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Google pays tribute to Luciano Pavarotti (October 12, 1935 – September 6, 2007), Cavaliere di Gran Croce was a celebrated Italian tenor in operatic music with a special Google logo:
While undertaking an international “farewell tour,” Pavarotti was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in July 2006.
On April 12, 1961, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin became the first human to travel into space in Vostok 3KA-2 and today Google pays tribute to him with a spiffy Google logo:
During his flight, Gagarin famously whistled the tune “The Motherland Hears, The Motherland Knows”.