What is Shankar Dayal Sharma?
{{Infobox Officeholder |honorific-prefix = [[His Excellency]] |name = Shankar Dayal Sharma |native_name =शंकर दयाल शर्मा |image = Shankar Dayal Sharma 36.jpg |office = [[List of Presidents of India|9th]] [[President of India]] |primeminister = [[P. V. Narasimha Rao]]<br>[[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]]<br>[[H. D. Deve Gowda]]<br>[[I. K. Gujral]] |vicepresident = [[K. R. Narayanan]] |term_start = 25 July 1992 |term_end = 25 July 1997 |predecessor = [[R. Venkatar]] |successor = [[K. R. Narayanan]] |office2 = 8th [[Vice President of India]] |president2 = R. Venkataraman |primeminister2 = [[Rajiv Gandhi]]<br>[[V. P. Singh]] |term_start2 = 3 September 1987 |term_end2 = 25 July 1992 |predecessor2 = R. Venkataraman |successor2 = K. R. Narayanan |office3 = [[List of Governors of Maharashtra|Governor of Maharashtra]] |1blankname3 = Chief Minister |1namedata3 = [[Shankarrao Chavan]] |term_start3 = 3 April 1986 |term_end3 = 2 September 1987 |predecessor3 = [[Kona Prabhakar Rao]] |successor3 = [[Kasu Brahmananda Reddy]] |office4 = [[List of Governors of Punjab (India)|Governor of Punjab]]<br>[[List of Administrators of Chandigarh|Administrator of Chandigarh]] |1blankname4 = Chief Minister |1namedata4 = [[Surjit Singh Barnala]] |term_start4 = 26 November 1985 |term_end4 = 2 April 1986 |predecessor4 = [[Hokishe Sema]] |successor4 = [[Siddhartha Shankar Ray]] |office5 = [[List of governors of Andhra Pradesh|Governor of Andhra Pradesh]] |1blankname5 = Chief Minister |1namedata5 = [[Nadendla Bhaskara Rao]]<br>[[N. T. Rama Rao]] |term_start5 = 29 August 1984 |term_end5 = 26 November 1985 |predecessor5 = [[Thakur Ram Lal]] |successor5 = [[Kumudben Manishankar Joshi]] |birth_date = {{birth date|1918|8|19|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Bhopal]], [[Bhopal State]], [[British Raj|British India]]<br/><small>(now in [[Madhya Pradesh]], India)</small> |death_date = {{death date and age|1999|12|26|1918|8|19|df=y}} |death_place