Ruler · 1912 – 2002

B. D. Jatti

Lived 1912 – 2002; politician. President of India (India), 1977.

Wikidata's English label: Basappa Danappa Jatti.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 1912 – 2002; 90 years
Lines: 1; India
Left it: resigned; the ruler's own article

President of India

India · the 7th of 17 dated reigns · 1950 – 2022

3 before

V. V. Giri1969

Mohammad Hidayatullah1969

Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed1974 – 1977

B. D. Jatti1977

Neelam Sanjiva Reddy1977 – 1982

Zail Singh1982 – 1987

Ramaswamy Venkataraman1987 – 1992

7 after

died in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on recordthis entry

Reigned 1977 · under a year · came to it aged 65

Left it: resignedread from the ruler's own article

He resigned as governor in August 1974 to contest in the vice presidential election of 1974.

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