[2] Vučković drowned in Lake Ohrid[1] together with the Montenegrin poet Blažo Šćepanović, at a time when they were participating in the Struga Poetry Evenings, in the summer of 1966.

Another Serbian poet, Oskar Davičo, who was with them also fell in the water when the boat capsized but survived because he knew how to swim; unfortunately, Vučković and Šćepanović did not.

"Lazar Vučković Days of Poetry" are held annually each summer in Serbia to commemorate his accomplishments in literature.

[3] In September 1969, a bust was unveiled in his hometown of Gornje Selo, in the parish of Sredac, and where the first Poetry Meetings "Lazar Vučković" were held.

On Christmas 2014, a bust was stolen from the monument to Lazar Vučković which had been erected by the staff of the newspaper Jedinstvo at the cemetery in Gornje Selo, the poet's birthplace.