In order to delete the object from this list, there is a need to delete corresponding records from the EntityConnection system table.
You can delete all the records from this table that refer to the objects which you do not need (for example, contact, requests etc).
You can do the following:
delete from EntityConnection where SysEntitySchemaUid in (select Uid from SysSchema where Name = ''),
where '' is the name of the object, for example, Contact.
But let me mention, that if you delete the records from the EntityConnection table - the corresponding fields will be deleted not only from this list but also from the "Connected to" detail of the email activity page: