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 2016. 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

44/109 Profiles on Geni
42/109 Profiles tagged to Google Doodle project

Month Shortcuts

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

January

January 11 - Alice Stokes Paul - 131st Birthday

January 12 - Charles Perrault - 388th Birthday

January 18 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Holiday

January 19 - José Alfredo Jiménez - 90th Birthday

January 19 - Sophie Taeuber-Arp - 127th Birthday

January 21 - Lola Flores - 93rd Birthday

January 21 - Naguib El Rihani - 127th Birthday

January 22 - Wilbur Lincoln Scoville, PhD - 151st Birthday

January 26 - John Logie Baird, FRSE - 90th Annv. of TV

January 27 - Beatrice Muriel Tinsley - 75th Birthday

January 28 - Hidetsugu Yagi - 130th Birthday

January 30 - Amrita Dalma Sher-Gil - 103rd Birthday

February

February 01 - Frederick Douglass - 198th Birthyear

February 04 - Yam Kim Fai - 103rd Birthday

February 05 - Františka Plamínková - 141st Birthday

February 08 - Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev - 182nd Birthday

February 17 - René Laënnec - 235th Birthday

February 22 - Tamaki Miura - 132nd Birthday

February 22 - Draginja Ljočić Milošević - 161st Birthday

February 22 - Maria Erika Olofsdotter Kruukka - 150th Birthday

February 25 - Lesya Ukrainka - 145th Birthday

February 29 - Rukmini Devi - 112th Birthday

March

March 02 - Marija Juric Zagorka - 143rd Birthday

March 07 - Georges Perec - 80th Birthday

March 09 - Clara Rockmore - 105th Birthday

March 11 - Ratchanee Sripaiwan - 86th Birthday

March 16 - Caroline Lucretia Herschel - 266th Birthday

March 21 - Nizar Qabbani - 93rd birthday

March 21 - Alda Merini - 85th birthday

March 24 - Klavdiya Shulzhenko - 110th birthday

March 24 - William Morris - 182nd birthday

March 28 - Ángela Ruiz Robles - 121st Birthday

April

April 04 - Cazuza - 58th birthday

April 07 - Pandit Ravi Shankar - 96th birthday

April 15 - Samaun Samadikun - 85th birthday

April 20 - Mohammed Ghani Hikmat - 87th birthday

April 21 - RAAA Kartini Djojoadhiningrat (RA Kartini) SOSRONINGRAT - 137th Birthday

April 23 - William Shakespeare, Bard of Avon - 452nd Birthday (Observed)

April 27 - Pencho Slaveykov - 150th birthday

April 28 - Hertha Marks Ayrton - 162nd birthday

April 30 - Claude Shannon - 100th birthday

May

May 02 - Mario Carlos do Rosário de Brito e Miranda, (Sr.) (Artista.) (Caricaturista.) - 90th birthday

May 04 - Jane Jacobs - 100th birthday

May 06 - Dr. Sigmund Freud - 160th Birthday

May 13 - Daeng Soetigna - 108th Birthday

May 19 - Yuri Kochiyama - 95th Birthday

May 24 - Suzanne Lenglen - 117th Birthday

May 24 - Olga Skorokhodova - 105th birthday

May 25 - Rosario Castellanos - 91st birthday

May 26 - Frankie Manning - 102nd birthday

May 27 - Faten Hamama - 85th birthday

June

June 02 - Lotte Reiniger - 117th birthday

June 03 - Rhee Seund Ja - 98th birthday

June 09 - Phoebe Snetsinger - 85th birthday

June 09 - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson - 180th birthday

June 13 - Theodosia Okoh - 94th birthday

June 14 - Karl Landsteiner, Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine 1930 - 148th birthday

June 17 - Adile Naşit - 86th birthday

June 23 - Dercy Gonçalves - 109th birthday

June 24 - Juan Manuel Fangio - 105th birthday

June 27 - Rahul Dev Deb Burman of Tripura - 77th birthday

June 29 - Edward Koiki Mabo - 80th birthday

July

July 05 - Carmen Costa - 96th Birthday

July 07 - Nettie Maria Stevens - 155th birthday

July 15 - Roger Raveel - 95th birthday

July 22 - Mukesh - 93rd Birthday

July 26 - Maria Severa Onofriana - 196th Birthday

July 27 - Ounsi el-Hajj - 79th birthday

July 28 - Gloria Fuertes - 99th birthday

July 31 - Dhanpat Rai ( Munshi Premchand) Shrivastava - 136th Birthday

September

September 01 - Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende - 37th Anniv of The Neverending Story's First Publishing

September 03 - Sybil Kathigasu - 117th birthday

September 03 - Asep Sunandar - 61st Birthday

September 06 - Fouad El Mohandes - 92nd birthday

September 12 - Takizo Iwasaki - 121st birthday

September 13 - Yma Sumac - 94th birthday

September 15 - Jean Batten - 107th birthday

September 15 - Silpa Bhirasri - 124th birthday

September 17 - Irena Kwiatkowska - 104th birthday

September 20 - Rachel the poetess - 126th Birthday

September 23 - Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta (El Santo) - 99th Birthday

September 29 - Ladislao José Biro - 117th birthday

September 30 - Andrejs Jurjāns - 160th Birthday

October

October 11 - Edgar Luis Negret Dueñas, Escultor - 96th birthday

October 14 - Mary Seacole - Celebrating Mary Seacole

October 19 - Kamma Rahbek, døbenavn Karen Margareta Heger - 241st birthday

October 24 - Antonie van Leeuwenhoek - 384th Birthday

November

November 01 - Wadih El Safi - 95th Birthday

November 04 - Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. - 100th Birthday

November 09 - Bang Jeong-hwan - 117th Birthday

November 14 - Sir Frederick Grant Banting, KBE, MC, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1923 - 125th Birthday

November 17 - Elisabeth "Ellis" Kaut - 96th Birthday

November 18 - Karimeh Abbud - 123rd Birthday

November 18 - James Welch - 76th Birthday

November 22 - Cecilia Grierson - 157th Birthday

November 28 - Drs. Suyadi - 84th Birthday

November 29 - Louisa May Alcott - 184th Birthday

November 30 - Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose - 158th Birthday

December

December 04 - Dewi Sartika - 132rd Birthday

December 07 - Ole Rømer - 340th Anniv of the Determination of the Speed of Light

December 07 - Abd al-Rahman Al-Sufi (Azophi) - 1113th Birthday

December 13 - Türkan Saylan - 81st Birthday

December 14 - Polfarer Roald Amundsen - 105th Anniv of First Expedition to Reach the South Pole

December 14 - Doria Shafik - 108th Birthday

December 18 - Steve Biko - 70th Birthday

December 19 - Franz Sacher - 200th Birthday

December 21 - Paco de Lucía - 69th Birthday

December 22 - Marko Vovchok (Mariya Vilinska) - 183rd Birthday

December 29 - Charles MacIntosh, Inventor of the MacIntosh, FRS - 250th Birthday