Suleiman the Magnificent, the longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire, died at the age of 71.

Suleiman I, commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent in the Western world and as Suleiman the Lawgiver in his own realm, was the Ottoman sultan between 1520 and his death in 1566. Under his administration, the Ottoman Empire ruled over at least 25 million people.

The Ottoman Empire, also called the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.