| Date | Age | Bishop | Title |
| unknown | 75.7 | Luigi Carsidoni † | Bishop of Fano, Italy |
| unknown | | Manuel Ángel del Prado Cárdenas † | Bishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia |
| unknown | 70.4 | Michele Manzo † | Archbishop of Chieti, Italy |
| 23 Jan | 52.9 | Bernard O'Reilly † | Bishop of Hartford, Connecticut, USA |
| 25 Jan | 72.0 | George Hilary Brown † | Bishop of Liverpool, England, Great Britain |
| 3 Mar | 84.4 | Ambrogio Bianchi, O.S.B. † | Cardinal, Priest of the Roman Curia - Other |
| 20 Apr | 80.4 | Giacomo Filippo Fransoni † | Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for Propagation of the Faith |
| 7 May | 59.6 | Georg Anton Brinkmann † | Auxiliary Bishop of Münster, Germany |
| 17 May | 66.1 | Vicente Barreiro y Pérez, O.S.A. † | Bishop of Nueva Segovia, Philippines |
| 17 May | 91.7 | Bernhard Galura † | Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy |
| 26 Jun | 82.2 | Juan Antonio Rivadeneyra † | Bishop of Valladolid, Spain |
| 30 Jun | 62.9 | François-Adélaïde-Adolphe Lanneluc † | Bishop of Aire, France |
| 2 Jul | 74.5 | Ferdinando Minucci † | Archbishop of Firenze {Florence}, Italy |
| 11 Jul | 56.1 | Antoine-Louis-Adolphe Dupuch † | Bishop Emeritus of Alger, Algeria |
| 13 Jul | 62.7 | Juan José Biec Belio † | Bishop of Jaca, Spain |
| 22 Jul | | Cornelius Egan † | Bishop of Kerry (o Ardfert) e Aghadoe, Ireland |
| 12 Aug | 76.8 | Giovanni Soglia Ceroni † | Cardinal, Secretary of the Secretariat of State |
| 23 Sep | 69.4 | Anastasius Johannes Sedlag † | Bishop of Chelmno (Culma), Poland |
| 20 Nov | 77.3 | Ignacio Díaz Caneja † | Bishop of Oviedo, Spain |
| 4 Dec | | Timothy Murphy † | Bishop of Ross, Ireland |
| 24 Dec | 60.1 | Bernard Buissas † | Bishop of Limoges, France |