I had no idea. RIP.
From WIKI:
On September 30, 2009, news media reported that Hopper had been rushed to a New York hospital for an unspecified condition. Hopper, 73, was reportedly brought into an unidentified Manhattan hospital by an ambulance on Monday wearing an oxygen mask and “with numerous tubes visible.”[30] On October 2, he was discharged, after receiving treatment for dehydration.[31]
On October 29, Hopper's manager reported that Hopper has been diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer.[32] In January 2010, it was reported that Hopper's cancer had metastasized to his bones.[33]
As of March 23, 2010, Hopper reportedly weighed only 100 pounds and was unable to carry on long conversations.[34] According to papers filed in his divorce court case, Hopper was terminally ill and was unable to undergo chemotherapy to treat his prostate cancer.[35] His lawyer reported on March 25 that he was dying from cancer.[36][37]
Hopper died at his home in the coastal Los Angeles suburb of Venice at 8:15 a.m. PDT (15:15 p.m. GMT) on May 29, 2010, surrounded by family and friends, of complications from prostate cancer.[38]
