| NATKINGCOLE | American singer who died in 1965 at the age of 45 (11) |
| ACE | Johnny, American singer who died in 1954 playing Russian roulette (3) |
| HALEIRWIN | Golfer who became the oldest ever US Open champion in 1990 at the age of 45 |
| OTISREDDING | American soul singer who died in a plane crash at the age of 26, one month before his biggest hit, (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay, was released |
| NANCYWILSON | American singer who rose to fame alongside her older sister Ann in the band Heart |
| CHURCHILLIAN | In the manner of British prime minister who died in 1965 (12) |
| MAMACASS | US singer who died at the age of 32 in July 1974 where four years later Keith Moon of The Who also died (4,4) |
| LANGE | Dorothea, US documentary photographer of the Depression era who died in 1965 (5) |
| CLARABOW | US film actress known as The It Girl who died in 1965 (5,3) |
| BOW | Clara ___, US film actress known as The It Girl who died in 1965 (3) |
| VALENS | Singer who died in a plane crash at age 17 |
| PATSYCLINE | American country music singer who died in a plane crash in 1963 |
| RITCHIE | La Bamba singer who died at age 17 in the plane crash that also claimed the life of Buddy Holly, ... |
| JIMREEVES | Which singer, who died in 1964, had a single in the charts every year from 1970 to 1984? (3,6) |
| ADELINAPATTI | World-famous opera singer who died in Powys in 1919 (7,5) |
| CLINE | Patsy. country singer who died in an air crash in 1963 (5) |
| ELVISPRESLEY | Rock singer who died in Memphis in 1977 (5,7) |
| CHETBAKER | US jazz trumpeter and singer who died in 1988 (4,5) |
| REDDING | Otis, U.S. soul singer who died in 1967 (7) |
| PRINCE | When Doves Cry singer who died in 2016 (6) |
