Google/Doodles/2011

Compiled on this page are the Google special logos of 2011.

January

New Year's Day (1st)

Večerníček's 46th Anniversary (2nd) (Czech Republic)

Khalil Gibran's Birthday (6th) (Selected countries)

Coming of Age Day (10th) (Japan)

Laba Rice Porridge Festival (11th) (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan)

Festival of Kites (14th) (India)

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day (17th) (USA)

Cezanne's 172nd Birthday (19th)

50th Anniversary of JFK's Inaugural (20th) (USA)

Birthday of Takayanagi Kenjiro (20th) (Japan)

New Year of the Trees (20th) (Israel)

Grandparents' Day (21st) (Poland)

Robert Burns Day (25th) (UK)

Tom Jobim's Birthday (25th) (Brazil)

Australia Day (26th) (Australia)

February

Vitinho's 25th Anniversary (2nd) (Portugal)

Lunar New Year's Day (3rd) (China, Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan)

Almeida Garrett's Birthday (4th) (Portugal)

Family Day (4th) (Israel)

Jan Werich's Birthday (6th)
(Czech Republic)

Jules Verne's 183rd Birthday (8th)

Thomas Edison's Birthday (11th)

Naomi Uemura's 70th Birthday (12th) (Japan)

Valentine's Day (14th)
(Selected countries)

Ernest Shackleton's Birthday (15th) (UK)

Miriam Ruth's Birthday (16th) (Israel)

Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena's Birthday (17th)
(Selected countries)

Lantern Festival (17th)
(China, Hong Kong, Taiwan)

Birthday of Constantin Brancusi (19th) (Selected countries)

Cricket World Cup 2011 (19th) (Selected countries)

Mihaly Munkacsy's Birthday (20th) (Hungary)

Oslo 2011 Holmenkollen FIS Nordic World Ski Championships (23rd) (Norway)

Estonian Independence Day (24th) (Estonia)

Kuwait National Day (25th) (Kuwait)

100th Birthday of Taro Okamoto (26th) (Japan)

148th Birthday of Joaquin Sorolla (27th) (Selected countries)

Dominican Republic Independence Day (27th) (Dominican Republic)

Li Bai's Birthday (28th) (China)

March

Martisor Spring Day (1st) (Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria)

St. David's Day (1st) (UK)

Girl's Day (3rd) (Japan)

Will Eisner's 94th Birthday (6th) (Selected countries)

Ghana Independence Day (6th) (Ghana)

Sendung mit der Maus 40th Anniversary (7th) (Germany)

Brazilian Carnival (8th) (Brazil)

International Womens Day (8th)

Doodle4Google Ireland Winner (9th) (Ireland)

Arbor Day (12th) (China)

National Elephant Day (13th) (Thailand)

80th Birthday of Alam Ara (14th) (India)

Hungarian National Day (15th) (Hungary)

St. Patrick's Day (17th)
(Selected countries)

150th Birthday of the Italian Unification (17th) (Italy)

Sayed Darwish's Birthday (17th) (Egypt)

Holi Festival (20th) (India)

Persian New Year (21st)
(Selected countries)

Harry Houdini's 137th Birthday (24th)

400th Birthday of Evliya Çelebi (25th) (Turkey)

Robert Bunsen's 200th Birthday (31st)

April

119th Anniversary of the First Documented Ice Cream Sundae (3rd)

Children's Day (4th)
(Hong Kong, Taiwan)

Senegal Independence Day (4th) (Senegal)

100th Birthday of Vaclav Ctvrtek (4th) (Czech Republic)

Italy's Culture Week (9th) (Italy)

Peruvian Elections (10th) (Peru)

50th Anniversary of the First Human Spaceflight (12th)

240th Birthday of Richard Trevithick (13th) (UK)

Songkran Festival (13th) (Thailand, Cambodia, Laos)

Charlie Chaplin's 122nd Birthday (16th)

129th Birthday of Monteiro Lobato (18th) (Brazil)

Earth Day (22nd)

