Celebrity Dizzy Gillespie's Birthday Celebrated with Google Doodle A stylized mosaic celebrates the late jazz great, who would have been 93 on Thursday By People Staff Published on October 21, 2010 06:45 AM Share Tweet Pin Email Photo: inset: Getty Google’s gotten Dizzy. On Thursday, the search engine is celebrating what would have been Dizzy Gillespie’s 93rd birthday with a stylized mosaic doodle of the late jazz great at Google.com. The famed trumpeter, who died at age 75 in 1993, was also a bandleader, singer and composer. He helped pioneer bebop and Afro-Cuban jazz and was considered one of the great jazz players and teachers of all time.– Tim Nudd