2016 in Latvia

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Decades:	1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s
See also:	Other events of 2016 Timeline of Latvian history

Incumbents

Position	Person	Remarks
President of Latvia	Raimonds Vējonis
Prime Minister of Latvia	Laimdota Straujuma (till February 11)	Second Straujuma cabinet
	Māris Kučinskis (from February 11)	Kučinskis cabinet
Speaker of the Saeima	Ināra Mūrniece

Events

January

• January 20 — Heart surgery was performed to President of Latvia Raimonds Vējonis^{[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 took 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)^[1]
• August 22 — Jānis Reinis, actor (b. 1960)^[2]
• November 29 — Ruta Šaca-Marjaša, lawyer, writer, poet, and politician (b. 1927)