Marcel Duchamp born on July 28 at Blainville-Crevon, (near Rouen) France.
Marcel was the third of six children born to M. Eugène and Madame Duchamp. The family had a strong interest in the arts. Madame Duchamp was a talented amateur musician, and her father had been a shipping agent with a strong interest in painting and engraving.
Marcel had two elder brothers, Gaston (born 1875, who later took the name Jacques Villon, and was himself a renowned painter) and Raymond, a.k.a. Raymond Duchamp-Villon (born 1876, an accomplished sculptor who died in World War I). Their younger sister, Suzanne, also pursued her interest in the arts - (she later collaborated with Marcel on the conceptual readymade, Unhappy Readymade, 1919).