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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
Prime Minister of Latvia	Māris Kučinskis (from February 11)	Kučinskis cabinet
Speaker of the Saeima	Ināra Mūrniece

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

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)

^ Ābeltiņa, Madara; Rozenberga, Māra; Volmārs, Andrejs (22 April 2016). "Mūžībā aizgājis latviešu estrādes dziedātājs Ojārs Grinbergs" (in Latvian). Public Broadcasting of Latvia. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
^ "Miris aktieris Jānis Reinis". Ir (in Latvian). 28 August 2016. Retrieved 6 February 2024.