--- title: Google Doodle Honors Jazz Figure Frankie Manning description: A Google Doodle celebrates the 102nd birthday of Frankie Manning, the American dancer and choreographer who made the Lindy Hop dance famous canonical: https://time.com/4348920/frankie-manning-jazz-lindy-hop-google-doodle/ author: Nash Jenkins article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-26T08:51:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:32:43.694Z og:title: New Google Doodle Honors Jazz Figure Frankie Manning og:description: Google celebrates the 102nd birthday of the man who pioneered the Lindy Hop og:url: https://time.com/4348920/frankie-manning-jazz-lindy-hop-google-doodle/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt553d454ef4473233/698895190a4a2222a99c9d46/frankie-mannings-102nd-birthday-5160522641047552-hp2x.gif?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: frankie-mannings-102nd-birthday-5160522641047552-hp2x og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: New Google Doodle Honors Jazz Figure Frankie Manning twitter:description: Google celebrates the 102nd birthday of the man who pioneered the Lindy Hop twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt553d454ef4473233/698895190a4a2222a99c9d46/frankie-mannings-102nd-birthday-5160522641047552-hp2x.gif?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # New Google Doodle Honors Jazz Figure Frankie Manning by [Nash Jenkins](https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins May 26, 2016 8:51 AM UTC  Google Doodle of Frankie Manning Google Doodle of Frankie ManningGoogle by [Nash Jenkins](https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins May 26, 2016 8:51 AM UTC A new Google Doodle [unveiled](https://www.google.com/doodles/frankie-mannings-102nd-birthday) on Thursday celebrates, what would have been the 102nd birthday of Frankie Manning, the American dancer and choreographer who pioneered the Lindy Hop — a frenetic, almost gravity-defying dance that became a hallmark of Harlem jazz clubs in the early 20th century. Manning, who was born on May 26, 1914, and died seven years ago at the age of 94, was a jazz sensation, traveling the world and appearing in several films performing his dance. He described the dance — though “feat” is perhaps a better word — as a “series of three-minute romances,” according to Google. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4348920/frankie-manning-jazz-lindy-hop-google-doodle/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4348920/frankie-manning-jazz-lindy-hop-google-doodle/"},"headline":"New Google Doodle Honors Jazz Figure Frankie Manning","datePublished":"2016-05-26T08:51:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:32:43.694Z","description":"Manning is famous for pioneering the Lindy Hop","url":"https://time.com/4348920/frankie-manning-jazz-lindy-hop-google-doodle/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Google Doodle","People","Jazz"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt553d454ef4473233/698895190a4a2222a99c9d46/frankie-mannings-102nd-birthday-5160522641047552-hp2x.gif?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nash Jenkins","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt553d454ef4473233/698895190a4a2222a99c9d46/frankie-mannings-102nd-birthday-5160522641047552-hp2x.gif?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"frankie-mannings-102nd-birthday-5160522641047552-hp2x","caption":"Google Doodle of Frankie Manning","creditText":"Google","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4348920/frankie-manning-jazz-lindy-hop-google-doodle/","name":"New Google Doodle Honors Jazz Figure Frankie Manning"}}]}] ```