Former midfielder Phan Quy Hoang Lam died on May 19 at the age of 36.

It is said he was working on his 10th symphony, but it's now whether the work has been finished. Nguyen Van Nam, Vietnam’s top classical composer, who has left behind nine symphonic works, all dedicated to his country, died on May 17.

After a long time battling cancer, painter Tran Khanh Chuong, former president of the Vietnam Fine Arts Association, died yesterday, aged 77.

A lecturer of Banking University of HCM City has died after reportedly falling from 14th floor of an apartment building in HCM City.

Four fishermen have died of asphyxiation after being trapped in a fish storage locker of a vessel off southern Kien Giang Province on Tuesday.

A deputy director of the Ha Noi Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has reportedly died after falling from the top floor of an apartment building in Hanoi.

Nguyen Kim Hung, also known as Hung “kính”, the infamous mastermind of a parking racket in Hanoi’s Long Bien wholesale market, died of end-stage liver disease on Wednesday at Ha Dong General Hospital.

Meritorious Artist and cai luong (reformed opera) star Giang Chau died of a long-time illness on Wednesday at his home in HCM City. He was 67.

The Lam Dong Province’s Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism has temporarily suspended all adventure tour activities at the Datanla Waterfalls in Da Lat City following the death of a South Korean tourist on Saturday.

 A 14-month-old girl has died after she was attacked by a dog in Australia, police say.

 Veteran Bollywood actor and producer Shashi Kapoor has died aged 79. Kapoor, who acted in huge hits like Deewar and Kabhie Kabhie, had been ill for some time and was in hospital.

British singer George Michael, who became one of the pop idols of the 1980s with Wham! and then forged a career as a successful solo artist with sometimes sexually provocative lyrics, died at his home in England on Sunday.

 Thailand's people woke up on Friday to the first day in 70 years without King Bhumibol Adulyadej, a king worshipped as a father-figure who guided the nation through decades of change and turmoil.

 Music superstar Prince, who was found dead in his home in a Minneapolis suburb in late April, died of an accidental, self-administered overdose of an opioid painkiller,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Authorities said that four more bears have died in a private farm in Ha Long City in Quang Ninh Province.

 Bears raised in farms in the northern province of Quang Ninh gradually died of injuries and malnutrition as per a warning of a center for rescue the animal.