2016 in Latvia

January

 * January 20 — to President of Latvia Raimonds Vējonis was performed heart surgery

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)