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 2012. 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

86/123 Profiles on Geni
77/123 Profiles tagged to Google Doodle project

Month Shortcuts

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

January

January 07 - Charles Addams - 100th Birthday

January 07 - Oskar Luts - 125th Birthday

January 09 - Luis Coloma - 161st Birthday

January 11 - Nicolas Steno - 374th Birthday

January 16 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Holiday

January 20 - Federico Fellini - 92nd Birthday

January 20 - Omar Rayo - 84th Birthday

January 23 - Jože Plečnik - 140th Birthday

January 25 - Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky - 74th Birthday

January 30 - I.L. Caragiale - 160th birthday

January 31 - Atahualpa Yupanqui - 104th Birthday

February

February 06 - François Truffaut - 80th Birthday

February 07 - Charles Dickens - 200th Birthday

February 08 - Ito Jakuchu - 296th Birthday

February 11 - May Ziade - 126th Birthday

February 12 - Anna d'André - 131st Birthday

February 17 - Agnia Barto - 106th birthday

February 22 - Heinrich Rudolf Hertz - 155th Birthday

February 23 - Hyo-seok Lee - 105th Birthday

February 25 - Ibn Battuta - 708th Birthday

February 29 - Gioacchino Rossini - 220th Birthday

February 29 - Esther Hunneus Salas - 110th Birthday

March

March 01 - Quinquela Martín - 122nd Birthday

March 02 - János Arany - 195th birthday

March 05 - Heitor Villa-Lobos - 125th Birthday

March 07 - Alessandro Manzoni - 227th Birthday

March 13 - Mohammed Abdel Wahab - 110th Birthday

March 14 - Akira Yoshizawa - 101st Birthday

March 16 - César Vallejo Mendoza - 120th Birthday

March 23 - Juan Gris - 125th Birthday

March 27 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - 126th Birthday

April

April 09 - Edward James Muybridge - 182nd Birthday

April 09 - Elias Lönnrot - 210th Birthday

April 10 - Lee Jung-seob - 96th Birthday

April 14 - Robert Sylvain Gaston Doisneau - 100th Birthday

April 15 - Wilhelm Heinrich Christian Busch - 180th Birthday

April 18 - Jan Kaplický - 75th Birthday

April 18 - Antero de Quental - 170th Birthday

April 20 - Slavoljub Eduard Penkala - 141st Birthday

April 21 - Friedrich* Wilhelm August Fröbel - 230th Birthday

April 22 - Grace Cossington-Smith - 120th Birthday

April 24 - Gideon Sundback - 132nd Birthday

April 27 - Theo Angelopoulos - 77th Birthday

April 27 - Tato Bores - 85th Birthday

May

May 01 - Santiago Felipe Ramón y Cajal, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1906 - 160th Birthday

May 04 - Keith Haring - 54th Birthday

May 07 - Władysław Stanisław Rejment, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1924 - 145th Birthday

May 09 - Howard Carter - 138th Birthday

May 10 - Mahmoud Mokhtar - 121st Birthday

May 12 - Edward Lear - 200th Birthday

May 16 - Juan Nepomuceno Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno - 95th Birthday

May 18 - Minakata Kumagusu - 145th Birthday

May 18 - Omar Khayyám - 964th Birthday

May 23 - Robert Moog - 78th Birthday

May 26 - Rafael Calixto Escalona Martínez - 85th Birthday

May 28 - Ruby Payne-Scott - 100th Birthday

May 30 - Carl Fabergé - 166th Birthday

May 31 - Perito Moreno - 160th Birthday

June

June 02 - Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom - Queen's Diamond Jubilee

June 09 - Johann Gottfried Galle - 200th Birthday

June 21 - Viktor Robertovich Tsoi - 50th Birthday

June 21 - Yuri Kondratyuk - 115th Birthday

June 23 - Alan Turing, OBE FRS - 100th Birthday

June 28 - Sergiu Celibidache - 100th Birthday

June 28 - Luigi Pirandello, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1934 - 145th Birthday

June 28 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau - 300th Birthday

June 29 - Josef Ludvok Ressel - 219th Birthday

June 29 - José Pablo Moncayo - 100th Birthday

July

July 06 - José María Velasco - 172nd Birthday

July 07 - Yanka Kupala - 130th Birthday

July 08 - Ing. František rytíř Křižík - 165th Birthday

July 14 - Gustav Klimt - 150th Birthday

July 20 - Santos Dumont, o Pai da Aviação - 139th Birthday

July 24 - Amelia Earhart - 115th Birthday

August

August 13 - Cassiano Branco - 115th Birthday

August 15 - Julia Child - 100th Birthday

August 21 - Consuelo Velazquez - 96th Birthday

August 23 - Aleksandr Stepanovich Grin - 132th Birthday

August 26 - Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi - 1147th Birthday

August 31 - Maria Artemisia Montessori - 142nd Birthday

September

September 03 - Chabuca Granda - 92nd Birthday

September 04 - Abu Al-Biruni - 1034th Birthday

September 08 - Gene Roddenberry - 46th Anniversary of Star Trek

September 13 - Clara Josephine Schumann - 193rd Birthday

September 15 - Adolfo Bioy Casares - 98th Birthday

September 17 - Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky - 155th birthday

September 21 - Edgar Valter - 84th Birthday

September 23 - Solomiya Amvrosiivna Krushelnytska - 140th Birthday

September 24 - Howard Florey, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1945 - 114th Birthday

September 28 - David Unaipon - 140th Birthday

October

October 03 - Anton Bernolak - 250th Birthday

October 05 - Brian Ó Nualláin - 101st Birthday

October 06 - Francisco Gabilondo Soler - 105th Birthday

October 07 - Niels Bohr, Nobel Prize in Physics 1922 - 127th Birthday

October 07 - Janusz Korczak - Poland's Year of Janusz Korczak

October 09 - Ivan Andrić - 120th Birthday

October 11 - Alicia Moreau de Justo - 127th Birthday

October 15 - Winsor McCay - 107th Anniversary of Little Nemo in Slumberland

October 16 - Hisashige Tanaka - 213th Birthday

October 18 - Herman Melville - 161st Anniversary of Moby Dick

October 21 - Maironis - 150th Birthday

October 29 - Bob Ross - 70th Birthday

November

November 01 - L.S. Lowry - 125th Birthday

November 02 - Odysseus Elytis, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1979 - 101st Birthday

November 03 - Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak - 125th Birthday

November 08 - Bram Stoker - 165th Birthday

November 09 - Feng Zikai - 114th Birthday

November 09 - Paul Abadie - 200th Birthday

November 11 - Roberto Antonio Sebastian Matta Echaurren - 101st Birthday

November 12 - Auguste Rodin - 172nd Birthday

November 14 - Amadeu de Souza-Cardoso - 125th Birthday

November 20 - Otto von Guericke - 410th Birthday

November 26 - Ernest Arthur coombs - 85th Birthday

December

December 03 - Hryhorii Skovoroda - 290 Birthday

December 08 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson - 180th Birthday

December 10 - Ada Lovelace - 197th Birthday

December 13 - Luiz Gonzaga - 100th Birthday

December 14 - Xul Solar - 125th Birthday

December 16 - Zoltán Kodály - 130th Birthday

December 20 - Wilhelm Carl Grimm - 200th Anniversary of Grimm's Fairy Tales

December 22 - Srinivasa Ramanujan - 125th Birthday

December 22 - ing. Herman Potocnik, Noordung - 120th Birthday

December 28 - Leonardo Torres Quevedo - 160th Birthday