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 and tag all of those honored by Google in the year 2011. 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

77/109 Profiles on Geni
70/109 Profiles tagged to Google Doodle project

Month Shortcuts

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

January

January 06 - Kahlil Gibran - 128th Birthday

January 17 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Holiday

January 19 - Paul Cézanne - 172nd Birthday

January 20 - Takayanagi Kenjiro - 112th Birthday

January 20 - John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the USA - 50th Anniv of Inauguration

January 25 - Robert Burns - 252nd Birthday

January 25 - Tom Jobim - 84th Birthday

February

February 04 - Almeida Garrett - 212th Birthday

February 06 - Jan Werich - 106th Birthday

February 08 - Jules Verne - 183rd Birthday

February 11 - Thomas Alva Edison, Inventor - 164th Birthday

February 12 - Naomi Uemura - 70th Birthday

February 14 - Robert Indiana - Valentine's Day

February 15 - Sir Ernest Shackleton - 137th Birthday

February 16 - Miriam Ruth - 101st Birthday

February 17 - Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena - 94th Birthday

February 19 - Constantin Brancusi - 135th Birthday

February 20 - Mihaly Munkacsy - 167th Birthday

February 26 - Taro Okamoto - 100th Birthday

February 27 - Joaquin Sorolla - 148th Birthday

February 28 - Li Bai 李白, 94,61G - Birthday

March

March 06 - Will Eisner - 94th Birthday

March 17 - Sayed Darwish - 119th Birthday

March 24 - Harry Houdini - 137th Birthday

March 25 - Evliya Çelebi - 400th Birthday

March 31 - Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen - 200th Birthday

April

April 04 - Vaclav Ctvrtek - 100th Birthday

April 12 - Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin - 50th Anniversary of the First Man in Space

April 13 - Richard Trevithick - 240th Birthday

April 16 - Charlie Chaplin - 122nd Birthday

April 18 - Monteiro Lobato - 129th Birthday

April 23 - Sergey Prokofiev - 120th Birthday

April 25 - Karel Appel - 90th Birthday

April 26 - John James Audubon - 226th Birthday

April 29 - Catherine, Princess of Wales / William, Prince of Wales - Royal Wedding

May

May 09 - Roger Hargreaves - 76th Birthday

May 10 - Zhang Daqian - 112th Birthday

May 11 - Martha Graham - 117th Birthday

May 15 - Mikhail Bulgakov - 120th Birthday

May 19 - Dame Nellie Melba - 150th Birthday

May 20 - Annie M.G. Schmidt - 100th Birthday

May 20 - Emile Berliner - 160th Birthday

May 27 - Ibn Khaldun (Abu Zaid Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn Khaldun al-Hadrami) - 679th Birthday

June

June 05 - Richard McClure Scarry - 92nd Birthday

June 09 - Les Paul - 96th Birthday

June 13 - Fernando Pessoa - 123rd Birthday

June 21 - Abdel Halim Hafez - 82nd Birthday

June 30 - Czesław Miłosz - 100th Birthday

July

July 01 - Dorothea MacKellar - 126th Birthday

July 02 - Pedro Paulet - 137th Birthday

July 07 - Miroslav Milan Krleža - 118th Birthday

July 08 - Jean de La Fontaine - 390th Birthday

July 13 - Sir George Gilbert Scott - 200th Birthday

July 19 - Xu Beihong - 116th Birthday

July 20 - Gregor Mendel - 189th Birthday

July 21 - Alexander Milne Calder - 113th Birthday

July 23 - Amália Rodrigues - 91st Birthday

July 26 - Muhammad Mahdi Al-Jawahiri - 112th Birthday

July 27 - Enrique Granados - 144th Birthday

July 30 - Giorgio Vasari - 500th Birthday

August

August 04 - Burle Marx - 102nd Birthday

August 06 - Lucille Ball - 100th Birthday

August 17 - Pierre de Fermat - 410th Birthday

August 19 - George Enescu - 130th Birthday

August 23 - Nazik Al Malaika - 88th Birthday

August 23 - Alois Josef Jirásek - 160th Birthday

August 24 - Jorge Luis Borges - 112th Birthday

August 27 - USSR People's Artist Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya - 115th Birthday

August 28 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 262nd Birthday

September

September 01 - Tarsila do Amaral - 125th Birthday

September 05 - Freddie Mercury - 65th Birthday

September 06 - Shinichi Hoshi - 85th Birthday

September 15 - Ismail Yasin - 96th Birthday

September 16 - Albert Imre Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1937 - 118th Birthday

September 17 - Anant Pai - 82nd Birthday

September 23 - Jaroslav Seifert, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1984 - 110th Birthday

September 24 - Jim Henson - 75th Birthday

September 25 - Lu Xun 魯迅 - 130th Birthday

September 28 - Narcis Monturiol - 192nd Birthday

October

October 01 - Grete Waitz - 58th Birthday

October 04 - Mihajlo (Michael) Idvorski Pupin - 153th Birthday

October 10 - Fridtjof Nansen, Nobel Peace Prize, 1922 - 150th Birthday

October 12 - Art Clokey - 90th Birthday

October 15 - Italo Calvino - 88th Birthday

October 20 - Park Wan-suh - 80th Birthday

October 21 - Mary Blair - 100th Birthday

October 22 - Franz Liszt - 200th Birthday

November

November 02 - Taikan Yokoyama - 143th Birthday

November 03 - Oodgeroo Noonuccal - 91st Birthday

November 03 - André Malraux - 110th Birthday

November 07 - Marie Curie, Nobel Prizes in Physics (1903) and Chemistry (1911) - 144th Birthday

November 08 - Sir Edmond Halley II, FRS - 355th Birthday

November 09 - Hideyo Noguchi - 135th Birthday

November 11 - Epokha Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky - 190th Birthday

November 12 - Loo-keng Hua - 101st Birthday

November 17 - Giò Pomodoro - 81st Birthday

November 17 - Lola Mora - 145th Birthday

November 18 - Louis Daguerre - 224th Birthday

November 19 - Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov - 300th Birthday

November 23 - Stanisław Herman Lem - 60th Anniversary of First Publication

November 30 - Mark Twain - 176th Birthday

December

December 03 - Nino Rota - 100th Birthday

December 08 - Diego Rivera - 125th Birthday

December 12 - Robert Noyce, "Mayor of Silicon Valley" - 84th Birthday

December 12 - Gustave Flaubert - 190th Birthday

December 15 - Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser - 83rd Birthday

December 17 - Josef Lada - 124th Birthday

December 18 - Yuriy Vladimirovich Nikulin - 90th Birthday

December 18 - Christopher Polhem - 350th Birthday