When Octaviano Martínez Hernández was born on 14 December 1931, in San Juan de Dios, Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico, his father, Octaviano Martínez Zúñiga, was 25 and his mother, Sara Hernández Blanco, was 22. He had at least 1 son with Daysi Hilmara Samberino Abreu. He died on 5 March 2003, in Villahermosa, Centro, Tabasco, Mexico, at the age of 71.