| 100% | PULITZER | 8 | Joseph —, Hungary-born American newspaper publisher who died in 1911 |
| 36% | JAMESDEAN | 9 | American actor who died prematurely in 1955 |
| 35% | STALIN | 6 | Joseph —, Soviet leader who died in 1953 |
| 34% | MULLER | 6 | Hermann Joseph ___, Nobel Prize-winning geneticist who was born in December |
| 34% | PAPP | 4 | Joseph —, American theatre producer-director who founded the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1954 |
| 33% | PAPP | 4 | Joseph —, American theatre producer and director who founded the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1954 |
| 33% | JOHN | 4 | Sir ___ Joseph Thomson, Nobel Prize-winning British physicist who was born in December |
| 33% | TOMMY | 5 | & 14D American fashion designer born in 1951 who married Dee Ocleppo in 2008 |
| 33% | EGONRONAY | 9 | Hungary-born travel-guide writer and gastronome who died in 2010 |
| 33% | HEATH | 5 | Ted —, London-born bandleader who died in 1969 |
| 33% | SCRIPPS | 7 | Newspaper publisher who founded the United Press |
| 32% | SCALIA | 6 | Justice who died in 2016 |
| 32% | LEOII | 5 | Pope who died in 683 |
| 32% | FIDEL | 5 | Castro who died in 2016 |
| 32% | NERO | 4 | Emperor who died in 68 |
| 32% | TECUMSEH | 8 | American leader of the Shawnee people who died in 1813 |
| 32% | BREL | 4 | Jacques —, Belgium-born songwriter and performer who died in 1978 |
| 32% | KNUD | 4 | & 5D Greenland-born Danish polar explorer who died in 1933 |
| 32% | ELCID | 5 | Spanish hero who died in 1099 |
| 32% | ALI | 3 | Boxer Muhammad who died in 2016 |
| 32% | HELM | 4 | Musician Levon who died in 2012 |
| 32% | ETTA | 4 | Singer ___ James who died in 2012 |
| 32% | PAT | 3 | Novelist Conroy who died in March |
| 32% | ALI | 3 | Boxing legend who died in 2016 |
| 32% | GENE | 4 | Actor Wilder who died in August |
| 32% | MICHELLE | 8 | __ Lang, journalist who died in Afghanistan |
| 32% | GLENN | 5 | Astronaut John who died in 2016 |
| 32% | ELI | 3 | Actor Wallach who died in 2014 |
| 32% | LEE | 3 | Author Harper ___ who died in February |
| 32% | OMAR | 4 | Actor Sharif who died in 2015 |