Martha Graham, the U.S. choreographer who helped to pioneer modern dance, would have been 117 today.
And to mark the anniversary, she has been celebrated by Google's third doodle of the month so far, which is another animated one.
The doodle shows dancers performing a series of flowing, emphatic Graham-esque moves. The whirling trails of their limbs spell out the six letters of the search engine's name.
Dance critics say Graham, who died in 1991 at the age of 96, was to modern dance as Pablo Picasso was to modern art.
She is credited with developing a new and codified dance vocabulary that broke the mold of traditional choreography and established a lasting alternative to the ballet tradition.
The five movements the dancers in the doodle make are actually concepts and moves Graham invented in the Twenties and Thirties.
Graham, a Pittsburgh-born daughter of a mental health physician, choreographed more than 180 works and continued to perform until the age of 75, giving her last performance in 1979.
She was the first dancer to perform at The White House, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom among other honours.
Her legacy lives on with the Martha Graham dance company and centre for contemporary dance, which is based in new York.
A few weeks ago Google provoked much speculation after celebrating the anniversary of the ice cream sundae with a doodle.
The picture was supposedly to mark the 119th anniversary of the dessert's creation, but online blogs were buzzing with claims Google will shortly release an 'Ice Cream' operating system.
Last month, Google paid tribute to what would have been the 200th birthday of Bunsen burner inventor Robert Bunsen with an animated doodle showing a flame changing colour from blue to purple as various chemicals bubble brightly in pots and test tubes.
In February, the search engine marked Valentine's Day with a tribute to artist Robert Indiana's famous 'LOVE' sculpture.
Its homepage exhibited a remodelled version of the landmark piece of Pop Art.
The doodle kept the simple red, blue and green colour of the original art and replaced the first 'O' in Google with a love heart, while slanting it's second 'O' in homage.
That same month the search engine marked the 183rd anniversary of the birth of French science-fiction writer Jules Verne.
That doodle turned the Google logo into a cluster of submarine portholes of a distinctly vintage variety.
Behind these windows lay an ocean peacefully splashing away - but users were able to control the depth and direction of the submarine using the lever to the right of the logo.
Perhaps Google's most famous interactive Google Doodle was the Pac Man game last May. The playable game was posted online to mark the 30th birthday of the classic arcade title.
