When Belizário de Almeida was born on 16 January 1884, in Leopoldina, Minas Gerais, Brazil, his father, Lino José de Almeida, was 39 and his mother, Antonia Carolina Pereira Pinto, was 35. He married Marieta Justen on 1 September 1915, in Barbacena, Minas Gerais, Brazil. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 11 April 1955, in Barbacena, Minas Gerais, Brazil, at the age of 71.