Also, 'C' style for loops are seldom needed in Perl. Another way to formulate what I think you want... 
#!/ms/dist/perl5/bin/perl5.8
# Standard module imports

use Data::Dumper;
use strict;
use warnings;

my $hashArrayRef;

$hashArrayRef = [{
              'dateOfBirh' => '22 March 1971',
              'firstName' => 'Ronnie',
              'lastName' => 'Smith'
            },
            {
              'timeNow' => '14 April 1972',
              'firstName' => 'Claudia',
              'lastName' => 'Winkleman'
            }];

        
print Dumper($hashArrayRef); #no need for \$hashArrayRef
print "\n";

foreach my $href (@$hashArrayRef)
{
   foreach my $key (keys %$href)
   {
      print "$key   \t$href->{$key}\n";
   }
   print "\n";
}
__END__
prints:
$VAR1 = [
          {
            'firstName' => 'Ronnie',
            'dateOfBirh' => '22 March 1971',
            'lastName' => 'Smith'
          },
          {
            'firstName' => 'Claudia',
            'timeNow' => '14 April 1972',
            'lastName' => 'Winkleman'
          }
        ];

firstName       Ronnie
dateOfBirh       22 March 1971
lastName       Smith

firstName       Claudia
timeNow       14 April 1972
lastName       Winkleman

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