2016 in Venezuela
Events in the year 2016 in Venezuela.
Incumbents
President: Nicolás MaduroVice President: Jorge Arreaza, Aristóbulo IstúrizGovernors
- Amazonas: Liborio Guarulla
- Anzoátegui: Aristóbulo Istúriz then Nelson Moreno
- Apure: Ramón Carrizales
- Aragua: Tareck El Aissami
- Barinas: Adán Chávez
- Bolívar: Francisco Rangel Gómez
- Carabobo: Francisco Ameliach then Gustavo Pulido Cardier
- Cojedes: Erika Farías then Margaud Godoy
- Delta Amacuro: Lizeta Hernández
- Falcón: Stella Lugo
- Guárico: Ramón Rodríguez Chacín
- Lara: Henri Falcón
- Mérida: Alexis Ramirez then Ramón Guevara
- Miranda: Henrique Capriles Radonski
- Monagas: Yelitza Santaella
- Nueva Esparta: Carlos Mata Figueroa
- Portuguesa: Wilmar Castro then Reinaldo Castañeda
- Sucre: Luis Acuña then Edwin Rojas
- Táchira: José Vielma Mora
- Trujillo: Henry Rangel Silva
- Vargas: Jorge García Carneiro
- Yaracuy: Julio León Heredia
- Zulia: Francisco Arias Cárdenas
Events
- 13 May - a state of emergency was declared by the president
Sport
- 5-21 August - Venezuela at the 2016 Summer Olympics: 87 competitors in 20 sports
Deaths
- 4 January - Andres Rodriguez, equestrian and businessperson.
- 10 January - Hernán Gamboa, musician.
- 10 January - Cornelis Zitman, sculptor.
- 18 January - Pablo Manavello, composer, guitarist, singer and songwriter
- 24 January - Teófilo Rodríguez, criminal.
- 14 February - Peter Bottome, businessperson
- 14 February - Anselmo López, bandola player
- 23 February - Luis Alberto Machado, lawyer and writer
- 4 March - Ramón Palomares, poet
- 22 May - Alexis Navarro, politician and diplomat
- 7 June - Rubén Quevedo, baseball player
- 18 June - Susana Duijm, actress, television host, beauty queen, Miss World 1955 winner
- 29 June - Inocente Carreño, composer
- 2 July - Carlos Morocho Hernández, professional boxer, world champion
- 5 July - Alirio Díaz, classical guitarist and composer
- 17 July - Aníbal José Chávez Frías, politician
- 1 August - Oscar Celli Gerbasi, politician
- 7 August - Rodolfo Camacho, cyclist
- 23 August - Mercedes Pulido, politician and diplomat
- 6 September - Alfredo Peña, journalist and politician
- 18 November - Kervin Piñerua, volleyball player
- 24 November - Luis Miquilena, politician
- 25 November - Bernardo Álvarez Herrera, diplomat