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Day6 (데이식스)

Day6 (데이식스) is a South Korean pop rock band under JYP Entertainment that debuted September 7, 2015; current members Sungjin, Young K, Wonpil, and Dowoon write and play their own music, known for the Every DAY6 project, The Book of Us series, and Fourever.

DAY6-Even of Day-

DAY6 (Even of Day) is the first sub-unit of the South Korean band DAY6, a JYP Entertainment trio of Young K, Wonpil, and Dowoon that debuted in 2020.

Daya (singer)

Daya (Grace Martine Tandon), American pop singer from Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania; Hindi translation of her name Grace. Broke out with "Hide Away" (2015), won a 2017 Grammy for "Don't Let Me Down" with the Chainsmokers, and released the album Til Every Petal Drops in 2025.

Dayā Bāl

Dayā Bāl (दया बाल) is an unattested name for a supposed 18th-century bhakti poet; no manuscript, sectarian record, or scholarly publication confirms that such a figure existed.

Daya Jethalal Gada

Daya Jethalal Gada, or Dayaben, is the Gujarati homemaker character in the sitcom Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah (2008), played by Disha Vakani; wife of Jethalal, Garba-loving, catchphrase "Hey Ma! Mataji!", absent from the show since 2020.

Daya Pawar

Daya Pawar (दया पवार), born Dagdu Maruti Pawar, was a Marathi writer, poet, and critic, a leading figure of Dalit literature in Maharashtra known for the autobiography Baluta.

Dayaa

Dayaa (2023) is a Telugu-language crime thriller web series directed by Pavan Sadineni, a Disney+ Hotstar adaptation of the Bangladeshi show Taqdeer, starring J. D. Chakravarthy as a freezer van driver who finds a journalist's body in his van; 8 episodes, IMDb 6.2.

Dayana Mendoza

Dayana Mendoza, full name Dayana Sabrina Mendoza Moncada, is a Venezuelan model who won Miss Venezuela 2007 and Miss Universe 2008, the fifth Venezuelan to hold the title.

Dayanand Shetty

Dayanand Shetty (born 1969, Katapadi, India) is an Indian actor famous as Senior Inspector Daya on CID (1998-2018, over 1,500 episodes); also films Johnny Gaddaar, Singham Returns, Singham Again.

Dayanara Torres

Dayanara Torres (Dayanara Yari Torres Delgado), Puerto Rican model and Miss Universe 1993 from Toa Alta; actress in the Philippines 1994–2000, Marc Anthony's ex-wife, stage 3 melanoma survivor, later TV host.

Dayanhe—My Wet Nurse

"Dayanhe—My Wet Nurse" is a free-verse poem by the Chinese poet Ai Qing, written in prison in Shanghai in January 1933 as a memorial to his peasant wet nurse.

Dayanita Singh

Dayanita Singh (born 1961, New Delhi) is an Indian artist whose practice centers on photography, book-making, and mobile museums of stackable wooden structures, winning the 2022 Hasselblad Award.

Dayaram

Dayaram (દયારામ), also known as Kavi Dayarambhai, was a Gujarati devotional poet of the Pushtimarg tradition, the last great medieval Gujarati poet, best known for his garbi lyrics.

Dayavan (दयावान)

Dayavan (दयावान) is a 1988 Hindi action crime drama directed and produced by Feroz Khan, a remake of Tamil film Nayakan, starring Vinod Khanna as a benevolent gangster, with Madhuri Dixit, released 21 October 1988.

Daybreak (2019 TV series)

Daybreak (2019 TV series), Netflix post-apocalyptic comedy-drama based on Brian Ralph's graphic novel; created by Aron Eli Coleite and Brad Peyton; 10 episodes, TV-MA, canceled December 2019 after one season.

Daybreakers

Daybreakers is a 2009 science-fiction horror film directed by the Spierig brothers, starring Ethan Hawke in a world where vampires are running out of human blood.