120th Birthday of Sergey Prokofiev (23rd) (Russia)

St. George's Day (23rd) (UK)

90th Birthday of Karel Appel (25th) (Netherlands)

226th Birthday of John James Audubon (26th)

Vallenato Festival (26th) (Colombia)

Freedom Day (27th) (South Africa)

The Wedding of Prince William of Wales and Catherine Middleton (29th) (Selected countries)

Queen's Day (30th) (Netherlands)

May

160th Anniversary of the First World's Fair (1st)

Canada Federal Elections (2nd) (Canada)

Hurvinek's 85th Birthday (2nd) (Czech Republic)

Mother's Day (8th)
(Selected countries)

76th Birthday of Roger Hargreaves: Little Miss Chatterbox (9th)

76th Birthday of Roger Hargreaves: Little Miss Curious (9th)

76th Birthday of Roger Hargreaves: Little Miss Magic (9th)

76th Birthday of Roger Hargreaves: Little Miss Naughty (9th)

76th Birthday of Roger Hargreaves: Little Miss Shy (9th)

76th Birthday of Roger Hargreaves: Little Miss Sunshine (9th)

76th Birthday of Roger Hargreaves: Little Miss Tiny (9th)

76th Birthday of Roger Hargreaves: Mr Bump (9th)

76th Birthday of Roger Hargreaves: Mr Dizzy (9th)

76th Birthday of Roger Hargreaves: Mr Forgetful (9th)

76th Birthday of Roger Hargreaves: Mr Funny (9th)

76th Birthday of Roger Hargreaves: Mr Happy (9th)

76th Birthday of Roger Hargreaves: Mr Messy (9th)

76th Birthday of Roger Hargreaves: Mr Rush (9th)

76th Birthday of Roger Hargreaves: Mr Slow (9th)

76th Birthday of Roger Hargreaves: Mr Tickle (9th)

Israel Independence Day (10th) (Israel)

Zhang Daqian's 112th Birthday (10th) (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan)

Martha Graham's 117th Birthday (11th)

Paraguay's Independence Day (14th) (Paraguay)

120th Birthday of Mikhail Bulgakov (15th) (Russia)

Dame Nellie Melba's 150th Birthday (19th) (Australia)

100th Birthday of Annie M.G. Schmidt (20th) (Netherlands)

Doodle4Google USA Winner (20th) (USA)

Emile Berliner's 160th Birthday (20th) (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)

Day of Slavonic Alphabet, Bulgarian Enlightenment and Culture (24th) (Bulgaria)

Africa Day (25th)
(Selected countries)

Jordan Independence Day (25th) (Jordan)

Birthday of Ibn Khaldun (27th) (Selected countries)

June

Republic Day (2nd) (Italy)

Richard Scarry's 92nd Birthday (5th)

Richard Scarry's 92nd Birthday (5th)

Dragon Boat Festival (6th) (Selected countries)

Les Paul's 96th Birthday (9th)

Turkish Elections (12th) (Turkey)

Russia Day (12th) (Russia)

Dia Dos Namorados (12th) (Brazil)

Fernando Pessoa's 123rd Birthday (13th) (Portugal)

Total Lunar Eclipse (15th)

Israel Book Fair (15th) (Israel)

Doodle4Google Hungary Winner (15th) (Hungary)

Doodle4Google Ghana Winner: Age 9–11 (15th) (Ghana)

Doodle4Google Ghana Winner: Age 12–14 (16th) (Ghana)

Father's Day (19th)
(Selected countries)

First Day of Summer (21st)
(Selected countries)

First Day of Winter (21st)
(Selected countries)

Abdel Halim Hafez's 82nd Birthday (21st) (Selected countries)

Festa Junina (24th) (Brazil)

Women's World Cup 2011 (16th) (Germany)

Czeslaw Milosz's 100th Birthday (30th) (Poland)

July

Cabotage and Turkish Maritime Festival (1st) (Turkey)

Dorothea MacKellar's 126th Birthday (1st) (Australia)

