2016 in Italy
The following lists events that have happened in 2016 in the Italian Republic.Incumbents
January
- 9 January - Murder of Ashley Ann Olsen in Florence
- 21-24 January- 2015–16 Biathlon World Cup – World Cup 6 in Rasen-Antholz
April
- 2 April - 12 September - Triennial 2016
- 4-10 April - 2016 IIHF Women's World Championship Division I Group B in Asiago
May
- 6-29 May - 2016 Giro d'Italia
July
- 12 July - Andria-Corato train collision
August
- 24 August - August 2016 Central Italy earthquake
Deaths
- January 7 – Valerio Zanone, 79, politician
- January 14 – Franco Citti, 80, actor
- January 19 – Ettore Scola, 84, director
- February 19 – Umberto Eco, 82, philosopher and semiotician
- March 25 – Paolo Poli, 86, theatre actor
- May 19 – Marco Pannella, 86, politician
- May 28 – Giorgio Albertazzi, 92, actor and director
- June 5 – Gianluca Buonanno, 50, politician
- June 27 – Bud Spencer, 86, actor
- July 13 – Bernardo Provenzano, 83, criminal and chief of the Sicilian Mafia
- September 16 – Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, 95, former President
- October 13 – Dario Fo, 90, actor and Nobel Prize laureate
- November 1 – Tina Anselmi, 89, politician
- November 8 – Umberto Veronesi, 90, scientist