Daydream (Mariah Carey album)

Daydream, Mariah Carey's fifth studio album (Columbia, October 3, 1995), debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200; its singles Fantasy, One Sweet Day (16 weeks at #1), and Always Be My Baby all topped the Hot 100, and it has sold over 27 million copies.

Daydream Believer

Daydream Believer: 1967 pop song by the Monkees, written by ex-Kingston Trio member John Stewart, produced by Chip Douglas. Final US number one (December 2, 1967, 4 weeks), UK peak number 5, later a hit for Anne Murray.

Daydream Nation

Daydream Nation: 1988 double album by Sonic Youth on Enigma/Blast First, recorded at Greene St. Recording, SoHo, with Nick Sansano; No. 2 in the 1988 Pazz & Jop poll, a National Recording Registry inductee, and the band's last indie-label album before Geffen.

Dayle Haddon

Dayle Haddon (1948–2024), Canadian model and actress, 1973 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover model, L'Oréal anti-aging spokeswoman, founder of WomenOne; died of carbon monoxide poisoning in Solebury Township, Pennsylvania.

Daylight (1996 film)

Daylight (1996) is a Universal disaster film directed by Rob Cohen, written by Leslie Bohem, starring Sylvester Stallone as ex-EMS chief Kit Latura rescuing survivors trapped in a collapsed Hudson River tunnel after a toxic-waste explosion; released December 6, 1996, shot at Cinecittà with ILM effects.

Dayo Koleosho

Dayo Koleosho (Oludayo Koleosho, born 1984) is an English autistic actor, an Access All Areas associate artist, known for Kojo Asare in EastEnders since 2024, Jitney, and Faith, Hope and Charity.

Dayoung

Dayoung (다영, born 1999) is a South Korean singer, WJSN vocalist since 2016, who debuted solo in 2025 with "gonna love me, right?" and the hit "body" (Melon Top 100 No. 9), followed by "What's a girl to do" in 2026.

Days (The Mountain Goats album)

Days (2026) is the Mountain Goats' studio album on Cadmean Dawn, produced by John Congleton. Conceived as "Grunges," a grunge-culture sequel to Goths, it earned a Metacritic score of 79 and peaked at UK number 73.

Days (日子) (2020 film)

Days (日子, Rizi) is Tsai Ming-liang's 2020 Taiwanese drama starring Lee Kang-sheng and Anong Houngheuangsy; a wordless 46-shot slow film that premiered in competition at the 2020 Berlinale and won the Teddy Jury Award.

Days and Nights

Days and Nights (Дни и ночи) is a novella by the Soviet writer Konstantin Simonov about the 1942–1943 defense of Stalingrad, his first large prose work.

Days and Nights in the Forest

Days and Nights in the Forest (Aranyer Din Ratri, অরণ্যের দিনরাত্রি) is Satyajit Ray's 1970 Bengali drama, adapted from Sunil Gangopadhyay's 1968 novel, about four Calcutta bachelors whose Palamu holiday exposes class prejudice; restored in 4K in 2025.

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (森崎書店の日々)

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (森崎書店の日々) is Satoshi Yagisawa's 2010 debut novel, a Chiyoda Literature Prize winner about Takako recovering at her uncle's Jimbocho used bookstore; filmed 2010, translated by Eric Ozawa 2023, over 1 million copies sold abroad.

Days Before Rodeo

Days Before Rodeo is Travis Scott's second mixtape, released free on SoundCloud on August 18, 2014 as a teaser for his debut album Rodeo; its 2024 10th-anniversary reissue with five bonus tracks reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

Days Gone Bye (The Walking Dead)

Days Gone Bye is the 2010 pilot of AMC's The Walking Dead, written and directed by Frank Darabont, adapting Robert Kirkman's comic opening; it drew 5.3 million viewers, AMC's largest original-series premiere, and was Darabont's only directing credit on the show.