| 100% | NYMAN | 5 | Michael —, composer whose works include 1986 opera The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat |
| 59% | SACKS | 5 | Oliver —, late British neurologist whose books include 1985's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales |
| 53% | SACKS | 5 | "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" writer Oliver |
| 53% | OLIVER | 6 | "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" writer Sacks |
| 47% | HAT | 3 | "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a ___" (Oliver Sacks book) |
| 41% | AHAT | 4 | "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for ____" (1985 book) |
| 41% | AHAT | 4 | "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for ___" (1985 book) |
| 40% | AHAT | 4 | "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for ___" (1985 best seller) |
| 40% | AHAT | 4 | "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for ___" (Oliver Sacks book) |
| 31% | RIGATTI | 7 | Giovanni Antonio —, 17th-century Italian composer whose works include a mass dedicated to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III |
| 31% | DELATOUR | 8 | Georges —, French Baroque painter whose works include Job Taunted by his Wife and The Dice Players |
| 31% | ZEMLINSKY | 9 | Alexander —, Austrian composer whose operas included The Dwarf and A Florentine Tragedy |
| 31% | BACON | 5 | Francis —, painter whose works include 1944's Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion |
| 30% | DAVID | 5 | & 5D Playwright whose works for children include The Gingerbread Man and The Ideal Gnome Expedition |
| 28% | RUBBRA | 6 | Edmund —, 20th-century British composer whose works include The Morning Watch |
| 28% | HAYDN | 5 | Franz Joseph —, Austrian composer whose works include operas Armida and Le Pescatrici |
| 28% | WEBERN | 6 | Anton —, Austrian composer whose works include 1934's Concerto for Nine Instruments, Op 24 |
| 27% | LOT | 3 | His wife took a turn for the worse |
| 27% | GRIFFES | 7 | Charles Tomlinson —, US composer whose works include 1912 tone poem The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan |
| 27% | ETHEREGE | 8 | George —, 17th-century English dramatist whose works include The Man of Mode |
| 27% | ISAACHAYES | 10 | "Soul Man" singer who won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for his work on the film "Shaft": 2 wds. |
| 27% | SCHMELZER | 9 | Johann Heinrich —, 17th-century Austrian composer whose works include collection Sonatae unarum fidium seu a violino solo |
| 27% | SCHMELZER | 9 | Johann Heinrich -, 17th-century Austrian composer whose works include collection Sonatae unarum fidium seu a violino solo |
| 26% | WIDOWER | 7 | A man who has lost his wife |
| 26% | MATISSE | 7 | Henri —, French painter and sculptor whose works include 1905's Woman with the Hat |
| 26% | NADELMAN | 8 | Elie —, Polish-born sculptor whose works include 1915's Man in the Open Air |
| 26% | SIDNEYPOITIER | 13 | "Lilies of the Field" actor who won a Grammy for the spoken word recording of his book "The Measure of a Man": 2 wds. |
| 26% | ERIKSATIE | 9 | Composer whose Parade includes the use of a typewriter as a percussion instrument |
| 26% | PAISIELLO | 9 | Giovanni —, Italian composer whose operas include The Barber of Seville and Proserpine |