Doodle4Google Poland Winner (1st) (Poland)

Pedro Paulet's 137th Birthday (2nd) (Peru)

Independence Day (4th) (USA)

Venezuela Independence Day (5th) (Venezuela)

Miroslav Krleza's 118th Birthday (7th) (Croatia)

Jean de la Fontaine's 390th Birthday (8th) (France)

Argentinean Independence Day (9th) (Argentina)

450th Anniversary of St. Basil's Cathedral (12th)
(Selected countries)

Sir George Gilbert Scott's Birthday (13th) (UK)

Bastille Day (14th) (France)

Marine Day (18th) (Japan)

Xu Beihong's 116th Birthday (19th) (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan)

Gregor Mendel's 189th Birthday (20th)

Colombian Independence Day (20th) (Colombia)

Alexander Calder's Birthday (22nd)

Amália Rodrigues' 91st Birthday (23rd) (Portugal)

100th Anniversary of the Rediscovery of Machu Picchu (24th) (Selected countries)

Muhammad Mahdi Al-Jawahiri's 112th Birthday (26th)
(Selected countries)

Enrique Granados' 144th Birthday (27th) (Spain)

Peru Independence Day (28th) (Peru)

Medellin Flower Festiva (29th) (Colombia)

Giorgio Vasari's 500th Birthday (30th) (Italy)

August

Swiss National Day (1st) (Switzerland)

Celebrating the Wildebeest Migration (2nd) (Kenya, Tanzania)

Roberto Burle Marx's 102nd Birthday (4th) (Brazil)

Bolivian Independence Day (6th) (Bolivia)

Chinese Valentine's Day (6th) (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan)

Lucille Ball's 100th Birthday (6th) (USA)

Tanabata (7th) (Japan)

Singapore National Day (9th) (Singapore)

Ecuador Independence Day (10th) (Ecuador)

Pakistan Independence Day (14th) (Pakistan)

Indian Independence Day (15th) (India)

South Korean Independence Day (15th) (South Korea)

Pierre de Fermat's 410th Birthday (17th)

Indonesian Independence Day (17th) (Indonesia)

George Enescu's 130th Birthday (19th) (Romania)

Alois Jirásek's 160th Birthday (23rd) (Czech Republic)

Nazik Al Malaika's Birthday (23rd) (Selected Countries)

112th Birthday of Jorge Luis Borges (24th)

Ukrainian Independence Day (24th) (Ukraine)

Uruguay Independence Day (25th) (Uruguay)

Faina Ranevskaya's 115th Birthday (27th) (Russia)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 262nd Birthday (28th) (Germany)

110th Anniversary of the Lisbon Tram (31st) (Portugal)

Malaysian Independence Day (31st) (Malaysia)

September

First Day of School (1st)
(Selected countries)

Tarsila do Amaral's 125th Birthday (1st) (Brazil)

Freddie Mercury's 65th Birthday (5th)

Shinichi Hoshi's 85th Birthday (6th) (Japan)

Brazilian Independence Day (7th) (Brazil)

Rugby World Cup 2011 (9th)
(New Zealand)

Teachers' Day (10th) (China)

Remembering September 11th (11th) (USA)

Mid-Autumn Festival (12th) (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan)

Chuseok (12th) (Korea)

Ismail Yasin's 96th Birthday (15th) (Selected countries)

Doodle4Google Nordic Winner:
I Love Spring (15th) (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden)

Costa Rican Independence Day (15th) (Costa Rica)

Guatemalan Independence Day (15th) (Guatemala)

Honduras Independence Day (15th) (Honduras)

Nicaragua Independence Day (15th) (Nicaragua)

El Salvador Independence Day (15th) (El Salvador)

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi's 118th Birthday (16th)

Mexican Independence Day (16th) (Mexico)

Anant Pai's 82nd Birthday (17th) (India)

Chile Independence Day (18th) (Chile)

Jaroslav Seifert's 110th Birthday (23rd) (Czech Republic)

