I Can Has Cheezburger's ' 10 All-Time Favorite Google Doodles Featuring Adorable Cat Illustrations

Cats are important for humanity in many ways. One obvious way is that they are very very friggin' adorable and thus great for companionship. But they are also so much more than their sweet purrs and cutie patooties. For example, one black cat named Buddy made sure the first female pilot to ever fly solo across the south Atlantic and the first pilot in general to make a direct flight from England to New Zealand didn't lose her mind along the way. How do I know about Buddy? Through Google Doodles! They just released the winner for the Google Doodle competition, which was about mental health and it was beautiful. It got us truly appreciating the daily history lessons or inspirational quotes the search engine gives us. So we decided to find our favorite Google Doodles featuring adorable cat illustrations. It's not only a fun way to enjoy some adorable cat artwork, but it also gives you a rundown of some of history's most amazing kitty cats!

Posted by Elna McHilderson

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Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita’s 132nd Birthday

A beloved Japanese artist born 1886—best known for his watercolors painted with a fine brush in a distinctive style that blended Eastern and Western influences and were finished with a silvery wash.

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2
Mary Pickford's 125th Birthday

Mary was known as the "Queen of the Movies—she was an actress, a film director, and a producer. She also co-founded the film studio United Artists and was one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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Tama's 18th Birthday

Tama, a calico cat, who is the stationmaster at the Kishi Station in Kinokawa, Wakayama, Japan. She was appointed the position when the area was struggling and needed tourists—she became so popular, it saved the station.

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4
Hussein Amin Bucar's 104th Birthday

"Hussein Amin Bicar was a renowned Egyptian painter, musician, writer and art educator. He taught and influenced many generations of art students at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo. Bicar was known for his kindness, humanity and passion for making art accessible to all."

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5
Natsume Soseki's Birthday

Natsume Soseki was a Japanese novelist best known for his novels Kokoro, Botchan, I Am a Cat, Kusamakura and his unfinished work Light and Darkness. He was also a scholar of British literature and writer of haiku, kanshi, and fairy tales.

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Jean Batten's 107th Birthday

A 1930s recorder breaker female pilot who was the first woman to ever fly solo across the south Atlantic and the first pilot to make a direct flight from England to New Zealand. She also often traveled with her "lucky black cat" named Buddy.

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Halloween 2016

This google doogle ended up being an animated game inspired by the animator's own cat, where you are a magical black cat fighting against evil ghosts. "This year's Halloween Doodle follows freshman feline Momo on her mission to rescue her school of magic. Help her cast out mischievous spirits by swiping in the shape of the symbols above the ghosts' heads. And you'd better pounce fast—the ghost that stole the master spellbook is getting away!

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8
Sir John Tenniel's 200th Birthday

"Tenniel is one of the most highly-regarded Victorian illustrators and painters, and is perhaps best remembered for bringing to life the characters of Lewis Carroll's timeless "Alice in Wonderland" series."

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9
Wislawa Szymborska's 90th Birthday

The 1996 Nobel Prize winner in literature, Maria Wislawa Anna Szymborska was a Polish poet, essayist, and translator.

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Erwin Schrödinger's 126th Birthday

Erwin Schrödinger was a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian-Irish physicist who developed the Schrödinger equation, providing a way to calculate the wave function of a system and how it changes dynamically in time.

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