When Vratislav Vanourek was born on 20 March 1899, in Kosov, Šumperk, Olomoucký kraj, Czechia, his father, Jan Vanourek, was 32 and his mother, Josefa Zalmanova, was 19. He married Ruzena Zahradnikova on 22 December 1928. He died on 25 August 1975, at the age of 76.