Raden Soeprapto was born in Surakarta, Central Java, on 12 August 1924.

[1] Soeprapto attended elementary school in 1937, then continued his education at SLP in 1940 and SLA in 1943.

Soeprapto continued his education in Peta in 1943, Advanced Officer Course One (Kupaltu) in 1954, Advanced Officer Course Two (Kupalda) in 1959, Army Command and Staff College in 1964, and the United States Command and General Staff College (USCGEC), in 1967.

He died in Jakarta on Saturday, 26 September 2009 at 01.00 WIB at the age of 85 years.

He was buried on the same day at the Giritama Cemetery, Parung, Bogor, West Java.