When Josef Vaňourek was born on 17 February 1895, in Buček, Plzeň-sever, Czechia, his father, Antonín Vaňourek, was 36 and his mother, Anna Kapsová, was 33. He had at least 1 daughter with Marie Čechová. He died on 13 October 1956, in Břežany, Rakovník, Středočeský, Czechia, at the age of 61.