| Date | Age | Bishop | Title |
| unknown | 79.0 | Karl Pooten † | Archbishop of Bar (Antivari), Montenegro |
| unknown | 62.5 | Camillo Santori † | Bishop Emeritus of Fano, Italy |
| unknown | 58.5 | Petrus Hendricus Josephus van Ewyk (Ewijk), O.P. † | Vicar Apostolic of Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles, Antilles |
| 6 Jan | 65.9 | Remiglo Pacini † | Bishop of Livorno, Italy |
| 26 Jan | 68.6 | Guido Rocca † | Bishop of Reggio Emilia, Italy |
| 3 Feb | 71.0 | George Butler † | Bishop of Limerick, Ireland |
| 13 Feb | 75.5 | Pierre-Henri Gérault de Langalerie † | Archbishop of Auch, France |
| 15 Feb | 58.9 | Peter Joseph Baltes † | Bishop of Alton, Illinois, USA |
| 19 Feb | 74.5 | Mateo Jaume Garau † | Bishop of Mallorca, Spain |
| 26 Feb | 48.9 | George Vincent King, O.P. † | Coadjutor Archbishop of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Antilles |
| 3 Mar | 60.9 | Angelo Jacobini † | Cardinal, Official of the Roman Curia - Other |
| 29 Mar | 90.9 | Johannes Nepomuk von der Marwitz † | Bishop of Chelmno (Culma), Poland |
| 30 Mar | 59.2 | Tommaso Maria Martinelli, O.S.A. † | Cardinal, Prefect of the Roman Curia - Other |
| 5 Apr | 72.1 | Philippe François Zéphirin Guillemin, M.E.P. † | Prefect of Canton [Guangzhou], China |
| 8 Apr | 79.8 | Johann Baptist Orbin † | Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany |
| 10 Apr | 67.8 | Stanislao Eula † | Bishop of Novara, Italy |
| 18 Apr | 55.5 | Narciso Martínez Izquierdo † | Bishop of Madrid, Spain |
| 26 Apr | 59.2 | Saturnino Fernandez de Castro y de la Cotera † | Archbishop of Burgos, Spain |
| 4 May | 57.9 | Jean-François Jamot † | Bishop of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada |
| 20 May | 81.1 | Pierre-Marc Le Breton † | Bishop of Le Puy-en-Velay, France |
| 6 Jun | 73.4 | Francesco Pedicini † | Archbishop of Bari (-Canosa), Italy |
| 11 Jun | 73.6 | James Alypius Goold, O.S.A. † | Archbishop of Melbourne, Australia |
| 11 Jun | 59.1 | Thomas Francis Hendricken † | Bishop of Providence, Rhode Island, USA |
| 18 Jun | 90.8 | Joannes Augustinus Paredis † | Bishop of Roermond, Netherlands |
| 20 Jun | 53.5 | Jules-Denis-Marie-Dieudonné Le Hardy du Marais † | Bishop of Laval, France |
| 8 Jul | 83.6 | Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Paris, France |
| 23 Jul | 51.5 | François-Xavier Riehl, C.S.Sp. † | Vicar Apostolic of Senegambia, Senegal |
| 18 Aug | 81.8 | Paul-Georges-Marie Dupont des Loges † | Bishop of Metz, France |
| 8 Sep | 75.5 | Joseph (José María Benito) Serra y Juliá, O.S.B. † | Coadjutor Bishop Emeritus of Perth, Australia |
| 15 Sep | 76.6 | Carmine Gori-Merosi † | Cardinal, Secretary of the Sacred Consistorial Congregation |
| 20 Sep | 61.5 | Juan José Blas Tissera, O.F.M. † | Bishop of Córdoba (Tucumán), Argentina |
| 24 Sep | 49.8 | Jules Lepley, M.E.P. † | Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Southern Szechwan {Se-Ciuen Meridionale}, China |
| 24 Sep | 52.2 | Jeremiah Francis Shanahan † | Bishop of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 1 Oct | 65.9 | Peter Funder † | Bishop of Gurk, Austria |
| 29 Oct | 62.5 | John William Bewick † | Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, England, Great Britain |
| 1 Nov | 72.0 | Martin Griver y Cuni † | Bishop of Perth, Australia |
| 1 Nov | 67.0 | Eugène Lachat, C.Pp.S. † | Bishop Emeritus of Basel, Switzerland |
| 4 Nov | 71.3 | Pietro Maria Ferrè † | Bishop of Casale Monferrato, Italy |
| 12 Nov | 62.5 | Casimiro Herrero Pérez, O.S.A. † | Bishop of Nueva Caceres, Philippines |
| 14 Nov | 81.9 | William Delany † | Bishop of Cork, Ireland |
| 23 Nov | 59.0 | José María Orberá y Carrión † | Bishop of Almería, Spain |
| 28 Nov | 46.9 | Charles-Jean Seghers † | Bishop of Vancouver Island, USA |
| 11 Dec | 70.7 | Johannes Baptiste Franzelin, S.J. † | Cardinal, Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Bonifacio ed Alessio |
| 26 Dec | 63.9 | Robert Herzog † | Bishop of Wrocław, Poland |
| 27 Dec | 75.0 | Honorio María de Onaindía y López † | Bishop of Huesca, Spain |