| Date | Age | Bishop | Title |
| unknown | | César des Bourguignons † | Bishop of Limoges, France |
| unknown | | Ambroise Buttigeg, O.P. † | Titular Bishop of Hauara |
| unknown | | Giovanni Antonio Carafa † | Bishop of Venafro, Italy |
| unknown | | Lucas Ceratus † | Auxiliary Bishop of Parma, Italy |
| unknown | | Figliuccio de Figliucci † | Bishop of Chiusi, Italy |
| unknown | | François de Mauny † | Archbishop of Bordeaux, France |
| unknown | | Bartolomeo Orsucci † | Bishop of Lavello, Italy |
| unknown | | Alexander Scutarinus † | Bishop of Tinos, Greece |
| 22 Jan | 71.1 | Christoph von Braunschweig-Lüneburg † | Archbishop of Bremen (and Hamberg), Germany |
| 17 Feb | 62.1 | Hieronymus Meitting † | Bishop of Chiemsee, Germany |
| 3 Mar | | Luca Gaurico † | Bishop Emeritus of Civitate (Cittŕ or Civita), Italy |
| 8 Mar | 56.3 | Pietro Bertani, O.P. † | Cardinal, Bishop of Fano, Italy |
| 25 Mar | | Anastasio Umberto Dandini, O.S.B. † | Bishop of Imola, Italy |
| 25 Mar | 63.2 | Girolamo Doria † | Cardinal, Administrator of Tarragona, Spain |
| Apr | | William Peto, O.F.M. † | Cardinal, Bishop of Salisbury, England, Great Britain |
| 4 Apr | | Claude Dodieu † | Bishop of Rennes, France |
| 15 Apr | 56.3 | Melchior Zobel von Giebelstadt † | Bishop of Würzburg, Germany |
| May | | Bartolomeo Albano † | Archbishop of Sorrento, Italy |
| 15 May | | Vittore Soranzo † | Bishop of Bergamo, Italy |
| 21 May | | William Glyn † | Bishop of Bangor, Wales, Great Britain |
| 24 May | | Francisco Roures, O.P. † | Auxiliary Bishop of Tarragona, Spain |
| 4 Jun | | Rafael Llinás, O. Carm. † | Auxiliary Bishop of Mallorca, Spain |
| 18 Jun | | Anton von Schaumberg † | Archbishop-Elect of Köln {Cologne}, Germany |
| 21 Jun | 63.0 | Filippo Archinto † | Archbishop of Milano {Milan}, Italy |
| 22 Jun | | Gian Matteo Luchi (di Luca) † | Bishop of Tropea, Italy |
| 5 Aug | 59.6 | Pietro Tagliavia d’Aragonia † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Palermo, Italy |
| 15 Aug | | George Dowdall † | Archbishop of Armagh, Ireland |
| 24 Aug | | John Hopton, O.P. † | Bishop of Norwich, England, Great Britain |
| 7 Sep | | Maurice Griffith † | Bishop of Rochester, England, Great Britain |
| 15 Sep | | Diego Fernández de Córdoba Velasco † | Bishop of Calahorra y La Calzada, Spain |
| 1 Oct | | David Panter † | Bishop of Ross, Scotland, Great Britain |
| 2 Nov | | Peter Rauch, O.P. † | Auxiliary Bishop of Bamberg, Germany |
| 2 Nov | | Petrus Rauh, O.P. † | Auxiliary Bishop of Bamberg, Germany |
| 4 Nov | | Baltasar de Heredia, O.P. † | Archbishop Emeritus of Cagliari, Italy |
| 17 Nov | 58.7 | Reginald Pole † | Cardinal, Archbishop of Canterbury, England, Great Britain |
| Dec | | John Christopherson † | Bishop of Chichester, England, Great Britain |
| 24 Dec | | Domenico Somma † | Bishop of Bisignano, Italy |