2016 in Latvia

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← 2015 2014 2013 2016 in Latvia → 2017 2018 2019
Decades:	1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s
See also:	Other events of 2016 Timeline of Latvian history

Incumbents[]

Events[]

January[]

• January 20 — to President of Latvia Raimonds Vējonis was performed heart surgery^{[clarification needed]}

August[]

• August 5–21 - Latvia competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

December[]

• December 3–11 — 2016 Men's World Floorball Championships take place in Latvia.

Deaths[]

• January 4 — Rūsiņš Mārtiņš Freivalds, computer scientist and mathematician (b. 1942)
• April 9 — Juris Ekmanis, President of Latvian Academy of Sciences (b. 1941)
• April 22 — Ojārs Grīnbergs, singer (b. 1942)
• August 22 — Jānis Reinis, actor (b. 1960)
• November 29 — Ruta Šaca-Marjaša, lawyer, writer, poet, and politician (b. 1927)