| Date | Age | Bishop | Title |
| unknown | | Odoardo Agnelli † | President of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy |
| unknown | 71.6 | Francesco Andreoli † | Bishop of Cagli e Pergola, Italy |
| unknown | | Giuseppe Audu † | Patriarch of Babylon {Babilonia} (Chaldean), Iraq |
| unknown | 50.7 | Dario Bucciarelli, O.F.M. † | Archbishop of Skopje, Macedonia |
| unknown | 65.1 | Francesco Petagna † | Bishop of Castellammare di Stabia, Italy |
| unknown | 70.3 | Gaetano Rodilossi † | Bishop of Alatri, Italy |
| unknown | | Juan Nepomuceno Rueda † | Bishop of Cartagena, Colombia |
| unknown | 74.1 | Antonio Soggiu † | Archbishop of Oristano, Italy |
| unknown | | Luigi Raffaele Zampetti † | Bishop of Rimini, Italy |
| 7 Jan | 61.0 | Michael (Miguel) Domenec, C.M. † | Bishop Emeritus of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 7 Feb | 85.7 | Bl. Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti † | Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy) |
| 18 Feb | 54.7 | James Whelan, O.P. † | Bishop Emeritus of Nashville, Tennessee, USA |
| 26 Feb | 75.1 | Geoffroy Brossais Saint-Marc † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Rennes, France |
| 27 Feb | 62.2 | Felicissimo Cocchino, O.F.M. Cap. † | Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Galla, Ethiopia |
| 1 Mar | 78.6 | Joseph-Armand Gignoux † | Bishop of Beauvais (-Noyon-Senlis), France |
| 30 Mar | 81.8 | Luigi Amat di San Filipo e Sorso † | Cardinal, Official of the Roman Curia - Other |
| 6 Apr | 67.5 | Giuseppe Berardi † | Cardinal, Titular Archbishop of Nicaea |
| 23 Apr | 75.5 | René-Marie-Charles Poirier, C.I.M. † | Bishop of Roseau, Dominica, Antilles |
| 29 Apr | 73.0 | Emmanuel-Jean-François Verrolles, M.E.P. † | Vicar Apostolic of Manchuria {Manciuria}, China |
| 4 May | 77.9 | Luigi Moreno † | Bishop of Ivrea, Italy |
| 12 May | 67.4 | Thaddeus Amat y Brusi, C.M. † | Bishop of Monterey-Los Angeles, California, USA |
| 12 May | 42.9 | Pascal Bili, O.F.M. † | Vicar Apostolic of Northwestern Hupeh {Hu-Pè Occiduo-Settentrionale}, China |
| 8 Jun | 73.6 | Rafael Valentín Valdivieso y Zañartu † | Archbishop of Santiago de Chile |
| 1 Jul | 81.8 | Gennaro di Giacomo † | Bishop Emeritus of Alife, Italy |
| 1 Jul | 51.7 | Edouard-Auguste Dubar, S.J. † | Vicar Apostolic of Southeastern Chi-Li {Ce-Li Meridio-Orientale}, China |
| 4 Jul | 33.6 | Vital Maria Gonçalves de Oliveira, O.F.M. Cap. † | Bishop of Olinda, Brazil |
| 30 Jul | 75.0 | Johannes Heinrich Beckmann † | Bishop of Osnabrück, Germany |
| 31 Jul | 59.1 | Alessandro Franchi † | Cardinal, Secretary of the Secretariat of State |
| 4 Aug | | George Michael Conroy † | Bishop of Ardagh (and Clonmacnois), Ireland |
| 7 Aug | 57.2 | Eugène-Étienne Charbonnier, M.E.P. † | Vicar Apostolic of Eastern Cochin {Cocincina Orientale}, Viêt Nam |
| 24 Aug | 67.9 | Manuel Eduardo Alvarez † | Bishop of Córdoba (Tucumán), Argentina |
| 8 Oct | 79.1 | Esteban Pérez Fernández † | Bishop of Málaga, Spain |
| 10 Oct | 70.6 | Constantino Bonet Zanuy † | Archbishop of Tarragona, Spain |
| 10 Oct | 45.4 | Thomas Galberry, O.S.A. † | Bishop of Hartford, Connecticut, USA |
| 11 Oct | 76.8 | Félix-Antoine-Philibert Dupanloup † | Bishop of Orléans, France |
| 21 Oct | 51.7 | Sylvester Horton Rosecrans † | Bishop of Columbus, Ohio, USA |
| 24 Oct | 75.5 | Paul Cullen † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Dublin, Ireland |
| 22 Nov | 49.0 | Aloys Elloy, S.M. † | Vicar Apostolic of Central Oceania, Tonga |
| 24 Nov | 77.1 | Vincent Spaccapietra, C.M. † | Archbishop of Izmir (Smirne), Turkey |
| 30 Nov | 70.2 | Adrien-Hyppolyte Languillat, S.J. † | Vicar Apostolic of Kiangnan, China |
| 1 Dec | 85.0 | Manuel Martins Manso † | Bishop of Guarda, Portugal |
| 23 Dec | 76.4 | Fabio Maria Asquini † | Cardinal, Secretary of the Roman Curia - Other |
| 25 Dec | 72.9 | Antoine-Magloire Doumer, SS.CC. † | Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Tahiti {Isole Tahiti}, French Polynesia, Pacific (Oceania) |