• President: Raimonds Vējonis (until July 8), Egils Levits (from July 8)
• Prime Minister: Māris Kučinskis (until January 23), Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš (from January 23)

November edit

• 12 November – As a result of the Iron March leak, it was discovered the Latvian national-conservative National Alliance politician and activist Raivis Zeltīts had posted on Iron March under the handle "Latvian_Integralist". Zeltīts acknowledged in a Facebook post that he had written using this handle, but Zeltīts said that he no longer held those views.^[1] Zeltīts remained in contact with Iron March administrator Benjamin Raymond as late as 2015.^[2]

• February 26 – Andrejs Žagars, actor (b. 1958)
• March 1 – Ivars Knēts, rector and professor (b. 1938)
• March 2 – Andra Neiburga, writer and translator (b. 1957)
• June 14 – Vaira Paegle, politician (b. 1942)
• June 20 – Anna Seile, scientist and politician (b. 1939)
• September 21 – Boriss Teterevs, philanthropist (b. 1953)
• September 23 – Jānis Šmits, politician and Lutheran pastor (b. 1968)
• October 26 – Mārtiņš Ķibilds, journalist (b. 1973)
• November 9 – Džemma Skulme, artist and modernist painter (b. 1925)
• December 1 – Mariss Jansons, conductor (b. 1943)