Saudi Arabian National Day (23rd) (Saudi Arabia)

Jim Henson's 75th Birthday (24th)

Lu Xun's 130th Birthday (25th) (China)

Google's 13th Birthday (27th)

Narciso Monturiol's 192nd Birthday (28th) (Spain)

Doodle4Google Italy Winner (30th) (Italy)

October

Grete Waitz's 58th Birthday (1st) (Norway)

Chinese National Day (1st)
(China, Hong Kong)

Reunification Day (3rd) (Germany)

Croatian Independence Day (8th) (Croatia)

Hangul Day (9th) (South Korea)

Uganda Independence Day (9th) (Uganda)

Mihajlo Pupin's 153th Birthday (9th) (Serbia)

Fridtjof Nansen's 150th Birthday (10th) (Norway)

Art Clokey's 90th Birthday (12th)

Italo Calvino's 88th Birthday (15th) (Italy)

Park Wan-suh's 80th Birthday (20th) (South Korea)

Mary Blair's 100th Birthday (21st)

Franz List's 200th Birthday (22nd) (Selected countries)

Argentinean Elections (23rd) (Argentina)

Tunisian Elections (23rd) (Tunisia)

Austrian National Day (26th) (Austria)

Turkish National Day (29th) (Turkey)

Halloween (31st)
(Selected countries)

Parkes Observatory's 50th Anniversary (31st) (Australia)

November

Day of the Dead (2nd) (Mexico)

Taikan Yokoyama's 143th Birthday (2nd) (Japan)

Andre Malraux's 110th Birthday (3rd) (France)

Oodgeroo Noonuccal's 91st Birthday (3rd) (Australia)

Panama Independence Day (3rd) (Panama)

Marie Curie's 144th Birthday (7th)

Edmond Halley's 355th Birthday (8th) (UK)

Hideyo Noguchi's 135th Birthday (9th) (Japan)

Remembrance Day (11th) (Selected countries)

Armistice Day (11th) (France)

Veteran's Day (11th) (USA)

St. Martin's Day (11th) (Portugal)

Fyodor Dostoevsky's 190th Birthday (11th) (Russia)

Polish Independence Day (11th) (Poland)

Hua Luogeng's 101st Birthday (12th) (Hong Kong)

Doodle4Google India Winner (14th) (India)

Giò Pomodoro's 81st Birthday (17th) (Italy)

Lola Mora's 145th Birthday (17th) (Argentina)

Louis Daguerre's 224th Birthday (18th)

Moroccan Independence Day (18th) (Morocco)

Latvian Independence Day (18th) (Latvia)

Mikhail Lomonosov's 300th Birthday (19th) (Russia)

Lebanon Independence Day (22nd) (Lebanon)

60th Anniversary of Stanislaw Lem's First Publication (23rd) (Poland)

Thanksgiving (24th) (USA)

New Zealand National Elections (26th) (New Zealand)

Egyptian Elections (27th) (Egypt)

Doodle4Google Japan Winner (28th) (Japan)

Mark Twain's 176th Birthday (30th)

December

Romanian National Day (1st) (Romania)

Doodle4Google United Arab Emirates Winner: National Day (2nd) (United Arab Emirates)

Nino Rota's 100th Birthday (3rd) (Italy)

Thailand National Day (5th) (Thailand)

Finland National Day (6th) (Finland)

Diego Rivera's 125th Birthday (8th)

Robert Noyce's 84th Birthday (12th)

Kenyan Independence Day (12th) (Kenya)

Gustave Flaubert's 190th Birthday (12th) (France)

Friedensreich Hundertwasser's 83rd Birthday (15th)
(Switzerland, Austria, Germany)

Bahrain National Day (16th) (Bahrain)

Kazakhstan Independence Day (16th) (Kazakhstan)

Josef Lada's 124th Birthday (17th) (Czech Republic)

Yury Nikulin's 90th Birthday (18th) (Russia)

Christoffer Polhem's 350th Birthday (18th) (Sweden)

Videos

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