Google from time to time honor people or events with a customized version of their logo. This is a sub-project of Google Doodle Directory. There is a full list that can be searched and filtered at the Google Doodles Library.
The goal of this sub-project is to list all of those honored by Google in the year 2008. Profiles will be tagged to the parent project. Linked names have Geni Profiles and tagged profiles are in bold.

This project is on History Link where you can discover which projects your ancestors are on.

Project Completion

15/22 Profiles on Geni
13/22 Profiles tagged to Google Doodle project

Month Shortcuts

January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December

January

January 21 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Holiday

March

March 03 - Dr. Alexander Graham Bell - 161st Birthday

March 25 - Béla Bartók - 127th Birthday

April

April 12 - Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci - 200th Birthday

May

May 11 - Florence Nightingale ("The Lady with the Lamp") - 188th Birthday

May 17 - Walter Adolf Georg Gropius - 125th Birthday

May 23 - Hélène Boucher - 100th Birthday

June

June 06 - Diego Velázquez - 409th Birthday

June 07 - Charles Rennie MacIntosh - 140th Birthday

June 14 - Yasunari Kawabata, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1968 - 109th Birthday

July

July 07 - Marc Chagall - 121st Birthday

July 08 - Kaii Higashiyama - 100th Birthday

July 28 - Beatrix Potter - 142nd Birthday

August

August 07 - Joachim Ringelnatz - 125th Birthday

September

September 01 - Filopimin Finos - 100th Birthday

September 02 - Richard B. Smith - 171st Birthday

September 29 - Miguel de Cervantes - 461st Birthday

September 30 - Rumi - 801st Birthday

October

October 13 - Michael Bond, CBE - Paddington Bear's 50th Birthday

October 16 - Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom - Visits Google London

October 29 - Ľudovít Štúr - 193rd Birthday

November

November 21 - René François Ghislain Magritte - 110th Birthday