Alan Stretton, Australian general (d. 2012) |
| 111872 | September 30 | Birth | 1923 – Donald Swann, Welsh-English pianist and composer (Flanders and Swann) (d. 1994) |
| 111873 | September 30 | Birth | 1924 – Truman Capote, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 1984) |
| 111874 | September 30 | Birth | 1924 – Nikos Rizos, Greek actor (d. 1999) |
| 111875 | September 30 | Birth | 1925 – Arkady Ostashev, Russian engineer and educator (d. 1998) |
| 111876 | September 30 | Birth | 1926 – Heino Kruus, Estonian basketball player and coach (d. 2012) |
| 111877 | September 30 | Birth | 1926 – Robin Roberts, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2010) |
| 111878 | September 30 | Birth | 1927 – W. S. Merwin, American poet and translator |
| 111879 | September 30 | Birth | 1928 – Elie Wiesel, Romanian-American author, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 111880 | September 30 | Birth | 1928 – Ray Willsey, Canadian-American football player and coach (d. 2013) |
| 111881 | September 30 | Birth | 1929 – Carol Fenner, American author and illustrator (d. 2002) |
| 111882 | September 30 | Birth | 1929 – Vassilis Papazachos, Greek seismologist and academic |
| 111883 | September 30 | Birth | 1931 – Angie Dickinson, American actress |
| 111884 | September 30 | Birth | 1931 – Teresa Gorman, English educator and politician (d. 2015) |
| 111885 | September 30 | Birth | 1932 – Anthony Hawkins, English-Australian actor (d. 2013) |
| 111886 | September 30 | Birth | 1932 – Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese author, playwright, and politician, Governor of Tokyo |
| 111887 | September 30 | Birth | 1932 – Johnny Podres, American baseball player and coach (d. 2008) |
| 111888 | September 30 | Birth | 1933 – Michel Aoun, Lebanese general and politician, President of Lebanon |
| 111889 | September 30 | Birth | 1933 – Ben Cooper, American actor |
| 111890 | September 30 | Birth | 1933 – Cissy Houston, American singer (Sweet Inspirations and The Drinkard Singers) |
| 111891 | September 30 | Birth | 1933 – Barbara Knox, English actress |
| 111892 | September 30 | Birth | 1934 – Alan A'Court, English footballer and manager (d. 2009) |
| 111893 | September 30 | Birth | 1934 – Udo Jürgens, Austrian-Swiss singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2014) |
| 111894 | September 30 | Birth | 1934 – Anna Kashfi, Indian-American actress (d. 2015) |
| 111895 | September 30 | Birth | 1935 – Z. Z. Hill, American singer and guitarist (d. 1984) |
| 111896 | September 30 | Birth | 1935 – Johnny Mathis, American singer-songwriter and actor |
| 111897 | September 30 | Birth | 1936 – Jim Sasser, American lawyer and politician, 6th United States Ambassador to China |
| 111898 | September 30 | Birth | 1936 – Sevgi Soysal, Turkish author (d. 1976) |
| 111899 | September 30 | Birth | 1937 – Jurek Becker, Polish-German author (d. 1997) |
| 111900 | September 30 | Birth | 1937 – Valentyn Sylvestrov, Ukrainian pianist and composer |