When Martinus Johannes Favié was born on 23 November 1885, in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands, his father, Antonius Adrianus Favié, was 30 and his mother, Wilhelmina Catharina Bierwolf, was 32. He married Anna Margaretha Kerkhoff on 7 January 1935, in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 25 July 1958, in his hometown, at the age of 72.